Donors Choose Update, Day 2

One day in and we’re already at 4% of our target. Given that we’ve thirty days to hit it, this is clearly a good start. Many, many thanks to our donors so far. But let’s not rest on our laurels, m’kay?

I get between 600 and 1000 individuals visiting a day, so if everyone gave a $5 we’d be set. And a donation of $1 a week (i.e. $52) would certainly be a great donation.

Some of my Sciblings are offering enticements to readers to donate. Would I stoop so low? Do I even have anything to entice you, gentle reader, with?

Link to the challenge.

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Before heading off to the Charleston Conference last week, I blogged about the big announcement of Pierre Lassonde's big $25 million donation to York to found the Lassonde School of Engineering.
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How about the winner gets to pick a Friday Poem?