Greenpeace

The Case Foundation is currently running a program to give awards to nonprofit organizations.  The deal is that, every day, the cause with most unique donors ($10 minimum donation) through Facebook Causes is given $1,000.  Most of these awards have been given to groups with 40-80 donors for that day (though some have had a little over 100 so to be safe we should aim for say 150-200 donors).  My idea is to get at least 100 people (hopefully more) to agree to donate $10 through Facebook on the same day (January 27, I think).  One hundred ten dollar donations would be $1,000, plus the $1,000 award would be $2,000.  Furthermore, at the end of the overal period (which is February 1), the group with the most total unique donors gets $50,000 dollars, the next two get $25,000, and there are ten $10,000 awards for runners-up.  Currently the leading group has 533 donors, and the 13th placed group (on pace to win $10,000) only has 151, so plausibly if we got enough people to do this we could get not only the $1,000 daily prize but a 10k prize as well.

 I think I can get probably two dozen donations from the Greenpeace chapter at my university, and I am going to contact other campus chapters about doing this as well.  If any of you are involved in local chapters, or just willing to give ten dollars on the appropriate day, please let me know!  I want to keep a list of people who've agreed to this.  If you send me an Email address or phone number, I will contact you that day to make sure you remember.

 Notes:

 1.  The donation has to be done through Facebook, and it has to be done with a credit/debit card.  It is not hard to create a new Facebook account if you don't have one.

 2.  The 'day' for the prize system starts and ends at noon, not midnight--so you would need to wait until noon on Jan 27 to donate, not early morning.

 3.  If you are willing to give more than ten dollars, you could donate ten dollars for yourself, then have as many friends as you want login and donate through their accounts as well to get a higher number of unique donors.

 4.  If you are already on Facebook, I have created an event for this.  Look me up (Alex Fields, at ETSU) and contact me and I'll send you an invite, and you can invite as many other people as you want who might be interested.