Good news for Salt Lake and Ogden Cities in re the Walmart Foundation "Fighting Hunger Together" Facebook campaign. Salt Lake finished #1; Ogden came in #4, as the online contest came to a close at 5:00 p.m. yesterday:
• SLC clicks its way to No. 1 in million-dollar contestAssuming that the vote count passes the formal audit, this means that $1.1 million will soon be making its way to hungry mouths in Utah.
As one SLTrib reader wryly observed in the article comments section, "For a state that has such a high hunger ratio, [it seems that] there are a lot of people who have the computers to do all the clicking."
Update 1/6/10 10:00 a.m.: For what it's worth, the Standard finally gets around to reporting the story this morning:
• Walmart grant to feed area hungry
6 comments:
At the risk of offending my many friends to participated in this game, here's another comment from the Trib site that I find appropriate:
"Pitting one city against another. Are the SLC needy needier than the Fresno needy? I don't think so. What would really be nice is if the people that think so, by playing this barbaric game, would send $1 for every time they clicked. That would be a $5 million donation. Put your money where your "pride" is."
Well if its any consolation, Dan, according to the Walmart website, the recently completed contest is merely a part of the Walmart Foundation's commitment to provide $2 billion cash and in-kind contributions to "help end hunger in America."
Perhaps the Foundation will come up with something a little less hokey the next go-round ;-)
Rudi:
And the contest is getting a lot of play in the press, which means it's keeping hunger in America on the radar for millions of people I suspect who don't much think about it, particularly in the period after TGiving and Xmas. My understanding is the post-holiday period is kind of a down time for food bank donations. All the publicity tied to the contest helps with that, even in places which didn't win money from Wal-Mart.
And I imagine too that many who "clicked" for their city in this promotion themselves make donations to their local food banks, either in money, in food or in time volunteered.
I see this hunger most every day.......hokey or not......it will provide a warm meal...not many smiles on a face of a child feeling hunger......
on a other note...pls. keep up your awsome work , trying to keep tract of little matt....
one could have gone online and voted as many times as the rules allowed for every single city o n the list .. rather than not voting at all.
js,
BB
Dan..............
No question, your logic probably trumps my emotional - "lets get the money for SLC and good old Ogden".
I am not offended and I'm sure your other emotionally motivated friends feel much the same.
Besides, it is probably a good idea that we all save our energies for the ongoing battle between good and evil - us verses da mayor and as curm would say......"grin".
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