The VLF specializes in — as you may have guessed — literacy. The VLF “provides funding and technical support to private, volunteer literacy organizations throughout Virginia through challenge grants and direct consultation.” You may have also noticed the giant VLF fundraiser button currently wreaking havoc on the ol’ layout. Put these things together and you get that Haduken.com is supporting this holiday fundraiser for the VLF.

I want Haduken.com to raise 250$ for this charity by January 1st 2k6.

Haduken is a big part of my life and the only thing I have successfully committed (thing not person, hearts Val!) to for any length of time. There have only been a couple of weeks in the last five years that Haduken has been down. I mean that is ages in i-net time. That’s why we are supporting the VLF. None of this would even be happening if we couldn’t read and write.

There are a ton of people that read this blog and have read this blog for a long long time. There are about 80 people who read this site daily. We’ve had 348 unique visitors and 118 visitors who’ve hit the site between 50-100 times just since the beginning of December. So I’m hoping, and I think the statistics bear it out, that Haduken is some part of your life too. Again, that wouldn’t be possible if you couldn’t read or write.

This charity is a chance for bloggers and blog readers to help out other people who haven’t had the same chances and privileges we’ve had. So again, I’m challenging us to raise 250$ in a month. That’s only ten people giving 25$! Everyone has twenty five dollars to give to a worthy cause like this. So seriously, with eighty people reading this site daily, we should git ‘er done. Also, if you are a blogger I’d encourage you to add a (possibly the smaller one) VLF badge to your blog, avialable here, and blog about the fundraiser to your readership.

If you hate people that can’t read think of it as a 25$ membership fee for FIVE FREAKING YEARS at Haduken. Plus I know some of you in RL and I am going to be bugging you about it. Get ready.

Donate now!

Full Disclosure
I (Ross A. Catrow, aka. MaxPower) own PharrOut a Richmond webdesign/development company. PharrOut is hosting this fundraiser for the VLF through RVABlogs — a PharrOut creation. That doesn’t change the fact that it is a supremely worthy cause and *everyone* should donate — or I might kick you in the teeth?.