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Help FPF land $250,000 grant!

#BTV #VT – Update 3: Click to vote, enter “Front Porch Forum” in the business name field, AND leave city and state fields BLANK.  Click SEARCH button.  Then, next to FPF entry, click VOTE button.  That’s it!  Thank you!

Vermonters, Front Porch Forum members and friends… we need your clicks today.  It only takes a minute! We’re in the running for a $250,000 grant that we’ll use to improve the FPF software, add more neighbors and features, and expand to serve more local communities. Will you help? As a small Vermont business, far from Silicon Valley and other capitals of commerce, we’re a long shot but we’ve seen FPF members move mountains before. FPF serves 70 Vermont towns and 1 in upstate New York… 38,000 households participate in this free community service. Let’s see how many votes we can muster!  The more votes, the better. 1.  Vote for FPF today.

• You must have a Facebook account.
• Go to the contest website and click LOG IN & SUPPORT.
• Enter your Facebook information as needed and click Log In.*
• Once logged in successfully, enter “Front Porch Forum” in the Business Name box (do NOT enter state or city info) and click the SEARCH button.  Or search by state.
• When you find the Front Porch Forum entry, click the blue VOTE button next to FPF… that’s it!
• While you’re at it, consider voting for other cool small businesses that you support (you can vote once for as many entrants as you like).
• Voting closed June 30, 2012.

2.  Ask your friends to vote for FPF before June 30, 2012.

• Spread the word via FPF, Facebook, Twitter, email, etc.
• Send folks to this blog post for details (http://bit.ly/FPFgrant) or directly to the contest site (http://www.missionsmallbusiness.com).

Wish you success.  We LOVE FPF.  It is the best mediumm for getting items of interest to the community.
– Barb, Alburgh FPF 

*More details regarding voting… If you are logged into Facebook on your computer:

• When you click to “Support Small Business“, you will be logged into the Mission: Small Businessâ„  site via Facebook Connect
• A permissions screen from Facebook will appear
• The Mission: Small Businessâ„  site will utilize your Facebook credentials for sharing your actions on the site to the Facebook newsfeed
• No information will be posted automatically but you will have the option to share in your Newsfeed your Support, and your Vote on a local merchant

If you are not logged into Facebook:

• When you click to “Support Small Business“, the Mission: Small Businessâ„  site will prompt you to log into Facebook
• Once you log in with your Facebook credentials, you will see a permissions screen from Facebook.
• The Mission: Small Businessâ„  site will utilize your Facebook credentials for sharing your actions on the site to the Facebook newsfeed
• No information will be posted automatically but you will have the option to share in your Newsfeed your Support, and your Vote on a local merchant