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Blogger Challenge!
As I posted in my previous entry, SixApart is issuing $30 gift certificates to use at DonorsChoose.org as long as you email them by 5 PM Pacific on Monday.
On this LJ, I have 226 mutual friends and 192 others who have friended me*. That makes 418 people. If all of you - or even half of you - managed to email SixApart and get the $30 gift certificate, that would be a huge chunk o'change to give.
Bearing that in mind, I've just created the Manga Matsuri Challenge on DonorsChoose ("matsuri" means "festival"). I found three proposals to purchase manga for the classroom, to tempt reluctant readers and to help kids who are desperate to read more manga but can't afford it, and put them all on the challenge. The total amount of money needed is a hair over $1200, but anything you can donate will help. If the half of you I mentioned above only donate $10 - one-third - of your gift certificate to this challenge, we will raise all the money needed.
You can choose what projects you wantyour SixApart's money to go to (help SixApart fund future fans! XD), and you don't have to donate all or even part of yours through this challenge, but I hope you consider it. And if you have a hankering to donate some of your own money in addition; why, that's even better!
And please publicize this! Far and wide, on LJ or off. Link to this entry or to the challenge's page, but I think I did a better job of pleading the case here. :)
ETA: This challenge will be active through the end of October, even though the gift certificate offer is only open until Monday.
ETA2: You may need to enter your code a few times before it sticks. If you don't go through my challenge page, but instead go through the link SixApart sends you and search for the manga projects, it doesn't count it towards my challenge,as far as I can tell.
ETA3: "International donors too: they need to choose NY as their state and give the international zip code. see list where *=1"![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doire, here.
* And honestly, the only reason I haven't friended you back is that 226 number you see - if I friended you all back, I wouldn't have any time left! And yes, I do feel sad about that because I meet some awesome people here.
(And in case you're in a giving mood but can't afford to give money,cicer has linked to several other charity endeavors, most of which require nothing from you but a click or two.)
On this LJ, I have 226 mutual friends and 192 others who have friended me*. That makes 418 people. If all of you - or even half of you - managed to email SixApart and get the $30 gift certificate, that would be a huge chunk o'change to give.
Bearing that in mind, I've just created the Manga Matsuri Challenge on DonorsChoose ("matsuri" means "festival"). I found three proposals to purchase manga for the classroom, to tempt reluctant readers and to help kids who are desperate to read more manga but can't afford it, and put them all on the challenge. The total amount of money needed is a hair over $1200, but anything you can donate will help. If the half of you I mentioned above only donate $10 - one-third - of your gift certificate to this challenge, we will raise all the money needed.
You can choose what projects you want
And please publicize this! Far and wide, on LJ or off. Link to this entry or to the challenge's page, but I think I did a better job of pleading the case here. :)
ETA: This challenge will be active through the end of October, even though the gift certificate offer is only open until Monday.
ETA2: You may need to enter your code a few times before it sticks. If you don't go through my challenge page, but instead go through the link SixApart sends you and search for the manga projects, it doesn't count it towards my challenge,as far as I can tell.
ETA3: "International donors too: they need to choose NY as their state and give the international zip code. see list where *=1"
doire, here.* And honestly, the only reason I haven't friended you back is that 226 number you see - if I friended you all back, I wouldn't have any time left! And yes, I do feel sad about that because I meet some awesome people here.
(And in case you're in a giving mood but can't afford to give money,
cicer has linked to several other charity endeavors, most of which require nothing from you but a click or two.)
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that's a lot of money though xox;
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I'll go do some good promoting either way, but it would help to know.
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The money is, of course, entirely tax-deductible for SixApart.
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Anywho, I'll look and see if Mesa County, Colorado schools are included.
No worries about the friending. IIRC, you friended my at deviantART. Heh. I don't write anything you'd want to read. =-P
Good Search (http://www.goodsearch.com/Default.aspx) is something I do from time to time. :)
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No worries about the friending. IIRC, you friended my at deviantART. Heh. I don't write anything you'd want to read. =-P
Hey, you never know! I started out at LJ with the policy of automatically friending back everyone who friended me, and I'm glad I did so because I met a huge variety of people that way. But then it got too unwieldy, so I was forced to scale back, and I will probably always feel guilty about that. :)
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Yeah. I considered friending everyone I met or who friended me, but then I couldn't afford internet at home anymore so my LJ time went out the window. So my policy now isn't to friend everyone back. Instead anyone who wants to can friend me, my blog is open to everyone for idle chatter (except for the really really private stuff like the Saiyuki pr0n ^_~), and I try to memory all the stuff I find that I think ought to get attention. Me is woefully behind on memories. D: I've got tons of catching up to do. The only thing in my journal that needs to stay more or less on topic is the comments section for CTS. I'm sure you understand wanting to keep feedback on your creations all in one place. ^_^
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For the most part, my blog is public although there's a few things under lock. Most of which are me venting about something at work, which you can understand I don't want public. XD And I've got a couple of random filters hare and there for projects I'm working on that I need people to bounce ideas off of or beta readers (er, the equivalent of beta readers for art. Beta critiquers?), which are made of a smaller subsection of my f-list who are good people for that sort of thing. :D
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On an unrelated note, I went and bought Deleter ink and paper - and it works like a dream (much better than card stock)! Except the ink smells disgusting! Thanks for the recommendation. :)
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Cool! I think products designed to work together really do make a surprising difference. You wouldn't think so just thinking about paper and ink, but it really seems so.
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I'll put it on my teaching with manga page for the duration.
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New info!
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Going to the main donars website, I have significant trouble finding your challenge as well.
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The problem is it requires a US address - and I'm an Aussie. I'll have to ask a US friend if I can borrow their address. ^_^;;
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Doesn't look like I can help. Sorry. =/
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New info!
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Do you know if we're allowed to pass the certificates onto US citizens so that they'[re not wasted?
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No clue. You could certainly try.
DonorsChoose
Re: DonorsChoose
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International info
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Just thought I'd say something ^_^
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(Anonymous) 2007-10-01 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)But if it hasn't reached its goals by the time I get my codes, I will donate.
*posted this to my own LJ*
-Willow_One, can't log in on crappy Mac OS 9
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