- Champion a cause – Individuals can become “cause champions,” individuals who are passionate about a specific cause and will compete to obtain the most donations for their cause through the Causes application on Facebook.
- Promote, donate or join a cause – all individuals are encouraged to take part in America’s Giving Challenge by joining, promoting and donating to the causes they care about. Facebook membership is not required to donate to a Giving Challenge cause.
Participants can register to compete in the Giving Challenge, view details and donate to a cause they care about at www.americasgivingchallenge.com.
PARADE will help launch the America’s Giving Challenge 2009 with a cover story on October 11 by Matt Damon. In addition to being a Hollywood superstar, Damon is also a passionate philanthropist. In his PARADE article, he encourages the magazine’s 73 million readers to “find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn’t know about before. Then tell somebody else. Or make a small donation, if you can. Every dollar counts.”
The presenting partners of America’s Giving Challenge have designed this program to serve as an example of how social networking is transforming the way people participate in philanthropy, creating new ways for people to organize and take action on behalf of the causes they support. “As the use of social media continues to grow rapidly, it is our hope that this year’s Giving Challenge will encourage individuals and nonprofits to experiment with these tools to motivate their friends and colleagues to make a significant impact on the causes they care about,” says the Case Foundation CEO Jean Case. “At a time when many nonprofits are struggling to raise funds due to the economic climate, the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge enables individuals to take action and help their cause when they need it the most. We are pleased to co-present the Challenge and provide cash awards for the winning causes.”
“Individuals and organizations utilizing the Causes platform are driving a paradigm shift in the philanthropic world from top-down marketing campaigns to bottom-up activist communities,” said Causes Co-founder Joseph Green. “We are hosting the Giving Challenge because it provides an unprecedented opportunity to experiment and innovate with this new paradigm of socially-driven online grassroots organizing.”
“Many of our readers embraced this innovative effort to promote online giving last year,” PARADE President & Publisher Randy Siegel says. “We hope many more will take up the Challenge this year and see how new technologies can enable each of us to contribute to our favorite causes like never before.”
The Case Foundation is providing $150,000 in award money for the winners. The Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation has contributed $20,000 toward award money for America’s Giving Challenge in accordance with its efforts to promote and understand the ability of new technology to mobilize youth. This contribution has enabled the creation of a second tier of daily awards at the $500 level.
This is the second Giving Challenge presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Magazine. In 2008, the first Challenge inspired 71,000 donors to give more than $1.8 million to nearly 700 nonprofit organizations. Additionally, 11 of the winning nonprofit recipients had budgets of less than $1 million, demonstrating the significant impact that can be made for a cause during the Challenge – no matter how big or small a donation.
Results of the 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge are available here.
About the Presenting Partners:
THE CASE FOUNDATION
The Case Foundation, created by Steve and Jean Case in 1997, invests in people and ideas that can change the world. The Foundation champions initiatives that connect people, increase giving, and catalyze civic action. For more information, visit www.casefoundation.org.
CAUSES
Causes empowers anyone with a good idea or passion for change to impact the world. Using our platform, individuals mobilize their network of friends to grow lasting social and political movements. To date, over 85 million Facebook users have installed the application and created and joined more than 300,000 grassroots causes that benefit more than 60,000 nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit the Causes Application (www.causes.com) and Causes Exchange (www.exchange.causes.com).
PARADE
PARADE, the most widely read magazine in America, is distributed in more than 500 of the nation’s top newspapers. The magazine, which launched in 1941, now has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 73 million. Each Sunday in PARADE and every day at Parade.com, our mission is to entertain, inspire and inform Americans about the issues they care most about and move them to action. For more information, visit www.parade.com.
30-day national online competition presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE empowers individuals to use social media and leverage personal connections to promote and fundraise on behalf of nonprofits
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today at 3:00 p.m. EDT, the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Publications will kick off the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a 30-day, national online competition that enables people to leverage their online and offline personal networks to build communities (“causes”) that raise money and recruit support for a nonprofit. These causes will compete to win cash awards, funded by the Case Foundation, that will total $170,000. America’s Giving Challenge will be hosted by Causes through its application on Facebook. In addition, PARADE Publications will help launch the Challenge with a cover story about the importance of giving by actor Matt Damon.
From now until November 6 at 3:00 p.m. EST, participants will have the opportunity to compete for daily and overall awards – ranging from $500 to $50,000 – based on the number of donations to their cause using the Causes application on Facebook. Nonprofit organizations and individuals who wish to participate in the Challenge can get involved in one of two ways:
- Champion a cause – Individuals can become “cause champions,” individuals who are passionate about a specific cause and will compete to obtain the most donations for their cause through the Causes application on Facebook.
- Promote, donate or join a cause – all individuals are encouraged to take part in America’s Giving Challenge by joining, promoting and donating to the causes they care about. Facebook membership is not required to donate to a Giving Challenge cause.
Participants can register to compete in the Giving Challenge, view details and donate to a cause they care about at www.americasgivingchallenge.com.
PARADE will help launch the America’s Giving Challenge 2009 with a cover story on October 11 by Matt Damon. In addition to being a Hollywood superstar, Damon is also a passionate philanthropist. In his PARADE article, he encourages the magazine’s 73 million readers to “find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn’t know about before. Then tell somebody else. Or make a small donation, if you can. Every dollar counts.”
The presenting partners of America’s Giving Challenge have designed this program to serve as an example of how social networking is transforming the way people participate in philanthropy, creating new ways for people to organize and take action on behalf of the causes they support. “As the use of social media continues to grow rapidly, it is our hope that this year’s Giving Challenge will encourage individuals and nonprofits to experiment with these tools to motivate their friends and colleagues to make a significant impact on the causes they care about,” says the Case Foundation CEO Jean Case. “At a time when many nonprofits are struggling to raise funds due to the economic climate, the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge enables individuals to take action and help their cause when they need it the most. We are pleased to co-present the Challenge and provide cash awards for the winning causes.”
“Individuals and organizations utilizing the Causes platform are driving a paradigm shift in the philanthropic world from top-down marketing campaigns to bottom-up activist communities,” said Causes Co-founder Joseph Green. “We are hosting the Giving Challenge because it provides an unprecedented opportunity to experiment and innovate with this new paradigm of socially-driven online grassroots organizing.”
“Many of our readers embraced this innovative effort to promote online giving last year,” PARADE President & Publisher Randy Siegel says. “We hope many more will take up the Challenge this year and see how new technologies can enable each of us to contribute to our favorite causes like never before.”
The Case Foundation is providing $150,000 in award money for the winners. The Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation has contributed $20,000 toward award money for America’s Giving Challenge in accordance with its efforts to promote and understand the ability of new technology to mobilize youth. This contribution has enabled the creation of a second tier of daily awards at the $500 level.
This is the second Giving Challenge presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Magazine. In 2008, the first Challenge inspired 71,000 donors to give more than $1.8 million to nearly 700 nonprofit organizations. Additionally, 11 of the winning nonprofit recipients had budgets of less than $1 million, demonstrating the significant impact that can be made for a cause during the Challenge – no matter how big or small a donation.
Results of the 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge are available here.
About the Presenting Partners:
THE CASE FOUNDATION The Case Foundation, created by Steve and Jean Case in 1997, invests in people and ideas that can change the world. The Foundation champions initiatives that connect people, increase giving, and catalyze civic action. For more information, visit www.casefoundation.org.
CAUSES Causes empowers anyone with a good idea or passion for change to impact the world. Using our platform, individuals mobilize their network of friends to grow lasting social and political movements. To date, over 85 million Facebook users have installed the application and created and joined more than 300,000 grassroots causes that benefit more than 60,000 nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit the Causes Application (www.causes.com) and Causes Exchange (www.exchange.causes.com).
PARADE PARADE, the most widely read magazine in America, is distributed in more than 500 of the nation’s top newspapers. The magazine, which launched in 1941, now has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 73 million. Each Sunday in PARADE and every day at Parade.com, our mission is to entertain, inspire and inform Americans about the issues they care most about and move them to action. For more information, visit www.parade.com.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today at 3:00 p.m. EDT, the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Publications will kick off the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a 30-day, national online competition that enables people to leverage their online and offline personal networks to build communities (“causes”) that raise money and recruit support for a nonprofit. These causes will compete to win cash awards, funded by the Case Foundation, that will total $170,000. America’s Giving Challenge will be hosted by Causes through its application on Facebook. In addition, PARADE Publications will help launch the Challenge with a cover story about the importance of giving by actor Matt Damon.
From now until November 6 at 3:00 p.m. EST, participants will have the opportunity to compete for daily and overall awards – ranging from $500 to $50,000 – based on the number of donations to their cause using the Causes application on Facebook. Nonprofit organizations and individuals who wish to participate in the Challenge can get involved in one of two ways:
- Champion a cause – Individuals can become “cause champions,” individuals who are passionate about a specific cause and will compete to obtain the most donations for their cause through the Causes application on Facebook.
- Promote, donate or join a cause – all individuals are encouraged to take part in America’s Giving Challenge by joining, promoting and donating to the causes they care about. Facebook membership is not required to donate to a Giving Challenge cause.
Participants can register to compete in the Giving Challenge, view details and donate to a cause they care about at www.americasgivingchallenge.com.
PARADE will help launch the America’s Giving Challenge 2009 with a cover story on October 11 by Matt Damon. In addition to being a Hollywood superstar, Damon is also a passionate philanthropist. In his PARADE article, he encourages the magazine’s 73 million readers to “find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn’t know about before. Then tell somebody else. Or make a small donation, if you can. Every dollar counts.”
The presenting partners of America’s Giving Challenge have designed this program to serve as an example of how social networking is transforming the way people participate in philanthropy, creating new ways for people to organize and take action on behalf of the causes they support. “As the use of social media continues to grow rapidly, it is our hope that this year’s Giving Challenge will encourage individuals and nonprofits to experiment with these tools to motivate their friends and colleagues to make a significant impact on the causes they care about,” says the Case Foundation CEO Jean Case. “At a time when many nonprofits are struggling to raise funds due to the economic climate, the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge enables individuals to take action and help their cause when they need it the most. We are pleased to co-present the Challenge and provide cash awards for the winning causes.”
“Individuals and organizations utilizing the Causes platform are driving a paradigm shift in the philanthropic world from top-down marketing campaigns to bottom-up activist communities,” said Causes Co-founder Joseph Green. “We are hosting the Giving Challenge because it provides an unprecedented opportunity to experiment and innovate with this new paradigm of socially-driven online grassroots organizing.”
“Many of our readers embraced this innovative effort to promote online giving last year,” PARADE President & Publisher Randy Siegel says. “We hope many more will take up the Challenge this year and see how new technologies can enable each of us to contribute to our favorite causes like never before.”
The Case Foundation is providing $150,000 in award money for the winners. The Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation has contributed $20,000 toward award money for America’s Giving Challenge in accordance with its efforts to promote and understand the ability of new technology to mobilize youth. This contribution has enabled the creation of a second tier of daily awards at the $500 level.
This is the second Giving Challenge presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Magazine. In 2008, the first Challenge inspired 71,000 donors to give more than $1.8 million to nearly 700 nonprofit organizations. Additionally, 11 of the winning nonprofit recipients had budgets of less than $1 million, demonstrating the significant impact that can be made for a cause during the Challenge – no matter how big or small a donation.
Results of the 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge are available here.
About the Presenting Partners:
THE CASE FOUNDATION
The Case Foundation, created by Steve and Jean Case in 1997, invests in people and ideas that can change the world. The Foundation champions initiatives that connect people, increase giving, and catalyze civic action. For more information, visit www.casefoundation.org.
CAUSES
Causes empowers anyone with a good idea or passion for change to impact the world. Using our platform, individuals mobilize their network of friends to grow lasting social and political movements. To date, over 85 million Facebook users have installed the application and created and joined more than 300,000 grassroots causes that benefit more than 60,000 nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit the Causes Application (www.causes.com) and Causes Exchange (www.exchange.causes.com).
PARADE
PARADE, the most widely read magazine in America, is distributed in more than 500 of the nation’s top newspapers. The magazine, which launched in 1941, now has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 73 million. Each Sunday in PARADE and every day at Parade.com, our mission is to entertain, inspire and inform Americans about the issues they care most about and move them to action. For more information, visit www.parade.com.
30-day national online competition presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE empowers individuals to use social media and leverage personal connections to promote and fundraise on behalf of nonprofits
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today at 3:00 p.m. EDT, the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Publications will kick off the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a 30-day, national online competition that enables people to leverage their online and offline personal networks to build communities (“causes”) that raise money and recruit support for a nonprofit. These causes will compete to win cash awards, funded by the Case Foundation, that will total $170,000. America’s Giving Challenge will be hosted by Causes through its application on Facebook. In addition, PARADE Publications will help launch the Challenge with a cover story about the importance of giving by actor Matt Damon.
From now until November 6 at 3:00 p.m. EST, participants will have the opportunity to compete for daily and overall awards – ranging from $500 to $50,000 – based on the number of donations to their cause using the Causes application on Facebook. Nonprofit organizations and individuals who wish to participate in the Challenge can get involved in one of two ways:
- Champion a cause – Individuals can become “cause champions,” individuals who are passionate about a specific cause and will compete to obtain the most donations for their cause through the Causes application on Facebook.
- Promote, donate or join a cause – all individuals are encouraged to take part in America’s Giving Challenge by joining, promoting and donating to the causes they care about. Facebook membership is not required to donate to a Giving Challenge cause.
Participants can register to compete in the Giving Challenge, view details and donate to a cause they care about at www.americasgivingchallenge.com.
PARADE will help launch the America’s Giving Challenge 2009 with a cover story on October 11 by Matt Damon. In addition to being a Hollywood superstar, Damon is also a passionate philanthropist. In his PARADE article, he encourages the magazine’s 73 million readers to “find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn’t know about before. Then tell somebody else. Or make a small donation, if you can. Every dollar counts.”
The presenting partners of America’s Giving Challenge have designed this program to serve as an example of how social networking is transforming the way people participate in philanthropy, creating new ways for people to organize and take action on behalf of the causes they support. “As the use of social media continues to grow rapidly, it is our hope that this year’s Giving Challenge will encourage individuals and nonprofits to experiment with these tools to motivate their friends and colleagues to make a significant impact on the causes they care about,” says the Case Foundation CEO Jean Case. “At a time when many nonprofits are struggling to raise funds due to the economic climate, the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge enables individuals to take action and help their cause when they need it the most. We are pleased to co-present the Challenge and provide cash awards for the winning causes.”
“Individuals and organizations utilizing the Causes platform are driving a paradigm shift in the philanthropic world from top-down marketing campaigns to bottom-up activist communities,” said Causes Co-founder Joseph Green. “We are hosting the Giving Challenge because it provides an unprecedented opportunity to experiment and innovate with this new paradigm of socially-driven online grassroots organizing.”
“Many of our readers embraced this innovative effort to promote online giving last year,” PARADE President & Publisher Randy Siegel says. “We hope many more will take up the Challenge this year and see how new technologies can enable each of us to contribute to our favorite causes like never before.”
The Case Foundation is providing $150,000 in award money for the winners. The Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation has contributed $20,000 toward award money for America’s Giving Challenge in accordance with its efforts to promote and understand the ability of new technology to mobilize youth. This contribution has enabled the creation of a second tier of daily awards at the $500 level.
This is the second Giving Challenge presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Magazine. In 2008, the first Challenge inspired 71,000 donors to give more than $1.8 million to nearly 700 nonprofit organizations. Additionally, 11 of the winning nonprofit recipients had budgets of less than $1 million, demonstrating the significant impact that can be made for a cause during the Challenge – no matter how big or small a donation.
Results of the 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge are available here.
About the Presenting Partners:
THE CASE FOUNDATION The Case Foundation, created by Steve and Jean Case in 1997, invests in people and ideas that can change the world. The Foundation champions initiatives that connect people, increase giving, and catalyze civic action. For more information, visit www.casefoundation.org.
CAUSES Causes empowers anyone with a good idea or passion for change to impact the world. Using our platform, individuals mobilize their network of friends to grow lasting social and political movements. To date, over 85 million Facebook users have installed the application and created and joined more than 300,000 grassroots causes that benefit more than 60,000 nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit the Causes Application (www.causes.com) and Causes Exchange (www.exchange.causes.com).
PARADE PARADE, the most widely read magazine in America, is distributed in more than 500 of the nation’s top newspapers. The magazine, which launched in 1941, now has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 73 million. Each Sunday in PARADE and every day at Parade.com, our mission is to entertain, inspire and inform Americans about the issues they care most about and move them to action. For more information, visit www.parade.com.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today at 3:00 p.m. EDT, the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Publications will kick off the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a 30-day, national online competition that enables people to leverage their online and offline personal networks to build communities (“causes”) that raise money and recruit support for a nonprofit. These causes will compete to win cash awards, funded by the Case Foundation, that will total $170,000. America’s Giving Challenge will be hosted by Causes through its application on Facebook. In addition, PARADE Publications will help launch the Challenge with a cover story about the importance of giving by actor Matt Damon.
From now until November 6 at 3:00 p.m. EST, participants will have the opportunity to compete for daily and overall awards – ranging from $500 to $50,000 – based on the number of donations to their cause using the Causes application on Facebook. Nonprofit organizations and individuals who wish to participate in the Challenge can get involved in one of two ways:
- Champion a cause – Individuals can become “cause champions,” individuals who are passionate about a specific cause and will compete to obtain the most donations for their cause through the Causes application on Facebook.
- Promote, donate or join a cause – all individuals are encouraged to take part in America’s Giving Challenge by joining, promoting and donating to the causes they care about. Facebook membership is not required to donate to a Giving Challenge cause.
Participants can register to compete in the Giving Challenge, view details and donate to a cause they care about at www.americasgivingchallenge.com.
PARADE will help launch the America’s Giving Challenge 2009 with a cover story on October 11 by Matt Damon. In addition to being a Hollywood superstar, Damon is also a passionate philanthropist. In his PARADE article, he encourages the magazine’s 73 million readers to “find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn’t know about before. Then tell somebody else. Or make a small donation, if you can. Every dollar counts.”
The presenting partners of America’s Giving Challenge have designed this program to serve as an example of how social networking is transforming the way people participate in philanthropy, creating new ways for people to organize and take action on behalf of the causes they support. “As the use of social media continues to grow rapidly, it is our hope that this year’s Giving Challenge will encourage individuals and nonprofits to experiment with these tools to motivate their friends and colleagues to make a significant impact on the causes they care about,” says the Case Foundation CEO Jean Case. “At a time when many nonprofits are struggling to raise funds due to the economic climate, the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge enables individuals to take action and help their cause when they need it the most. We are pleased to co-present the Challenge and provide cash awards for the winning causes.”
“Individuals and organizations utilizing the Causes platform are driving a paradigm shift in the philanthropic world from top-down marketing campaigns to bottom-up activist communities,” said Causes Co-founder Joseph Green. “We are hosting the Giving Challenge because it provides an unprecedented opportunity to experiment and innovate with this new paradigm of socially-driven online grassroots organizing.”
“Many of our readers embraced this innovative effort to promote online giving last year,” PARADE President & Publisher Randy Siegel says. “We hope many more will take up the Challenge this year and see how new technologies can enable each of us to contribute to our favorite causes like never before.”
The Case Foundation is providing $150,000 in award money for the winners. The Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation has contributed $20,000 toward award money for America’s Giving Challenge in accordance with its efforts to promote and understand the ability of new technology to mobilize youth. This contribution has enabled the creation of a second tier of daily awards at the $500 level.
This is the second Giving Challenge presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Magazine. In 2008, the first Challenge inspired 71,000 donors to give more than $1.8 million to nearly 700 nonprofit organizations. Additionally, 11 of the winning nonprofit recipients had budgets of less than $1 million, demonstrating the significant impact that can be made for a cause during the Challenge – no matter how big or small a donation.
Results of the 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge are available here.
About the Presenting Partners:
THE CASE FOUNDATION
The Case Foundation, created by Steve and Jean Case in 1997, invests in people and ideas that can change the world. The Foundation champions initiatives that connect people, increase giving, and catalyze civic action. For more information, visit www.casefoundation.org.
CAUSES
Causes empowers anyone with a good idea or passion for change to impact the world. Using our platform, individuals mobilize their network of friends to grow lasting social and political movements. To date, over 85 million Facebook users have installed the application and created and joined more than 300,000 grassroots causes that benefit more than 60,000 nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit the Causes Application (www.causes.com) and Causes Exchange (www.exchange.causes.com).
PARADE
PARADE, the most widely read magazine in America, is distributed in more than 500 of the nation’s top newspapers. The magazine, which launched in 1941, now has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 73 million. Each Sunday in PARADE and every day at Parade.com, our mission is to entertain, inspire and inform Americans about the issues they care most about and move them to action. For more information, visit www.parade.com.
30-day national online competition presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE empowers individuals to use social media and leverage personal connections to promote and fundraise on behalf of nonprofits
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today at 3:00 p.m. EDT, the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Publications will kick off the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a 30-day, national online competition that enables people to leverage their online and offline personal networks to build communities (“causes”) that raise money and recruit support for a nonprofit. These causes will compete to win cash awards, funded by the Case Foundation, that will total $170,000. America’s Giving Challenge will be hosted by Causes through its application on Facebook. In addition, PARADE Publications will help launch the Challenge with a cover story about the importance of giving by actor Matt Damon.
From now until November 6 at 3:00 p.m. EST, participants will have the opportunity to compete for daily and overall awards – ranging from $500 to $50,000 – based on the number of donations to their cause using the Causes application on Facebook. Nonprofit organizations and individuals who wish to participate in the Challenge can get involved in one of two ways:
- Champion a cause – Individuals can become “cause champions,” individuals who are passionate about a specific cause and will compete to obtain the most donations for their cause through the Causes application on Facebook.
- Promote, donate or join a cause – all individuals are encouraged to take part in America’s Giving Challenge by joining, promoting and donating to the causes they care about. Facebook membership is not required to donate to a Giving Challenge cause.
Participants can register to compete in the Giving Challenge, view details and donate to a cause they care about at www.americasgivingchallenge.com.
PARADE will help launch the America’s Giving Challenge 2009 with a cover story on October 11 by Matt Damon. In addition to being a Hollywood superstar, Damon is also a passionate philanthropist. In his PARADE article, he encourages the magazine’s 73 million readers to “find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn’t know about before. Then tell somebody else. Or make a small donation, if you can. Every dollar counts.”
The presenting partners of America’s Giving Challenge have designed this program to serve as an example of how social networking is transforming the way people participate in philanthropy, creating new ways for people to organize and take action on behalf of the causes they support. “As the use of social media continues to grow rapidly, it is our hope that this year’s Giving Challenge will encourage individuals and nonprofits to experiment with these tools to motivate their friends and colleagues to make a significant impact on the causes they care about,” says the Case Foundation CEO Jean Case. “At a time when many nonprofits are struggling to raise funds due to the economic climate, the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge enables individuals to take action and help their cause when they need it the most. We are pleased to co-present the Challenge and provide cash awards for the winning causes.”
“Individuals and organizations utilizing the Causes platform are driving a paradigm shift in the philanthropic world from top-down marketing campaigns to bottom-up activist communities,” said Causes Co-founder Joseph Green. “We are hosting the Giving Challenge because it provides an unprecedented opportunity to experiment and innovate with this new paradigm of socially-driven online grassroots organizing.”
“Many of our readers embraced this innovative effort to promote online giving last year,” PARADE President & Publisher Randy Siegel says. “We hope many more will take up the Challenge this year and see how new technologies can enable each of us to contribute to our favorite causes like never before.”
The Case Foundation is providing $150,000 in award money for the winners. The Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation has contributed $20,000 toward award money for America’s Giving Challenge in accordance with its efforts to promote and understand the ability of new technology to mobilize youth. This contribution has enabled the creation of a second tier of daily awards at the $500 level.
This is the second Giving Challenge presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Magazine. In 2008, the first Challenge inspired 71,000 donors to give more than $1.8 million to nearly 700 nonprofit organizations. Additionally, 11 of the winning nonprofit recipients had budgets of less than $1 million, demonstrating the significant impact that can be made for a cause during the Challenge – no matter how big or small a donation.
Results of the 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge are available here.
About the Presenting Partners:
THE CASE FOUNDATION The Case Foundation, created by Steve and Jean Case in 1997, invests in people and ideas that can change the world. The Foundation champions initiatives that connect people, increase giving, and catalyze civic action. For more information, visit www.casefoundation.org.
CAUSES Causes empowers anyone with a good idea or passion for change to impact the world. Using our platform, individuals mobilize their network of friends to grow lasting social and political movements. To date, over 85 million Facebook users have installed the application and created and joined more than 300,000 grassroots causes that benefit more than 60,000 nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit the Causes Application (www.causes.com) and Causes Exchange (www.exchange.causes.com).
PARADE PARADE, the most widely read magazine in America, is distributed in more than 500 of the nation’s top newspapers. The magazine, which launched in 1941, now has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 73 million. Each Sunday in PARADE and every day at Parade.com, our mission is to entertain, inspire and inform Americans about the issues they care most about and move them to action. For more information, visit www.parade.com.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today at 3:00 p.m. EDT, the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Publications will kick off the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a 30-day, national online competition that enables people to leverage their online and offline personal networks to build communities (“causes”) that raise money and recruit support for a nonprofit. These causes will compete to win cash awards, funded by the Case Foundation, that will total $170,000. America’s Giving Challenge will be hosted by Causes through its application on Facebook. In addition, PARADE Publications will help launch the Challenge with a cover story about the importance of giving by actor Matt Damon.
From now until November 6 at 3:00 p.m. EST, participants will have the opportunity to compete for daily and overall awards – ranging from $500 to $50,000 – based on the number of donations to their cause using the Causes application on Facebook. Nonprofit organizations and individuals who wish to participate in the Challenge can get involved in one of two ways:
- Champion a cause – Individuals can become “cause champions,” individuals who are passionate about a specific cause and will compete to obtain the most donations for their cause through the Causes application on Facebook.
- Promote, donate or join a cause – all individuals are encouraged to take part in America’s Giving Challenge by joining, promoting and donating to the causes they care about. Facebook membership is not required to donate to a Giving Challenge cause.
Participants can register to compete in the Giving Challenge, view details and donate to a cause they care about at www.americasgivingchallenge.com.
PARADE will help launch the America’s Giving Challenge 2009 with a cover story on October 11 by Matt Damon. In addition to being a Hollywood superstar, Damon is also a passionate philanthropist. In his PARADE article, he encourages the magazine’s 73 million readers to “find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn’t know about before. Then tell somebody else. Or make a small donation, if you can. Every dollar counts.”
The presenting partners of America’s Giving Challenge have designed this program to serve as an example of how social networking is transforming the way people participate in philanthropy, creating new ways for people to organize and take action on behalf of the causes they support. “As the use of social media continues to grow rapidly, it is our hope that this year’s Giving Challenge will encourage individuals and nonprofits to experiment with these tools to motivate their friends and colleagues to make a significant impact on the causes they care about,” says the Case Foundation CEO Jean Case. “At a time when many nonprofits are struggling to raise funds due to the economic climate, the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge enables individuals to take action and help their cause when they need it the most. We are pleased to co-present the Challenge and provide cash awards for the winning causes.”
“Individuals and organizations utilizing the Causes platform are driving a paradigm shift in the philanthropic world from top-down marketing campaigns to bottom-up activist communities,” said Causes Co-founder Joseph Green. “We are hosting the Giving Challenge because it provides an unprecedented opportunity to experiment and innovate with this new paradigm of socially-driven online grassroots organizing.”
“Many of our readers embraced this innovative effort to promote online giving last year,” PARADE President & Publisher Randy Siegel says. “We hope many more will take up the Challenge this year and see how new technologies can enable each of us to contribute to our favorite causes like never before.”
The Case Foundation is providing $150,000 in award money for the winners. The Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation has contributed $20,000 toward award money for America’s Giving Challenge in accordance with its efforts to promote and understand the ability of new technology to mobilize youth. This contribution has enabled the creation of a second tier of daily awards at the $500 level.
This is the second Giving Challenge presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Magazine. In 2008, the first Challenge inspired 71,000 donors to give more than $1.8 million to nearly 700 nonprofit organizations. Additionally, 11 of the winning nonprofit recipients had budgets of less than $1 million, demonstrating the significant impact that can be made for a cause during the Challenge – no matter how big or small a donation.
Results of the 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge are available here.
About the Presenting Partners:
THE CASE FOUNDATION The Case Foundation, created by Steve and Jean Case in 1997, invests in people and ideas that can change the world. The Foundation champions initiatives that connect people, increase giving, and catalyze civic action. For more information, visit www.casefoundation.org.
CAUSES Causes empowers anyone with a good idea or passion for change to impact the world. Using our platform, individuals mobilize their network of friends to grow lasting social and political movements. To date, over 85 million Facebook users have installed the application and created and joined more than 300,000 grassroots causes that benefit more than 60,000 nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit the Causes Application (www.causes.com) and Causes Exchange (www.exchange.causes.com).
PARADE PARADE, the most widely read magazine in America, is distributed in more than 500 of the nation’s top newspapers. The magazine, which launched in 1941, now has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 73 million. Each Sunday in PARADE and every day at Parade.com, our mission is to entertain, inspire and inform Americans about the issues they care most about and move them to action. For more information, visit www.parade.com.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today at 3:00 p.m. EDT, the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Publications will kick off the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a 30-day, national online competition that enables people to leverage their online and offline personal networks to build communities (“causes”) that raise money and recruit support for a nonprofit. These causes will compete to win cash awards, funded by the Case Foundation, that will total $170,000. America’s Giving Challenge will be hosted by Causes through its application on Facebook. In addition, PARADE Publications will help launch the Challenge with a cover story about the importance of giving by actor Matt Damon.
From now until November 6 at 3:00 p.m. EST, participants will have the opportunity to compete for daily and overall awards – ranging from $500 to $50,000 – based on the number of donations to their cause using the Causes application on Facebook. Nonprofit organizations and individuals who wish to participate in the Challenge can get involved in one of two ways:
- Champion a cause – Individuals can become “cause champions,” individuals who are passionate about a specific cause and will compete to obtain the most donations for their cause through the Causes application on Facebook.
- Promote, donate or join a cause – all individuals are encouraged to take part in America’s Giving Challenge by joining, promoting and donating to the causes they care about. Facebook membership is not required to donate to a Giving Challenge cause.
Participants can register to compete in the Giving Challenge, view details and donate to a cause they care about at www.americasgivingchallenge.com.
PARADE will help launch the America’s Giving Challenge 2009 with a cover story on October 11 by Matt Damon. In addition to being a Hollywood superstar, Damon is also a passionate philanthropist. In his PARADE article, he encourages the magazine’s 73 million readers to “find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn’t know about before. Then tell somebody else. Or make a small donation, if you can. Every dollar counts.”
The presenting partners of America’s Giving Challenge have designed this program to serve as an example of how social networking is transforming the way people participate in philanthropy, creating new ways for people to organize and take action on behalf of the causes they support. “As the use of social media continues to grow rapidly, it is our hope that this year’s Giving Challenge will encourage individuals and nonprofits to experiment with these tools to motivate their friends and colleagues to make a significant impact on the causes they care about,” says the Case Foundation CEO Jean Case. “At a time when many nonprofits are struggling to raise funds due to the economic climate, the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge enables individuals to take action and help their cause when they need it the most. We are pleased to co-present the Challenge and provide cash awards for the winning causes.”
“Individuals and organizations utilizing the Causes platform are driving a paradigm shift in the philanthropic world from top-down marketing campaigns to bottom-up activist communities,” said Causes Co-founder Joseph Green. “We are hosting the Giving Challenge because it provides an unprecedented opportunity to experiment and innovate with this new paradigm of socially-driven online grassroots organizing.”
“Many of our readers embraced this innovative effort to promote online giving last year,” PARADE President & Publisher Randy Siegel says. “We hope many more will take up the Challenge this year and see how new technologies can enable each of us to contribute to our favorite causes like never before.”
The Case Foundation is providing $150,000 in award money for the winners. The Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation has contributed $20,000 toward award money for America’s Giving Challenge in accordance with its efforts to promote and understand the ability of new technology to mobilize youth. This contribution has enabled the creation of a second tier of daily awards at the $500 level.
This is the second Giving Challenge presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Magazine. In 2008, the first Challenge inspired 71,000 donors to give more than $1.8 million to nearly 700 nonprofit organizations. Additionally, 11 of the winning nonprofit recipients had budgets of less than $1 million, demonstrating the significant impact that can be made for a cause during the Challenge – no matter how big or small a donation.
Results of the 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge are available here.
About the Presenting Partners:
THE CASE FOUNDATION
The Case Foundation, created by Steve and Jean Case in 1997, invests in people and ideas that can change the world. The Foundation champions initiatives that connect people, increase giving, and catalyze civic action. For more information, visit www.casefoundation.org.
CAUSES
Causes empowers anyone with a good idea or passion for change to impact the world. Using our platform, individuals mobilize their network of friends to grow lasting social and political movements. To date, over 85 million Facebook users have installed the application and created and joined more than 300,000 grassroots causes that benefit more than 60,000 nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit the Causes Application (www.causes.com) and Causes Exchange (www.exchange.causes.com).
PARADE
PARADE, the most widely read magazine in America, is distributed in more than 500 of the nation’s top newspapers. The magazine, which launched in 1941, now has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 73 million. Each Sunday in PARADE and every day at Parade.com, our mission is to entertain, inspire and inform Americans about the issues they care most about and move them to action. For more information, visit www.parade.com.
30-day national online competition presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE empowers individuals to use social media and leverage personal connections to promote and fundraise on behalf of nonprofits
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today at 3:00 p.m. EDT, the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Publications will kick off the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a 30-day, national online competition that enables people to leverage their online and offline personal networks to build communities (“causes”) that raise money and recruit support for a nonprofit. These causes will compete to win cash awards, funded by the Case Foundation, that will total $170,000. America’s Giving Challenge will be hosted by Causes through its application on Facebook. In addition, PARADE Publications will help launch the Challenge with a cover story about the importance of giving by actor Matt Damon.
From now until November 6 at 3:00 p.m. EST, participants will have the opportunity to compete for daily and overall awards – ranging from $500 to $50,000 – based on the number of donations to their cause using the Causes application on Facebook. Nonprofit organizations and individuals who wish to participate in the Challenge can get involved in one of two ways:
- Champion a cause – Individuals can become “cause champions,” individuals who are passionate about a specific cause and will compete to obtain the most donations for their cause through the Causes application on Facebook.
- Promote, donate or join a cause – all individuals are encouraged to take part in America’s Giving Challenge by joining, promoting and donating to the causes they care about. Facebook membership is not required to donate to a Giving Challenge cause.
Participants can register to compete in the Giving Challenge, view details and donate to a cause they care about at www.americasgivingchallenge.com.
PARADE will help launch the America’s Giving Challenge 2009 with a cover story on October 11 by Matt Damon. In addition to being a Hollywood superstar, Damon is also a passionate philanthropist. In his PARADE article, he encourages the magazine’s 73 million readers to “find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn’t know about before. Then tell somebody else. Or make a small donation, if you can. Every dollar counts.”
The presenting partners of America’s Giving Challenge have designed this program to serve as an example of how social networking is transforming the way people participate in philanthropy, creating new ways for people to organize and take action on behalf of the causes they support. “As the use of social media continues to grow rapidly, it is our hope that this year’s Giving Challenge will encourage individuals and nonprofits to experiment with these tools to motivate their friends and colleagues to make a significant impact on the causes they care about,” says the Case Foundation CEO Jean Case. “At a time when many nonprofits are struggling to raise funds due to the economic climate, the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge enables individuals to take action and help their cause when they need it the most. We are pleased to co-present the Challenge and provide cash awards for the winning causes.”
“Individuals and organizations utilizing the Causes platform are driving a paradigm shift in the philanthropic world from top-down marketing campaigns to bottom-up activist communities,” said Causes Co-founder Joseph Green. “We are hosting the Giving Challenge because it provides an unprecedented opportunity to experiment and innovate with this new paradigm of socially-driven online grassroots organizing.”
“Many of our readers embraced this innovative effort to promote online giving last year,” PARADE President & Publisher Randy Siegel says. “We hope many more will take up the Challenge this year and see how new technologies can enable each of us to contribute to our favorite causes like never before.”
The Case Foundation is providing $150,000 in award money for the winners. The Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation has contributed $20,000 toward award money for America’s Giving Challenge in accordance with its efforts to promote and understand the ability of new technology to mobilize youth. This contribution has enabled the creation of a second tier of daily awards at the $500 level.
This is the second Giving Challenge presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Magazine. In 2008, the first Challenge inspired 71,000 donors to give more than $1.8 million to nearly 700 nonprofit organizations. Additionally, 11 of the winning nonprofit recipients had budgets of less than $1 million, demonstrating the significant impact that can be made for a cause during the Challenge – no matter how big or small a donation.
Results of the 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge are available here.
About the Presenting Partners:
THE CASE FOUNDATION The Case Foundation, created by Steve and Jean Case in 1997, invests in people and ideas that can change the world. The Foundation champions initiatives that connect people, increase giving, and catalyze civic action. For more information, visit www.casefoundation.org.
CAUSES Causes empowers anyone with a good idea or passion for change to impact the world. Using our platform, individuals mobilize their network of friends to grow lasting social and political movements. To date, over 85 million Facebook users have installed the application and created and joined more than 300,000 grassroots causes that benefit more than 60,000 nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit the Causes Application (www.causes.com) and Causes Exchange (www.exchange.causes.com).
PARADE PARADE, the most widely read magazine in America, is distributed in more than 500 of the nation’s top newspapers. The magazine, which launched in 1941, now has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 73 million. Each Sunday in PARADE and every day at Parade.com, our mission is to entertain, inspire and inform Americans about the issues they care most about and move them to action. For more information, visit www.parade.com.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today at 3:00 p.m. EDT, the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Publications will kick off the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a 30-day, national online competition that enables people to leverage their online and offline personal networks to build communities (“causes”) that raise money and recruit support for a nonprofit. These causes will compete to win cash awards, funded by the Case Foundation, that will total $170,000. America’s Giving Challenge will be hosted by Causes through its application on Facebook. In addition, PARADE Publications will help launch the Challenge with a cover story about the importance of giving by actor Matt Damon.
From now until November 6 at 3:00 p.m. EST, participants will have the opportunity to compete for daily and overall awards – ranging from $500 to $50,000 – based on the number of donations to their cause using the Causes application on Facebook. Nonprofit organizations and individuals who wish to participate in the Challenge can get involved in one of two ways:
- Champion a cause – Individuals can become “cause champions,” individuals who are passionate about a specific cause and will compete to obtain the most donations for their cause through the Causes application on Facebook.
- Promote, donate or join a cause – all individuals are encouraged to take part in America’s Giving Challenge by joining, promoting and donating to the causes they care about. Facebook membership is not required to donate to a Giving Challenge cause.
Participants can register to compete in the Giving Challenge, view details and donate to a cause they care about at www.americasgivingchallenge.com.
PARADE will help launch the America’s Giving Challenge 2009 with a cover story on October 11 by Matt Damon. In addition to being a Hollywood superstar, Damon is also a passionate philanthropist. In his PARADE article, he encourages the magazine’s 73 million readers to “find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn’t know about before. Then tell somebody else. Or make a small donation, if you can. Every dollar counts.”
The presenting partners of America’s Giving Challenge have designed this program to serve as an example of how social networking is transforming the way people participate in philanthropy, creating new ways for people to organize and take action on behalf of the causes they support. “As the use of social media continues to grow rapidly, it is our hope that this year’s Giving Challenge will encourage individuals and nonprofits to experiment with these tools to motivate their friends and colleagues to make a significant impact on the causes they care about,” says the Case Foundation CEO Jean Case. “At a time when many nonprofits are struggling to raise funds due to the economic climate, the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge enables individuals to take action and help their cause when they need it the most. We are pleased to co-present the Challenge and provide cash awards for the winning causes.”
“Individuals and organizations utilizing the Causes platform are driving a paradigm shift in the philanthropic world from top-down marketing campaigns to bottom-up activist communities,” said Causes Co-founder Joseph Green. “We are hosting the Giving Challenge because it provides an unprecedented opportunity to experiment and innovate with this new paradigm of socially-driven online grassroots organizing.”
“Many of our readers embraced this innovative effort to promote online giving last year,” PARADE President & Publisher Randy Siegel says. “We hope many more will take up the Challenge this year and see how new technologies can enable each of us to contribute to our favorite causes like never before.”
The Case Foundation is providing $150,000 in award money for the winners. The Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation has contributed $20,000 toward award money for America’s Giving Challenge in accordance with its efforts to promote and understand the ability of new technology to mobilize youth. This contribution has enabled the creation of a second tier of daily awards at the $500 level.
This is the second Giving Challenge presented by the Case Foundation, Causes and PARADE Magazine. In 2008, the first Challenge inspired 71,000 donors to give more than $1.8 million to nearly 700 nonprofit organizations. Additionally, 11 of the winning nonprofit recipients had budgets of less than $1 million, demonstrating the significant impact that can be made for a cause during the Challenge – no matter how big or small a donation.
Results of the 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge are available here.
About the Presenting Partners:
THE CASE FOUNDATION The Case Foundation, created by Steve and Jean Case in 1997, invests in people and ideas that can change the world. The Foundation champions initiatives that connect people, increase giving, and catalyze civic action. For more information, visit www.casefoundation.org.
CAUSES Causes empowers anyone with a good idea or passion for change to impact the world. Using our platform, individuals mobilize their network of friends to grow lasting social and political movements. To date, over 85 million Facebook users have installed the application and created and joined more than 300,000 grassroots causes that benefit more than 60,000 nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit the Causes Application (www.causes.com) and Causes Exchange (www.exchange.causes.com).
PARADE PARADE, the most widely read magazine in America, is distributed in more than 500 of the nation’s top newspapers. The magazine, which launched in 1941, now has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 73 million. Each Sunday in PARADE and every day at Parade.com, our mission is to entertain, inspire and inform Americans about the issues they care most about and move them to action. For more information, visit www.parade.com.
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