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Quick payments
You don't have to join the Blogathon pledge drive. You can simply contribute to the Blogathan Ambulance Fund this way.
By check: Go here. Send your check to the attention of Gary Kenzer. Put "Blogathon" in the memo field of your check. (Note to Emperor Misha's readers: write "BLOGATHON" and "MISHA" in the comments field to be counted for the matching fund.)
By credit card: Go here. You must put "Blogathon" in the comments field of the form. The comments field shows up when you click on the "checkout" portion of their form. It may seem a little confusing at first, as it's a shopping cart program. (Note to Emperor Misha's readers: write "BLOGATHON" and "MISHA" in the comments field to be counted for the matching fund.) Here's a quick how-to:
Click on "Secure Online Donations"
Enter the amount
Click on "Submit donation"
If the amount is correct, click on "Continue shopping"
Click on "Checkout"
Fill in the required fields. (Note: Magen David Adom does not keep your credit card information. They dump it from their database after a short amount of time. That's why they're using a shopping cart program.)
PUT "BLOGATHON" IN THE COMMENTS FIELD.
Uncheck the box putting you on the MDA mailing list unless you want to be on it. If you're curious about their privacy policy, here it is.
DO NOT FORGET TO PUT "BLOGATHON" IN THE COMMENTS FIELD.
Click on "Continue"
If your amount is correct, click on "Order now"
Enter your credit card information and click on the bar that says "Click once to process secure credit card."
When you click on the "finish" button, you'll get a thank you page that shows the fields you typed. "Blogathon" comes up at the bottom.Notes: If you put in a bogus email address, you won't get your receipt emailed to you. And if you forgot to PUT "BLOGATHON" IN THE COMMENT FIELD, I shall never forgive you. No trees were slaughtered to bring you these instructions. Yes, I did make a donation to MDA in order to get all the pages necessary. I donated chai ($18).
The why of "Blogathon" in the comment field: It's a simple matter to write a SQL command that will cull all records with the word "blogathon" in the field named "comment" and total up the donations. We want to raise $60,000 so we can donate an entire ambulance to Magen David Adom. If you forget "Blogathon," although MDA gets the money, it won't be tallied with our donations and earmarked for an ambulance.
By any other method: Go here.