Support Our Troops by Supporting Their Children
Rejoice, O Colbert fans, for there are new shows tonight! Break weeks, for all we welcome them on behalf of Stephen and his hardworking crew, are pretty tough for the rest of us. I hope you all had a good hiatus; I spent most of mine relaxing, reading and catching up with friends and family.

Between the Fourth of July weekend, some of our recent “finds” from Stephen’s trip to Baghdad, and tonight’s guest stint from iava.org founder Paul Rieckhoff, I’ve been reminded of the DonorsChoose.org challenge Stephen set on behalf of the schools teaching the troops’ children. I thought you all might be interested in hearing an update on the impressive results of that challenge to date.

Let me begin by taking this opportunity to say, WOW, Nation! As of about 4:00pm today, 1693 people have donated a total of $183,485 to help students in these military classrooms, fully funding well over 300 projects! At the moment, the Marines have a considerable lead in the fund-raising department — it’s probably fair to say they’re kicking butt, actually — with $66,830 donated in their name. The Army stands in a distant second, with $35,575 donated so far, followed by the Navy ($29,649) and Air Force ($27,794). The Coast Guard brings up the rear with $23,637, but that’s still an impressive number, considering that they were added to the challenge later than the other branches were.

The challenge is still open to any participants able to spare a few dollars, and there are still over fifty open funding requests (donations are easy, check out this YouTube clip for more info if you haven’t been able to take the plunge so far). Here’s one of Stephen’s Colbert Report calls to the Nation, just to remind you of what Stephen asked of us:


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Congratulations (and THANKS!) again, Nation, you’re all amazing.

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