The first round of bidding is closed. Please inform your final bidders of their win and make arrangements receive confirmation information of their donation and discuss your fills.

I really want to thank everyone again for being involved with this and offering their time, their money, and their abilities.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Because I wasn't that bright of a mod and did not post a final close time on the first round of bidding, I am going to extend the first round through Midnight, July 4th 2011 EST. (See World Clock http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.htmlRead more... )

The first round of bidding will close on June 30th. I want to thank everyone so much for their offers and their bids. I also want to update some of the things that are currently going on in the Midwest. Joplin is beginning the slow process of recovery. Recently many of the survivors and workers have suffered from a severe fungal infection Read more... )

I want to thank everyone who has so far offered their works and bid on the items. As the week closes current death toll in Joplin stands at 132 people. We are getting a better sense of the tremendous damage done by the tornadoes. I am posting a link to an NPR story where you can see see a before and after aerial view of Joplin ( Read more... )

Thank you so much to treksnoopy for mentioning this category ( Read more... )

If you would like to offer handicrafts of any type, food, postcards, or any additional items not covered by the media arts or the written word this is the place for you ( Read more... )

If you would like to offer an original piece of artwork, icons, desktop themes, manips, macros, vids or any other form of media that is not writing please do so here ( Read more... )

Any questions please see the Questions post ( Read more... )

Please ask any questions about the process, categories, or bidding process here.

Assumption will be made that bids will be done in US currency, if you wish to do another currency we can use googleconvertor or paypal's automated system.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND INTEREST!

This community was started to help the Midwestern United States primarily Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas that have seen a number of deadly storms. On Sunday, May 21st a tornado hit the city of Joplin, MO causing untold devastation and the storms have not stopped. Today there were touchdowns in the residential areas of Overland Park, KS ( Read more... )