Help the WW&F Get a Grant

[James Patten]

Intuit, makers of Quickbooks (which I use as treasurer to pay our bills and track our money) is sponsoring a $50,000 grant.  All you need to do is vote!  Actually I think the grant gets broken up among several businesses, but still a grant is a grant.

http://lovealocalbusiness.com/pulse?b_id=165097

Please vote!

[Gordon Cook]

Great idea, James!!

I think the actual voting site is
http://lovealocalbusiness.intuit.com/fan
Look for WW&F Railway Museum

[James Patten]

Actually you have to look for "W W & F Railway Museum" (note the spaces between the letters).

[Dave Buczkowski]

I had to type the name in. Should I try again? Like that old Chicago politician once said "Vote early and often!"

[Stephen Hussar]

I had no trouble by just typing in, "Alna, ME" -and that brought up the original listing. Now that there are two listings everyone should vote for the first one...the one with the most votes already...yes?!

[Ed Lecuyer]

The direct link to cast a vote for the WW&F is:
http://lovealocalbusiness.intuit.com/business/W-W--F-Railway-Museum/165097?vtid=email_conf_fan

You do have to put in a username, email address, and comment in order to vote.
Feel free to pass this link on to friends, neighbors, and other supporters.

[James Patten]

There is a way to merge duplicate names.  I'll have to figure it out.

You can only vote once, unfortunately.

[Wayne Laepple]

Of course, if you have more than one e-mail address......nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

[Tom Casper]

Ed,

I get an error why I try to go direct.

"Ruby on Rails application could not be started"

Tom C.

[Tom Casper]

I followed James instructions and noticed this at the bottom.

Maybe mute!

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Legal residents of the 50 United States (D.C.), 18 years or older may submit a nomination. Submit nomination before 6/30/11. Void where prohibited. Official Rules

Tom C.

[Ed Lecuyer]

Tom,
- There seems to be occasional site errors with their server. Just retry and you should be fine.
- They just had a grant contest that completed 6/30, I suspect they haven't updated the fine print on the web page, yet.

[James Patten]

As of right now we are at #10 with 25 votes!  Spread the word!

Intuit has monthly contests.  The  email from Intuit arrived this morning, so I'd say it's for the month of July.

[Wayne Laepple]

I just checked, and the WW&F is in third place with 72 votes. If everyone who belongs to this board voted, we'd blow the No. 1 group (127 votes) out of the water. Step up, folks.

[Mike Fox]

Make sure you read the comments. Some are very nice.

[Phil Christopher]

were on the #3 list now. incredible! Keep voting!