The ONE Campus Challenge (OCC) is pleased to present the final projects from the Top 10 global poverty-fighting colleges and universities in the nation. These students have logged countless hours on their projects, and now it’s your turn to be the judge.
Vote for your favorite project here before midnight PST on Sunday, April 5.
ONE gave each school $1,000 and three weeks to develop an on-campus awareness-raising and advocacy initiative aimed at fighting global poverty and preventable diseases. We asked them to apply all the skills they’ve gained all year in event planning, grassroots coordination, media and multi-media communications, lobbying, and educating the public about ONE issues. These students — some of the top poverty-fighters in the country — have submitted exceptional projects showcasing the creativity, passion and motivation of the next generation of advocates and change-makers.
But there can only be ONE winning school, and we need you to help us decide. Check out the projects and vote for your favorite here.
Your votes will count for 40% of the total scores, with our judging panel’s evaluations making up the other 60%. You can only vote once per email address. It takes our system about five minutes to tabulate the votes, so don’t worry if yours doesn’t appear on the results page right away.
What should you be looking for when casting your vote? Think about:
- Scope: was the project ambitious enough? Too ambitious? Were there a variety of activities but not so many that the message was diluted?
- Relevance: did the project conform to ONE’s mission and relate to extreme global poverty, infectious diseases and related issues?
- Level of Engagement: how deep did this project delve into ONE’s issues?
- Impact: how did the community respond to the actions? How many people were reached? Was there an advocacy effort, and was it successful?
- Creativity: did the chapter use creative methods and step “outside the box” to reach out to new members and raise awareness about ONE?
Besides the prestige of being the Number ONE school in the nation, the winning school gets a free campus concert by the hot new rock band, Vampire Weekend.
Consider all the projects and vote for your favorite here.
-Emily Stivers
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April 2, 2009 at 11:45 am
Vote for the smallest school! Vote Wofford College!