It’s time to kick off a new year of the ONE Campus Challenge, and we’re calling all students, alumni and college fans to sign up under your favorite school’s banner on our OCC website.

I’m Maisie Pigeon, ONE’s Student Coordinator, and I’ll be managing this year’s OCC—a good-natured competition between universities to see which school will be the national champion at tackling extreme poverty.

Our quarterback is three-time Super Bowl winner and two-time Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. An active ONE supporter since 2005, Tom visited health clinics, schools and other life-saving projects in Ghana and Uganda in 2007 with ONE. Hear what he has to say about OCC at:

Last year, more than 1,400 colleges and universities competed through seven months of rigorous activism, awareness-raising and action-taking. OCC students signed up over 33,000 ONE members, took 182,000 actions, and convinced campuses, cities and even states to declare their support for ONE. And they engaged candidates including Barack Obama and John McCain on the campaign trail, getting them to pay attention to and talk about global poverty and disease.

In January, the 100 top schools sent representatives to the Power 100 Summit, an exciting three-day conference in Washington, D.C. They heard from leaders of the global anti-poverty movement and influential members of the Democratic and Republican parties, and joined forces through workshops and forums to become smarter, stronger advocates.

This year’s ONE Campus Challenge is going to be even better, but we need you to help your school get started. Sign up here.

Game on!

-Maisie Pigeon and the OCC Team

New England Patriots’ star Tom Brady sports a ONE shirt again for reporters. (Coverage today in my hometown New Hamshire paper The Foster’s Daily Democrat.)

ONE member Tom Brady wore his ONE shirt to a press conference at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA, today.

First question: “What’s your shirt mean?”

Watch the clip here.