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THE CHALLENGE: RECRUIT!
This month, recruit as many new members to your school's ONE Campus Challenge team as you can. The more new members you add, the more voices we have to speak out on behalf of the poor and hungry -- and with 100 points per sign up, the more points you'll rack up towards exciting prizes, your school's place amongst the top 100 poverty-fighting schools in the country, and an opportunity to go on a trip to Africa next summer.
Recruiting couldn't be easier. You can:
Send an email to your friends, here.
Use our new petition tabling tool or the OCC sign up tabling tool and set up a table on campus -- or just walk around your dorm collecting petition signatures on your laptop. NOTE: USE THE TABLING TOOLS AND DON'T JUST HAVE PEOPLE SIGN UP ON THE OCC HOMEPAGE. Our website is designed to remember the last person who signed in, so using the OCC homepage sign up tool to enter multiple sign ups can cause some of the info not to go through, or to go through incorrectly. You might just be changing your own email address over and over, instead of entering new recruits.
Pass around a paper petition or OCC sign up form in your classes.
Share ONE's "Upgrade Aid" petition on Facebook or Twitter -- if you use this link, petition signatures will count as OCC sign ups.
If you need more info and ideas, be sure to check in on the OCC Blog every day. We'll be posting recruitment tips and tricks from our Campus Outreach Ambassadors (find and contact yours here), interviews with some of last year's successful Campus Leaders, and more details about how you can use social networks and the OCC site to help in your recruitment efforts.
THE PRIZES:
The campus recruiting the most new members in October will receive:
20,000 OCC points, enough to secure your school's place in the Power 100 -- the 100 top global poverty-fighting schools in the United States;
A prize pack of FEED bags and OCC goodies, including our brand new OCC shirts and plenty of ONE bands, for your whole team; and
A conference call with Lauren Bush and Ellen Gustafson, international advocates for solutions to global hunger and founders of the FEED Project. On the conference call, they'll share their experiences starting an organization that eventually raised enough funding for the UN World Food Programme to feed 37,500 hungry children in school for a year, and how they overcame obstacles and nearly-overwhelming odds to raise $4 million for in-school feeding in 2008 alone. The winning team will learn how to impact the global community by making small adjustments to your own daily routines, and how when many people make small adjustments, it can add up to monumental changes.
Maisie and Emily will also be on the conference call to answer your questions about the ONE Campus Challenge, and give you inside tips and advice for continued success throughout the season.
We'll also have runner-up prizes of 10,000 and 5,000 points and some goodies for the second- and third-place schools. For more info on prizes, check our Prizes page.
THE ISSUES:
We're kicking off OCC's 2009-10 season by focusing on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) #1, Poverty and Hunger. These two development issues are particularly interconnected. 1.4 billion people are living on less than $1.25 a day. 963 million people will go to bed hungry. MDG #1 aims to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty, as well as to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger, by 2015.
Learn more about the MDGs and Hunger and Poverty:
ONE's issue brief on the Millennium Development Goals
How agricultural initiatives can alleviate hunger and poverty
ONE's issue page on aid effectiveness