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Lend a Hand and I’ll Give You Some G-Tech

chase jarvis town hallFriends: It’s the weekend and I’m focused on some personal stuff that could use your help if you’re willing. I’m trying to help my favorite non-profit win a $125,000 grant to make emergency repairs to their building, and I’m willing to incent you with about $500 bucks in gear for your help in doing so. If you are interested, please read on.

[NEWEST update: in what the sponsoring group, Partners in Preservation, called “an unprecedented photo finish” I’m soooo happy and grateful and pround to announce that WE DID IT! Town Hall wins $125,000 grant. Thank you thank you thank you!]

[UPDATE: we went to 1st but are now back in 2nd, so we need your help more than ever. Don’t forget to follow the instructions below, it’s a little tricky. And more importantly, please vote everyday. Karma points. ]

Background: Town Hall Seattle is a cultural center based in Seattle that showcases diverse music, arts and humanities, civic discourse, and world culture programming. They feature the broadest range of any programming that I’ve ever known–from hosting cultural heavy hitters like David Lynch, Moby, Malcolm Gladwell, Barak Obama, Al Gore, and Arianna Huffington all the way to community activists, children’s choirs, poets, Seattle’s hip hop acts, and the local Spelling Bee. It’s simply an amazing cultural and creative hub.

Here’s the good news: the grant winner is decided purely by a popular vote online. The most votes wins. Here’s the challenge: Currently Town Hall is in 2nd place by 1% and the voting ends THIS Wednesday May 12. It would mean the world to me and the my community if you would vote. And here’s some incentive from yours truly. 100% honor system here. IF you vote, and IF leave a comment below saying that you’ve voted I will choose one person from the comment section below (bonus points for roping in your friends to vote too…) and send them a super-awesome 2 TB worth of G-Tech hard drive love (+/- $500 value) from my personal stash. We roll G-Tech drives exclusively around here, and I’m expressly grateful for their support.

Now go forth and vote. It’s easy:
1. Visit the grant award site here and select ‘New User’ in the ‘Vote Now’ box.
2. Register with a name, email and password. (Don’t be scared off by this. It’s harmless and you can check the don’t contact me box!)
3. Scroll down to Town Hall and click on it. A check will appear, but you’re not done yet.
4. IMPORTANT: now scroll to bottom of the page and click VOTE.
5. Awesome. Now that you’re registered and logged in, you can vote everyday thru Wednesday 12th. Bonus karma points if you vote today, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Yes, whoever built this voting widget wrote code like it was 1998, but don’t let that get in your way. We all …need more data storage and what better way to get some free terabytes than by helping this great cause land $125k.

If you’re itching to watch a video, here’s a little promo I made with pal Chris Ballew of the Presidents of the United States of America just for fun and to help raise awareness. Thank you thank you thank you friends.

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  1. Susan Benson says:
    May 13, 2010 at 9:52 am

    Chase, we don’t know each other but I’m board president at Town Hall and we’ve been singing your praises for eons. But now, you’re now sporting a permanent halo. Without you and your community I’m sure we couldn’t have achieved this outcome. As you all probably know by now, Town Hall battled so hard that Partners in Preservation is giving Town Hall the full $125,000 grant — the first time in the history of the project that they’ve given the first and second place finishers the same amount. Thank you, Chase. And thanks to each and every one of you who took up the cause of our amazing project. Because of you, Seattle’s temple of thought and creativity will serve longer and stronger and glow brighter.

  2. JeffScottShaw says:
    May 13, 2010 at 8:19 am

    There is nothing better than making a popular vote so close that they have to award the top two the same amount of money. I’m so glad Town Hall still gets $125,000. Thanks to all of you folks who are not from Seattle and will never have the opportunity to step foot in that awesome venue.

  3. Stuart Nafey says:
    May 12, 2010 at 10:49 pm

    Voted Wednesday too!

  4. Michael Marks says:
    May 12, 2010 at 10:30 pm

    3 for 3 for me and my wife. Good luck!

  5. Tova says:
    May 12, 2010 at 8:59 pm

    Well, there you go. I registered and voted for Town Hall and so did my daughter.

    I hope I’m doing the right thing… hard choices. My sister lives on, and is the Harbor Master of, Bainbridge Island, is a Tug Boat Captain, and plays in a local Cajun Fiddle Band. I really hope she will be proud that I supported Town Hall ( but I just read about this and it’s too late at night to call her and check).

    PS
    If you ever want to check her group it’s whozyamama.com

    Hope your Hall wins

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