This is the original QQQ post. For the latest on this fundraising effort, click here.
I’m excited to announce the Quizlet Queries for Quid program. It’s a donation drive to buy materials for deserving schools all over the country.
A couple days ago I found this website, DonorsChoose.org. It’s really an amazing and unique place. It allows individual teachers to request donations for supplies and materials in their classrooms. For example, a teacher might ask for a new rug for a classroom’s reading center. Every teacher’s proposal is handled directly by the site; the teacher requests a specific product, and the DonorsChoose staff handles all the price negotiation and purchasing, then sends the materials to the teacher’s school. Thus, it’s very hard to perpetrate a fraud, because the DonorsChoose staff makes sure every proposal is buying educational supplies AND getting shipped to a school.
Individuals and organizations get to choose which proposals they donate to. Right now, DonorsChoose is running a contest for blogs to compete to get their readers to donate to causes they select. Incidentally, the blog that’s winning the contest is winning because its writer promised to shave her head if her readers donated $30,000. They did, and she did. Now, I’m not going to shave my head, but I am going to enter the Quizlet blog into this contest!
The first three projects I hand-picked because they concerned themselves with areas close to my heart (vocabulary and technology). Here are the causes:
- Help a computer classroom in Mississippi get an LCD projector.
- Buy Vocabulary Cartoon books for 8th graders in a Chicago school with 93% low-income students.
- Get a color laser printer for a school in Mississippi.
I decided to keep the list limited to 3 proposals to increase the chances that each of them would be highly successful. I may add more later as time passes.
To kick-start the competition, I just donated $400! That’s 16% of my entire goal of $2512.35, or the cost to fund my first three project choices. Surely the combined forces of Quizlet can reach this modest goal. I dare y’all!
How to Donate
Go to the project page and select one of the proposals in the list. When you find one you like, click on the Fund Now button. They’ll take credit cards, debit cards, and checks. Sorry, no Paypal or Google Checkout. Thanks!
I chose the two proposals from Mississippi because I worked in the city of Waveland as an Americorps volunteer this summer. I was working to build houses for people whose houses were washed away in Hurricane Katrina. As I wrote before, conditions are getting better but it’s got a long way to go. The people there were unforgettably friendly and hospitable, even in their luckless situation. Here are photos from my time in Mississippi.
My friend Jenny and me hammering under a house.
Bay-Waveland Middle School, the recipient school of the LCD projector, is only 15 miles away from where I lived this summer, and even closer to the houses I worked on. You wouldn’t expect it, but it’s a magical place with a lot of heart; I can’t wait to go back there someday. Perhaps some of you noticed the bracelet I was wearing on the last blog post. It was part of a program by Hancock County, the same county as Bay-Waveland Middle School, to give volunteers discounts at local stores.
So now I ask you to join me in supporting these schools by donating now. If you’re too young, ask your parents if they can help. Any amount is hugely helpful! Tell them it’s tax-deductible. 
With today’s passing of the 55,000 registered user mark on Quizlet, I hope that there’s enough generosity between y’all to even surpass my goal of $2512.
Not convinced? Let me throw in a few freebies. First, for anyone who donates any amount, I will remove Quizlet’s ads for life on your account. Also, I’ll place a special icon (see image) on your dashboard and list you (only if you want to) in a future blog post. You’ll be the envy of all your friends! To see how it might look, check out the Quizlet Creator icon on my own dashboard on Quizlet. Fashionable, ain’t it?
(If you’re not a Quizlet user, you can definitely still donate!)
Also, DonorsChoose.org is running a contest between various sites and blogs to see who can get their users to donate the most. I entered Quizlet(’s blog) in LitLiberation category. Let’s grab that #1 spot!
So who chose such a silly contest name, Quizlet Queries for Quid? Well…I did. It was my poor attempt at being comically alliterative. For your information, Quid is a slang term for the British currency, the Pound Sterling. So the phrase pathetically translates to “Requests for Money.” Clever, I know.
Lastly, to all the teachers using Quizlet: You should check out this website! If any of you create a proposal on the site, let me know and I’ll be happy to add your cause to Quizlet’s list.
One last time - the Quizlet Queries for Quid is here!
i think its the bomb tht u guys r doing this!
Sorry i can’t help your cause.
Harry1987 - that’s alright. Ask your friends!
i could tell a couple of my friends i go to a school where there is a lot of rich kids i think its a great cause
there definetly a bunch of rich kids at my school:)
Just waiting on my debit card! Count me in!
Join in everyone even if its just for a few dollars!
can you mail in the money or what do you have to do?? I WANT TO DONATE
Yes, you can totally mail in the money! (by check, not cash). Look at the gray box in the post, it has instructions.
Thanks for your enthusiasm everyone! We’ve had 2 donors already, and I’ve talked to at least 3 others who will shortly. We’ve still got a long way to go though….
-Andrew
I think it’s so great that you guys are doing this! I’ll definitley try to help out!
good luck!
i would but i cant
Come on y’all! I know you can do better than $45 total!
I plan on donating some, though I’m not sure how much yet, as I’m kind off broke.
How do you know who donated on Quizlet?
That’s really cool,
Good job hope youu earn you’re goal!
x,
MiMii
Grant - on my admin panel on DonorsChoose.org I get a list of people who’ve donated. Thank you to the person who donated today!
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I think it is great!
I will definitly try to help but why not send in cash?
hey cool pic!
Thanks to everyone who’s donated! $110 so far!
Andrew? Could you please answer my question. I really REALLY want to help but I don’t have a credit card yet.
Great job on the $110 dolaars to! That’s great!
that sounds really exciting!!!!!!!
Mike: perhaps you could ask your parents for a little help? You could have them make the donation and then pay them back with your money. That’s the best solution I can think of..
-Andrew
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ty Andrew I’ll ask them. A donation is comeing I promise!
sorry i cant donate i dont have no mony but i wish you luck to reach your goal;):)
hey andrew i really think that that is a great cause i will suredonate my allowence
but its not much
i totally want to but i cant i a. dont get an alowence and b. dont have any money to donate!!!!
but my hawaiian teacher could use a pencil sharpener!!!!!!:) could you help with that???? 
:) please???
give more money to save education
I agree with some people but like hot hot said GIVE MORE MONEY TO SAVE SCHOOLS TO SAVE CHILDREN’S EDUCATION. I know school is not a place to come and be social with friends but the classes are sometimes boring. Science class, math, and e.t.c. need new equiptment.SO PLEASE START DONATING MONEY TO SCHOOLS TO HELP QUIZLET OUT AND ALSO TO HELP THE KIDS OUT
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:) SMILE
:):):):):):):)
Thats nice that you
guys are doing this, =)
Keep Up The Good Work
!! <3333
I agree with some people but like hot hot said GIVE MORE MONEY TO SAVE SCHOOLS TO SAVE CHILDREN’S EDUCATION. I know school is not a place to come and be social with friends but the classes are sometimes boring. Science class, math, and e.t.c. need new equiptment.SO PLEASE START DONATING MONEY TO SCHOOLS TO HELP QUIZLET OUT AND ALSO TO HELP THE KIDS OUT
SMILE
I think that this is really cool that you people are doing this. I wish I could help…
zzzzzzzz
Great Idea.. Just donated to the project.
Would be cool if rather then removing the ad’s from the users that donate you would agree to donate a portion of the google earnings to the projects
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