After the Facebook votes were in, the St. Bernard Project was not the million dollar winner. That honor went to Invisible Children. Be sure to have look at their website to see the good work they are doing and the very effective ways they are spreading the word and leveraging their efforts. Inspiration for those of us who hope to do the same!
However, in its wisdom, the Chase Community Giving Advisory board made some additional grants to charities that seemed to them particularly worthy and had received a large proportion of votes. We are happy to report that The St. Bernard Project received $37,000, and hope that NCGS involvement helped the Advisory board reach their decision. Camfed International (Campaign for Female Education) received the same amount, towards educating girls in Zimbabwe. Their cause is certainly one that NCGS can support wholeheartedly.
Chase Community Giving found their first Facebook giveaway to be an overwhelming success, and they have plans to repeat it, so “fan” them on Facebook, and use your votes to do some good in the world.
Tags: Camfed International, Chase Community Giving, Invisible children, St. Bernard Project
I feel as though I HAVE to join facebook now. But I have some old friends that are not really friends (they’re just old) and I don’t want to friend them. And I don’t want them to friend me, but I want to support NCGS and be a force for good and help make all these causes successful.
Confused in Kansas, Ted