Over at my recent Donors Choose Feedback post, I just got a comment (at about 4 AM–I wonder what time zone?) with a bit of a plea:
OK, it’s not exactly a science project (well maybe if you stretch — animal husbandry? the life-cycle of the order order Araneae?), but this Donors Choose project to buy a set of _Charlotte’s Web_ for poor kids in Louisiana expires in less than two days; I’ve given more to it than I can afford, but not enough … I wonder if you wonder consider adding it to your list? I’ll be devastated if it doesn’t make it.:http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=577277
I loved that book as a kid. Anyway, I took a look, and the project is indeed expiring–it actually says it has just one day left now. I have added it to my widget over there to the right.
And yes, I am a sucker for a plea for help.
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Bill Sugas
October 15, 2011 at 9:09 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I too am a sucker for helping kids out:-) Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
debkaren
October 15, 2011 at 9:48 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
HOORAY! Your site did it. (I’m an American who lives in England — and in despair about the state of education funding at home.)
This made my day. Thanks again.
Another Donors Choice Project Completed For Science! | Token Skeptic
October 15, 2011 at 8:31 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
[...] a reader of this blog, most likely you’re a reader of Digital Cuttlefish as well – and recently they posted about a project to get Charlotte’s Web (a much loved book of mine too) out to readers. It doesn’t take much to complete these [...]