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CHARITY: WATER’S 2010 SEPTEMBER CAMPAIGN

Tyler Anderson — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:50:56 +0000

charity: water was born in September. Each year for charity: water’s birthday, they team up with September babies and other supporters to take on something really big. This year’s September Campaign will bring clean and safe drinking water to the Bayaka people in Central African Republic – one of the poorest and most remote countries in the world. Their goal is to raise $1.7 million with the help of individual fundraisers. 100% of the money raised will directly fund sustainable water projects.

charity: water started with a birthday party. When founder Scott Harrison turned 31, he asked everyone he knew to come to a party and bring money for clean water instead of gifts. He raised more than $15,000 and then used the money to give water to people living in a refugee camp in Uganda. In 2007 charity: water did it again, but asked others born in September to join in as well. They gave up birthday gifts and together they raised $150,000 to bring clean water to hospitals and schools in Kenya. A year later, 900 people joined the movement, and almost $1 million was raised through birthdays. This year, charity: water is doing it again — but bigger. They hope to bring clean and safe drinking water to a forgotten people in a forgotten nation: the Bayaka in Central African Republic. The 210 water projects that will serve 90,000 people will cost $1.7 million — an ambitious goal, but one they can reach with your help.

Campaign URL: http://www.charitywater.org/september/

Additional Creative: http://www.charitywater.org/september/spreadtheword.php

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Creative Commons

Tyler Anderson — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:35:24 +0000

Creative Commons’ mission is to make sharing knowledge and culture easy and legal. Our signature tools are called Creative Commons licenses, which are free copyright licenses that creators can use to offer certain usage rights to the public, while reserving other rights.

Millions of people, companies, and institutions throughout the world have used CC licenses to make their work – everything from academic coursework and scientific data to art, music, and journalism – available for free and legal sharing, use, and adaptation. CC license users are found in a wide variety of fields and include Wikipedia, Gawker Media, Nine Inch Nails, the White House, the Public Library of Science, MIT, IntraHealth, Google,Yahoo!, the United Nations, the German Federal Archives, the National Library of Australia, Bloomsbury Academic, Al Jazeera, and the Brooklyn Museum.

URL: http://creativecommons.org/

Campaign ends: Ongoing

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charity:water: Unshaken

Tyler Anderson — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:44:26 +0000

On World Water Day, charity: water launched Unshaken, a campaign to help Haiti recover by funding long-term safe water projects. Publishers With a Purpose is committed to funding one of them. 100% of donations directly fund water projects.

The solution proposed by our local partners to help Nan Simon is a spring protection with tap stands. Springs are usually found in mountainous areas and are formed as aquifers break the earth’s surface. They can be excellent sources of drinking water, but if left unprotected, they are easily contaminated. A concrete spring box will be built around the source, shielding it from parasites and debris.

After the spring is covered and protected, the water is piped to a holding tank – sand chambers inside make sure the water is crystal clear on the way out. Gravity then takes the safe water down the mountain to community tap stands below.

After the project is complete, the recipients will receive comprehensive hygiene and sanitation education. The community has agreed to donate time and labor to construct the project. To keep the water clean and improve hygiene, they’ll also build household latrines, BioSand filters, laundry stations, handwashing faucets and animal troughs.

Campaign URL – charitywater.org/pwp

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International Rescue Committee: Haiti Crisis

Tyler Anderson — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:41:48 +0000

Right now, the International Rescue Committee is deploying its Emergency Response Team to Haiti to deliver help to the devastated city of Port-au-Prince. The IRC will be working with overwhelmed local aid groups to provide life-saving medical care, water and sanitation to earthquake survivors.

Our specialists are veteran first-responders who set up immediate and effective emergency programs around the world during violent conflicts and natural disasters. The IRC is also supporting members of the Haitian American community, which is in the process of organizing a major response. Many of them are refugees who were resettled by the IRC. Your support is urgently needed to help us rescue lives in Haiti.

Campaign URL: https://www.theirc.org/donate/donate-now-haiti?ms=ad_pubp_zzz_zzzz_zz_zzzzz

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Oxfam America: Major Earthquake in Haiti

Tyler Anderson — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:03:18 +0000

Tuesday evening a major earthquake struck Haiti near the capital of Port-au-Prince causing catastrophic destruction in the western hemisphere’s most impoverished nation. At least 2 million people have been affected. Oxfam has 200 staff on-the-ground responding with public health, water, and sanitation services to prevent the spread of disease.

Campaign URL: Individual tags are available for each ad unit.

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The Salvation Army: Doing the Most Good

Tyler Anderson — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:33:24 +0000

The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination. The vision and promise of The Salvation Army is to do the Most Good possible with every donation it receives of time, money, and other resources.

The objective of the Doing the Most Good brand campaign is to educate potential donors about the breadth and depth of services offered by The Salvation Army and their promise to be as efficient as possible in meeting needs without discrimination.

Campaign URL: https://secure20.salvationarmy.org/pages/makeDonation/usa/makeDonation.jsf

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U.S. Department of Energy: What’s Your Excuse?

Tyler Anderson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:02:37 +0000

Energy use is on the rise around the world. Increasing demand requires additional resources to keep costs low, ensure reliability, and reduce America’s dependence on foreign energy sources. At the same time, this growing demandmust be addressed in the context of global climate change. Consumers can make a significant difference on all these fronts by reducing demand through simple energy efficeincy measures.

In a February2008 national survey of kids ages 8 – 12, 85% of respondents believed they could lead their family to do what is needed to consume less energy in the home. The Department of Energy, in partnership with the Ad Council, have developed this website and the”What’s Your Excuse?” campaign to create a new generation of energy-conscious consumers. The new campaign highlights the simplicity of making energy efficient changes in the home and asks kids to join millions of other to make a difference by using their energy wisely.

Campaign Start: Running

Campaign End: Ongoing

Campaign URL: http://www.loseyourexcuse.gov/index.html#/index

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The Alliance for Climate Protection: Repower America

Tyler Anderson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:10:53 +0000

The Alliance for Climate Protection was founded in 2006 by Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and former Vice President of the United States. With more than 2,000,000 members worldwide, the Alliance is a unique non-profit, non-partisan organization that is committed to educating the global community about the urgency of implementing comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis. Through its projects — Repower America, the WE Campaign, and the Reality Coalition — and its affiliated organization, The Climate Protection Action Fund, the Alliance seeks to present choices and offer changes that will protect our planet for future generations.

The Alliance draws together a diverse range of individuals and organizations by acting on its belief that the climate crisis impacts every one of us and transcends differences between political parties, faiths, geographies and cultures. It regularly partners with organizations from a broad cross-section of society including representatives of labor, faith, business, schools, women, agriculture, sportsmen, and many other communities. In doing so, the Alliance brings together faces and voices in a way that diversifies and strengthens the national network of concerned individuals who want to take action now on climate issues.

The Alliance is guided by a prestigious, bi-partisan Board of Directors that includes three Nobel Prize winners and accomplished veterans from the worlds of business, politics and environmental advocacy.

Campaign Start: Running

Campaign End: Ongoing

Campaign URL: http://www.repoweramerica.org/

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Natural Resource Defense Council: Simple Steps

Tyler Anderson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:12:54 +0000

Simple Steps is a new initiative by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) for people who are looking for easy, everyday actions they can do to protect our health, our homes — and our planet. Whether you have a minute, a morning, or a month, you can take simple steps in your life to really make a difference.

NRDC is a national, nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has 1.2 million members and online activists, served from offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing.

NRDC not only brings information directly to you to help you make simple, better choices in your daily life, but our expert scientists, doctors, attorneys and advocates tackle the big issues at the government and manufacturer level to make sure policies are in place to protect you.

Worth Magazine has named NRDC one of America’s 100 best charities, and Charity Navigator has given NRDC four stars (out of a possible four). Learn more about NRDC on http://www.nrdc.org/.

Campaign Start: Running

Campaign End: Ongoing

Campaign URL: http://www.simplesteps.org

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Charity Water: Bringing Clean, Safe Drinking Water to People in Developing Nations

Tyler Anderson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:10:47 +0000

It’s hard not to think about water today. In the western world, we face growing concerns about our stewardship of the world’s most precious resource. There’s talk of shortages, evidence of reservoirs and aquifers drying up, and of course, plenty of people who simply don’t care.

But forget about us.

Most of us have never really been thirsty. We’ve never had to leave our houses and walk 5 miles to fetch water. We simply turn on the tap, and water comes out. Clean. Yet more than 1.1 billion people on the planet don’t have clean water. It’s hard to imagine what a billion people looks like really, but one in six might be easier. One in six people in our world don’t have access to the most basic of human needs. Something we can’t imagine going 12 hours without.
Here, we’d like to introduce you to a few of those billion people. They are very real, and they need our help. They didn’t choose to be born into a village where the only source of water is a polluted swamp. And I didn’t choose to be born in a country where even the homeless have access to clean water and a toilet.

I invite you to put yourself in their shoes. Follow them on their daily journey. Carry 80 pounds of water in yellow fuel cans. Dig with their children in sand for water. Line up at a well and wait 8 hours for a turn.
Now, make a decision to help. We’re not offering grand solutions and billion dollar schemes, but instead, simple things that work. Things like freshwater wells, rainwater catchments and sand filters. For about $20 a person, we know how to help millions of people.

Start by helping one.

Campaign Start: Currently

Campaign End: Ongoing

Campaign URL: http://www.charitywater.org

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