From Rochelle Denton
Today I write to ask for about 10 minutes of your time to help nytheatre.com and The New York Theatre Experience, Inc., win a grant from Microsoft.
We have entered the "Show Your Impact" Contest, which is sponsored by TechSoup and Microsoft Corporation. The winners of this contest -- there will be three -- will each receive a $5,000 cash grant from Microsoft plus $25,000 in donated software. For a technology-based small nonprofit company like ours, this is a fantastic opportunity! And we believe we have a shot at winning.
To enter the contest, we had to write a "story" about the impact that Microsoft software, which we received via their donation program with TechSoup, has had on our organization and on the community of theatre-goers and theatre-makers we serve.
We now need to get our friends and supporters to go online to the "Show Your Impact" contest website and vote for our submission. So this is where you come in: please follow the link below, register, and vote for nytheatre.com:
http://www.showyourimpact.org/microsoft/gallery
The public voting process ends on Friday, June 5, and then the top vote getters in each category will move on to the finals, to be judged by Microsoft and TechSoup.
Anyone can vote. It will take you a few minutes: the contest rules require that you register (all they ask for is an email address) and also that you vote for a minimum of 3 projects (so you can't just vote for us--you have to pick a couple of other projects in order for your vote to be counted). It's kind of complicated and I'm sorry about that--but if you'll bear with the process and vote, we will be very appreciative!
Our submission is called nytheatre.com. Our submission date is 5/20/2009. Our category is "Optimize Mission Delivery." There can only be one winner per category, so you'll maximize our chance to win by not selecting any other entries in that category.
Please pass this information along to anyone you think would like to help us! Your support is enormously appreciated.
And please take a few moments to read our submission entry, which details some of the work we've done over the past several years to prepare nytheatre.com and our other websites for Web 2.0 and beyond. Your comments and thoughts are welcome!
But the bottom line, once again: please vote for our submission to help us win this grant from Microsoft. Click here:
http://www.showyourimpact.org/nytheatrecom
Read our story, register, and vote for us. Thank you!
Email me if you have questions. Learn more about TechSoup, the great nonprofit organization that has put together this contest, here.
NYTE Wins Microsoft Award!
ReplyDeleteFrom Martin Denton: I wanted to let you know that NYTE has won the Microsoft/Techsoup “Show Your Impact” contest! This carries a grant of $5K in cash and $25K in software. I had asked all of you to help us become finalists for this grant by voting for us and asking others to vote for us, and thanks to you and all of our friends in the indie theater community, we made the finals and now we have won!
The link to the contest info is here: http://www.showyourimpact.org/microsoft
I am very grateful for everyone’s support! This is a real show of respect by a large corporation for the indie theater community and its contributions.
Have a great weekend!