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Posted by Josh Mendelsohn, Program
Manager

Over the past few days, we've followed the devastation left in
the wake of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma). News reports have
tallied more than 22,000 dead with another 41,000 missing.
We're extremely saddened by the loss of life due to this
cyclone, and hope you'd like to help assist with the relief
effort.

As we did after href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/wildfire-relief-donations.html"
id="j9np" >last fall's wildfires in Southern California,
we've created a href="http://www.google.com/myanmarcyclone/" id="gyvr" >Checkout
Donations page so you can easily donate to href="http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/myanmar_43788.html"
id="c4jh" >UNICEF or href="http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2008/CycloneNargisMyanmar/CycloneNargisMyanmar.aspx"
id="eiu0" >Direct Relief International.
Both organizations are working to directly assist the victims on
the ground in Myanmar.

To help visualize the damage, there are Google Earth layers showing
an href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/tracking-path-of-cyclone-nargis.html"
id="x2oi" >animation of
the cyclone's path (using satellite imagery from the Naval
Research Laboratory) and href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/unosat-layer-of-myanmar-cyclone-data.html"
id="nzjs" >the extent of the
flooding using data from the UN Institute for Training and
Research Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT).
We'll keep posting information to the href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/" id="m3i_"
>Lat-Long Blog as more data comes
available.

There are also several Google Grants non-profits working to provide
relief to those affected. href="https://secure.ga4.org/01/cyclone_nargis" id="cedv"
>Save the Children currently has a
500-person staff in the area, while href="https://donate.oxfamamerica.org/02/myanmar" id="eu.h"
>Oxfam America has committed $800,000 to
help NGOs meet the immediate needs of people. href="http://www.worldvision.org/news.nsf/news/myanmar-cyclone-20080505?open&lid=20225&lpos=fea_txt_ReadMore"
id="mi.s" >World Vision and href="http://doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=2656"
id="b4h7" >Doctors Without
Borders are also taking action with two of the most vulnerable
populations in the crisis: children and the injured. We are pleased
to be working with and supporting these organizations that are
contributing directly to cyclone relief. We encourage you to visit
them and consider lending them your support, too. For more details
on these organizations and other non-profits providing support for
the victims of the disaster, visit the

href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2008/05/grant-recipients-helping-victims-of.html"
id="b:qu" >Google Grants blog.

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Posted by Josh Mendelsohn, Program
Manager

Back in early October href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/got-blog-help-student.html" >
we announced our support for the Blogger Challenge put on by href="http://www.donorschoose.org/" id="peke" >DonorsChoose.org.
Now that October has come to a close, it's time to recognize
what DonorsChoose, 100 bloggers and their readers have
accomplished: they've raised $420,000 for classroom projects,
which will benefit more than 75,000 students in low-income
communities.

We promised a nod to those who helped raise the most money for
students, so without further ado, here are the Blogger Challenge
categories and winning blogs:

Lit Liberation: href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/04/karmic-capitalist-should-i-wait-until-im-rich-to-give/"
id="uczo" >Tim Ferriss

Technology: Fred
Wilson

General: Sarah
Bunting

Topical/Local: id="z4hk" >Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan

Science: id="s8ze" >PZ Myers

We extend our gratitude and congratulations to these winners and
all of the participating bloggers for making this a success. Of
course, we all owe thanks to their readers for supporting students.
Sarah Bunting of Tomato Nation took this to heart and thanked her
readers in her own (tomato) way — enjoy!

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Posted by Josh Mendelsohn, Program
Manager

When it comes to philanthropy, everyone’s got something different
to give – some people have money, others have time, and bloggers
have devoted readers. The creative folks at href="http://www.donorschoose.org/" id="gdcq" >DonorsChoose have
a few ideas about how bloggers can help students and
teachers.

In case you’re not familiar with DonorsChoose, it’s a site where
teachers post needs they have for their classrooms, and donors fund
those projects directly. If you’ve got a blog, a website, or even
an email account, you can help by creating what’s called a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/createChallenge.html"
id="zf6h" >challenge. Just pick some of your favorite projects
and challenge your family, friends, and readers to fund them. If
you’ve got a Blogger account, it’s easy to add your challenge to
your blog in just a few clicks.

To support their recent expansion to schools all across the U.S.,
the DonorsChoose team is holding a little competition, href="http://www.bloggerschoose.org/" >keeping track of which
bloggers and webmasters drive the most funding to schools.

We think this is a cool idea, so we want to help it succeed. We’re
going to reward the winning bloggers with exactly what they gave to
DonorsChoose, students, and teachers: traffic. The competition will
remain open until the end of October - we'll then take a look
to see who has helped raise the most money in each of the eight
DonorsChoose challenge categories. We’ll post links to the winners’
blogs here, and we’ll also throw in a $500 gift certificate for
each winner to spend on DonorsChoose.

So here’s our challenge to you: go href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/createChallenge.html" >create
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