Teachers Ask. You Choose. Students Learn. Vote. Repeat.
Charles Best informs us that Donors Choose has made the Top 5 finals of the American Express Members Project and it's a close race with an Unseemly Corporate Goliath breathing stank air down everyone's neck. From the New York Times:
Anyway, if you voted last week, it will only take 30 seconds to do it this round. If it's your first time (and you're an AMEX cardholder), it's not much more to help public school children get the supplies they need. VOTE.
And look, Amanda Congdon has done some spots for the project. Remember all that shit I said about her and Dupont before? I take it back, hybrid looks good on her!
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Need a personal Donors Choose story? Of course you do. I decided to go outside of NYC and contribute to "Bringing the Arts Back to School with Drama" project close to home at Spingarn Senior High School in Washington, DC.
Dear Mr. Krucoff,
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for your generosity. I can't tell you how excited I am that I will be able to show my students pieces of history and real life events as they unfold in the classroom. It has been such a blessing to read that somebody out there cares enough for my students to want to give them a little bit of the technology that so many other schools take for granted. Thank you for your kindness and God bless!
Procter & Gamble is also traveling incognito in the American Express Member's Project, a Web-based initiative that encourages people to submit ideas for solving a societal problem. American Express cardholders vote for their favorites, and American Express will award up to $5 million for the winning idea.P&G is looking for a $5M handout from AMEX that would take away from genuinely non-profit organizations who aren't deeply pocketed with consumer purchases? Fuck them and fuck them hard. I'm going without toothpaste for a week in protest. Change is just a case of halitosis away.
Mr. Allgood [director of P&G's homegrown philanthropic project] entered the science and theory behind the Children's Safe Drinking Water program. But he said that the Member Project's rules precluded him from naming it, or mentioning Pur or Procter.
Anyway, if you voted last week, it will only take 30 seconds to do it this round. If it's your first time (and you're an AMEX cardholder), it's not much more to help public school children get the supplies they need. VOTE.
And look, Amanda Congdon has done some spots for the project. Remember all that shit I said about her and Dupont before? I take it back, hybrid looks good on her!
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Need a personal Donors Choose story? Of course you do. I decided to go outside of NYC and contribute to "Bringing the Arts Back to School with Drama" project close to home at Spingarn Senior High School in Washington, DC.
Dear Mr. Krucoff,
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for your generosity. I can't tell you how excited I am that I will be able to show my students pieces of history and real life events as they unfold in the classroom. It has been such a blessing to read that somebody out there cares enough for my students to want to give them a little bit of the technology that so many other schools take for granted. Thank you for your kindness and God bless!
