Fandom Lounge's Journal - Day

9:10PM - Blogger Challenge!

You may or may not have heard by now, but SixApart is offering you the chance to request a $30 gift certificate from them to donate to public school projects through DonorsChoose.org. The catch is that you have to request it by 5 PM Pacific time on Monday, October 1st.

I've donated through Donors Choose before, and a teacher friend of mine has used it to request funding for a project. You can choose whatever project you want, and from what I understand, can even divide up the $30 and fund more than one.

In a fannish turn of mind, I searched and found three project proposals for buying manga for classroom libraries to tempt reluctant readers and to get manga into the hands of kids who are desperate to read more but can't afford it, and set up a challenge to fund them. If you have an LJ and participate in this, or if you don't but wish to give some money anyway, please consider donating part or all of it through my challenge.

Yes, you too can force SixApart to fund future fans. :)