I’m doing a mini-blogathon today for Secular Students Week!
This week is Secular Students Week, when people around the Internet are celebrating the fantastic work the Secular Student Alliance is doing to empower students. Their goal is to get 500 donations now through June 17th: if they do, they’ll receive a $20,000 challenge grant! Help them keep up their amazing work by giving this week. A gift of $5, $10, or $20 will go a long way towards helping them reach this goal and empower secular students: please give today!
In today’s mini-blogathon, I’ll post a new blog post once an hour, from now (a little after 9:00 am Pacific time) until 5:00 pm Pacific time. In addition, for every donation that’s made today via my blogathon, I’ll post a new cat photo!
This hour’s post is another in the “Why I support the SSA” vein: Student organizers know how to get bang for their buck.
I’ve visited a lot of student atheist groups in the last few years. Most of my speaking gigs are with student groups. And I have found that, as a rule, student groups are extraordinarily good at stretching their money. If you donate $50 to a secular student group, they will make it go very far indeed. They know how to get cheap food, cheap supplies, cheap entertainment. And they often have access to their school’s resources — meaning that your donations are almost like a matching grant. (And when your donations have a matching or challenge grant — like the Secular Students Week donations do — that makes your matching grant even more doubled!)
There are a lot of good reasons to support the secular student movement. But one of those is that it’s a very, very efficient use of your atheist donation money. If there’s a student group in your area, please help them out — and please support the national Secular Student Alliance, and help them support the students!
Once again — please support the Secular Student Alliance! Help them get their challenge grant of $20,000 by reaching their goal of 500 donations now through June 17th. Even small donations help. Please support them today!
