Buck-a-Hit Day is next Tuesday (Jack Bog's Blog)

Next Tuesday, December 18, will be our fifth annual Buck-a-Hit Day, the day on which we give money to charity for every reader who visits this site. As usual, we'll also have a place where readers can donate to charitable causes themselves, and we'll match the contributions. (In both cases, up to specified limits.) Last year, the whole thing netted more than $3,500 for local charities.

We're still working out the details, which we'll be posting here over the next few days. If you're an infrequent visitor here, please come back next Tuesday and we'll give some dough to charity just because you showed up, and even more if you throw some change into the hat.

One idea we're toying with is to see how early in the day we can reach 1,000 unique visits. That might mean that the earlier in the day you swing by, the more money we give. More on that shortly, but mark your calendar to come back next Tuesday in the morning. It might mean a bigger buck for the bang.

In the meantime, if you'll promise to save some money for our event next week, a couple of media pals also have contribution drives going that might be worth a piece of your disposable wealth. Check out this program, or this one. See you back here next Tuesday.

Comments (7)

Jack; Many thanks for linking to Operation Santa Claus. So far we've raised over $120,000 for families of local troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. During our radiothon, Vancouver mayor Royce Pollard challenged Tom Potter to see who could raise the most money on our phones. Pollard won handily so now Potter has to appear before the Vancouver city council and read a list of things he finds positive about Vancouver. Should be interesting. Again, thanks!

Bob Miller
KPAM 860

Posted by Bob Miller | December 11, 2007 6:03 AM

Positive things about the 'Couv?

I've got number 1.

Posted by Jack Bog | December 11, 2007 6:11 AM

Maybe you'll get FARK'd again right before that day...

http://bojack.org/2007/10/ive_been_farked.html

(How big was that kicker check again?)

Posted by none | December 11, 2007 8:09 AM

Oh, well. I read this again and saw the "up to specified limits" disclaimer. So getting 10,000 hits in a day won't actually mean more $$ donations. Still and all a real good thing you're doing here, Jack.

Posted by none | December 11, 2007 9:28 AM

Even with the kicker check, there's a limit to how high we can go. We'll give more than last year, that's for certain. Still trying to figure out how high, and how to add some interesting elements. More as this week rolls on.

Posted by Jack Bog | December 11, 2007 9:33 AM

Operation Santa looks great, and it looks like WW is making some good choices, too. I am happy to see it including groups that focus on homeless kids and poor pet owners,people who are way underserved.

I had heard of the Pixie Project pet group, but really didn't know what it did until I read Deborah Wood's column in the Living section today. It sort of strikes me as the Chris Smith of animal rescue groups. It goes along with whatever shelters want it to do and is being praised for this, when most mainline shelters stubbornly cling to a 19th century animal control model that has demonstrably been superceded and squak like parrots rather than accept the criticism that would help them evolve into modern organizations. Like in the land use arena, young people who generally have not yet developed their full critical thinking capacity are being put forth as models of reason and goodness as opposed to bad old critics. The real cottage industry in Portland is not critical thinking(see Anna G's Monday Profile on Randall O' Toole), that is what adults are supposed to do; it is refusing to grow and change one's premises as facts emerge and a press that is not willing to take the lead in questioning this.

Posted by Cynthia | December 11, 2007 3:42 PM

I plan to repeat my offer from last year during this year's contest. Given the size of our kicker check, we'll probably raise the challenge to $750 and we may change charities as we've given a large portion of our kicker already to the Oregon Food Bank and we like to spread things around a bit to other worthwhile Oregon charities.

Posted by mrfearless47 | December 12, 2007 10:35 AM

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