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During the month of October, over 150 bloggers devoted their time (and various methods of persuasion) to help inspire their readers to give over $270,000 in classroom projects via the DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge, reaching over 65,000 public school students in need of essential learning materials.

Winners: By raising $111,352, mobilizing 1,162 readers and reaching 19,577 students, Sarah Bunting and readers of her Tomato Nation blog won recognition from both Yahoo! and Six Apart. This truly is a testament to how deeply her readers care about public schools and how effective Sarah has been at inspiring the Tomato Nation community. The Daily Beast recently ran a story on Tomato Nation’s participation in the Blogger Challenge.

Other winners in each of the Blogger Challenge leaderboards, include:

By Donors Mobilized (Yahoo!):

• Tech Blogs: Fred Wilson’s A VC blog, mobilized 82 donors
•  Science Blogs: Physics professor, Chad Orzel’s Uncertain Principles Science Blog, mobilized 86 donors
• Topical/Local Blogs: Apartment Therapy mobilized 179 donors
• BlogHer/Mommy Blogs: Writer, Alice Bradley’s Finslippy blog, mobilized 132 donors
• Knitting Blogs: Knitter Jessica’s Rose-Kim Knits blog mobilized 36 donors
• Music Blogs: Minneapolis-based Music Blog, Culture Bully, mobilized 18 donors

… and two major shout outs to the Black Bloggers for Education and Sports Blogs who joined this effort late in the game and still managed to not only inspire their readers, but also encourage fellow bloggers to get involved (thank you!).

• Black Bloggers for Education: Kevin’s A Slant Truth blog, which focused its campaign on literacy, mobilized 4 donors
• Sports Blogs: Free Darko, an existential basketball covering unusual aspects of sports, mobilized 7 donors

By Students Reached (Six Apart):

• Tech Blogs: Fred Wilson’s A VC blog, reached 4,545 students
•  Science Blogs: Scientists, David Ng and Benjamin Cohen of The World’s Fair Science Blog, reached 1,780 students
• Topical/Local Blogs: Ralph Alswang’s Photography blog reached 522 students
• BlogHer/Mommy Blogs: Writer, Alice Bradley’s Finslippy blog, reached 1,676 students
• Knitting Blogs: Knitter Jessica’s, Rose-Kim Knits blog, reached 597 students
• Music Blogs: Internet music teacher Walt Ribeiro’s Music Blog reached 910 students
• Black Bloggers for Education: Humor Blog The Assimilated Negro, reached 100 students
• Sports Blogs: Sports Crackle and Pop, which helped created the Sports Blog leaderboard, reached 465 students

Special thanks to all of this year’s participants!

Interested in creating your own giving page and starting your own ‘challenge?’ Check out this section of our website!

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