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• DonorsChoose Update [Uncertain Principles]

  Published: July 27, 2007, 7:59 am

  Tags: Donorschoose Fundraiser

  DonorsChoose, the educational charity we ran a fundraiser for last year, has made it to the final round of five in the American Express Members Project charity giveaway, and they're looking for votes to help them win $5 million. They're up against some stiff competition, and really, it'd be churlish to complain about any of these organizations

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• The PTA vs. P&G, Part II

  Published: July 31, 2007, 4:25 pm

  Tags: Astroturfing, Proctor Amp Gamble, Donorschoose, American Express

  cardmembers to vote for DonorsChoose, a non-profit dedicated to fulfilling mini-grant proposals written by public school teachers, in Amex's Members Project contest.  The non-profit that wins the Members Project will collect $5 million to fund its efforts.  I have absolutely no personal interest in, or ties to, DonorsChoose -- my

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• Charity Contest Winner [Uncertain Principles]

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:55 am

  Tags: Donorschoose Fundraiser

  length. The locally hyped DonorsChoose proposal came in second in the voting, and will receive $100,000 (as will three other runner-up projects), which isn't too shabby. Thanks to all those who voted and contributed, and congratulations to all the charities in the final five. Keep up the good works. Read the comments on this

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• Free Money from Six Apart [Uncertain Principles]

  Published: September 30, 2007, 11:20 am

  Tags: Donorschoose Fundraiser

  of a gift certificate for DonorsChoose.org, the favorite educational charity of ScienceBlogs and a bunch of other people. But that's not a problem, right? After all, you like kids, and you believe in education, right? So, send them an email by 5pm PDT tomorrow, and get your gift certificate. And tomorrow, I'll have some suggestions for what

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• Help School Children: DonorsChoose Challenge 2007 [Uncertain Principles]

  Published: October 1, 2007, 10:03 am

  Tags: Donorschoose Fundraiser

  for the educational charity DonorsChoose. It's back again this year, and better than ever: we've got our own dedicated leader board, and the event this time out will be a full month, starting today, October 1. To get to my challenge, follow this helpful little graphical link, which will be appearing all over the blog this month: Once you're

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• Give It Up, For Computer Literacy

  Published: October 1, 2007, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Techcrunch Network, Donorschoose Org

  can raise the most money for DonorsChoose.org, a great non-profit that lets you specify which educational projects you want your money to go to. Teachers across the country typically ask for a few hundred dollars per project to buy things like computers, digital cameras, or other basic supplies that their schools won’t cover. And donors

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• Help Engadget Energize Education in the DonorsChoose blogger challenge

  Published: October 4, 2007, 11:17 am

  Tags: Blogger Challenge, Bloggerchallenge, Charity, Donorschoose Org, Engadget Energizes Education, Engadgetenergizeseducation

  Or in the case of the 2007 DonorsChoose blogger challenge, 25 good causes. Engadget has partnered with numerous different tech-centric programs around the country to help raise funds for the children that they serve, and with your assistance, we're hoping to collect a total of $25,000 to be distributed among these various organizations. The

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• DonorsChoose: Buy This Blog [Uncertain Principles]

  Published: October 4, 2007, 11:19 am

  Tags: Donorschoose Fundraiser

  For a $30 donation to the DonorsChoose challenge, you can buy this blog. Details, terms, and conditions are below the nice graphical link to the challenge. Read the rest of this post... Read the comments on this

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• Help Engadget Energize Education in the DonorsChoose blogger challenge

  Published: October 5, 2007, 10:26 am

  Tags: Blogger Challenge, Bloggerchallenge, Charity, Donorschoose Org, Engadget Energizes Education, Engadgetenergizeseducation

  Or in the case of the 2007 DonorsChoose blogger challenge, 25 good causes. Engadget has partnered with numerous different tech-centric programs around the country to help raise funds for the children that they serve, and with your assistance, we're hoping to collect a total of $25,000 to be distributed among these various organizations. The

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• Help Engadget Energize Education in the DonorsChoose blogger challenge

  Published: October 8, 2007, 10:46 am

  Tags: Blogger Challenge, Bloggerchallenge, Charity, Donorschoose Org, Engadget Energizes Education, Engadgetenergizeseducation

  Or in the case of the 2007 DonorsChoose blogger challenge, 25 good causes. Engadget has partnered with numerous different tech-centric programs around the country to help raise funds for the children that they serve, and with your assistance, we're hoping to collect a total of $25,000 to be distributed among these various organizations. The

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• DonorsChoose Doing Well, But Fred Wilson Needs To Be Stopped

  Published: October 8, 2007, 6:26 pm

  Tags: Web 2 0 News Amp 038 Ideas, Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Donorschoose

  all accounts the DonorsChoose blogger challenge is doing extremely well - it took them just six days to reach $130,000 in donations, which will provide nearly 10,000 students from low income families with books, art supplies, technology, and other resources they need to learn. Donations thus far coming through TechCrunch have put us in second

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• DonorsChoose: Cruise the Forest [Uncertain Principles]

  Published: October 9, 2007, 10:32 am

  Tags: Donorschoose Fundraiser

  one week into the DonorsChoose challenge for this year, and readers of this blog have already contributed over $2,000 to help school teachers and students. Those of you who have contributed, thank you very much for your generosity. We've still got $4,000 to go to reach the goal for the challenge, though, so there will be more than a few

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• Help Engadget Energize Education in the DonorsChoose blogger challenge

  Published: October 9, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Blogger Challenge, Bloggerchallenge, Charity, Donorschoose Org, Engadget Energizes Education, Engadgetenergizeseducation

  Or in the case of the 2007 DonorsChoose blogger challenge, 25 good causes. Engadget has partnered with numerous different tech-centric programs around the country to help raise funds for the children that they serve, and with your assistance, we're hoping to collect a total of $25,000 to be distributed among these various organizations. The

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• DonorsChoose: Little Scientists [Uncertain Principles]

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:53 pm

  Tags: Donorschoose Fundraiser

  Here's another post to highlight a worthy proposal with a good science connection. "Little Scientists" is looking to bring marine habitats to pre-kindergarten students in Buffalo: Animals and life sciences are of particular interest to young children, so we try to discover a lot about animals and habitats. We are also very lucky to have a

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• "New Atheists" Are Cheap Bastards [Uncertain Principles]

  Published: October 11, 2007, 10:14 am

  Tags: Donorschoose Fundraiser

  Leaderboard for the DonorsChoose challenge is dominated by us "Neville Chamberlain" types... At present, the ScienceBlogs participating in the Challenge have raised more than $14,000 to help schools and school children. The Seed Media Group (publishers of Seed and backers of ScienceBlogs) have pledged to match up to $15,000 in

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