DonorsChoose Accolades

I got a thank-you email yesterday from the head of DonorsChoose, which I will quote here. Because, well, you're the ones who coughed up the cash, not me:

Thanks in great part to the attention you generated, we made Internet history! During the month of October, readers of more than a hundred blogs gave $420,000 to classroom projects on DonorsChoose.org, benefiting 75,000 students. To put that in perspective, it took four months for the hugely successful Facebook causes application--with millions of users--to generate that sum of donations across all causes.

We would not have helped so many students if not for the momentum you gave our Blogger Challenge by being a top performer. On behalf of all the science students whom you helped, thank you so much!!

And congratulations on winning a Federated Media award:

http://blog.federatedmedia.net/archives/2007/11/blogger-challen.php

I'm not quite sure what the Federated Media award entails (I think it's probably an additional donation to one of the proposals in the challenge), but I was cited (along with Janet) for creative fundraising tactics for selling blog topics. Which, of course, I'm way behind on...

Anyway, thanks again.