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Students have been at the foundation of every major social movement in U.S. history, and the fight against extreme poverty and global disease is no different.
As a college student, you have the unique opportunity to strengthen our movement on your college or university campus when you join the ONE Campus Challenge (OCC). OCC is a friendly competition between colleges and universities across the country to determine which school has the most effective poverty-fighting campaign.
The second annual ONE Campus Challenge launched in September 2008, with the help of ONE supporter and Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. Through OCC, students have lobbied on Capitol Hill, established ONE Chapters on their campuses, held World AIDS Day events, and partnered with other nonprofits and charities to raise campus awareness about global poverty.
The website www.ONE.org/campus acts as OCC "headquarters" where students record their activities, learn about new challenges, check their scores, post pictures, and communicate with other schools via the OCC blog. The ONE Campus Challenge has reached 2,400 schools with more than 27,000 student participants.
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More than 2,400 schools and 27,000 students
are involved in the 2008-9 ONE Campus Challenge.
OCC students compete through actions
including special events, petitions and letter-writing campaigns, and educational initiatives to raise awareness, on their campuses, about the fight against global poverty and preventable diseases.
The OCC prizes
include packs of ONE gear and Flip cameras for weekly challenge winners, a summit in Washington, D.C. for the top 100 student leaders, $1,000 grants for the top 10 schools to create anti-poverty programs on their campuses, an amazing on-campus concert for the winning school, and a trip to Africa for 5 of the top student advocates.