Tomorrow is Buck-a-Hit Day
Please return tomorrow for Buck-a-Hit Day, our fifth annual charity celebration. There will be a lot going on here that day, but for you, the reader, it's as simple as 1-2-3:
1. Show up, the earlier the better. You can shoot a dollar to charity just by showing up. We'll give $1 for each of the first 1,000 unique visits to this blog, and for every minute before noon that we reach the 1,000-visit mark, we'll give an additional dollar.
2. Give. Thanks to a couple of generous sponsors, we'll match up to $1,500 in reader contributions to our featured charities for the day. Just click on our donation buttons tomorrow, and give by PayPal or credit card.
3. Leave a good comment. The author of the best comment tomorrow will get to designate where $250 of our charity donation pot goes. Comments will be judged by readers in a poll on Wednesday. Make us laugh, make us cry, make us think, whatever -- and benefit your favorite nonprofit organization.
For the rest of our contributions, the charities this year are:
Human Solutions
Oregon Food Bank
Children's Heart Foundation, Oregon Chapter
Got it? Great. See you tomorrow.
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Comments (3)
Sisters of the Road has some matching programs set up for donations: if we give through you tomorrow, are we maximizing our donations?
I.e. if I, a new donor, give $10, will Sisters' matcher match it 1:1 (netting another $10), Jack will match it 1:1 (netting another $10), and Sister's matcher will match Jack (as existing donor) 2:1 (netting $5); turning my $10 into $35?
Posted by Chris Coyle | December 17, 2007 8:32 AM
Chris, do you have a link to information about this matching program(s)?
Posted by Michael | December 17, 2007 10:57 AM
They apparently have a match of 50 cents on the dollar going. That would mean that the dollar you give to Sisters here tomorrow would be worth $2.50 -- your $1, $1 from us, and $.50 from another Sisters benefactor.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 17, 2007 12:51 PM