It's the final countdown! De-ne-ne-naaaah! De-na-nee-nah-naaaaaah! (Yes, I am typing out the keyboard part for "The Final Countdown." Because I am a nerd.)
Tomorrow is May 1, which is when the big prize drawings will occur. We're up to $1,870 donated to our Giving Page, and the checkout code MACLIFE (which matches all donations up to $100) has been used to match more than $8,000 of giving around the whole site.
To enter to win a prize, forward me (susie at maclife dot com) your receipt before 9am tomorrow, May 1 (that's 9am Pacific Time, or 10am Mountain, 11am Central, and noon Eastern). That's when I'll do the drawings.
Everyone who enters is eligible for the Big Honkin' Prize Pool™. I've got a pair of Spark headphones, a Smart Blood Pressure monitor, a 30GB SugarSync account, some cool Mac software including Disk Art by Clean Cut Code, a Helo TC from Griffin Technology, Fling Mini controllers from Ten One Design, the VooMate Zapper from Zero1, a Sound to Go speaker from Edifier, and a BiKN for iPhone from Treehouse Labs. Yeah, that is a lot of prizes, and YES, I copied and pasted that whole list from Friday's post. (It's simply too many prizes to type out again, you dig?)
You want this. You do.
And our two bonus prizes are still in effect:
Donate to First Graders Love to Read, and you'll be entered in a second drawing for a $25 iTunes Store gift card -- which works in the Mac App Store, the iOS App Store, the iBookstore, and the regular ol' iTunes Store.
Donate to Get Your Game On and you'll be entered in a second drawing for Mac App Store codes for Quake 4 and Company of Heroes, two kick-butt Aspyr games. Five people will win codes for both games, which retail for $19.99 and $49.99, respectively, so respectfully? You should enter.
To everyone who's already donated so far, thank you so much. Raising money for DonorsChoose is the most rewarding part of my job, and I hope we can do another drive this fall, when a new school year starts. Thanks for using the match code MACLIFE, thanks for telling your friends, and thanks for being a hero to public school teachers and students.
If you haven't donated yet, LAST CHANCE FOR BIG PRIZES! Go to our Giving Page, find a project that speaks to you, and don't forget the MACLIFE match code when you check out. DonorsChoose is an easy site to use -- it shouldn't take longer than a couple minutes. You'll feel like such a winner all day.
Questions? Read the FAQ or email me at susie at maclife dot com.
driverajr
May 01, 2012 at 8:32am
The donation business is a great thing only up to the point in which it becomes a matter of skin color. For example, there are fund raising websites in which individuals can post their plea in hopes that such a presentation will turn up some funds, it is funny how the White-race programs overwhelmingly get funded over colored people programs. As a Puerto Rican that attempted to raise funds for my new compression technology, I was not surprised that I did not raise a single penny; worse...my presentation was kicked out by the White owners of the fund raising website. In these websites you find the silliest of projects and when someone like me that has a ground breaking idea with a working prototype...he is obviously discriminated against because he does not have a White name (despite the fact that historically I am half White). This is the reality the world continues to ignore as it pretends that the world is a perfect sphere.
mravery
April 30, 2012 at 4:28pm
I think it's such an amazing thing for all of you to be donating to these projects. As an educator, any support we receive is so truly appreciated. I've had a few projects funded on Donors Choose and it has made such a huge difference in our classroom. It provides so many new opportunities for us.
We currently have a project that only has 15 days left before time is up on it. We would love any support you are able to provide. You can view it by visiting donorschoose.org/mravery.
Thank you again for your support of education!
-Shawn Avery
