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The Rabbit
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quote:
Originally posted by malanthrop:
quote:
Originally posted by The Rabbit:
As an historic note, when we first started doing this we agreed to avoid charities affiliated with a church or political cause.

You mean politically neutral organizations like ACORN, NEA, SEIU, Rock the Vote or any group with "commuity", "social justice", "equal". "women's", "gay", "urban" or "green" in their names? Pseudonyms for democrat? [Smile] I would send my money to a truly non-partisan get out the vote organization.
I haven't noticed anyone recommending that hatrack give to one of those organizations.
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malanthrop
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No one has nominated Free Press yet?
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Brent and I talked it over and we'd love to help with either First Book or CAI. But we wouldn't object to most of the charities listed, if it turns out to be other. [Smile]

Thanks scholarette and Lyrhawn for running the charity drive this year!

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scholarette
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Not much change over the last few days.

Ayn Rand -4.5%
Care for Life- 4.5%
CAI- 9.1%
First Book- 50%
Heifer- 18.2%
RIF- 4.5%
St. Judes- 22.7%
United Through Reading- 18.2%

mal- nomination time is over.

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I can't seem to log in to take the survey. I vote for First Book, of course, as I said I would earlier.
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scholarette
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I will add in your vote Kwea. Polling will be closed Sunday at 3pm. As things stand now, no runoff poll will be needed, but if things change, the runoff poll will be started at that time.
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quote:
Originally posted by scholarette:
Not much change over the last few days.

Ayn Rand -4.5%
Care for Life- 4.5%
CAI- 9.1%
First Book- 50%
Heifer- 18.2%
RIF- 4.5%
St. Judes- 22.7%
United Through Reading- 18.2%

mal- nomination time is over.

I wasn't aware of the list of nominees. To be honest, Ayn Rand was a completely sarcastic nomination on my part. Any one of the organizations you've listed are completely valid in my unwanted opinion. I will contribute to whoever wins if you let me know how to contribute? I thought the list would be much longer and I am truly honored that you included my nomination. You made me feel like a part of the Hatrack family. A black sheep is better than not a sheep at all. (no sarcasm, thank you.)

[ November 29, 2009, 12:49 AM: Message edited by: malanthrop ]

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Lyrhawn will be in charge of setting up the contribution part, once the charity is determined. Different charities have different mechanisms, so that will mostly determine how things are done. I will be closing the voting tomorrow at 3:00pm Central time.

Ayn Rand -13.8%
Care for Life- 6.9%
CAI- 6.9%
First Book- 44.8%
Heifer- 13.8%
RIF- 6.9%
St. Judes- 20.7%
United Through Reading- 13.8%


Right now, I would not consider it needed to do a run off vote (since there are double the votes for First Book as the next highest). If it gets closer in the next 15 hours, I will do a runoff though.

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Cast my vote for First Book- and if there's a link where we can be sure of our contribution being associated with Hatrack, could we post it? I think last year I did it wrong.
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quote:
Originally posted by scholarette:
Lyrhawn will be in charge of setting up the contribution part, once the charity is determined. Different charities have different mechanisms, so that will mostly determine how things are done. I will be closing the voting tomorrow at 3:00pm Central time.

Ayn Rand -13.8%
Care for Life- 6.9%
CAI- 6.9%
First Book- 44.8%
Heifer- 13.8%
RIF- 6.9%
St. Judes- 20.7%
United Through Reading- 13.8%


Right now, I would not consider it needed to do a run off vote (since there are double the votes for First Book as the next highest). If it gets closer in the next 15 hours, I will do a runoff though.

Not to doubt your math but the list adds up to 127% What are the actual percentages? The sum cannot exceed 100%. Not trying to change the outcome,...first book is a fine non-partisan charity.

[ November 29, 2009, 04:01 AM: Message edited by: malanthrop ]

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The Rabbit
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mal, The percentage is percentage of all voters who voted for a particular charity. Since people were allowed to vote for more than one charity, it totals to more than 100%. She noted that earlier/
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No change in votes since last I posted. So, looks like First Book it is.
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Should I start a new thread to report the running tally?
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scholarette
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I would start a new thread, so that you can edit the title and anything else freely.
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Sure -- I'll sticky that one, since all the nominating/voting is complete. Thanks both of you for organizing!

[Edit -- should probably include directions, too, rather than solely a running total in the topic. It's possible you already planned that.]

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Way ahead of you [Smile]

There are directions in the tally thread.

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quote:
Originally posted by Tatiana:
I love Firstbook. I think we've done them more often than any other charity.

By the way, thanks for volunteering, scholarette and Lyrhawn.

My second favorite is Central Asia Institute, the organization of Greg Mortenson who builds schools in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan with particular emphasis on educating girls. Of course the best selling book "Three Cups of Tea" describes how he came to do that. It's an amazing story.

Here's CAI's website.

Greg Mortenson is going to be on BookTV (CSPAN2) Sunday night at 9.
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