5th Annual TOL-A-THON

Nathon Detroit

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The 5th annual TOL-A-THON is over!

Thank you to everyone who participated! :up:

We have two weeks to raise $3,500. Please consider giving a donation to help us reach our goal. Donations of any amount are welcome.

CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION.

Each and every year during the early part of September we need to raise money to pay for TheologyOnline's yearly expenses. Hosting, maintenance, software licensing , etc. Running a website that get's as much traffic as TOL does is expensive. Our website requires a dedicated server and unfortunately dedicated servers are not cheap.

Therefore...

We need to raise $3500.00 to keep TOL online for another year. A few years back TheologyOnline grew out of our cheap shared web hosting account and our only choice was to move into a much more expensive dedicated server. Our option to make payment on the new server was to pay monthly, or annually. Making an annual payment saved us about 10%. Yet the even better part of making an annual payment is that we only need to bug our members about helping out once a year instead of every single month. (I hate asking for money)

In mid September we need to make our annual hosting payment or TOL will cease to exist. TheologyOnline is creeping up on it's 15th anniversary so we certainly don't want to fail now. :)

Therefore we are having our annual two week long telethon, errrrrr... webathon, errrrr... TOL-a-THON!!! The money we raise during the TOL-a-THON will pay our server fee's for an entire year. (and any other expenses we might run into)

So, if you support what TOL stands for, or you just love participating on TOL, or you hate us but love having a forum to battle us on and you want to see theologyonline grow and thrive please consider donating to the 4th annual TOL-a-THON! Donations are accepted in any amount and can be paid securely via credit card or eCheck through our TOL-a-THON donation system.

CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION OF ANY AMOUNT.

Other ways to help meet our goal....
Besides straight donations the next best way to help TOL raise money during the 2011 TOL-a-Thon would be to renew your yearly TOL subscription during the TOL-a-THON and we will count that towards our fund raising goal!

Also if you are a monthly TOL subscriber and you change to a yearly subscriber during the TOL-a-Thon that will really help us as well. Again we will count that towards our goal.

We will not count monthly subscriptions towards our goal, but we will count yearly subscriptions towards our goal. Basically we want to alter the way we collect money and try to do as much of it as possible every September.

If you have any questions about the upcoming TOL-a-THON please don't hesitate to ask your questions in this thread.

Thank you in advance for your support!

In Christ - Knight.




TOL-a-THON FAQ...

Question: How long is the TOL-a-THON going to last?
Answer: Two weeks. The TOL-a-THON will run from Friday September 2nd until Monday September 19th.

Question: Should only right-wing Christians donate to the TOL-a-THON?
Answer: Of course not! TOL depends on ALL of you! You don't have to be a right-wing fanatic to help TOL thrive! If you like participating on TOL for the sole purpose of bashing right-wingers then TOL still is a value for you and you should consider donating to the cause.

Question: What if we fall short of our goal? What will happen to the money raised in the TOL-a-THON?
Answer: We will not fall short of our goal!!! But, for whatever reason if we fall short of our goal we will have to make a determination at that point as to what direction and course of action we will take to make ends meet.

Question: Where does the money go that is raised during the TOL-a-THON?
Answer: All the money raised during the TOL-a-THON goes directly to the operating expenses of TOL, the largest operating expense is our yearly dedicated server hosting fee (in fact, that fee alone is about $3,500)

Question: If we reach the goal prior to the end of the TOL-a-THON will we stop the fundraiser early?
Answer: No. This year we are going to keep the fundraiser open until it ends on September 19th regardless of how much money we have raised.

The THANK YOU list.
 
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Nathon Detroit

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Donations or subscriptions made to TOL before the TOL-A-THON will not be counted towards our goal. The TOL-A-THON will start Friday September 2nd.

Thanks in advance for your consideration.
 
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Lighthouse

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If I re-up in Sept. will I be early? And, if so, will my renewal be held off until my current sub is up, and then I will get another year after that, yet my payment will be put toward the fund raising goal?
 

Sherman

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I will be giving my planned donation during this time period :)
 

Nathon Detroit

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If I re-up in Sept. will I be early? And, if so, will my renewal be held off until my current sub is up, and then I will get another year after that, yet my payment will be put toward the fund raising goal?
Your anniversary is September 7th so you would be re-upping at the perfect time. :up:
 

Mr. 5020

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I don't get to participate as much as I'd like to, but I owe this web site (and you, Knight) a lot. I'll definitely be donating. :up:
 

Nathon Detroit

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Please consider donating to the 2011 TOL-A-THON which starts Friday September 2nd. We need your help to stay online for another year. And next year is an important year for TOL because it will be our 15th year anniversary!
 

Sherman

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Just two more days and I go silver...Can't wait. :jump:
 

chickenman

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Paul and Jan Crouch have satellites up orbiting the globe that helps them to increase exposure to their cause and raise money for all their telethons. So, I assume you'll be launching your satellites, Knight, very soon to help with the TOL cause.

Are The Berean and rocketman on your satellite-launching committee? When can we see them (the satellites, not The Berean and rocketman) streaking across the night sky?

RA
 
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