More donations and more thanks…

If 100 people each donated $10, we could make a $1000 contribution to Habitat for Humanity this holiday season. How hard could that be?

It seems like nearly every day I get another email from someone making a donation or thanking me for choosing Habitat to raise money for. I had no idea how many connections I had to Habitat besides the Big One. Many people also shared that they loved how easy it was to make a contribution and that they’d be much more prone to contributing more often if it was always this simple and personal. I have to admit, I love how easy ChipIn makes it, so I wrote a blog post about it on Digital Passports. Nothing fancy, just a few ideas for how people could use it for school fundraisers and collections.

And now, a few more thank you’s. And what a group of people they are! The reason I began this campaign, a major influence on my early blogging, a close friend from BLC and Michigan, and one of my buddies from when you could count the number of EduPodcasters on two hands!

Beth Kanter – I’ve mentioned Beth a few times before on the blog in recent weeks. She’s the very reason that I began this campaign! Her blog is about how non-profits can make use of social media, but what she’s really an expert on is leading by example. Right now she’s collecting for Creative Commons and you’ll notice that she’s changed her profile images all over social sites to a photo of her wearing her CC T-Shirt. She also has a great wiki for how you can start your own personal fundraising campaign that helped me out tremendously.
Anne Davis – What’s so special about Nov 3, 2004? That’s the day I first moved to Wordpress and marks the oldest blog post I have in my archives. That post happens to be about Anne and her Bloomin’ Bloggers. Anne Davis was a profound influence on me during my early blogging period, and continues to inspire me today. She’s currently working on some research that we’re all anxiously waiting to see the results of. She’s always on my “Must Subscribe List” whenever someone asks me who is worth subscribing too. Can’t thank her enough, for the donation, but also for helping me stake my claim in the blogosphere.
Jim Wenzloff – Just thinking about what to say about Jim brings a smile to my face. Two things come to mind when I think of him: Cutting edge conferences and dark, seedy bars! He’s an amazing educator, and my favorite thing about his presentations is that people walk away from his sessions thinking, “Wow, that’s something I can actually USE on Monday.” Great ideas rooted firmly on the ground. That’s during the day though. I’ve been out a few times with Jim in several different cities. And someone everywhere we go he knows a tiny little bar, that’s sort of out of the way and yet he knows it as if he were a regular there. If you’re ever in Michigan (or just about anywhere else for that matter), you can’t go wrong asking him for a suggestion.
Bud Hunt – So long as we’re going Old School, it’s only fitting that I take a moment to thank Bud the Teacher. Bud started blogging right about the same time as I did. In fact, we both started podcasting right about the same time too, pretty much from the very beginning. And we both have a penchant for carcasting! I have to admit though, he certainly hit the peak when he recorded his keynote for the 2006 K12 Online Conference… while commuting. His posts are sometimes amusing, other times profound, and often profoundly amusing

So there’s four more people who have participated in this fundraising campaign, all of whom have had quite an impact on me in the past, and once again with their generosity.

Want to see your name listed? It couldn’t be easier! Just click ChipIn on the widget in the upper left corner and make a donation to Habitat for Humanity. Every donation counts, no contribution is too big or too small. And every contribution will be thanked publicly!

3 Comments

Jim W
11/13/2007

I’m not sure if this was a praise or bury Caesar thing..but thank you for the kind words. I’d write more but I have to go visit some dark seedy bars.

Did I tell you about…

Jim

Beth Kanter
11/13/2007

Wow, your campaign is doing great! What’s the next step in your strategy?

Fundraiser
11/30/2007

You got a great team.This is what we did in our school.We have a local full service salon donate a day of beauty for a raffles.In return we advertise their services in our schools calendar and yearbook.They are also invited guests to all our school functions and are recognized for their support at the end of the school year. .Our most successful fundraiser was for a Nintendo WII. We raised over $5000 in 4 weeks last Xmas.We had a generous teacher/parent wait in line for 2 days and gave the school the wii at cost.

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