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I received a hand written thank you note today from Doral Hurd, senior volunteer at the San Diego Archaeological Center. Wow, did that make me feel good - the joy of receiving a hand written note is something that email will never be able to replace! She was writing to thank us for sending her the Understanding Science posters from last month's giveaway.

We are really excited about how the poster giveaway came together. For those of you who didn't hear - it all started with a $100 donation from our colleague Dejan Petrovic at Dejan SEO in Croatia. We thought it would be nice to use that money to mail some Understanding Science posters, leftover from a conference. So we posted a link on our newsletter to see who was interested. But we never expected the size of the response. By the time it was over we gave out 10,000 posters to people in 49 states plus India, Greece, Canada, Argentina, Portugal, UK, Colombia, Oman, Philippines, Germany, Ecuador, Australia, South Africa, Malaysia, Pakistan, Barbados, and Switzerland!

The additional funds to pay for this came predominately from Dejan who rallied 21 of his colleagues to give an additional $100 each (or more!). Encyclopedia of Life followed with a wonderful contribution, as did a philanthropist friend of Judy Scotchmoor's in California (Judy is my partner in crime on all things COPUS). (To see the full list, check out the logos on the bottom of the Year of Science 2009 home page!)

COPUS was pleased to share this wonderful resource with so many. The whole experience was a great one for us, we never expected 900 responses to the request (I am sorry I had to turn off the form!), and we were thrilled by the way our friends stepped up to help us meet the need. We hope you all enjoy the posters... and thank you for all you do in support of science!

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