October 30th, 2009 at 11:47 am
In the last couple of weeks, we’ve had 36 different students step up to become Campus Leaders. A warm welcome from ONE to:
- Terica Lee, Philander Smith College (Arkansas)
- Jeremy Fimat, Florida Institute of Technology
- Teddy Warria, South Plains College (Texas)
- Angelica Hoyos, Valencia Community College (Florida)
- Seth Staggs, University of Central Arkansas
- Ama Acheampong, University of Houston (Texas)
- Sabrina Rocco, St. Petersburg College (Florida)
- Thomas Ritter, University of North Florida
- David Harman, University of Scranton (Florida)
- Nicole Miller, Temple University (Pennsylvania)
- Angela Miskis, Raritan Valley Community College (New Jersey)
- Kate Alexander, Portland State University (Oregon)
- Drea Rewal, College of the Canyons (California)
- Quinn Lockwood, Brandeis University (Massachusetts)
- Kristen Mulvaney, Suffolk University (Massachusetts)
- Jessica Race, Holyoke Community College (Massachusetts)
- Kristen Ferguson, Boston College (Massachusetts)
- Emory Widener, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (North Carolina)
- John Seboria, Art Institute of Washington (Virginia)
- Daniel Skiles, Maharishi University of Management (Iowa)
- Yassin Omar, Hamline University (Minnesota)
- Danille Brown, Simpson College (Iowa)
- Tyler Schuster, St. Louis University (Missouri)
- John Orebiyi, Chicago State University (Illinois)
- Christa Hoen, University of Detroit-Mercy (Michigan)
- Deepak Nagendra, Grand Valley State University (Michigan)
- Jeremy Height, Olivet Nazarene University (Illinois)
- David Wang, University of Chicago (Illinois)
- Ashley Cress, University of Wisconsin – River Falls
- Melissa Rose, Wayne State University (Michigan)
- Katie Jipson, University of Dayton (Ohio)
- Kelly Hutzel, South Mountain Community College (Arizona)
- Cam Davis, Utah State
- Wes Jensen, Westminster College (Pennsylvania)
- Stephanie Drymon, Oklahoma State
- Kim Goodwin, Kansas University
Want to step up and lead on your campus? Visit our How To: Become a Leader page.
And if you’re one of our new leaders just getting started, visit the How To: Get Started page. And let us know if you have any questions — we’re here to help!
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October 30th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Philander Smith College (in Arkansas) is now just ONE RECRUIT behind the University of Central Florida, vying for that 10,000-point second-place finish in our monthly challenge.
But will Clark, Kennesaw or UofM come up from behind and pull ahead?
Could some other school be sitting on a truckload of new sign ups, just waiting until the last minute to enter them in and win it all?
And can anyone topple Missouri State’s incredible 780 recruits for first place, 20,000 points and other prizes?
You have until midnight (PST) on Saturday…rest assured, I’m going to be glued to the leaderboard in the meantime (and we’ll also be validating your recruits as they come in, so don’t even THINK about cheating).
Here’s the race so far:
- Missouri State – 780 recruits
- University of Central Florida – 547
- Philander Smith College – 546
- Clark University – 373
- Kennesaw State – 315
- University of Michigan – 303
- Bentley University – 301
- Maharishi University of Management – 300
- University of Colorado, Boulder – 261
- Boston University – 231
Of course, only the top 3 winners are going to get prizes, so get your recruiting done this weekend and your names entered before midnight on Halloween if you want to have a shot.
Good luck!!!
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October 29th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Portland State University may be first-timers to the ONE Campus Challenge but they sure do know what they’re doing. We first knew Portland State would be a force in the Challenge this year when we received their submission for their Stand Up event in mid-October.
ONE-PSU tabled for each of the eight Millennium Development Goals with help from partner groups on-campus and in their community like the Portland Global AIDS Coalition and the Center for Women’s Policy and they provided contact information for Members of Congress on each of the tables. PSU also hosted former Congressman Elizabeth Furse, who spoke to students about how to advocate effectively.
Local and African performers provided entertainment throughout the day and PSU worked with the Portland Farmer’s Market to convince individual farmers to donate homegrown/made food for the event, thus emphasizing the critical link between local and global food security. To top the whole thing off, ONE at PSU also raised $350 to donate to Mercy Corp.
Portland State is currently sitting pretty at #21 overall in our rankings and #4 this week with over 30,000 points worth of actions taken already. The OCC Team is excited to see what the Vikings do with the rest of the year.
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October 29th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
The OCC website is designed to remember who you are, so it can send you to the right My Campus page and display your info in a form so you don’t have to type in your name, email address etc. over and over.
When you try to sign up one person after another on the form at one.org/campus, it can cause some problems. The form is trying to remember the last person who signed up and customize the site for that person. If you enter another person right away, you might just be changing the first person’s email address in our system instead of signing up a new member!
We created tabling tools — more aptly called sign up tools — to prevent this problem. If you have a list of sign ups on paper or if you want to have people sign up one after another on your laptop, please use the tools below to make sure your names are going in properly!
OCC sign up tool
Upgrade Aid petition sign up tool (we’ll have a new petition for you soon, so stay tuned to the OCC Blog for a new petition sign up tool)
You should still use the one.org/campus link when you email your friends, or share OCC on your social networks. But if you want to enter a whole list of new sign ups or petition signatures all at one time, trust us, it’s in your interest to use the tabling/sign up tools.
If you have a question, you can post it as a comment on this entry.
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October 29th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
It’s been a big week for Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia. They’re making a killing on the leaderboard with almost 60,000 new points, and a ton more pending confirmation.
What’s their secret? A strong and committed Campus Leader, Audrey Ruark, and an awesomely supportive campus administration.
And a little help from campus press, worth 2,000 points per article.
Check out this article in News at KSU, it’s a great write-up of Audrey’s experience and leadership. An excerpt:
As KSU’s ONE Campus Challenge leader, Ruark initiated a series of campus projects that have catapulted her to the leadership ranks, earning her the privilege of attending ONE’s Power Summit in Washington, D.C. last February and a special training in August to become a ONE campus outreach ambassador — one of the youngest among 14 nationwide.
In the last year, Ruark has succeeded in having KSU President Daniel Papp declare KSU a ONE campus; spoken to 10 classes about global poverty and the ONE campaign; set up tables at campus events and passed out literature;; organized the sale of fair-trade and survivor-made goods, raising $1,300 for the Not for Sale Campaign against human trafficking; and coordinated with local ONE representatives to have Atlanta designated a “City of ONE.”
As if that weren’t enough to keep Audrey and her team busy, they also got a write-up in the Kennesaw State University Sentinel for their October 1 event in partnership with TOMS Shoes. Kennesaw raised $826 for the charity, which provides shoes to children in need.
“Our goal was to not only raise money for TOMS Shoes, but to make the walkers understand why shoes are so important,” Audrey explains in the article.
Keep it up, Kennesaw!
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October 29th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
You’ve still got the weekend to work on it, but you’re going to want to hit up classes and professors before the week is out to encourage your school’s art students to participate in ONE’s Next Top T-shirt contest.
We’re offering a lot of point opportunities for outreach to art students because this T-shirt contest isn’t just about cool clothes. This is about ONE’s brand and image, which are critical to getting people around the world interested in us and our issues.
As you may have realized in your own outreach activities on campus, it’s not enough to just talk about global poverty. You have to have a hook, something to get peoples’ attention and draw them in. Some schools use candy, some use a surprising fact, and many use ONE bands, banners and visual displays to make passersby take pause and ask, “so what’s this all about?”
The ONE T-shirt is one of the most critical visual displays we have. When you wear it, people notice it, and they ask about it. If it’s cool, others will want to wear it too, and the message snowballs. But people are really used to seeing the standard ONE logo on a shirt, and they’re not asking about it so much anymore.
We need your help to freshen things up, and make a new T-shirt that’s going to spark a fresh conversation about global poverty.
And you can earn mega-points in the process. Here’s how:
- Submit a design: 500 points each for up to 5 entries; you can submit more than 5, you just won’t get 500 points for submissions over 5. Submit them to the contest here, and report your action for OCC points here.
- Chalk the contest URL: 250 points for putting the www.one.org/tshirt URL up on the board in an art classroom. Whiteboard marker is cool, too.
- Post the contest flier: 400 points for putting up the T-shirt contest flier in an art building on campus.
- Announce the contest: 750 points for taking a few minutes at the start or end of an art class to tell the art students about the T-shirt contest.
- Art club meeting: For 1,000 points, attend a meeting of an art club on your campus to tell them about the T-shirt contest and pass out fliers.
- ONE an art prof: 1,500 points if you can get an art prof or instructor to promote the t-shirt contest and distribute contest handouts IN EVERY CLASS she/he teaches.
- Make the top 3: 30,000 points
- Win the contest: 50,000 points
For more info about the contest and to submit an entry, visit ONE’s contest page.
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October 29th, 2009 at 11:47 am
We asked you to watch the Gates Presentation “Living Proof: Why We Are Impatient Optimists” and tell us what you learned for 500 points. Here are some of the responses so far:
I learned that there are many positive success stories regarding U.S. aid in poverty stricken areas. However, there is still much more that needs to be done. I also learned that for every two people taught how to live with and manage HIV, 5 more people are infected.
- Kaitlyn Treacy, St. Petersburg College
I knew that MDG #5, to improve maternal health, was seeing the least progress, but I had no idea how dire it was or the death rates of newborn babies. The fact that 4 million children die each year from things like hypothermia and infections, which are the product of not being wrapped up in a blanket after birth or being washed too quickly, is terrifyingly sad. And don’t even get me started on Shayla’s story.
- Kate Alexander, Portland State University
While I knew that the United States only gave a little less than 1% of its annual GDP to foreign aid, I had no idea that such a small percentage of even that went to global health initiatives. 8 million dollars is nowhere near enough money to provide the types of care even America’s poorest expect. The fact that there are parts of the world that still have polio cases astounds me. Even though it is a small percentage I was under the impression that no one in today’s time had that disease. I knew that vaccines were scarce in certain poorer countries, but I had no idea such basic, not to mention somewhat old, vaccines are not provided.
- Sarah Hunter, Boston University
For every two individuals put on life saving retroviral medicine, five more people are infected. Bill and Melinda Gates throughout the webcast stress how successful the program has been in providing aid to these impoverished communities, but they do an amazing job of showing how much more work there is still to be done…after watching this webcast I feel like I have a much better idea of what is being done to eradicate extreme poverty and what I can do to ensure that these great programs continue to exist and succeed.
- Sarah Atwill, Arizona State-Tempe
I learned that many people are alive because of U.S. efforts. They are the “living proof” of U.S. aid. Last year under 9 million children were dieing. 50 years ago, almost 20 million died. Bill Gates mentioned that vaccines are the most effective way to save lives. The U.S. gives 1% of budget to foreign aid and 0.22% to global health. This number has gone up in recent years but should go up more.
- Sabrina Rocco, St. Petersburg College
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October 29th, 2009 at 10:44 am
New to the ONE Campus Challenge this year, Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas has sky-rocketed from 496th place just a few weeks ago up to the #11 spot on the leaderboard and, impressively, third place in the running for our monthly challenge win. The Philander Smith Panthers are at 506 on new recruits, nipping right at the University of Central Florida’s heels (UCF has 546).
So how’d they do it? For Philander, it was all about a compelling email sent out to the student listserv. The message explained the ONE Campus Challenge mission and competition, and played on school pride to inspire sign ups. The response was amazing, with 500 students signing up in the course of a couple of weeks.
Part of the mission of Philander Smith College is to graduate students who are “grounded as advocates for social justice, determined to change the world for the better,” so these students ought to be prepared to take on the fight against global poverty. The school has a couple distinctions that are pretty unique in the OCC top 100 schools, including being a historically Black college (HBCU) and founding member of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). You can learn more about Philander Smith here.
Remember, the campus recruiting the most new members in October will receive 20,000 points and some cool prizes. We’ve reserved some points and prizes for second and third place schools, too!
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October 28th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
I am currently working on putting together the Upper Midwest Global Poverty Conference along with the Luther ONE Campaign/Hunger Concerns Chapter. The conference will be held on Saturday, November 21, 2009 from 11-4pm at Luther College in the Franklin W. Olin building. Our keynote speaker is Roger Thurow, co-author of Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. The conference will also have professors from Luther College leading workshops.
A few of the workshops we have lined up already are as follows:
- International Sexual Violence by Jennifer Green, Ph.D.
- Population, Poverty, and the Environment: A Matter of Justice by Jim Martin-Shramm, Ph.D.
- Micro-lending by Brett Johnson, Ph.D.
- Millennium Development Goals by James Rhodes, Ph.D.
- Preaching and Poverty by Carl-Eric Gentes, MDIV
- Inter-Faith Dialogue and Peace by Paul Gardner, Ph.D.
- Poverty and Economic Possibilities by Steve Holland, Ph.D.
And more!
For more information about the conference and how to register visit the Luther ONE Chapter’s website.
-Steven Thai, Campus Outreach Ambassador for Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota
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October 28th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Not if you want full credit for your activities! We really need you to submit each individual action separately, so we can keep count of stuff like the number of actions your school has taken, or the number of Facebook posts Campus Challenge students have submitted all year.
Also, it looks funny to other schools if they check your “How We Got Our Points” page and it looks like you got 500 points for one tweet — you might have submitted 10 different tweets at once, but to your competitors it just looks like you got some kind of special bonus for one tweet. So we avoid complaints and charges of cheating by making you submit each action separately.
You can report all 84 people you’ve inspired to become fans of ONE on Facebook…but you’re going to have to submit 84 different actions (ouch, probably easier to ask people to submit the actions themselves; that might be a good way to get them more engaged, too). And don’t submit one action and expect us to give you points for 3 team meetings over 3 different weeks. Submit each meeting separately, or you might miss out on points you deserve!
If you have a question, feel free to post it as a comment here.
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