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As most of our readers know, October was our Koufax Awards Pledge Drive month. Our goal was to raise $2,400, which we estimate, given last year's requirements, will be the minimum we will need to purchase the dedicated bandwidth and server space to run this year's awards. As of today, we've raised $1,255. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the 49 contributors who have gotten us this far, as well as the dozens of our colleagues in the blogosphere who have championed our fundraising efforts on the front pages of their own blogs.

We still, however, have almost half of the necessary costs left outstanding. Thus, we will continue our pledge drive throughout November. To contribute, please click the links on the top of the main page for Paypal or Amazon. Our snail mail address can be found here.

In addition, we are beginning to take reservations for a limited number of ads on Wampum's sidebar during the Koufax Awards. We are planning on four traditional ads at very reasonable rates, as well as six text only ads, available at a reduced cost of $25 per 200 characters for one week. (For those kind souls who have already contributed this amount or more, please contact us if you would like to use that contribution to reserve that one of those spaces for your own use.)

If you have a favorite political or social cause you would like tens of thousands of caring, Progressive eyes to view from mid-December through mid-March, please let them know of the opportunity to advertise during the 2005 Koufax Awards. (As a general disclaimer, we here at Wampum do reserve the right to refuse ads for what we deem non-Progressive causes or candidates.)

Please email us for more information.