Patrice over at Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman! Patrice asked that a donation be made to CARD-V - Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence. CARD-V provides services and support to those affected by sexual and domestic violence. CARD-V also provides education and leadership within the community to change the societal conditions that cultivate these forms of violence. Stonewall and I are very happy to make a donation to CARD-V in Patrice's honor.
Now...I must say I am pretty disappointed in some of you, dear readers. I did NOT ask you to donate money. I did NOT ask you to give more than the normal time you give to blog reading/commenting. All I asked was for you to leave a comment and for each comment you left I would add $1 to my donation pot. Only 10, (10 out of 50-60 readers per day!!) left comments. Of those 10 commenters, some of them left more than 1 comment/charity and so we had a total of $14 in the pot. Not very impressive, I'm afraid.
Well, this is my blog and my donation, so I'm breaking the rules. I said Stonewall and I would donate up to $150 (this was said in the hopes that there would be more than 150 commenters/charities, but apparently, I was being a bit too optimistic) and since Cash for Comments came from the spirit of wanting to donate more throughout the year, Stonewall and I donated the full $150 to CARD-V.
Hopefully, when I do this again (because I will), I'll have more participants! For those of you that did participate, I want to thank you all so much! You brought to my attention charities that I did not even know existed and I hope to be able to donate to all of them throughout the year. Thank you again!
*Update: I'm sorry! The rant in this post was completely unnecessary on my part...Read why here.
2 comments:
So this is where you were supposed to comment right? Like on your page and not somwhere else? I hope I'm not one of the ones your talking about...EKKK! If I am, I apologize...I thought this was where I ws supposed to be putting them:( But I really like the charity that won!
Omg! I don't know how I missed this! I'm so excited! (A little late, I know!) I was checking on technoratti places my blog was mentioned & saw this! Woo hoo! :) Thanks so much for donating the whole $150 even though you didn't get as many comments! :) YAY!
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