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Skinner ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 01:44 PM
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Please Donate to the DU Year-end Charity Donation Drive -- Supporting America's Second Harvest!
Edited on Mon Dec-18-06 04:33 PM by Skinner
A little more than a week ago, I mentioned that a few DUers had suggested doing a donation drive for charity this holiday season. The members of DU suggested a number of worthy causes. After much consideration, the DU admins have chosen a charity:


America's Second Harvest Network—The Nation's Food Bank Network

America's Second Harvest—The Nation's Food Bank Network is the largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization in the country with a Network of more than 200 Member food banks and food-rescue organizations serving all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The America's Second Harvest Network secures and distributes more than 2 billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually; and supports approximately 50,000 local charitable agencies operating more than 94,000 programs including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after-school programs and Kids Cafes. Last year, the America's Second Harvest Network provided food assistance to more than 25 million low-income hungry people in the United States, including nearly 9 million children and nearly 3 million seniors. For more on the America's Second Harvest Network, please visit secondharvest.org.

http://help.secondharvest.org/democraticunderground


How to Donate

To donate to America's Second Harvest, simply click on the link provided to go to their special donation page. This page was set up especially for the members of Democratic Underground so they can keep a running total of the amount of money we raised.

YOU MUST CLICK ON THIS LINK BEFORE YOU DONATE IF YOU WANT YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO BE INCLUDED IN OUR TOTAL:

http://help.secondharvest.org/democraticunderground

Please feel free to share this link with your friends and family.

America's Second Harvest will send me an email every morning to let me know how much our members have donated, and I will post an update in the DU General Discussion forum (and on my DU Journal) to let you know how we're doing.


About your Donation

100% of your donation goes directly to America's Second Harvest. Democratic Underground is NOT collecting or forwarding the donations, and Democratic Underground does NOT get any part of what you donate.

Donations are tax deductible. You will get a receipt for your donation directly from America's Second Harvest.

Democratic Underground does not have access to any of your personal information, or any information about your donation to America's Second Harvest. We won't know who donates, or how much you donate. All we know is the total value of all the donations made through our link.

http://help.secondharvest.org/democraticunderground


Thank you!

Thank you for contributing in the first-ever Democratic Underground Year-End Charity Donation Drive. We'll be posting periodic updates about the donation drive until it is over, probably on the last day of the year.

If you have any questions, please feel free to post them in this thread. We hope this donation drive is a big success!

http://help.secondharvest.org/democraticunderground

David Allen (Skinner)
Dave Allsopp (EarlG)
Brian Leitner (Elad)
Democratic Underground Administrators

Please kick and recommend this thread so more DUers will see it. Thanks.


UPDATE! CHARITY DONATION DRIVE CHALLENGE! INCREASE YOUR DONATION BY 10%!

DU member Midlodemocrat has made an extremely generous challenge to the members of DU in support of the DU Year-end Charity Donation Drive. She has pledged to donate $100 to America's Second Harvest for every $1,000 donated by the members of Democratic Underground, up to a maximum challenge donation of $1,500!

It's like every dollar you donate to America's Second Harvest will be worth $1.10! Make sure you donate soon to take advantage of this challenge... because this challenge ends when DUers raise $15,000.

YOU MUST CLICK ON THIS LINK BEFORE YOU DONATE IF YOU WANT YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE 10% MATCH:

http://help.secondharvest.org/democraticunderground
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Scurrilous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 01:48 PM
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1. K & R
:thumbsup:
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 01:55 PM
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2. K&R. . .
Thanks for providing an outlet for DU philanthropy.
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 02:11 PM
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3. K&R and a question
Do we have any goal in mind and will you be able to do something similar to DU fund drives with some sort of graphic?

Thanks again guys, hope it's a huge success. :)
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Skinner ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 02:18 PM
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5. Good question.
At this point we don't have a goal... mostly because we have no clue what a reasonable expectation is. We get anywhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 to 50,000 visitors per day to DU, so it all depends on what percentage of those people would want to donate, and how much they would give. Honestly, I have no clue whether to expect $5,000 or $50,000. :shrug:

Once we get our first report, it might be easier to figure out what a reasonable goal would be. We already have a few people who have offered to do challenge grants, and we're hoping to announce the first challenge later today.

We are almost certainly going to do a graphic (or graphics) at some point. But we're not sure what form it will take. Considering that this donation drive is going to last for two weeks, we don't want to be too annoying. Maybe we'll have the graphic some days and some days we won't.
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 02:32 PM
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7. Kick and Nom nt
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 02:39 PM
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8. thanks for the reply Skinner
As for the graphic, maybe a smallish type one on the homepage of something. Just thinking outloud. :)
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ReadTomPaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 02:13 PM
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4. Great pick!
K&R
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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 02:19 PM
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6. Great idea.
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Ms. Clio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 03:47 PM
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9. k&r
this is such a great idea!

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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 04:11 PM
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10. good idea!
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Skinner ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 04:33 PM
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11. UPDATE! CHARITY DONATION DRIVE CHALLENGE! INCREASE YOUR DONATION BY 10%!
UPDATE! CHARITY DONATION DRIVE CHALLENGE! INCREASE YOUR DONATION BY 10%!

DU member Midlodemocrat has made an extremely generous challenge to the members of DU in support of the DU Year-end Charity Donation Drive. She has pledged to donate $100 to America's Second Harvest for every $1,000 donated by the members of Democratic Underground, up to a maximum challenge donation of $1,500!

It's like every dollar you donate to America's Second Harvest will be worth $1.10! Make sure you donate soon to take advantage of this challenge... because this challenge ends when DUers raise $15,000.

YOU MUST CLICK ON THIS LINK BEFORE YOU DONATE IF YOU WANT YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE 10% MATCH:

http://help.secondharvest.org/democraticunderground
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Maeve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-21-06 08:35 AM
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15. Dang! Oh, well....
I give to Second Harvest anyway; sorry if I just lost them another $2.50.

Teach me to read to the bottom of the screen...
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tinfoilinfor2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 12:09 PM
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16. I know...don't remember if I clicked the banner OR the link...
I'm such a screw up. But hopefully DU will be credited for the donation!
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TexasLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 06:22 PM
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12. kick n/t
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kymar57 Donating Member (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-18-06 08:22 PM
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13. kick n/t
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-19-06 06:35 PM
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14. great idea-thanks
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-28-06 06:52 PM
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17. Go, DU!
They don't even know what we can do, together.

You Go!

:woohoo:
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-29-06 04:58 AM
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18. Great idea to do this. I've got a stack of envelopes including 2nd Harvest waiting for me...
... When I finally get to it I will send them a donation via snail mail. As is increasingly usual for me I can't use the link, so whatever I send isn't going to be credited to DU. :-( Sorry. Nonetheless I truly appreciate what you guys (and my fellow DUers) are doing.

Happy new year to you all!

Hekate

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