Neverending Pledge Drive

I'm really not going to keep flogging the DonorsChoose fundraiser in an active way for the next two weeks (it runs through July 1), so you don't have to worry about that. I will continue to include the donation button/ link in my posts, though:

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and occasional updates will follow as events warrant. Collectively, we're probably past the $10,000 match that Seed promised, which means that school teachers will have gotten at least $20,000 in funding as a result of this drive, which is pretty cool. And more is always better.

One final bit of active enticement, and then I'll shut up about it for a couple of days: if you're so inclined, Kate has has offered to make LiveJournal icons for people who donate. And, of course, there's a long list of valuable prizes being offered by the main challenge, if you send your confirmation email to sb.donorschoose.bonanza@gmail.com.

Other than that, actual non-shilling content is coming up later today.

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