2nd Place in the Fungi Challenge!

No tears here for coming in 2nd!  Out of the eight mycology projects participating in the Fungi Challenge, we came in 2nd for the most backers on November 2, awarding my project an additional $200!  

 

The project that came in 1st place has six authors... which means six separate networks of family, friends, and community to reach out to.  Considering those odds, we did pretty darn well!  We beat the 3rd place project by 34 backers, which is a landslide, if you ask me.

I have my first 51 backers to thank for getting us to 2nd place in this challenge:

Carol Bednar, Janice Nelson, Marilyn Slagle, Cindy Wu, Sean Nash, Chid Gilovitz, Zach Masa-Myers and Sarah Kessler, Jeff and Kris Sexton, Steve and Donna Kessler, Pureum Kim, Noah Strom, Tiffany Jacobs, Kostya Nakazny, Chris Smyth, Christina Tran, Alex and Jana Bruce, Katie Bohrman, Brian Herczog, Jenny Osban, Mike Stiles, Joel and Paula Bruce, Estelle Lilienthal, Derek and Ariel Barkeim, Eric Barnier, Michael Wellins, Alice Fuerst, Wee Ming, Bryan Crigler, Sam David, Shelly Wellins, HB Parker, Eric and Joyce Remais, Ben Plunkett, Amber and Will Adamany, Larry Thomas Catts, Hannah Mello, Avery Prondzinski, Chelsea Hunter, Betsy Kessler, and 9 anonymous donors. 

THANK YOU!

We now have 5 days remaining for the campaign.  I want to thank the backers who have come in following the end of the Fungi Challenge, because we still have money to raise!  If we do not raise our entire goal, we will not receive any of the funding.  In these remaining days, please share the project however you can with folks you think might be interested in investing in the next wave of mycoremediation research.  I'm very grateful for all your support.