DonorsChoose.org Launch 2009 Social Media Challenge for Education

by Mike Smith · 2009-10-11 15:03:00 UTC
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Donors Choose are one week into their 2009 social media campaign to help fund public school projects through donations. But these are not just any donations. You can see the exact school project and every item that your money will help fund. Want to help fund media skills by donating towards graphic novels? Do it! When the amount required is reached, Donor Choose donate the material and the generous givers help change lives. All donors get photos and a thank-you from the teacher.

The social media campaign challenges various niches (tech blogs, music blogs, Twitter) to raise the most money. They will be trying hard to beat last year's total of $270,000 which benefited 65,000 students. One week into the month-long push, and they've already raised $120,000.

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Mike Smith is associate editor at Change.org.
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