hurricane katrina donations to be matched by smugmug

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    another $100 just donated by a wonderful dgrinner.
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited September 3, 2005
    andy wrote:
    folks, between dgrin and advrider, we are into the five figures collected in just about 10 hours.

    we can do more - let's go for the tip jar, cookie jar, coffee fund, at smugmug hq!

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    That's totally awesome! nod.gifthumb.gif
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    another fifty bucks just came in deal.gif
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    another $50 just came in

    *no* amount is too small.

    don't forget: your donation amount is *private* as is your email that you send to me.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    $2,000 just came in from a dgrinner :D
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    another $50!
  • lynnmalynnma Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 5,207 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    andy wrote:
    another $50!
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    lynnma wrote:
    Yeay yeay yeay clap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gifclap.gifthumb.gifthumb.gifthumb.gif1drink.gif

    yup. the generosity of dgrinners is awesome.

    thanks everyone thumb.gif
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    Star*Explorer in!
    I'm sending you the data.
    Thanks, Smugmug!
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    $50 more received!
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    any more?
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    i'm tossing in another $500 donation, ashby bought the macro lens

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    the matching funds deal has been so successful that we're going to close it down at 8pm NYC time tonight, saturday. you still have time to donate deal.gif

    will have a full tally later tonight.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    andy wrote:
    the matching funds deal has been so successful that we're going to close it down at 8pm NYC time tonight, saturday. you still have time to donate deal.gif

    will have a full tally later tonight.

    30mins left to donate and get it matched, folks deal.gif
  • pat.kanepat.kane Registered Users Posts: 332 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    andy wrote:
    30mins left to donate and get it matched, folks deal.gif
    e-mail sent with $250 receipt to American Red Cross.

    Thanks for pushing this initiative forward.

    Regards,
    pat.kane
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    pat.kane wrote:
    e-mail sent with $250 receipt to American Red Cross.

    Thanks for pushing this initiative forward.

    Regards,
    pat.kane


    another $250 in the door :D
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    Funnish your drunks....last call.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
    DGRIN'S TOTAL: $5,650 clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif

    wait - with baldy's math, that equals $11,300!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    wtg smugmug team bowdown.gifbowdown.gif
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 3, 2005
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited September 4, 2005
    Is the matching periond over?
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 4, 2005
    wxwax wrote:
    Is the matching periond over?


    yes :D but the donation period, sadly, needs to continue for a long, long time...
  • BarbBarb Administrators Posts: 3,352 SmugMug Employee
    edited September 4, 2005
    andy wrote:
    yes :D but the donation period, sadly, needs to continue for a long, long time...

    Oh no, I didn't see this thread when it started and now the matching is over. How did I miss this ... ack ... well, I've donated anyway and then matched my own donation. Makes me feel better for missing this.

    Congratulations to Dgrin and Smugmug for their outstanding generosity!
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  • DJ-S1DJ-S1 Registered Users Posts: 2,303 Major grins
    edited September 9, 2005
    Oh no, I didn't see this thread when it started and now the matching is over. How did I miss this ... ack ... well, I've donated anyway and then matched my own donation. Makes me feel better for missing this.

    Congratulations to Dgrin and Smugmug for their outstanding generosity!
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    My donation missed it too, but my workplace has decided to donate $100,000 as well as match any donations by employees, so my donation will be doubled and that makes me feel a bit better. There's also "goods drives" in our area and I'm sure in most areas of the US. Baby formula, diapers, clothes, shoes, canned goods, whatever we can donate will also be a huge help in addition to the generosity already displayed.
  • photobugphotobug Registered Users Posts: 633 Major grins
    edited September 13, 2005
    Summary of results?
    We made our Red Cross donation today, after finally discovering how to get an "instant" receipt to submit to Andy ... then discovered the "second page" of this thread, so may have missed the window for donation matching.

    If the window has closed, then Andy, could you post some kind of summary re how it went? If not absolute $$ (which would be up to Baldy to release or not), then perhaps a summary of how many people responded, etc?

    Thanks to DGrin/SmugMug (Baldy et al) for their incredible generosity!
    ...and to Andy, for donating so much of his time to this (not to mention, 2 substantial personal monetary donations)

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  • gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited September 13, 2005
    Totals are listed in this thread
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    Andy wrote:
    dgrin: $5650 + advrider $10,855 that comes to $16,505. add in smugmug's match (thanks onethumb and baldy, and everyone at smugmug!) that means we've been able to collect and donate

    $33,010 for hurricane katrina relief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Nick
    SmugMug Technical Account Manager
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  • ashbyashby Registered Users Posts: 72 Big grins

    I was just wondering. Is anything like this on tap for the Harvey victims?

  • ashbyashby Registered Users Posts: 72 Big grins

    Anyone?

  • denisegoldbergdenisegoldberg Administrators Posts: 14,220 moderator

    I can't speak for SmugMug but if you're looking to give on behalf of Harvey victims check out the donate sections of this FEMA page - https://www.fema.gov/volunteer-donate-responsibly.

  • BenBen Vanilla Admin Posts: 513 SmugMug Employee

    Hey @ashby (and other who are interested), thanks for asking. We have already worked on relief for our customers in the affected region, in a way that we hope directly helps those in need. You haven't heard about it because we've been trying to help out without making a huge PR deal about it.

    We are not currently planning to do a matching campaign the way we did more than a decade ago in this thread, but our own efforts are more substantial this time around too. That being said, I heard some great suggestions from a lot of really generous and amazing pro photographers using our platform that they'd love to donate some of their profits directly to the relief efforts. It's a really great idea that sadly we aren't currently prepared to facilitate, but we're already discussing how that might work in the future. Hopefully we can make an even bigger impact in any future situation.

    In the meantime, if you are in the affected region who needs some billing relief and haven't heard from us privately and directly, please reach out to our support heroes and we'll do our best to help.

    Smug since 2003
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