EDSBS Charity Bowl is LIVE

[Travis Miller]

For many years now I have promoted the EDSBS Charity Bowl. It is an annual fundraising contest staged by the EDSBS extended universe in aid of New American Pathways, a full-service refugee resettlement nonprofit based in Atlanta. Your key points in this:

• The 2025 EDSBS Charity Bowl will kick off (football term) on Monday morning, April 14, via announcement on the New American Pathways Bluesky feed and Instagram grid. The game officially concludes on Friday evening, April 18, though we have been known to extend the contest into the weekend in pursuit of stretch goals.
• The bowl splash page (linked further down, for reasons) is your home for everything else: A portal to submit your actual donations, a running unofficial tally of all the money we’ve raised so far, and links where you can learn more about New AP and their work.
• Once the launch has been announced on Monday, hit the splash page and navigate to the dropdown menu. You will see a long list of schools that have college football teams (and a few that don't, but we'll get to that). Select the institution you want to compete under, and type in your donation amount. At the end of the week, the team with the highest donation total will be declared the winner.
• By tradition, donations are typically made in the form of a football score or statistic that has sentimental value to the donor. ($70.33, for example, in memory of West Virginia’s infamous Orange Bowl romp over Clemson, or $26.28, to honor Barry Sanders’ world-beating single-season rushing record.)
• You’ll also have the option to make this one-time gift a quarterly or monthly recurring donation, which will earn a year’s worth of multiplier points for scoring purposes. Example: You’re donating $100 on behalf of Vanderbilt (Diego Pavia party!). If you make that donation a $100 quarterly pledge instead, Vanderbilt will be awarded a full year’s worth of donations to their team score – in this case, $400. A $100 monthly pledge will add $1,200 to your team score. (Note that recurring gifts, as well as corporate matching gifts, are not going to show up on the splash page running total right away, since we have to enter those manually.)

You good Purdue people regualrly have our Boilers finishing in the top 25 of the 400+ entitites each year, because you are awesome. This is something that is really important to me and I am honored to have even a small part in it each year. Some ideas for your donation (especially since there is not a lot ot celebrate Purdue football-wise:

$84.14 (or some variation) - a penny for each day since that poverty program in Bloomington last played in a Final Four.
$70 - $10 for each coach (including Dan Dakich) Indiana has hired to return them to the glory of Bob Knight.
$26 - One dollar for each of Purdue men's basketball's Big Ten championships.

New Awhatican What Now? New American Pathways supports refugee families resettling in America from the day they touch down at the airport until the day they take their citizenship exams. As you might imagine, this encompasses a huge range of services, from finding safe housing, getting children enrolled in school and adults in job training, to language classes, legal aid, and after-school programs. You can read their annual impact report here, and check out their Facebook and Instagram pages to learn how their work shapes communities in and around Atlanta.

https://fundraise.givesmart.com/e/k-yA-Q?vid=1iwk2s
YOUR DONATION LINK IS HERE! NOW GO AND SHOW WHY PURDUE IS FAR SUPERIOR TO THAT POVERTY SCHOOL IN BLOOMINGTON.

 

[Travis Miller]

Purdue with a solid 30th place right now in the EDSBS Charity bowl out of 257 listed schools. Keep up the good work.

https://fundraise.givesmart.com/e/k-yA-Q?vid=1iyeql

 

[Travis Miller]

Dark match is active. Purdue leads Indiana $7,538 to $6,082, so we need to run up the score.