If you were thinking of donating to Camp Quest, the secular summer camp for kids, today would be a very good day to do it. It is Give to the Max Day, and every $25 donation through GiveMN gives them a shot at winning $10,000 more. I’m kicking in a few dollars just for using …
Category Archive: Charity
Sep 18 2012
Secular charities are almost there
It takes something really important to get me to burrow up out of my sickbed, especially when I was so enjoying the dark coolth nestled in a web of soft fungal mycelia and was busily contemplating the various flavors of soil. But this issue matters. It’s the final two days of the Chase Giving campaign, …
Sep 11 2012
Atheists, secularists, freethinkers: vote for these secular charities
Chase Community Giving is handing out almost half a million dollars in a great big blatant popularity contest — it seems like a very poor way to distribute funds, and you know what I think of online polls. But hey, it’s their money, and they’ve come up with this scheme to distribute, so who are …
Sep 07 2012
Now the real rankings emerge
There’s a charity auction going on for Doctors Without Borders, and among the items being sold are autographed photos of various people. Aron Ra is dismayed that his photo is going for a quarter of the price of Matt Dillahunty’s. So how should I feel? Here’s the whole listing of the charity auction. At least …
Sep 06 2012
Hug an Atheist
Here you go, another worthy project looking for donations: Hug an Atheist is a documentary being made to illuminate the ordinary humanity of atheists in America, an antidote to the vicious ignorance highlighted in this clip. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Sep 04 2012
Support a good cause this weekend!
DPR Jones’ yearly fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders will be broadcast on BlogTV this weekend, the 8th-9th of September. The full schedule is online, but you should tune in for some interesting and entertaining discussion anytime (although the 7pm hour is problematic, with the fabulous Cristina Rad paired with someone we’d all rather forget). Ignore …
Aug 07 2012
Oh, gosh — I have cheesed off Sam Harris!
He is clearly quite peeved. It looks like the final straw was that I, as he claims, “gleefully endorsed” a post on The 5 Most Awful Atheists. Actually, what I did was challenge the author to write something positive about atheists, and agreed that the criticisms were valid, but not gleefully, and I also said …
Jul 20 2012
I don’t know why that kid is holding up my name
It was all you people who donated. Kasese Humanist Primary School is getting their chicken coop!
Jul 19 2012
Chickens or summer camp?
I’m supposed to be raising money for Camp Quest — I’m competing against a team of tiny, gnome-like little people — and they’re actually edging ahead of me. But now a distraction has come up. Kasese Humanist Primary School is trying to raise money for a chicken coop, so they can get eggs to feed …
Jul 13 2012
Great Camp Quest battle?
Apparently, a team of teeny-tiny, insignificant people decided to band together and have a fundraising competition with me. Without telling me. Or maybe they did, and my email is just so screwed up right now that I never saw it. Anyway, they’re all feebly whiffing about my ankles right now, squeaking their defiance in their …
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