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2007 Giving

24 January 2008 1,066 views 9 Comments

I just wanted to do a nice recap of the donations we made on behalf of InvestorGeeks in 2007. All totaled, we gave a tad over $2000 in 2007. We’re looking to nearly double that in 2008… as long as our traffic and advertising relationships hold up.

2007 InvestorGeeks Donations
- $400 to The Arthritis Foundation for Steve’s Race
- $300 to The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation for my cousin Candice’s Run for the Cure

(these below were squeezed in at the end of the year and previously unannounced on the blog here)

- $300 to Karen’s Walk, a 5K Run/Walk that sponsors heart failure research in memory of Karen Decker. Karen was a former classmate of Frank’s at RIT.
- $200 to the One Laptop Per Child program through the Give One Get One program. We haven’t gotten our laptop yet, but I’ll let you know when I do. We’ll likely play with it a bit and find some way to donate it or maybe give it away in a contest.
- $400 to Child’s Play, a charity that gives video games and other toys to sick children in hospitals across the United States.
- $400 to NPR, specifically WNYC 93.9 out of New York. That’s the station Chris listens to and one I listened to when I was working in New Jersey.

For 2008, I’d like to donate some money to my alma mater Haverford College. I’m also training to swim/bike/run a triathalon this summer. If that goes well, I’m sure I could find a cause to swim, bike, or run for instead of getting Steve and Candice to do the hard work.

Any other charity ideas for 2008?

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9 Comments »

  • Undertrader said:

    That’s awesome! We should get an Investor Geeks bike team to do the ride from San Francisco to L.A. this year. ;) Hehe

    I’m glad we can help out so many people. I’ve gotta get out of my lair and start posting more again. Christian has been pulling everyones weight around here and doing great, but the more we all post, maybe the more money we can get for these charities.

    Need to work on the pulling of our personal blogs into the site too. All, all the things to do, none of the motivation or time to do them, eh?

    In any event, congrats to you Jason and Christian and everyone else that made 2007 a great year at Investor Geeks!

    – Steve “The Undertrader”

    # 25 January 2008 at 1:46 am
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    # 25 January 2008 at 2:01 am
  • Jason (author) said:

    >> Need to work on the pulling of our personal blogs into the site too. All, all the things to do, none of the motivation or time to do them, eh?

    I agree. Can’t find the time to get this done. If someone knows of an existing WP plugin it would help. Basically, I want to take an RSS feed and convert it into posts on the blog (from a certain author).

    Every Spam Blog in existence uses something like this so it shouldn’t be so scarce.

    # 27 January 2008 at 3:49 pm
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  • Erynne said:

    I just wanted to say that I think it’s fantastic that your site is reinvesting in the communities around you and giving back to people or organizations that may have touched your lives somewhere along the way. Keep up the amazing work.

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