Refresh The Northside

First of all, thank you to everyone who has joined with us in this daily experiment, your votes and commitment have been crucial to truly giving our best effort and seeing where it takes us. We’ve decided to discontinue the effort to win the grants in the RefreshEverything.com contest. We’ve had about 30-40 consistent voters [...]

We haven’t seen much movement from our current rankings, but we’ll keep trying for a couple more days. If you know of others who would be interested in voting please send them the link. If we can double our consistent voters we’d definitely see a better ranking as a result.

thanks for voting today!

Thanks so much for voting today. The weekends usually mean less time at a computer for most people (as they should). But if you have 30 seconds to vote for our project, it really helps us stay consistent in our moving up the rankings. Thanks for the support!

In an effort to further increase our chances of winning, we’re going to be looking for some other collaborating grant entries. What this means for you is that the vote list might get a little bit longer. We might try and change it up to make it easier to vote, but either way, look for [...]

Fremont Health Clinic, right in north Minneapolis is in a video contest to win $1,500. It’s a simple two step process to vote for them, and you only have to do it once. 1. Like We Can http://www.facebook.com/nihwecan 2. Like Fremont’s video http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=136520603051662 in the We Can video contest. That’s it! Thanks for your vote

We’re seeing progress on both entries that we haven’t seen before! Both entries were in the high 100′s but this morning they are down to 119 and 99 respectively. Keep voting! What your doing is working

Our daily email goes out to a little over 100 wonderful northside supporters. Yesterday 46 of those supporters received our email, opened it and (hopefully) voted for our grant entries. We have the potential of making that over 100 daily votes, which could really improve our chances of winning this contest. Consider committing to voting [...]

Dear Supporters, Our online grant bid ended July 31st. We needed to have a rank of 110 or better to continue in August and we ended the month in 111th place. Thanks to all of you for your amazing support during our bid.  Every phone call, text, email, online vote, posting and tweet was greatly [...]

Extra (we’ll be putting extra update details below the bar in your daily emails. Feel free to ignore it if you’d like, it’s more important that you vote daily. We have a new entry in the Refresh contest, The Northside Bike Project. It’s in the running for a $5,000 grant. It’s currently in 135th place, [...]