These people answered the question, If you could make one wish for the world, what would it be?

You can see all the wishes collected by viewing them at the Internet Wishing Well or you can read them here as wishes on the Million Dollar Blog Post.

To leave your wish for the world, drag a coin to the Gifter Internet Wishing Well.

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By sponsoring wishes you can help us make our $1,000,000 goal a reality.

By sponsoring wishes you are advertising your support for your cause.  This allows you to promote the charity that matters to you, giving the charity the benefit of your donation and your public support.

Millions of visitors to the Gifter wishing well will see the link to your public support of whichever charity you want.

It’s easy and your generosity will not be forgotten.

Here’s what you do:

1. Donate money to any charity you want.
2. Make a copy of your donation receipt.
3. Upload to your blog, or an online photo site the copy of your donation receipt marked with Gifter.org along with something nice about the cause you are supporting.
4. Post a comment below with a link to your online proof of donation.

For every dollar donated to charity you’ll be sponsoring 1 wish.

You can demonstrate your support for whatever worthy cause you would like by sponsoring wishes, and publicly showing your support for that organization.   In return we will let all our visitors and wishers know that you’ve sponsored their wishes.
You’ll be added to the sponsorship roll and our page of sponsors.

We are interested in discussing, responding and hearing your thoughts on the Million Dollar Blog Post idea.

Since we will only be approving comments and trackbacks that include qualifying responses to the Million Dollar Blog Post, we have setup this page to discuss the idea with you.

Take a moment to read our frequently asked questions.

Do you have questions that aren’t answered? Want to discuss if this idea will work? We invite you to discuss here.

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This project will succeed through the generosity and interest of the blogging community. Simple as that.

We’re thrilled with the response we’ve received so far. Lots of people continue to blog about The Million Dollar Blog Post and we want to highlight those people here:

David Crow wrote, “It’s a great idea and it hopefully will show the power of community.”

Patrick Dinnen said, “I really hope they make it to their $1m target, this sort of thing gives me hope that the Internet can be good for more than videos of blowing stuff up.”

Mark Evans says, “Austin Hill and Ben Yoskowitz have launched a very, very cool - and I should emphasize very cool - site called Gifter.org…”

• nicolasix.com
• Cody McKibben
• Linda Ferguson
• Kempton’s Blog
• Tyson Williams
• Julien Smith
• Fred Ngo
• Beatrice M
• Neatorama
• Kuratkull
• Laura / That Grrl
• Brian Gilham
• Mark Kuznicki
• David Crow
• Patrick Dinnen
• Craig Silverman
• probative
• The Holocore Weblog
• Aidan Henry
• Hartley Singer
• Beth Kanter at BlogHer
• wolog.net
• 100 Bloggers
• Webmasters? Let’s Talk!
• Valeria Maltoni
• Robin Wauters
• Marc Snyder
• Mike Murray
• Dennis Eusebio
• Mathew Ingram
• DCS Security
• Deb Richardson
• Andrew Flusche
• Tara Hunt
• Mark Evans
• Andy Nulman
• Hugh Mcguire

Each and everyone’s support means a great deal to us and to the community-at-large. Please visit these sites, check out the great blogs and spread the word.

We hope everyone continues to:

1. Write blog posts about Gifter.Org and The Million Dollar Blog Post
2. Talk to friends, family and contacts
3. Share the project with people in their online networks
4. Track the wishes as they’re posted and see what people are wishing for

Please subscribe to the main feed for news and updates as the project progresses. This is all about you, all about the community, and we’re thrilled that people are pushing it forward.

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Vernon Lun, co-founder of TheGoodBlogs recently announced a pledge of $1 per wish at Gifter.Org for any new signups to their widget from now until January 31, 2007.

As well, any of their existing members who make a wish at Gifter.Org and then email them about it will up the ante of wishes sponsored by TheGoodBlogs.

From Vernon @ TheGoodBlogs:

Until January 31, 2007, for every new member who joins and puts the widget on their blog, we will sponsor one wish on gifter.org for $1. For existing members, for every member who posts a wish and sends us an email letting us know, we will also sponsor that wish and mention you in our blog (we’ll do a weekly roundup).

You can read the full story at TheGoodBlogs blog.

We want to thank Vernon Lun and TheGoodBlogs for their support! This is precisely the type of community spirit and encouragement we were hoping for. We hope more communities jump onboard, pushing common goals of togetherness and helping good causes. You might have a group of people that want to donate to a specific charity (remember: you donate to any charity you want!). You might have a community of people that just want to challenge one another to generate the most wishes. Get people together, put up your wishes and sponsor wishes for good causes.

Thanks again to TheGoodBlogs and we wish their entire community the best of luck!

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First, let me thank everyone for their early participation with Gifter.org and The Million Dollar Blog Post.

After just a few days, we’ve got 167 wishes and $4,205 dollars donated to sponsor those wishes. Momentum is picking up and each of you is a part in that.

If you haven’t left your wish to the world, we hope you’ll do so! Click here to leave your wish.

And if you’d like to donate money and include Gifter.org on the check or receipt, you’ll be helping to sponsor the growing list of wishes people are submitting. Click here to read more.

In the meantime, we’re going to use this blog as a way of reaching out and hopefully building more community involvement and momentum.

• We’ll be looking for advice on The Million Dollar Blog Post - from the website, the concept, how to promote it and more.
• We’ll be highlighting those people who promote the project through their blogs, etc. We want to recognize the support as much as we can!
• We’ll be reviewing the experience openly. We’re learning a ton and enjoying every minute of it.

Once again, we thank you for your support, ideas, advice, sponsorships and wishes. Everyone’s participation means a great deal to us and to everyone who benefits from The Million Dollar Blog Post.

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Just a quick heads up to everyone that subscribed to the Gifter.org RSS feed that if you’d like to read the great wishes that are coming in to the Million Dollar Post page make sure to also subscribe to the wishes feed.

(If you haven’t used an RSS reader before and you are visiting this web page, click on the infamous orange icon and your browser should take care of the rest.  If you aren’t sure which Reader to use, we suggest Google Reader.  This way you can see a million wishes being cast into our little Internet wishing well delivered straight to your reader)