Giving Tuesday: A Wonderful Success!

HOLY COW, you guys!

Yesterday was Giving Tuesday (Pat wrote a great blog about it), and you all stomped out in a BIG way.

We started the day at about $677,000 – a total that still amazes us – and this is what we saw when we all went to bed last night:

And that wasn’t even the end of the day! In all, we raised $115,400 yesterday, before the matching. WITH the matching, that’s $230,800. That’s almost a quarter of a million raised yesterday alone!

So thank you. We unlocked two stretch goals yesterday alone: Sherwood Smith hosting an online workshop, and Pat pronouncing Kingkiller names. We’re well on our way to hitting our million-dollar goal, which means we’ve almost used half of our matching funds. We’d love to use all $1,000,000 in matching, so help us spread the word! Tell your friends and family. Share us on Twitter or Facebook. Buy someone a flock of ducks as a Christmas present. Contact us to start your own team page (teams@worldbuilders.org). Donate to the second round of our Overwatch tournament.

We’d love your help, in any way you can!

We haven’t quite reached out $1,000,000 stretch goal yet, where Neil Gaiman will read a story for us. The voting is really close, but it looks like it will be either The Raven or Where the Wild Things Are. Donate to help decide!