100 Words for a Children's Endangered-Language Dictionary
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We plan to create a children's pictorial dictionary in the endangered languages of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.
Backers: 137
Average Pledge Per Backer: $76
Funded: $10,405 of $10,000
Dates: Jan 27th -> Feb 26th (30 days)
Project By: Tim Brookes
Backers: 137
Average Pledge Per Backer: $76
Funded: $10,405 of $10,000
Dates: Jan 27th -> Feb 26th (30 days)
Project By: Tim Brookes
$10,405
current pledge level
Last Updated: February 26 @ 12:30 -0500 GMT
104%
of goal
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Latest News
You did it! 
February 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Wow. In an amazing 48-hour period, you came forward and made sure we have the funding we need to create something new, immensely valuable, and probably unique. Thanks for this final lap go to Ann Louise Santos, Jane Faust Madden, Frank Anderson,... (Read More)
We need to make it happen NOW.
February 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Our current Kickstarter campaign, to raise $10,000 to create and publish a children's picture-book dictionary in endangered languages, is so close to reaching its goal--but so close to running out of time! We need to raise another $700 in the next... (Read More)
One last push
February 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
One last strong push and we can get this thing over the line, maybe even today. Yesterday’s great day continued into the night with pledges coming in from Margaret Ransdell-Green, Bobbie Moser and Diane Anderson, and if today is like yesterday we... (Read More)
The running of the bulls
February 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
What a day! From my end of the Internet it felt like the running of the bulls in Pamplona. At the beginning of the day we felt a long, long way off, but after pledges from Cynthia Anderson, CMunk, Birgit Grundler, Kayleigh Blanchette, Hannah... (Read More)
New rewards: handmade goods from the Chittagong Hill Tracts!
February 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
The Hill Tracts are renowned for their handmade crafts and goods, especially textiles and weaving. Thanks to our partner non-profit, Our Golden Hour, we are able to offer several new rewards. Snap them up now: supplies are limited and in any case... (Read More)
Getting tense--but two new rewards, and some good news
February 21st - via: kickstarter.com
I have to admit, things are getting tense. A little over $3,000 to raise in 4 days. We--that is to say, you--managed to pull such a feat off during our last Kickstarter campaign, and I never cease to be amazed and humbled by people's commitment and... (Read More)
And they're off!
February 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Horse Racing Starting Gate by Mike Boswell. Licensed through Creative Commons. The final dash toward $10,000 has started, with new backing from Simon Davis, Lynda Ulrich, Ingrid Sakrison, Tristan Crippen, Rahul Mitra, Kristi Longworth Brennan,... (Read More)
When the miracles happen
February 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Great news: you hit the $1,000 Weekend goal! This puts us at roughly $6,500, with $3,500 still to go and six days to raise it. This is the final week. The final week is the time of greatest tension, but also the time when astonishing things... (Read More)
These are the people we want to serve
February 19th - via: kickstarter.com
These are the people we want to be able to serve: the roughly 700,000 people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Specifically the dozen or so ethnic peoples who have lived in this region for centuries, farming, fishing, weaving some of... (Read More)
On track so far
February 18th - via: kickstarter.com
We're still on track for the $1,000-weekend on Kickstarter, thanks to generous pledges by Neil Buckley and Jay Heinrichs. And to the many of you who have been sharing and re-posting so many of these updates on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.... (Read More)
A Flying Start!
February 18th - via: kickstarter.com
The "mother tongue" carvings waiting on the stairs for Monday's opening at Champlain College. A quiz: can you identify all the scripts? Meanwhile, the Thousand Dollar Weekend is off to a good start: more than $200 raised on the Friday evening,... (Read More)
The Return of the $1,000 Weekend!
February 17th - via: kickstarter.com
If we're to stay on course to make our Kickstarter goal and publish a children's picture-book dictionary of endangered languages, we need to raise another $1,000 by 9 a.m. EST on Monday. The last time we set a thousand-dollar weekend goal we... (Read More)
The Great Leap Forward
February 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Total dollars pledged on February 15: 20 Total dollars pledged on February 16: 390 By a simple calculation, next Friday (when the campaign ends) we should see pledges totalling $12,496,338. Seriously, though, this is the leap forward the campaign... (Read More)
Now or never, and the kitchen sink
February 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Friends of the Endangered Alphabets: It's now or never. We have less than 10 days to raise more than $5,000, and the urgency level has just reached critical. If you've been half-thinking of supporting us, please hesitate no longer. So to help... (Read More)
Thanks, and two new rewards
February 14th - via: kickstarter.com
The phrase "Mother Tongue" in Mro, one of the endangered languages of the Chittagong Hill Tracts we plan to include in our children's dictionary. As our deadline approaches, we're starting to gain some of the velocity we need to reach that $10,000... (Read More)
Good news, less-good news, and great news
February 13th - via: kickstarter.com
One of the postcard rewards designed for us by Irina Wang. It shows some of the children from the first of the Our Golden Hour schools, with "Marma boys" written in Marma. A pledge at the level of $25 earns a pack of five assorted Irina Wang... (Read More)
The Return of the $500 Weekend!
February 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Friend of the Endangered Alphabets: As this campaign goes on, I get literally dozens of messages of encouragement and approval for this project from all over the world, especially from people who love languages, and people who have known what it... (Read More)
New Reward!
February 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to the generosity and design flair of our colleague Irina Wang, we are offering one of our sturdy tote bags featuring her stroke-direction diagram for the letter "ta," from the endangered Marma language of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Irina... (Read More)
Help! We have fallen back by $5,000!
February 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Friends of the Endangered Alphabets: We need your help because of a totally unexpected and new (to me) difficulty. It looks on the home page of this Kickstarter campaign as though we are very close to meeting our goal of $10,000, but in fact... (Read More)
$10,000 by the Tenth! Of February, that is.
February 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Well, we succeeded in the Super Weekend $500 challenge, thanks to Laurie Price, Alec Julien and Chris McLaren. By the time the Patriots were mounting their comeback, these three had intercepted and sacked the $500, and it was lying defeated on the... (Read More)
The $500 Super Weekend
February 4th - via: kickstarter.com
For a Brit, I have a perhaps surprising fascination with American football, and like, oh, a few dozen other people I'll be watching the Super Bowl. But a Kickstarter waits for nobody, and we need to keep moving forward even if we have to push... (Read More)
Progress, thanks, and a new reward
February 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
A joyful, novel event: a schoolgirl in the Chittagong Hill Tracts writing her own name in her own language. This would be unthinkable outside the schools we're helping, and this is why we're raising the funds to publish a dictionary in her language.... (Read More)
Heartfelt thanks, news from our game, and we need a $500 day!
February 1st - via: kickstarter.com
I can't say it any more clearly than this photo does: kids from the Chittagong Hill Tracts entranced by a book created and published by the partnership of the Endangered Alphabets Project, Our Golden Hour, and the Champlain College Publishing class.... (Read More)
A small but significant advance, and an invitation to play a language game
January 30th - via: kickstarter.com
The famous language wall in Montmartre Phew! We finally broke through the $1,000 mark, thanks to help from Evan Rattner and Kim Hinson. We still have a very long way to go, but the first thousand, as they say, is the hardest. For fun, and as a way... (Read More)
A new week, some new momentum--I hope!
January 30th - via: kickstarter.com
No Kickstarter campaign I've ever run or consulted on has received such overwhelming, widespread, heartfelt support and encouragement. We've had messages from all over the world wishing us luck, offering assistance, sharing the photos and video,... (Read More)
The first 24 hours, and one of our rewards
January 28th - via: kickstarter.com
A pretty good first 24 hours to our new campaign, with nearly $750 pledged by 11 backers, including Candace Uhlmeyer, Michael Horlick, Zlatomira Ilchovska, Belle, Hans de Wolf, E. Crisfield, Filip Korling, Andrej Nitsche, DMB, Clare Woodward,... (Read More)
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