Giving Challenges: The Stretch Run
Today's the final day of America’s Giving Challenge and the Causes Giving Challenge. We've given over blog space for updates from a few participants, and mentioned others in our newsletter, and as they round the corner into the home stretch, 3 of the causes we've touted are in position to finish in the final 4 of the Global Causes category:
- Michelle M's Route Out of Poverty for Cambodian Children (Beth Kanter's birthday cause) is currently in 1st.
- Scott Beale's Invest in International Development Leaders stands 4th, right at the cut-off for a $50,000 prize.
- Suzanne P's Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso is in 5th, but not far behind.
I've been following the leaderboard this week, and I believe the top 5 have all increased their number of donations by at least 50% just this week. Scott's cause, which has been as high as first, slipped to fifth before recovering today.
$50,000 is a big chunk of change. I'm sure the activity level is high at all the leading org's right now.
Interestingly, in the U.S. Based Charities competition, only 1 animal-based organization remains in the top 4, after dominating the category for weeks. I'm not sure why the average number of donations in this category is so much higher than in Global Causes -- but we'll do our best to get the winners to write about their experiences.
Best of luck to them all.
