The Official Squidoo Thanksgiving Cookoff (for Charity)

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Help us give away $5,000 this Thanksgiving

Starting November 2nd, Squidoo has been donating $1000 to charity every day through Thanksgiving.

With a $5000 grand prize on Thanksgiving Day.

It's up to you which nonprofit gets it.

Vote below!
 

Squidoo Thanksgiving $5k Grand Prize 

for charity!

One vote per person, please. Feel free to tell your friends, colleagues, family, Twitter followers, butchers, taxicab drivers... anyone and everyone you think should know about these wonderful Cookoff food pages, or who has something at stake with one of the charities.

(If we have evidence someone is cheating the poll, we'll disqualify the votes and maybe the lens, so play fair and have fun).

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Want to be a Squidoo nonprofit beneficiary? 

It's free, and you get thousands of dollars in donations

Really? People are willing to pay to run marathons for your cause, but they're not going to make a free page about their favorite things, a page that will raise money for you forever? Think about it.

And when you and your nonprofit are ready, we'll be here to help you sign up in under 4 minutes.

Here's the final list of all the Cookoff winners 

In more depth

 

 

 

 

Just a few rules of the Cookoff 

It's pretty simple

1. Your Thanksgiving Cookoff lens must be created as part of this project. Existing, earlier lenses don't count.

2. When you make your lens, change the royalty setting (in your lens Workshop) to give 100% to the charity on our list that you like the most. That's how we'll know which organization to donate the money to.

3. If you steal or cheat or fake anyone out, we'll disqualify you and delete your lenses. If you enter with a bunch of empty, spammy lenses, we'll do the same.

4. Yes you can make as many lenses for the Cookoff as you'd like! The more great food lenses you make, the better your chances of getting picked. Maybe. Maybe all it takes is one tremendous one. Your call.

5. We'll post every day (weekends too) on the very popular Lens of the Day blog, starting November 2nd, with the daily winning Cookoff lens.

6. Participating nonprofits: Yes, absolutely, you should invite as many donors and volunteers and friends to enter. It's free. And the real win is that you get donations, for free, every month, for every lens, long after this contest is over. It really adds up.

7. The Grand Prize: On Thanksgiving Day 2009, we'll take all winning lenses from earlier in the month and put them into a big vote-off. The lens with the most votes by December 1st 2009 at 12pm EST wins $5,000 for the charity it supports.

We're no longer accepting new entries for the contest. 

But it *is* time to vote on the finalists!

Here's how the Cookoff worked:

Starting November 2nd 2009, Squidoo will be giving away $1000 to charity every day through Thanksgiving. With a $5000 grand prize vote-off on Thanksgiving Day.

If you want to:

* Win $1000 for your favorite charity on our list of over 100 charities
* And get featured as the Lens of the Day (with exposure to over 100,000 people)
* And have fun sharing your best food and kitchen tips and recommendations.
*And even get a cute exclusive Thanksgiving theme on your lens....

Then enter the virtual Cookoff here!

All you do is create a great 'foody' lens on Squidoo as part of the contest. That's it. Lenses are free and easy webpages to make. Could be about your grandmother's pumpkin pie recipe, your family's thanksgiving dinner menu, tried and true baking secrets, top 5 holiday coffee flavors -- anything and everything food, it all goes. Every day we (that's us at Squidoo HQ) will pick 1 lens we like best, post the winner on our Lens of the Day blog, and award the charity you selected $1000.

It's that simple. Real people raising money for charity, just by making free lenses about the stuff they love most.

Pie photo courtesy caitlinator on Flickr.

Why we're hosting a Charity Cookoff 

Raising money for charity is a huge part of why we started Squidoo

We've invented a completely new way to raise money (for free) for charity online. It's called Squidoo.

Yes, Squidoo's been running for a few years, and yes, we've already given away hundreds of thousands of dollars to incredible organizations like The Acumen Fund, Room to Read and JDRF. But that's not enough.

Not enough organizations are ready and eager and fearless enough to empower their volunteers and let them each make a page about something (anything) they care about. A page that raises money for that charity, for free, every month, forever.

So for the month of November, we're making it even easier for smart charities to get on board.

We posted all the winners, one a day, on the official Lens of the Day blog 

Nov 26, 2009 @ 4:41 pmThe $5000 Charity Cookoff Grand Prize: Ready, set,... from Squidoo Lens of the Day
We've been giving away $1000 a day to charity throughout the month of November. Every winning lens from the Squidoo Thanksgiving Cookoff for Charity is now eligible to win the $5000 grand prize for t...
Nov 25, 2009 @ 3:14 pmTop Ten Turkey Companions from Squidoo Lens of the Day
Turkey is the traditional center stage at Thanksgiving feasts across the country, but while we're all reaching for the wishbone, let us not forget about the other superstars at the table - our favorit...
Nov 24, 2009 @ 4:23 pmThanksgiving Dinner with our Troops from Squidoo Lens of the Day
Thanksgiving is so close I can almost smell the traditional dishes we love to eat: mashed yams, green bean casserole, and jellied cranberry sauce. While we're chowing down on our holiday favorites, b...
Nov 23, 2009 @ 1:57 pmHappy Eco-Friendly Thanksgiving! from Squidoo Lens of the Day
Doesn't it defeat the spirit of the holidays to be wasteful at Thanksgiving? This year, your turkey day can be delicious AND "ecolicious," as our very own lensmaster by the same name teaches us in 20...
Nov 22, 2009 @ 10:00 amCharity Cookoff: Weekend Winners! from Squidoo Lens of the Day
On Saturday and Sunday we had some weekend Cookoff winners you might have missed. There's the very clever My Top 10 "Top Chef" Guest Judges lens by KarateKatGraphics, which wins $1000 for Save the Chi...

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