{"id":6946,"date":"2011-06-21T08:27:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=6946"},"modified":"2011-06-21T08:27:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T15:27:20","slug":"charity-pitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/21\/charity-pitches\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity Pitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;re not asking for money. Admittedly, that&#8217;s what usually happens when the word &#8220;charity&#8221; appears, i.e. at our <a href=\"http:\/\/\">Donors Choose challenges<\/a>.  But now I have a whopping $100 burning a hole in my pocket, due to my plucky third-place finish in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/06\/20\/chirality-and-the-positrons-mustache\/\">3 Quarks Daily contest<\/a>.  Back when I was a struggling grad student or post doc, this would have gone straight to pay for Ramen noodles or whatever.  But now that I am a faculty member who lives in a nice house and drives a fancy car, I can pay it forward a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, I&#8217;m going to take the $100 and match it myself, donating $200 to charity.  (Yes I know, the big spender.  Hey, it was only 3rd place.)  There are plenty of charities I know about already, but I thought that since these ill-gotten gains were based on the blog, I should ask the blog for advice.<\/p>\n<p>So in comments I&#8217;d like to get your pitches for a worthy cause I might not have heard of.  The winner &#8212; in a contest judged only by me &#8212; will get the $200.  It will be most effective if you leave both an explanation of why this charity is so great, and a link to an easy way to donate.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there is a hidden agenda here &#8212; while I&#8217;m giving away this huge pile of money, anyone else who reads the list is welcome to be inspired to donate as well.  No pressure, except that you would be a better person and feel good about yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Pitch away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;re not asking for money. Admittedly, that&#8217;s what usually happens when the word &#8220;charity&#8221; appears, i.e. at our Donors Choose challenges. But now I have a whopping $100 burning a hole in my pocket, due to my plucky third-place finish in the 3 Quarks Daily contest. Back when I was a struggling grad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}