Breaking news from the DonorsChoose Social Media Challenge for 2009! HP already contributed $50 to every challenge on the board. Now they are offering a matching deal to spur competition. PalMD's and Isis' readers may have exhausted their wallets and now it is time to catch up by scoring matching funds from HP. From the DonorsChoose email:
HP has been tracking the competition closely and has already made a $50 contribution to your page, as a result of all of your hard work. The good news? HP wants to make yet another contribution to your Giving Page. The more you raise by this Sunday, October 25, the more HP will contribute!Next week, we will distribute $200,000, the rest of HP's contribution, to all Social Media Challenge Giving Pages. But this time, your share will be calculated on a pro-rata basis based on the amount you've raised by Sunday. What does that mean? Now is the time to motivate your readers, followers, friends, fam and fans to donate to your page, so you can claim a larger share of the funds!
And there's yet another bonus: after the Challenge is over, everyone who donated to your Giving Page will get a DonorsChoose.org Giving Card, courtesy of HP. Those donors will get to decide which projects are supported with HP's $200,000 in funds
So if you've been holding back or meaning to get to it, now's the time to stroll on over to the DM Challenge page and give a few bucks to the kids.
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Comments
My (late) dad would shake his head in exasperation if I didn't ask this: are donations tax deductible?
Posted by: TreeFish | October 20, 2009 8:26 PM
Yes, tax deductable.
http://www.donorschoose.org/help/donor_faq.html?q=43
Posted by: DrugMonkey | October 20, 2009 8:56 PM