Get Those Books in by Midnight Friday!

November 19th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

You’ve got just one more day to enter your books for consideration in the November book drive challenge before we cut things off at midnight PST on Friday night.

We have to allow the Liberian Literacy Foundation enough time to pick up your books and count them to verify your totals, so they’ll do that between November 20 and 30. If all goes well, we’ll be able to announce the winner on December 1 — just a couple of days before we announce the top 100 schools we’ll be inviting to send representatives to our Power 100 Summit in January.

Just a reminder, the prizes for winning the November challenge are:

1. 50,000 OCC points
2. Copies of Half the Sky, signed by author Sheryl WuDunn, for your team
3. New, customizable OCC T-shirts for your team, with your choice of color print
4. A ONE press release about your big win sent to your local and campus publications
5. A visit to your campus by Liberian Literacy Foundation Executive Director E. Victor Helb, Jr., and a conference call with Dr. Joseph Korto, the Liberian Minister of Education in December.

We’ll also have runner-up prizes of 25,000 and 12,500 points for the second- and third-place schools.

All of us here at ONE are floored by the incredible totals coming in from the book drive so far. We have more than 8,000 books registered now, and the promise of several thousand more before the deadline.

I’ll be honest with you, Maisie and I would have been happy if we’d gotten 500 books total. You all have surpassed our wildest expectations, and our friends at the Liberian Literacy Foundation are literally moved to tears by your efforts for this great cause.

No matter who wins this challenge, everyone who donates a single book should be very proud of the difference you’re making in Liberia.