Ginger Tulley | 09.28.2007
A Blogger Challenge
We are very proud of our the blogging community’s tradition of working to improve communities offline. Though these efforts don’t get as much attention as they should, bloggers have a long history of being extremely generous, and all of you who use the platforms we create have an incredible ability to reach a wide audience. That’s why we’re pleased to be working with Donors Choose to sponsor the Blogger Challenge.
Donors Choose is a non-profit organization that makes it easy for anyone to donate to public school projects in need of funding. The Blogger Challenge runs through the month of October and enables a blogger to select favorite projects, set a fundraising goal, and present his or her fundraising “challenge” to his or her readers. Every project listed on the site is a personal request from a public school teacher. Requests range from a class set of dictionaries ($150) to ‘Baby-Think-It-Over’ dolls ($500) geared at discouraging teen pregnancy. You can even help students travel to Washington, D.C. to see the Supreme Court in session ($2,000).
We’ve reached out to each of our communities on LiveJournal, Vox, Movable Type, and TypePad to encourage participation and support for the Blogger Challenge. But the effort goes far beyond even just our communities: Six Apart is joining Google, Yahoo!, and Federated Media in sponsoring the challenge, and we will give awards to the bloggers who help the greatest number of students.
You can read more about the challenge in posts on Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJournal, and Vox.
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