Bloggers big and small, including top sites such as Engadget and TechCrunch, challenged their readers today to fund classroom projects in high-need public schools. Google, Yahoo!, Six Apart, and Federated Media will give awards to the bloggers who inspire the most generosity between now and the end of the October.
Powering this "Blogger Challenge" is DonorsChoose.org, an acclaimed nonprofit website where teachers post projects to fulfill student needs, and donors from all walks of life can choose the projects they want to support.
Google will give an award to the bloggers who generate the most financial support for public school classrooms in the DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge. Yahoo! will award the bloggers who engage the greatest number of readers, and Jerry Yang, the company's co-founder and CEO, will take the winning blogger out to lunch.
"We think this is a cool idea, so we want to help it succeed. We’re going to reward the winning bloggers with exactly what they gave to DonorsChoose, students, and teachers: traffic. The competition will remain open until the end of October, we'll then take a look to see who has helped raise the most money in each of the eight DonorsChoose challenge categories. We’ll post links to the winners’ blogs here, and we’ll also throw in a $500 gift certificate for each winner to spend on DonorsChoose." Official Google Blog
DonorsChoose.org liberates every public school teacher to be a change maker, and enables every citizen to be a philanthropist. At this not-for-profit website, public school teachers submit their best ideas for materials and experiences that their students need to learn -- everything from a classroom library, to basketballs, to a field trip to the zoo.
Any individual can search by area of interest, learn about classroom needs, and choose to fund the project that she/he finds most compelling. Every donor hears back from the classroom they chose to help. At DonorsChoose.org, someone giving $10 enjoys the same choice, impact, and vivid feedback that - until now - have been reserved for millionaire benefactors.
For more information please visit www.BloggersChoose.org .
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