We Won $25,000 dollars, thanks to all of you!

The online voting contest with Chase Community Giving was a real nail biter. JLK started out strong then we steadily dropped, held and then dived during the last hour of voting. I was frantically emailing, texting, instant messaging, and blogging. We ended up at #81 out of 100. The last 30 or so foundations were neck and neck. Our sister foundation Team Sanfilippo won $25,000 as well. Unfortunatley Ben's Dream and Will Luthcke SF foundations didn't make the top 100. My good friends Hannah's Hope won $25,000, but friends with the ISMRD foundation fell out of the top 100 at the last minute too.

We Need votes now

Last rally for votes we need help from the west coast! Vote and share with friends. http://bit.ly/meEBoV

We're on the cusp of loosing a 25,000 grant please vote now!!!!! Forward to everyone. Don't wait you have 20 min, to help us win 25k. thanks! Jill

Confusion and Delay

For everyone that is confused....I'm going to try and attempt to explain the Chase Community Giving program.

My sister organization(s) are in the running for a $250,000 grant. The top 100 charities with the most votes will share 3million. 1st place is $250,000 2,3,4 and 5th places win $100,000. 6th-100 get $25,000 each.

Here we go again!

Did everyone read Patty's blog? Click the bold part if you didn't. If only I could have Patty's ability in writing! Patty is my neighbor (we live in Brooklyn, we have lots of neighbors!) However Patty is an exceptional Mom and neighbor, her sons attend Jonah's school. Patty also just so happens to write for Parenting magazine. Again I live in Brooklyn, we have lots of journalists/writers here (lucky for JJB!)