As
many of you may know, on November 23rd, we celebrated the launch of this blog
with the $50,000 Challenge, by which we agreed to match up to $100 from new
donors to five organizations (Catholic Charities USA, Eastern Illinois
Foodbank, Grameen Foundation, The Hunger Project and Safe Passage), up to
$50,000. In the Challenge, which ended on December 24th, we received just
over $27,000 for the five organizations. Our thanks to our good friend
Paul Caron, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, many other bloggers, the Chicago
Tribune, the LA Times, the News-Gazette, and other media for spreading the word about the Challenge.
While we didn’t reach our goal of $50,000 in new donations (one organization,
however, reached $10,000 in new donations), we had an anonymous donor email us
after the challenge (via the story in the Chicago Tribune). That donor is
contributing $15,000 more to the other four organizations, which did not reach
their $10,000 goal. Although it violates our own rules – the anonymous donor
gave more than the $100 limit per charity—we’re including that donation to
get us to a total of $42,000. Also, each
organization will receive $10,000 from us although we didn’t reach the $50,000
goal. Our rules were made to be broken. All in all, the five organizations
are receiving $92,000 through the Challenge. Thanks to all of you who
participated or even thought about participating. We had a lot of fun,
and hopefully, all of us started down a path together of eliminating hunger and
poverty.
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12/31/2009
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About the Blog
Where We Give
- A Woman's Fund
- A Better Tomorrow Education Fund
- Achilles Track Club
- American Indian College Fund
- Asha for Education
- Back 2 Back Ministries
- Brooklyn Workforce Innovations
- Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
- Catholic Charities USA
- Center For Women In Transition
- Champaign County Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children
- Cincinnati Works
- Crisis Nursery
- Direct Relief International
- Doctors Without Borders
- Eastern Illinois Foodbank
- Fairhaven Rescue Mission
- Freestore Foodbank
- Grameen Foundation
- Habitat for Humanity
- Jesuit Volunteers
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Ohio Innocence Poject
- Ohio Justice and Policy Center
- Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy
- POPUP
- Safe Passage
- Save the Children
- The Carter Center
- The Hunger Project
- The Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- The Xela Fund
- Women's Sports Foundation
- World Vision
Congratulations! I gave my Atlanta nephews a Global Giving gift card for Christmas (which helps them make donations by guiding them to a variety of small organizations). I think it went over well ... not sure. Thanks for inspiring me and probably many, many others!
PS -- isn't it cheaper (and greener) to get a new toaster oven rather using the big oven all the time? Happy New Year!
Posted by: Elizabeth | 12/31/2009 at 06:17 AM
Wonderful news, and an inspirational "giving" in the true spirit of the holidays!
Posted by: Courtney Bryan-Caron | 01/06/2010 at 12:54 PM