Furious Seasons

December 02, 2008

Winter Fundraiser, Day Two

$125 came in yesterday via PayPal, so that leaves $2,875 to go to reach the goal of $3,000 by Dec. 15. I appreciate the contributions to date.

Yesterday, I wrote about several examples where this site has kicked major butt over the last few months, hopefully giving readers some incentive to chip in to the fundraiser. I hope they do, because this site now has a little over 20,000 unique readers a month. Among them, longtime readers will likely be amused to learn, are many readers at several major pharma companies (including over two dozen from Eli Lilly and I hope that's not just in-house lawyers), several HMOs, Massachusetts General, various medical schools, a major Catholic archdiocese, numerous state agencies, law firms and insurance companies, the FDA, Microsoft, Amazon.com and, drum roll, the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (aka, the Church of Scientology). It amuses me no end that the institutional readership of this site runs the gamut from medicate-the-children advocates to, well, Scientologists.

Anyway, my larger point is that about 5,000 of those readers read this site several times a week, some several times a day. If just 10 percent of those regulars contributed $10 apiece, this fundraiser would be over in about 10 minutes.

If you'd like to be one of the 10 percent, the PayPal button is on the right. Or send me an email and I'll send you a mailing address.

Thanks for your support.

Posted by Philip Dawdy at December 2, 2008 12:05 AM

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Comments

I hope everyone who reads this site regularly can contribute at least $10 and any newcomers who want to give a hand and show support for this kind of badly needed reporting. The fundraiser would be over in no time. Let's show Philip we support his work. Don't be lazy about this -- it's important not to take this for granted.

Posted by: Sara at December 2, 2008 08:17 AM

I posted something on my blog yesterday about your fund drive.

I sent my check in the mail today, and the cat just sent a very small amount via pay pal for the office assistants, she who shreds the paper, and she who helps you type.

I trust they will be making their annual appearance when the 3K number is hit, it seems to be a FS tradition.

Posted by: susan at December 2, 2008 01:08 PM

Phillip,

My SSDI check is here, so I am sending you a small token of my appreciation. My debit card is under my birth name, so be sure to hide it from all your nosy commenters!

I wish you success beyond your goals and dreams,

Dano.

P.S. If the SSDI hasn't cleared yet, I'll be back tomorrow to try sending it again. DM.

Posted by: Dano MacNamarrah at December 2, 2008 04:37 PM