Woo hoo!! Great job yesterday!! At that rate, we'll soon be deep into the yellow and on to the green. Go, FReepers, GO!!

Just in time, too, because it's nearing the end of the second month and we need to be wrapping this baby up soon.

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Make it a monthly if you can. We have some very generous FReeper sponsors kicking in an extra ten bucks for every new monthly signed up. And we have 65 new monthlies so far this quarter.

Or send in a hundred dollars or more per quarter and join I_be_tc's growing list of 300 Club patriots. I_be_tc sends in $100 per quarter and challenges 300 others to do the same. If we could get 300 FReepers to send in $100 per quarter, these FReepathons would complete much faster. And we now have 167 donations this quarter of $100 or more!!

If we could get our monthly figure over $15,000 then they would represent $45,000 total for the quarter. That’s over half of our goal.

If my math is correct, with $15,000 in monthlies, we could possibly be ending our fundraisers in under 30-40 days every quarter.

If we have a new fundraiser starting with a goal of $88,000 and it gets to about $30,000 (in three weeks or so) we could accrue the $45,000 in monthlies and our new total would be $75,000 and there’d be only about $13,000 left to go.

With a big push we could probably raise that in a week to ten days and we’re done.

In other words, at $15,000 per month in monthlies, our fundraisers would complete in half the time they take now.

If we could get to $20,000 per month in monthlies they’d probably take less than three weeks to complete.

If we could get to $30,000 per month in reliable monthlies, we wouldn’t need fundraisers at all.

Currently, we have about 630 monthlies totaling approx $11,000 per month or about $17.50 per monthly donation.

To get to $15,000 in monthlies we’d need to keep those we have and add about 225 New Monthly Donors at about the same average.

But it's also important to note that if you are donating quarterly, or annually or otherwise, whatever is best for you works great for us.

By the way, we've added over 30 new monthlies in the last few days since that was written. Go, monthlies, GO!!

Thank you very much, djstex!! Greatly appreciated.

Woo hoo!!

And this just in:

$25.00 from Ohio
$50.00 from Pennsylvania
$100.00 from California

Thank you all very much!!

Woo hoo!! And now less than $11k to go and only $2.2k to the yellow!! We can do this.

FReepers are the absolute greatest!!

God bless.

Here are the current standings.

2016 Q3 Scoreboard — ranked by total receipts

Rank	Location	Receipts			Monthlies
Rank	Location	Total	#	Avg/Per	Total	#	Avg/Per
1	California	$8,774.00	201	$43.65	$868.00	56	$15.50
2	Texas	5,652.00	202	27.98	1,293.00	73	17.71
3	Florida	4,103.83	146	28.11	1,178.00	54	21.81
4	Pennsylvania	2,765.00	79	35.00	295.00	20	14.75
5	New York	2,690.00	96	28.02	335.00	25	13.40
6	Washington	2,547.00	84	30.32	382.00	18	21.22
7	Colorado	2,428.34	57	42.60	258.34	13	19.87
8	Arizona	2,260.00	67	33.73	475.00	23	20.65
9	North Carolina	2,094.97	65	32.23	260.00	17	15.29
10	Virginia	1,920.00	63	30.48	385.00	21	18.33
11	Ohio	1,616.00	49	32.98	250.00	17	14.71
12	Oregon	1,574.56	36	43.74	220.00	14	15.71
13	New Jersey	1,480.00	41	36.10	130.00	5	26.00
14	Maryland	1,445.00	41	35.24	380.00	16	23.75
15	Illinois	1,398.00	58	24.10	259.00	15	17.27
16	Missouri	1,380.00	46	30.00	260.00	14	18.57
17	Tennessee	1,060.00	43	24.65	225.00	14	16.07
18	Georgia	1,060.00	45	23.56	237.50	17	13.97
19	South Carolina	1,028.00	24	42.83	145.00	9	16.11
20	Alabama	905.00	25	36.20	240.00	11	21.82
21	Massachusetts	897.00	41	21.88	310.00	15	20.67
22	Michigan	780.00	42	18.57	215.00	16	13.44
23	Connecticut	774.00	21	36.86	235.00	8	29.38
24	Oklahoma	770.00	23	33.48	180.00	10	18.00
25	Louisiana	760.00	15	50.67	145.00	7	20.71
26	Nevada	750.00	21	35.71	100.00	8	12.50
27	Idaho	638.41	19	33.60	137.00	7	19.57
28	Indiana	635.00	31	20.48	160.00	12	13.33
29	Wisconsin	617.43	22	28.06	257.00	9	28.56
30	South Dakota	580.00	15	38.67	60.00	5	12.00
31	Utah	540.00	15	36.00	180.00	7	25.71
32	Minnesota	480.00	24	20.00	150.00	7	21.43
33	Montana	475.00	6	79.17	20.00	1	20.00
34	Mississippi	470.00	15	31.33	180.00	7	25.71
35	Maine	470.00	15	31.33	60.00	5	12.00
36	New Mexico	442.00	17	26.00	76.00	3	25.33
37	Kansas	430.00	12	35.83	75.00	5	15.00
38	Arkansas	415.00	11	37.73	70.00	4	17.50
39	New Hampshire	386.70	14	27.62	130.00	6	21.67
40	Iowa	290.00	9	32.22	30.00	2	15.00
41	Sweden	250.00	1	250.00
42	Canada	243.00	12	20.25	20.00	1	20.00
43	Alaska	215.00	8	26.88	60.00	4	15.00
44	Delaware	195.00	11	17.73	50.00	4	12.50
45	Kentucky	185.00	9	20.56	20.00	1	20.00
46	United Kingdom	175.00	4	43.75	65.00	2	32.50
47	Vermont	140.00	4	35.00	10.00	1	10.00
48	Nebraska	130.00	5	26.00	35.00	4	8.75
49	West Virginia	130.00	3	43.33	10.00	1	10.00
50	Switzerland	100.00	1	100.00
51	Armed Forces - Europe	100.00	1	100.00
52	North Dakota	80.00	4	20.00	10.00	1	10.00
53	Norway	70.00	3	23.33	10.00	1	10.00
54	Germany	70.00	2	35.00
55	District of Columbia	50.00	1	50.00	50.00	1	50.00
56	Wyoming	50.00	1	50.00
57	Zambia	50.00	1	50.00
58	Hawaii	45.00	3	15.00	30.00	2	15.00
59	Australia	40.00	2	20.00
60	Puerto Rico	25.00	1	25.00
61	Japan	20.00	2	10.00	10.00	1	10.00
62	Rhode Island	20.00	1	20.00	20.00	1	20.00
63	Philippines	10.00	2	5.00	5.00	1	5.00
Never Never Land		2,974.00	142	20.94	581.00	47	12.36
64 locations total		$65,149.24	2,080	$31.32	$11,831.84	669	$17.69

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