Fundraising Widget Campaign: Success! Thank You! You Can Still Contribute!

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We are very grateful to everyone for their contributions,  links, and advice.   I'm elated that we made goal.  I'm pulling together all my notes and will post reflections about all the campaign shortly!  In the meantime, enjoy the thank you video!

AND, Leng Sopharath is only one of  16 college students the Sharing Foundation is supporting.  In addition, the Sharing Foundation is sponsoring 40 high school students and provides an English program in the Roteang Village School for over 500 kids.   And that's not all, the Sharing Foundation provides school uniforms (a requirement to enter school) to street kids in Cambodia so they can attend school.  's These uniforms are made by girls in our vocational program where we teach these young women sewing skills and pay them to work for our sewing shop or train them for higher paying jobs in the garment industry.

So, if don't worry that we're over goal - there are many children who will benefit from the additional support.

Donors:

Richardo Carreon
Lisa Canter   
Britt Bravo    
Teresa Crawford   
Kenneth Gierke   
Michele Martin   
Thomas Rogers   
Michael Hoffman   
Katya Andresen   
CDJ Wilcox    
Somongkol Teng   
Stewart Robinson
Tim Rose   
Ken Goldstein   
Michael Hannum
The children at Ptea Ponleu Vichea, a youth center in Battambang
Caroline Meeks, Solution Grove
Stephen Sherlock
Paul Lamb
Jonathan Davis   
Nancy White
Alexandra Samuel and Robb Cottingham
Erin Denny (Aka Agent Handy)
   

Links/Posts

Pam Ashlund, Nonprofit Eye Blog (some advice about tax documentation)
Emily Weinberg from the Nonprofit Blog Exchange
Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project
ChipIn News Blog
CrowdFunding (that is that awesome vlogger Sull)
First-of-its-Kind (Peter Dietz - excellent advice on how to go about these campaigns)
Michael Hoffman at See3
Second Life Blog
Britt Bravo on Blogher
Britt Bravo on her personal blog
smArts & Culture
FiSpace
Micropersuasion
E-politics
Ricardo Carreon
Solution Grove

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say.

Keun Fast, another Cambodian blogger.
Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign.

I also want to thank Ken Goldstein for sharing with his network on YouTube.

Carnet Williams at the ChipIn blog has kept a record of links and dollars here.

Katya Andresen at the Nonprofit Marketing Blog gave me a guest spot to write about the campaign and solicit advice from colleagues here.

Comments

[Katya]

Way to go Beth! Thanks for doing such good for Cambodia.

[Michele Martin]

Congratulations, Beth! It's great to see that you're almost there!

[Mongkol]

Congrats, Beth. Finally we made it. :)

[Beth Kanter]

Yes, Leng Sopharath is set for this year ... but as you well know Mongkol the needs are great in Cambodia. And, the Sharing Foundation's educational programs support many other kids. So I hope people will continue to contribute!

[Kevin Hughes]

Hi Beth - I've been working on the widget with the ChipIn team, and I just wanted to let you know that it's things like this that make the long hours and effort well worth it. Congratulations to you and the Sharing Foundation!

[Maryann Devine]

Congratulations, Beth! What you've done is amazing!

[John Powers]

You are indeed amazing! Lots of the things that you suggest are easy and immediately done--if I could remember to. But some of what you do takes quite a little learning. It's so wonderful then how you bring the easy and hard together in one big package.

I'm so pleased you met your goal and are keeping on. And so thankful that you are sharing all of this.

I'm currently trying to help fund raising for matching grants by Omidyar Network for a Attacking Water-Borne Diarrheal Illnesses. I've launched a blog Hats For Health I've gushed to others involved about your incredible efforts and blog. But now they want me to do the same. Yikes!

I've got some studying to do. The great thing is you've laid out some much great information. Thanks