The Donors Choose Meetup: November 4th, NYC
As I promised at the start of the Donors Choose campaign, I am going to do a Meetup with everyone who gave to the campaign.
Here are the details:
Who: Anyone who gives to the current Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge via my giving page
Teachers: We will have several of the teachers whose classrooms we gave to in attendance
Bloggers: We hope to have some of the other bloggers who participated in the challenge in attendance
Where: Washington Irving High School cafeteria Union Square neighborhood, NYC
Date: November 4, 2009
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
What: I'll give a short talk, then work the crowd for the rest of the event
If you want to attend, you have to do two things:
1) Give to the current Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge via my giving page. Any amount will do. It's not about the amount, it's about the donation.
2) Sign up for the event on the Meetup page
We'll have a list of everyone who gave via my giving page at the event and we'll check everyone in that way.
I am really excited about this event. It was a reader, Dave in Hackensack, who gave me this idea back in August when I was doing my birthday challenge. I want to thank Elaine Perez of Donors Choose who has helped to make this a reality. I look forward to seeing you there.
Comments (Archived):
Fantastic news. Just hope the Yankees can beat the Phillies before Game 6, which falls at that same time on Nov. 4th 🙂
if it is game 6 that night, we’ll see what we can do for all the yankees and phillies fans. maybe some from MLB.com can help us figure out what do to
the post season package is available on mlb.tv for $10. you can try sending an @ reply to @mlbtv on twitter. they are usually pretty responsive and might wave the fee for a good cause.
There is our answer!
pfft, keep dreaming. phillies will repeat, no doubt.
No doubt Kid! But how depressed are you today that the Phils scored more points (runs) than the Eagles did yesterday. Ugh. Go Phils.
eagles were pathetic yesterday. disgusting. andy reid is the problem, in my opinion. they also never take the time to establish the running game. but at least we got the phils! they’re looking sharp.
damn i was hoping for late november….oh well. hope all have a good time indirectly perpetuating the public “education” system. boss i will holla at you in late nov/early dec when i am in nyc if you are around.
Please do
I’ll be there in spirit, plane tickets are murder, I was hoping to make it to NYC next week but that’s too expensive as well. (Especially when you’re planning a wedding.)
I know. Plane tickets have skyrocketed in the past six months. Wow
They’re extremely correlated to commodities + the economy.
You all are making me feel very glad about the price I paid to get to school…
Just bought JFK-SF-LA-JFK swing 10 days out for less than $300 on AA. Cheap tix are out there if you have schedule flexibility.
I’ll be there. Baseball has already reached the “wait until next year” phase up here in New England (except for Bijan)
I’m in. See you all there.
Done and Done.And thanks for adding a few more music related ones. I just had to give to the one called “Gooooooo…….Boomwhackers!!” How can you not with a name that awesome? Though I can imagine the horror on the teachers faces once they realize what they have unleashed. Go music!
Yeah I love that project name too. Just gave 50 to it because you called it out. Thanks!
Unfortunately its going to be far too expensive for me to make it over mid week. Hopefully we can meet up next time you’re in the UK
“It was a reader who gave me this idea back in August when I was doing my birthday challenge.”Your readers seem to come up with some good ideas occasionally. 😉
it was you Dave?i couldn’t recallif it was, i will edit the post to give credit where credit is due
To be scrupulously accurate, my idea was slightly different: I suggested holding an event like this at a bar.
Well it was where I got the inspiration
Wish I could make this but I’m going to be in the valley 🙁 Would have loved to meet the teachers we all helped out.
Maybe we can ustream live so folks that can’t make it, can still virtually participate. Avc’ers come from all over. Maybe get a live feed for chatting on a projector too (too far out?), and a chat/talk room.
All good ideas. Under consideration. Thanks!
“Too far out”? Mark, we’re living in the future (what’s that Gibson quote — “The future is here; it’s just not widely distributed”?). Soon, you’ll be able to send your surrogate to an event like this.
I’ll be there. Looking forward.
Me too
I will be there – I look forward to becoming more involved in this community and meeting some great people.As for the World Series….I’ll suck it up if it means the Yankees are actually in it.
I will be there, but I’m not really sure what you guys are talking about I’m pretty sure the Dodgers Yankees series will be over by then. Go Dodgers!!!!!
Nice!
Won’t be able to make it the meetup, but I love the idea of paying back for content on a micro-payment level to the content creator or the charity of their choice.I feel like it’s the only way that I’d pay for content from The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Time Magazine, etc.
Sounds like it’ll be a fun night, wish I could make it.More importantly, we’ve gone from 10 people and $750 less than two weeks ago, to $12,671 and 157 people as of this comment. That’s pretty awesome.
Great. Looking forward to this.
Das sind Abendessen sachen hier.