On a day when Al Gore and the IPCC won a Nobel Prize for their work on the climate, I just want to quickly highlight one of the projects in our DonorsChoose challenge. This one is from a teacher in Indiana who wants to teach their 25 second-grade students about the weather and states of matter. The school is 87% low income (and thus high poverty). The challenge needs a further $419 as I type, so please consider donating.
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Hi, I found your post about Al Gore through technorati.com.
If you support Al Gore's efforts, you may want to consider becoming a part of draftgore.com 's petition to encourage him to join the presidential race.
Now, I'm a am a fairly pragmatic person. I certainly don't believe in throwing my vote, my money, or my time away. But the movement to draft Al Gore has gained serious attention in just the last few days. Its members recently put a full page ad in the NY Times, encouraging Gore to enter the race. The draftgore movement was also enthusiastically supported on AirAmerica recently, and numerous articles about the article were recently released in major newspapers nationwide. The day *before* Al Gore won the Nobel, draftgore.com's web traffic statistics were nearly as high as Hillaryclinton.com -- see alexa.com for details -- and Gore recently beat her in several state's opinion polls.
This movement is taking off very, very quickly, because it seems to resonate with many, many people who feel that "none of the above" is the best choice. Al Gore can be your next President... but please consider this -- the time for showing your loud, vocal, open support for Al Gore to run for President is NOW, while he's got the world's attention and while he still has time to enter the race and raise funds. Not tomorrow. Not next week. NOW.
If the public loudly encourages him to run now, while he's at his peak, he'll grab the attention of the world's media... and all that attention and free publicity could help carry Al Gore all the way to the White House. Even if he loses, his cause and the issues he stands for will win, as Hillary Clinton would be forced to make equally strong proposals to combat global warming.
Ultimately, Draftgore is going to get so big as to require Gore to either step up, or politely yet firmly refuse. Either way, it's going to increase Gore's ability to bring about positive change in this country, and its a good way to say thanks for all his efforts.
If you'd like to show your support, please visit draftgore.com and sign the petition to add your voice to the over 160,000 people who have already done so. Take the time to post about draftgore.com on your site and let others know. If you have a bit of free time, offer to volunteer. If you can spare a few bucks, please send them a donation. It's easy and painless... you can even use PayPal.
(Can you tell I'm excited yet?!)
Best -
Mark Kraft
http://insomnia.livejournal.com
Is the Seed matching used up? How does that work?
Seems to be that Seed meets the first $15k that we as bloggers generate. I don't know what the total raised amount at the moment is. Janet may have a better idea of how close we are to the $15k.
And I don't think that the Seed money is applied to specific projects, just to the total at the end of the month.
Hmmm, can you find out for sure: that sort of doesn't make sense, given that the whole point of this is to be able to pick specific projects. I put some money in, thinking it would just get matched...