We’re doing it – with your help, we’ve raised almost $70,000 towards our goal of $100,000 to support women in open technology and culture! We’ve already made big strides for women in open technology and culture during the last 2.5 years. Our goal for 2013 and 2014 is to grow our most effective programs so that they directly impact thousands of lives: run several AdaCamp unconferences every year, expand our Impostor Syndrome training, and teach dozens of Allies Workshops. With your help, we can do it!

We still need to raise just over $30,000 by Saturday, August 31st to fund our 2013-2014 programs. You can help, by telling your friends why you support the Ada Initiative. You can post on Twitter, Facebook, or G+, send an email to a women in tech group or a work mailing list, or write a short blog post. It can be fun to tell your story about why you support the Ada Initiative. Don’t be nervous – many of our supporters tell us they were overwhelmed by the positive response to their stories from their friends, co-workers, and family!

Here are some ideas for what to tell people about:

• Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson made a $10,000 matching donation
• Annalee Flower Horne wrote about “That Time I Wasn’t Harassed at a Conference“
• Selena Deckelmann wrote about how AdaCamp changed her life
• PZ Myers donates to the Ada Initiative – and a troll immediately demonstrates why others should donate too
• The best schwag ever – the Ada Lovelace pendant
• Our history of conference anti-harassment campaigns in SF&F, skepticism, and open source

For more sample tweets, donation button HTML, and similar, see our spread the word page.

Thank you so much for being part of the movement to make open technology and culture more welcoming to women! And thank you to our 2013 donors so far (listed by permission):

@elwing @KathleenLD Adam C. Foltzer Alan Coopersmith Alex Gaynor Alex Payne Amanda Skellenger Amber June Blahnik Amelia Greenhall Amy Hendrix Andrea J. Horbinski Annalee Flower Horne Arthi Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson Ben Combee Betsy Haibel Brenda Moon Brian DeRocher Brion Vibber Britta Gustafson Bro. Dave Lister Carl Trachte Carol Willing Caroline Simard carols10cents Chris Ford Chris Minn Christine Spang Colleen Penrowley Dana Caulder Daniel Ross Daniel Trembath David Comay Deb Nicholson Decklin Foster Denys Howard Dorothea Salo Dwayne Litzenberger Eirik Nilsen Elizabeth Lorang Elizabeth Ragavanis

Esa Vesalainen Ethan Glasser-Camp Fredrik Larsson Gayle Karen Young geeksdoitbetter Greg Hilliard Heath Anderson Heidi Cautrell Holden Karau India Amos Isobel Hadley-Kamptz Jack Moffitt James E. Pace James Turnbull Jane Hammons Jason Thibeault Jean Kaplansky Jed Hartman jen smith Jenny Dybedahl Jim Blandy Justin Husted Kaitlin Devine Kalina Wilson Katherine Scott Katie Bechtold Kellie Brownell Kevin S. Clarke Kim Stone Kim Varnell Kimberly Munoz Kris Howard Kristal Pollack Kristina Kerr Bergman Kurt Van Etten Larissa Shapiro Laura Dragan Lord Darkraven Fierce-Eyes Louis Wasserman and Jennifer Mace Mackenzie Morgan Marcus J. Ranum Marina Zhurakhinskaya

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