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I finally got to drop two cheques in the mail today (EWB: $5500 and MSF: $5158.72). These were an approximate split of all donations, less expenses (most were paypal fees, plus some smaller web costs). It took awhile, I know. I was waiting for Wayne to look at the finances and give me an OK (who was quick), and I had to fight paypal a bit to get the money. They take the weekly prize for failing to understand online and phone customer service.

I have a financial summary of the campaign, to come shortly. I just wanted to let everyone know that the cheques are in the mail. Now, I can’t think of a time I’ve ever used that expression. Course, I can think of few times where I’ve used cheques.

B

Sorry about the silence.  It doesn’t mean I don’t care!

There’s been some interesting news though.  Word of the campaign is spreading in odd ways.  It has spread back to Oxford, which has certainly helped (if anyone feels like bugging Oxford’s Said Business School about the project, pelase do!).  Another example: friends of mine got into a dinner conversation the other night: ‘did you hear about the guy raising MBA tuition from 30,000 people?’ somebody said.  My friends: ‘uhhh, yep, we know him!’

All of this is really quite encouraging.  Particularly when people and organizations just up and decided to get behind me.  Such is the case with tuitionbids.com.  They are a new website that seeks to fill a particular need of students by finding them the best student loans out there.  They’ve decided that, well, they understand how hard it can be to fund tuition and they like my unconventional approach.  So they’ve highlighted the campaign on their site, and offered to match the next $300 in donations!

While the path I have taken and the one tuitionbids.com facilitates with students are slightly different, I feel the underlying aims are the same.  It’s all about getting funding to the right people, as they seek the education to launch careers.  If my goal to get to $90K works, I won’t need help like that offered by tuitionbids.com.  But it would have been nice to have an them around about 7 years ago in Canada when I first dipped into student loans!  Whether spreading the word to thousands to ask for $3 or linking up students with the best rates on loans, life is getting slightly easier for students who seek to get the education to fulfill their dreams.

Brendan

It’s been a few days since the project to raise $90,000 from 30,000 people was launched. I thought it would be a good time for a little fun with numbers.

4 - Days since properly launched
2062.87 - Total raised in dollars
102 - Total donors
500 - Largest donation in dollars
32 - Percentage of donors who don’t know me (and growing)
2 - Letters sent to Oprah on my behalf
150 - Members in Facebook Group
55 - Percentage increase in Group members in 4 days
500+ - Outstanding invites to Facebook Group
22 - Emails of support
9 - Emails with feedback, suggestions and ideas
2 - Highly respected consultancies pushing the project internally
2 - Number of weeks I have completely neglected my dissertation
1 - Potential Oxford student who thinks this is going to work

Thanks,
Brendan

Update - June 11, 2008
People wanted to know how I’m doing today (fundraising-wise. Personally, I’ve just finished my morning coffee, so I’m still a little slow).
After semi-launching it yesterday, the donations have started coming in. Please refer to the graph below for a snapshot of my current progress:

(Vista took longer than me to wake up this morning, so I don’t want to push it with post-1993 programs…!)

So you can see that I only need about 29,960 more people to help me out! Fantastic!

B