The Sun Truck: First Appeal
It's that time of year again, so here I am with my second annual year-end appeal for Ars Hermeneutica, Limited. With this appeal I want to keep things brief and stick to one topic.
Ars Hermeneutica started work in 2007 on its first informal science-education project. The project is The Sun Truck. You can find information and download our lovely Sun Truck brochure at The Sun Truck section of our website.
The Sun Truck pilot project aims to bring a first-hand science experience directly into neighborhoods across Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. Longer term, a successful pilot project will attract the attention and funding to take the project national.
The total cost of the pilot project will be $2.5 Million. That sounds a lot, but it's only $1 for every person who will benefit. We are looking to individual donor gifts to cover $350,000 of the cost. Obviously we need the help of our friends.
Every dollar helps us open the minds of one more person to science as a personal experience and take a step towards increasing science literacy. In addition, individual gifts, regardless of size, demonstrate broad-based community support for our project, and that's vital for our success with major donors and for securing our IRS public-charity status!
Read about The Sun Truck and consider joining us in this exciting project.
To donate online with your credit card, visit our "Support Ars" webpage and use the buttons for Google Checkout or PayPal.
I challenge each of my four regular readers to help spread the word and enlist new people to our cause of increasing science literacy. Share the links above; put them in your blog, mention them in your Facebook profile. Pretend Ars Hermeneutica is an urban legend and forward this blog link to 7 friends in the next 7 minutes!
Ars Hermeneutica, Limited is nonprofit corporation and recognized as 501(c)(3) tax-exempt. All donations are fully tax deductible, but in the United States only right now, I'm sorry to say.
Thanks for helping us increase science literacy!
In: All, It's Only Rocket Science, Personal Notebook
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on Tuesday, 25 December 2007 at 02.57
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OK, you got me. I dropped a few bucks in the kitty and downloaded the pdf. I'll be glad to post something on your project later in the week (and if I seem to have forgotten, feel free to jog my memory).
Meantime, I hope you and Isaac have a fine Christmas and New Years.
on Tuesday, 1 January 2008 at 10.17
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This sounds like a great project. I'm glad SW spread the word my way. I'll link to your Sun Truck project in our next Learning in the Great Outdoors (environmental ed carnival), if that's Ok. Let's get this one going then send one south to Georgia.