http://www.vivint.com/givesbackproject
matching period coming soon!
August 16 at 2:00am ET to August 19 at 2:00am ET
Donations will be matched dollar for dollar. Come back tomorrow to
donate to your favorite charity.
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As the contest ends on August 27, I imagine this will be the last
matching donation period.
This is where they will match donations of $50 or less per individual,
up to a maximum of $2500. But I believe any donations from previous
periods are counted and even donations to other charities are counted
i.e. in total only $50 of what you give will be matched.
As I understand it, the WPI have already reached their full matching
allocation ($2500) so only the 3 other ME-type charities are eligible:
- IACFS/ME International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & ME
http://www.vivint.com/givesbackproject/charity/1124
- National ME/FM Action Network
http://www.vivint.com/givesbackproject/charity/855
- Nightingale Research Foundation
http://www.vivint.com/givesbackproject/charity/1129
I have heard that the Nightingale Research Foundation are not happy
they are in this contest so I am not sure whether donations to them
have been organised, etc.
Perhaps that would become clear if one tried to donate to them.
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Overall voting:
In my last message, I pointed out that other charities, who didn't win
the top prize or a regional prize but got 5000 votes or more, would be
entered into a raffle for one of two prizes of $25,000. A maximum of
94 charities can enter this (=100-6 (overall winner and 5 regional
winners)) but it will probably be 50-60 so qualifying is worth around
$1000 or a bit less (depends on the final number of charities -
basically $50,000 divided by the number of qualifying charities).
Anyway, soon after I posted it, it became clear that the WPI's
position leading the Pacific group was more vulnerable than previously
thought: one group (It Gets Better Project) got 2300 or so votes that
day (depends when one counts votes in terms of an exact count). They
have over 200000 Facebook fans and nearly 30000 followers on Twitter
so if they became interested, they could pass out the WPI - it would
take over 3000 votes each day which is more than the very top groups
having been getting but is still possible. It has dropped to 1600
votes yesterday but this has given some people a fright and shows the
money isn't won until it's finished. There is also another group in
the Pacific region, Invisible Children, which has over 400000 Facebook
fans which could theoretically be a threat.
The $100000 prize for the Pacific region is 100+ times more valuable
than qualifying for the draw.
Anyway, the link to vote for the WPI is:
http://www.vivint.com/givesbackproject/charity/769 .
Tom
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