For quite awhile now, I've been gearing up to submit a grant application to Pepsi's Refresh Everything program. To make a long story short, Pepsi is giving away lots of monthly grants in various amounts (smallest grant is $5,000; biggest one is $250,000). I was pretty proud of the application I put together, complete with my second-ever iMovie.
12:01 AM EST today, March 1st, the voting opened. And I could not log in correctly. I kept getting a welcome screen for a 50-year-old named Stacey. (I'm not Stacey, and I'm not 50. I'm Janet, and I'm 30.) When they finally did recognize me as Janet Geddis of Avid Bookshop, they had no application on file for me. Frustrating to say the least!
As of 12:22 AM, 1000 ideas had been submitted and the submission process was closed. Alas. Sorry, Avid wallet.
It's not much of a consolation to know that hundreds of others had similar difficulties. I applaud Pepsi's willingness to donate grant money to causes that will effect positive change in the world, but I do wish they'd anticipated the turnout a bit more and been able to handle the traffic.
Because you are an Avid blog reader, you get to watch the video that was part of my seemingly lost application! Lucky, lucky you.
I can't embed the video because it's wide-screen, so click here to view it.
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