Thanks to everyone for their donations to the 2008 DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge (read more about it in this post). The money raised helps teachers make ends meet in our public schools. In the general blog category we’re currently 13th place while we’re currently 9th place in the Topical/Local blogs category. We’ve raised $224 dollars! Yay!

For those who’ve donated, thank you very much. Be sure to save a receipt for your tax write-off! To everyone else, there’s still time to donate! Just click here and choose one of the projects I’ve selected. Couldn’t be easier! Thanks again. B.

Wow, it wasn’t even a week since I posted this about DonorsChoose.org and donated to a library project in Waianae. This morning I see Boing Boing has jumped into the fray of the 2008 Blogger Challenge. Had I known I’d have waited to donate via this challenge but alas, we’re starting from $0. Please, if you could spare the money-lint, look in your old jeans, under your couch cushions, in the hamper — anywhere. Spare some change and lets make the 2008 Blogger Challenge a record-busting one! I’ll start things off with another donation shortly. Go! Fight! Win!

Be sure to click through my link in the ad below or on the left so we can see our results cumulatively and get credit as a team, thanks!
 

Donated today to a teacher at Waianae Elementary School who is trying to build up a collection of books to add to her library for her third graders. She needs a total of $465 to purchase 45 books. I donated $10, one skipped lunch.

If you’d like to donate to her project — Build Our Library, Build Their Brains! — you can use this link or search for more teachers in need at DonorsChoose.org. You can search by state in order to target your donation to someone in your neighborhood.

DonorsChoose.org is a site where teachers send in proposals for projects that lie outside the funding provided by the public school system. At the completion of the project you get a teacher impact letter, thank you notes, photos, etc. What more can you ask for? he he he.

DonorsChoose.org screens the applications for proposals to insure it meets their eligibility requirements so I feel good knowing my money isn’t being added to the buy-a-teacher-a-new-Porsche project.

I’m searching for a project to donate to now, I’ll post back with what I select.

Kudos to Matt for the great suggestion. If anyone has ideas on good donor sites and/or organizations, send me an email to ideas@skipalunch.com.