You know, for the kids
Posted September 28th, 2007 at 4:17 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor
4 Comments / Filed in: Yahoo! For Good
Last year, blogger Sarah Bunting of Tomato Nation baited her readers to raise $30,000 for DonorsChoose with an offer to shave her head (see video below). This year, we’re getting in on the game.
DonorsChoose, the ultra-awesome web-based educational philanthropy that lets you play Santa to public school kids by fulfilling teacher wishlists, is hosting the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge. Starting Monday, more than 100 bloggers will challenge their readers to fund classroom projects this month. The likes of Engadget, TechCrunch, AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher, and Anil Dash are rumored to be participating. And Yahoo! is joining Google, SixApart, and Federated Media by upping the ante with awards.
The blogger who motivates the most readers to participate in the Blogger Challenge will get lunch with Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang. And we won’t even make them shave their head. Unless, of course, they want to.
4 Comments Add your own
Conniefaye Richardson | September 28th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
I loveeeeeeeeee yahoo !!!!
Katrina | October 7th, 2007 at 12:41 am
The DonorsChoose site is an interesting implementation of technology helping schools. I tried to enter this challenge (even though I am Canadian) but it looks like the site only supports donors from the U.S. since they only have states posted in the registration page. I guess I have to wait until another opportunity to have lunch Jerry Yang.
Natalie | October 29th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Check out my challenge: Help Utah Teachers
Help Public School Kids by Funding my Challenge at DonorsChoose
Pierre | November 8th, 2007 at 8:27 am
Great Cause… And what a reward… Lunch with the Yahoo man himself…
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