{"id":1772,"date":"2007-10-05T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/05\/give-kara-a-boost-at-donorschoose\/"},"modified":"2007-10-05T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T19:24:35","slug":"give-kara-a-boost-at-donorschoose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/05\/give-kara-a-boost-at-donorschoose\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Kara a boost at DonorsChoose"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Kara Swisher at All Things D needs a hand, so I told her I would reach out to my vast blog readership — are you listening, Mom? — in an attempt to help out. You see, Kara wants to have lunch<\/a> with Yahoo co-founder and now CEO Jerry Yang. Actually, that’s not the real reason she needs a hand. The real reason is that she has set up a page at DonorsChoose.org, a Web 2.0 charity site that allows you to pick worthwhile school projects that need financing and then let others contribute to the cause.<\/p>\n

front4.jpgApart from the satisfaction of knowing that they are helping to finance educational materials and other projects for needy schools, the contestants in the blogger challenge<\/a> get a chance at a number of awards from sponsors, including — you guessed it — lunch with Jerry Yang. Kara has set up a page<\/a> with some projects in both San Francisco and Washington, D.C. and other leading bloggers have set up pages as well, including Fred Wilson and Lockhart Steele from Gawker Media.<\/p>\n

The idea of Donors Choose — where individuals decide which worthy projects to fund, and then others can contribute, with each project and the financing thereof monitored by Donors Choose — reminds me of GiveMeaning.com, the site that Tom Williams started a couple of years ago now, which takes the same kind of approach to a whole range of different charitable efforts, from building soccer fields in Rwanda to building schools in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

At the moment, Kara’s competitive blood has to be boiling at the fact that Fred’s challenge<\/a> is currently in the lead. Beating him would make lunch taste even sweeter, I bet \ud83d\ude42 An earlier piece that Kara did about Donors Choose getting funded is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b><\/p>\n

Kara has a video plea for donors up now. Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My friend Kara Swisher at All Things D needs a hand, so I told her I would reach out to my vast blog readership — are you listening, Mom? — in an attempt to help out. You see, Kara wants to have lunch with Yahoo co-founder and now CEO Jerry Yang. Actually, that’s not the … <\/p>\n

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