Mozilla is sponsoring The Mozilla Firefox Challenge, a celebrity fundraiser. Mozilla has donated $5000 to the favorite charity of 12 Hollywood celebrities and will donate $25,000 more to the charity of whichever celebrity can raise the most for their cause.
I want to challenge the JavaScript community, and the web developer community, and heck, the whole geek community to go head to head with the celebrities and raise more money than they can. So I've formed TeamJS to compete against the celebs in the challenge. We don't get the head start of $5k seed money, but we can still win the $25K prize!
The charity I've picked is Feeding America, which describes itself as a sort of food bank for food banks. They're a national organization that collects surplus food and distributes it, via a network of independent food banks, to those who are hungry. And they're remarkably efficient at what they do: each dollar donated provides 8 meals.
I kicked things off with a $500 donation. Please contribute what you can, and spread the word!
(Feeding America is a US charity, but the international JavaScript community is more than welcome to participate. I've asked crowdrise if they'll allow me to designate different charities on different days, so we can pick others that appeal to geeks in other parts of the world, but I don't actually know if that will be possible.
Update: crowdrise.com says that I can't switch charities once donations have been made. If you want to participate but want to give to a different charity, you can form a new team. TeamJS.eu anyone? Since crowdrise is in the US, the charities have to be registered in the US, but that still leaves lots of good ones with an international focus... )
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