It’s 3AM, and it’s a shame my physical body has limitations, because right now every fiber of my being wants to keep working for the next 3 weeks straight. Unfortunately, my business partner Sanjay says such long hours make me cranky and ineffective. And, while I don’t mind being grumpy, I’ve got to be effective.

In any case, I refuse to lose America’s Giving Challenge over a little thing like sleep. For those of you who don’t know, or who’ve arrived here because of today’s great story in the Florida Today, right now Epic Change is working on America’s Giving Challenge: in short, if we can sign up the greatest number of individual $10 donors before January 31, we could win $50,000 from The Case Foundation. $50,000 is an enormous amount of money, and would help us make significant progress toward building the new school.

If a woman in a third world country can build an incredible school for 170 kids from scratch using the money from her poultry business, I can sure find a way to get a few hundred people to give me $10 each to help her out. BUT I NEED YOUR HELP!!!!!!!! Not only do I need your donations, but, more importantly, I need you to reach out to every single person you’ve ever met. It’s just ten bucks, and it only takes ten minutes to go online and donate here, and then email everyone in your address book with the link and a personal note.

While I’ve lived across the country in DC, San Francisco and other big cities, I can’t tell you right now how grateful I am to be right here at home in Satellite Beach. Not only did the local paper do a fantastic job covering our story, but I just know that my small community will band together to help out this hometown girl and the amazing kids at Shepherds Junior.

For the record, here’s the current Score:

Epic Change – 80 donors
“Winners Circle” – 216 donors (and growing)

So, 136 to go as of today. We’ve got miles to go before we sleep.

Please help.

TODAY.