Inspired by Anonymous, who was inspired by HinTN who was inspired by Mousebumples who was inspired by MomSense, we got 3 more offers last week to match new Four Directions GA donations up to a total of $1,000!
I announced our 3 matchers in yesterday’s post: Madeleine! frosty! la caterina!
frosty is up for the 1,000 match today!
An outside match was announced yesterday:
Four Directions has not received confirmation yet on the potential match of $25k from an outside group, but I remain hopeful. In the meantime, Four Directions has received an offer from someone else to match the next $7,000, which we will hit when the thermometer is at $22,700.
*Fine print: the $7,000 won’t show up in our thermometer, but it does help Four Directions come up with their $25,000 need for the joint project with Fair Fight.
Starting when this post goes up, until we reach $1,000 in the comments, your donation will be double-double matched. If you donate, say $25, frosty matches that so it turns into $50, and then the outside person will match that, so it turns into $100.
I will let you all know as soon as we get to the $1,000 match amount from frosty. At that point, frosty’s match will be over, and we’ll be back to the single match from the external person who will continue matching until the thermometer reaches $22,700. (We are about halfway to the $7,000 mark.)
In case you were told there would be no math, I’ll give you some of the answers:
$10 will turn into $40!
$25 turns into $100!
$50 turns into $200!
Any donation between $10 and $50 that is listed in the comments is eligible for frosty’s match.
Tell us the amount of your donation in the comments, and frosty will match with that amount. The $1,000 donation will be made once $1,000 of matchable donations have been noted in the comments.
If you donate more than $50, frosty will match $50 of that.
We will still have one more $1,000 match this week from la caterina!
Four Directions Organizing Project
with Fair Fight in GA
From myself, Balloon Juice, Four Directions, Fair Fight, native people and every other sane person in Georgia: thank you so very much!
Thank you to everyone who is making this happen!
Auntie Anne
Thank you, frosty! In for $25. ❤️ Four Directions and all that they do!
raven
in
sab
$25
Sure Lurkalot
In too!
sab
@sab: Thanks frosty
MazeDancer
10 from me = 40 for thee.
Cannot beat that math, so in for 10.
Thank you frosty and Mystery Matcher!
TxTiger
Just gave $50 – thank you, Frosty (and everyone who has been part of this effort!), for the opportunity to support such a great organization so meaningfully. I’m not a regular poster around these parts but I am a regular reader and this type of grass-roots organizing really inspires me.
banditqueen
Thank you to everyone for doing so much to make this such a successful drive–will do $10 and wish I could do more.
WaterGirl
@TxTiger: Lurk less, comment more! We can always use good people in the comments.
WaterGirl
@banditqueen: You’re not just doing $10, you’re doing $40. :-)
banditqueen
@WaterGirl: I still wish I could do more :) — but really, truly, thanks for GOTV like this.
Another Scott
So what’s the best way to create sockpuppets for this match??
In for another Franklin. Thanks everyone.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Come back tomorrow! :-)
la caterina will be matching up to $1,000 then.
and of course the external matcher will match any amount until the thermometer reaches 22,500!
Anne Laurie
In for $50 — never could resist a bargain!
WaterGirl
These match threads are inspiring – so repeat donors, too!
You guys are amazing. You have no idea how absolutely thrilled the Four Directions folks are at what we have been able to do already.
Avalie
$25
CCL
In for another $50 – thank you Frosty, WaterGirl and all the jackals.
CaseyL
I put in $25 this morning, when there was no match going (oops), so I have just put in another $25.
dkinPa
Just donated $25. Thank you, Frosty! And thank you, Water Girl, for organizing this!
sab
Wow. We started today at $15,000 and we are nearly at $20,000. And there are less than 10,000 of us.
Leslie
I don’t have the spoons to do all the research to identify the best recipients for my political donations, so I’m deeply grateful to alla y’all who have done that work. Add in the matching funds, and I get all choked up and think of that Margaret Mead quote.
In for another $25.
KSinMA
In for $50. Thanks, frosty, and thank you all!
WaterGirl
@CaseyL: There was a match going this morning – the external match person who will match donations of any amount until the thermometer reaches 22,700!
When we’re doing the $10-50 donations up to a total of $1,000 match, you get the double-double.
So this morning your $25 netted $50 for Four Directions, but only $25 for our thermometer.
Your $25 just now gets $50 into the thermometer and another $50 for Four Directions (that will never show up in the thermometer).
WaterGirl
@sab: Actually, we were at $15,586 when last night’s match post went up.
We started this thread in the $19,000 range.
Ishmael
In for $25. Thanks frosty and WaterGirl!
Elizabelle
OK. Ponying up for another $25.
Thank you frosty, dear generous soul.
And Mousebumples and H in TN and Anonymous for your earlier rounds of matches.
WaterGirl
@Ishmael: Welcome! Now that you’ve made your first comment, your future comments will show up for everyone right away.
sab
@WaterGirl: I shouldn’t try math.
MomSense
Another $10 from me! Thank you matchers!!
Coyoteville
Long-time lurker, first time commenting. I’m in for another $50. [I’ve donated previously via BJ’s Act Blue link.]
Ruckus
In for another $10.
Would say I’m retired and my extra income dried up but I have been doing a bit of really, really part time for my last boss and that ups the retirement income a bit. Not a big bit but still.
Ishmael
@WaterGirl: Thank you so much. I may have posted a couple of weeks ago as “Ishmael”, but couldn’t remember. Memory resets on an irregular basis :)
WaterGirl
@sab: I laughed out loud.
WaterGirl
@Coyoteville: Welcome.
Lurk less, comment more!
SiubhanDuinne
In for another $10. Many thanks to frosty and all the other matchers!
pat
Oh for pete’s sake, here is another $50.
Thanks all you guys!
VeniceRiley
Order #AB202356709
$50.00
One-time contribution:August 10, 2021 at 3:10 PM
And I’ll be back again tomorrow! I just realized that will turn my 3×50 = $150 into $600.00
And that’s where I’ll have to stop the bus for a while … But too good an opportunity to miss!
Thanks for all your efforts, H2O Girl! Make it rain, baby!
Almost Retired
Yippee! I’m in for $50 and whatever that turns into with the various matches. Love, love, love that we shower cash on under-the-radar organizations like Four Directions and Voces that do such good work.
WaterGirl
@Ishmael: I just searched on your email address in the back end. You have been:
Ishmael
and
Call me Ishmael
If you prefer one to the other, I can change the 2-4 comments so they all use the same nym. Just let me know.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
$25 from me! It feels good to be contributing money towards a good outfit like Four Directions
Almost Retired
I’ve asked this before, but I’m too old to retain information. I donated by clicking the thermometer. BJ gets credit for that when I donate in that fashion, right?
WaterGirl
@VeniceRiley: Amazing, isn’t it!
Thank you so much!
WaterGirl
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): You made it in time today! :-)
WaterGirl
@Almost Retired: You are correct! This is a Bj-only thermometer, so if you donate here, BJ gets credit.
CaseyL
@WaterGirl: Cool! Thanks for letting me know.
lashonharangue
$25 from me today.
BCHS Class of 1980
$50 done. Someone else can do the math.
VeniceRiley
@Almost Retired:
Still got to state your amount in thread though?
eachother
100 clams. In the spirit of the Four Directions
A Benjamin. In the spirit of lightning. The Blue Fire.
That is to say, $100. in support of our democracy on Infrastructure Day!
WaterGirl
@VeniceRiley: He did, in an earlier comment.
WaterGirl
@eachother: Very nice!
Ishmael
@WaterGirl: “Ishmael” is fine. Thank you WaterGirl. I’ll write it down!
WaterGirl
@Ishmael: All done!
Now change it to Ishmael and comment, and that’s what your browser will remember.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@WaterGirl:
And I’m glad too! This way my donation has the most impact : )
I had to work last night, so it wasn’t the best timing but I got out earlier today
WaterGirl
As of this comment, we have $150.00 left of frosty’s $1,000 match amount that gets you the double-double match.
After that we’ll be at the single match of any amount until the thermometer reaches $22,700.
Until the la caterina $1,000 match tomorrow.
Citizen Scientist
In for $20.
nevsky42
Just did $25. Thank you for your generosity!
feloniousferb
I threw in $100
grandmaBear
In for $50.
O. Felix Culpa
$15
WaterGirl
That’s it for the frosty $1,000 match! grandmaBear & O. Felix got us to the top!
Now there is a single match from the external match-er until we hit $22,700.
And of course we have one more $1,000 match tomorrow from la caterina!
MomSense
Phew mine finally went through. I was on the bus home and my cell phone kept dropping the signal.
skerry
Just threw another $25 in the pot.
Thanks for matching, frosty!
WaterGirl
frosty said he would be home around 8pm, so look for a comment from either me or frosty to say that his $1,000 is in the thermometer!
WaterGirl
@MomSense: You should see how long it takes for the $1,000 donations to show up. For HinTN, it took over an hour!
thruppence
In for $25
lowtechcyclist
Just tossed $50 into the pot
topclimber
How about a prize like Baud’s last known pair of pants for whoever puts us over the top?
Ann Marie
I just sent $50.00.
WaterGirl
@topclimber: Ha! We’ll have to check with Baud on that one!
Isua
I just kicked in $25. That’s the second double-match post I’ve been too late for, so I figure I should get this in now anyway in the hopes of at least getting a single match. At any rate, I moved to Georgia 11 days ago, so I’m stoked to be contributing to this!
neldob
I did $50, +$2 tip. Thanks to the matchers & 4corners.
evap
I just donated another $50. Thanks, everyone! I’m excited that Four Directions will be helping out in my state.
WaterGirl
@Isua: Are you around in the mornings at all? I was thinking that the final double-match might be in the morning tomorrow.
edit: I just sent you an email message.
WaterGirl
@neldob: I sometimes wonder if they love it or hate it that people refer to them not just as 4 directions, but as 4 seasons (that’s the one I accidentally do sometimes), 4 corners, 4 winds, etc. There’s just something about the name that lends itself to that.
lowtechcyclist
Four strong winds that blow lonely…
frosty
(Wouldn’t you know that FYWP would eat my comment)
I just got back from a muddy bike ride and saw WaterGirl’s email that there have been over $1,000 in donations. I’ve bumped the thermometer with the match and we should see it soon.
Well done jackals! This is (to use an overused word) awesome! Thanks to everyone.
WaterGirl
@frosty: That was my fault, so it should be FYWG!
I was creating la caterina’s match thread for tomorrow morning, so I had this thread and the new thread open for editing at the same time.
I accidentally scheduled THIS thread for tomorrow morning at 8:30 instead of hers, so that made this thread go away. I scrambled to un-do that, but you go caught in the crossfire.
I guess you guys will have to dock my pay for that. :-)
WaterGirl
@frosty: We actually got just over $2,000 in donations in response to your match, frosty. So with your $1,000 match money, that’s $3,000, which will be doubled by the external match-er. For a total of $6,000 for Four Directions GA.
But again, we won’t see that matching $3,000 in the thermometer, but it will go to FOUR DIRECTIONS.
topclimber
@lowtechcyclist: Lonely what? Lonely who?
WaterGirl
@frosty: Oh my gosh, yours showed up almost right away!
We are at $22,500 (in round numbers) so if we can raise $2,500 in donations tomorrow, we will be at the $25,000 mark for the joint Four Directions and Fair Fight initiative.
Thank you so much to frosty and to all the matchers and everyone who has contributed to this. Go us!
KBS
Donated $50–thanks so much for doing this!
StringOnAStick
In for 10.
mvr
So when is the next one? I missed this because I was driving for 3 hours. I’d like to get in on the double match though in the end if it is needed to put us over I’ll donate, match or no match.
MoCaAce
I keep missing the double matches. Just kicked in $50 anyways.
Hob
In for $100.
gbear
Donated $25 at about 11:20pm 8/10
mg_65
Thanks everyone for doing this! I just donated $25.