Monday, January 05, 2009

Only for The Beneficent & Sexy: FEEDaNEED.org's Top Non-Profits Announced. Projects to Start Rumbling Soon.

Voting has ended to select the FEEDaNEED.org non-profits. We were initially hoping to be able to assist one or two non-profits, but redditor volunteers stepped up in impressive fashion and and our Database of Awesome will be contributing to these 11 non-profits:

Social Actions
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Free Software Foundation
TakingITGlobal.org
Education Generation
Medecins Sans Frontieres
Kiva
Seeing Hands
Share Our Strength
Free Geek
Scratch
(If you represent one of these non-profits please fill out this form if you have not already).

Volunteers have signed up from all over the world, with US, Canada, India, UK, Australia, Romania, and Brazil leading the way. To all 590 volunteers who have signed up thus far - THANK YOU!

You will be getting an email or message on reddit (whichever you selected as the preferred method of contact) shortly with information about your project. It will take some time to match everyone up to a project, but Big thanks also to all of you who have help spread the word about FEEDaNEED.org, and a big thanks to our outstanding sponsors. Another big thank you to all of the non-profits that were submitted, and everyone that submitted and voted.

If you have not volunteered yet, you can still join the fun. We'll be matching up volunteers and non-profit projects by the order that you registered (in general), but we WILL get everyone matched up with project that is in depserate need of your mad skillz. Register here if you haven't already. If you have any questions about FEEDaNEED.org, hit me up.

Here's an impressive stat, the most common choice for volunteers was to volunteer 6 hours or more. Even more impressive, the most common response to "What would you show the aliens first?" was "Pizza". FEEDaNEED.org volunteers not only give & give big, but they also care if our new alien overlords are hungry after the long trip. Classy.
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