Participate in the Blogger Challenge & Help Students and Schools

[theljstaff]

One of the best kept secrets about the LiveJournal community is how incredibly generous you all are. It's not just the fact that so many of you volunteer to help LJ out, or are such active participants in communities online. It's what you do to support communities offline that makes us so proud of what LJ is. (A recent example was the way you all

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[spectralbovine]

Oh, DonorsChoose is great! That's what TWoP uses for their Tubey's Kids auctions. Very good choice of charity. I love that you can pick specific projects to fund.

[spectralbovine]

What don't you understand? LJ is involved because they are essentially donating $30 for every person that e-mails them for a gift certificate. It's like a free sample, for us, so we can then proceed to support the charity with our own money and encourage others to do the same.

[spectralbovine]

donorschoose@sixapart.com

[spectralbovine]

You're supposed to use it to donate to DonorsChoose. You can pick any project you choose to fund.

[gumtreecanoe]

LOVE tubey's kids.

(my old labmate sews the stuffed tubeys they auction!)

[spectralbovine]

Neat!