Other news: Hot Zone, GiveMeaning, and donations

It's been a busy week :)

Yahoo! Hot Zone: The Yahoo! Hot Zone team concluded their background check on our project, and we got a "thumbs up" on their doing a feature about this project on the Hot Zone website. I should be talking with Erin Green in the next day or so, and will update this post with details as a date for the article is set. 9/14/06: we expect a feature will be published within the next few days.

GiveMeaning: In the meantime, we achieved the 100 votes we needed to establish a project page at http://Yubaraj.GiveMeaning.com. This gives us the valuable capacity to accept online donations for Yubaraj ~ just go to the page and click on "Donate Now." 100% of every donation is forwarded to the Mountain Fund (GiveMeaning doesn't even deduct credit card processing fees) and the Mountain Fund forwards 100% of every donation to Basu to allocate to Yubaraj, his family, or his school.

Donation update: We've collected $300 so far on the GiveMeaning site, and a check for $120 is on its way (from a donor in Switzerland!) to Of Global Interest. Each donation will mean so much to Yubaraj, and we sincerely thank each and every person who makes this financial commitment. 9/14/06: Donation updates are now included in the "Our Purpose" post (above).