2008 Woodie Awards
ONE Announces Top Ten Schools Entering Final Campus Challenge Round
In a competition against more than 1,400 schools, ten earn $1,000 grants to create a major poverty-fighting initiative on campus
Kimberly Cadena
Issue date: 3/4/08 Section: News
Washington, DC - After six months, tens of thousands of phone calls and letters to Congress and the presidential candidates and hundreds of events on campuses across the U.S. to raise awareness of extreme poverty and preventable disease, ten universities have earned a spot in the final round of the ONE Campus Challenge.
The top ten schools earned their position by accumulating the most points in the first two rounds of the ONE Campus Challenge (one.org/campus), a nationwide competition to provide students the tools they need to organize on campus, talk to elected officials and increase awareness of - and support for the proven solutions to address - the crises of extreme poverty and preventable disease.
Campuses earned points in the ONE Campus Challenge through a variety of actions, including forming a ONE Chapter on their campus. ONE chapters work to rally the student body around these issues. Students are using their ONE Chapter to cultivate a culture of activism on campus, to bring students interested in the issues together and organize around them in order to take their concerns directly to their local elected leaders.
Students on more than 1,000 campuses nationwide are participating in the ONE Campus Challenge and ONE members are present on more than 1,400 campuses nationwide. In its first 12 hours, the OCC signed up new members of the ONE Campaign on more than 1,000 college campuses across the U.S.
"The ONE Campus Challenge is a game changer. The innovation, energy and ideas that America's young people bring to the movement are making America's leaders pay attention. These amazing young voices are saying loudly that they want their next President to go to Africa and make ending suffocating poverty and preventable diseases a top priority. I have been in wonder at the commitment and creativity they have shown, and can't wait to see which school earns the top spot," said David Lane, ONE President and CEO.
The top ten schools are: Brandeis University; Campbellsville University; George Washington University; Hofstra University; Kansas State University; Princeton University; Sacred Heart University; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Western Kentucky University; and Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.
"Over the past few months, I've gotten to know these students as they have worked, week after week, to make the end of extreme poverty a reality. Their potential to create real change is thrilling. Together, they have made more than 10,000 phone calls to Congress, asking for their support of lifesaving legislation. They've made more than 2,000 phone calls to the presidential candidates, asking them to make fighting extreme poverty and treatable, preventable diseases a top priority of their foreign policy proposals," said Erin Eagan, Student Outreach Coordinator.
Eagan continued, "Students' efforts have been instrumental in achieving substantial victories for the world's poorest people, including earning Senate support for the Jubilee Act, which would provide debt relief to impoverished nations with good governments, and successfully urging the IMF to honor a commitment to provide debt relief for Liberia that it made 18 months previously but had yet to honor. Each of the top ten schools' accomplishments in such a short time is outstanding, but the result of their collective action is overwhelming."
ONE is providing each of the top ten schools with a $1,000 grant to build a project, program or event that draws attention to the global crises of poverty and disease, inspires people to action and helps build the political will to encourage elected leaders to support the proven solutions to these problems. The students have five weeks to create their project and at the end of March, every ONE member will have the opportunity to vote on which of the final ten they consider the most effective and impressive.
The projects will also be ranked by a panel of experts, including Gene Sperling of the Council on Foreign Relations, Sam Worthington, President of InterAction, and ONE Campus Challenge leaders Erin Eagan and Weldon Kennedy. The school with the best project, as determined by votes and panel ranking, will be honored as the university among more than one thousand nationwide that has done the most to advance the fight against poverty over the course of the school year. As if that distinguished honor was not more than enough to celebrate, the winning school also receives an on-campus performance.
Launched for the first time in September 2007, ONE has rewarded students for reaching milestones as the OCC progresses, stoking the competition and encouraging participation. ONE's use of cutting-edge Internet-based technologies gives students an unprecedented level of organization and involvement (one.org/campus).
In January 2008, student leaders from the top 100 schools arrived in Washington, D.C., for an elite student summit. The Power 100 Summit stoked the competition as students learned from each other what was working on campus, and sized up the competition to make it to the finals. They not only learned from each other, but also from the best of what Washington, D.C., can offer in the form of policy experts, activists and political leaders. Among them were former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, the Council on Foreign Relations' Gene Sperling, Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Paul Begala, political contributor and Democratic strategist on CNN's The Situation Room.
THE ONE CAMPAIGN is a grassroots advocacy organization rallying people -- ONE by ONE -- to fight the emergency of extreme poverty and global disease. ONE is millions of people working with more than 150 of the leading relief, humanitarian and advocacy organizations to build the political will to combat debilitating poverty and preventable diseases.
For more information, please visit: ONE.org
Washington, DC - After six months, tens of thousands of phone calls and letters to Congress and the presidential candidates and hundreds of events on campuses across the U.S. to raise awareness of extreme poverty and preventable disease, ten universities have earned a spot in the final round of the ONE Campus Challenge.
The top ten schools earned their position by accumulating the most points in the first two rounds of the ONE Campus Challenge (one.org/campus), a nationwide competition to provide students the tools they need to organize on campus, talk to elected officials and increase awareness of - and support for the proven solutions to address - the crises of extreme poverty and preventable disease.
Campuses earned points in the ONE Campus Challenge through a variety of actions, including forming a ONE Chapter on their campus. ONE chapters work to rally the student body around these issues. Students are using their ONE Chapter to cultivate a culture of activism on campus, to bring students interested in the issues together and organize around them in order to take their concerns directly to their local elected leaders.
Students on more than 1,000 campuses nationwide are participating in the ONE Campus Challenge and ONE members are present on more than 1,400 campuses nationwide. In its first 12 hours, the OCC signed up new members of the ONE Campaign on more than 1,000 college campuses across the U.S.
"The ONE Campus Challenge is a game changer. The innovation, energy and ideas that America's young people bring to the movement are making America's leaders pay attention. These amazing young voices are saying loudly that they want their next President to go to Africa and make ending suffocating poverty and preventable diseases a top priority. I have been in wonder at the commitment and creativity they have shown, and can't wait to see which school earns the top spot," said David Lane, ONE President and CEO.
The top ten schools are: Brandeis University; Campbellsville University; George Washington University; Hofstra University; Kansas State University; Princeton University; Sacred Heart University; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Western Kentucky University; and Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.
"Over the past few months, I've gotten to know these students as they have worked, week after week, to make the end of extreme poverty a reality. Their potential to create real change is thrilling. Together, they have made more than 10,000 phone calls to Congress, asking for their support of lifesaving legislation. They've made more than 2,000 phone calls to the presidential candidates, asking them to make fighting extreme poverty and treatable, preventable diseases a top priority of their foreign policy proposals," said Erin Eagan, Student Outreach Coordinator.
Eagan continued, "Students' efforts have been instrumental in achieving substantial victories for the world's poorest people, including earning Senate support for the Jubilee Act, which would provide debt relief to impoverished nations with good governments, and successfully urging the IMF to honor a commitment to provide debt relief for Liberia that it made 18 months previously but had yet to honor. Each of the top ten schools' accomplishments in such a short time is outstanding, but the result of their collective action is overwhelming."
ONE is providing each of the top ten schools with a $1,000 grant to build a project, program or event that draws attention to the global crises of poverty and disease, inspires people to action and helps build the political will to encourage elected leaders to support the proven solutions to these problems. The students have five weeks to create their project and at the end of March, every ONE member will have the opportunity to vote on which of the final ten they consider the most effective and impressive.
The projects will also be ranked by a panel of experts, including Gene Sperling of the Council on Foreign Relations, Sam Worthington, President of InterAction, and ONE Campus Challenge leaders Erin Eagan and Weldon Kennedy. The school with the best project, as determined by votes and panel ranking, will be honored as the university among more than one thousand nationwide that has done the most to advance the fight against poverty over the course of the school year. As if that distinguished honor was not more than enough to celebrate, the winning school also receives an on-campus performance.
Launched for the first time in September 2007, ONE has rewarded students for reaching milestones as the OCC progresses, stoking the competition and encouraging participation. ONE's use of cutting-edge Internet-based technologies gives students an unprecedented level of organization and involvement (one.org/campus).
In January 2008, student leaders from the top 100 schools arrived in Washington, D.C., for an elite student summit. The Power 100 Summit stoked the competition as students learned from each other what was working on campus, and sized up the competition to make it to the finals. They not only learned from each other, but also from the best of what Washington, D.C., can offer in the form of policy experts, activists and political leaders. Among them were former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, the Council on Foreign Relations' Gene Sperling, Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Paul Begala, political contributor and Democratic strategist on CNN's The Situation Room.
THE ONE CAMPAIGN is a grassroots advocacy organization rallying people -- ONE by ONE -- to fight the emergency of extreme poverty and global disease. ONE is millions of people working with more than 150 of the leading relief, humanitarian and advocacy organizations to build the political will to combat debilitating poverty and preventable diseases.
For more information, please visit: ONE.org
The top ten schools earned their position by accumulating the most points in the first two rounds of the ONE Campus Challenge (one.org/campus
Campuses earned points in the ONE Campus Challenge through a variety of actions, including forming a ONE Chapter on their campus. ONE chapters work to rally the student body around these issues. Students are using their ONE Chapter to cultivate a culture of activism on campus, to bring students interested in the issues together and organize around them in order to take their concerns directly to their local elected leaders.
Students on more than 1,000 campuses nationwide are participating in the ONE Campus Challenge and ONE members are present on more than 1,400 campuses nationwide. In its first 12 hours, the OCC signed up new members of the ONE Campaign on more than 1,000 college campuses across the U.S.
"The ONE Campus Challenge is a game changer. The innovation, energy and ideas that America's young people bring to the movement are making America's leaders pay attention. These amazing young voices are saying loudly that they want their next President to go to Africa and make ending suffocating poverty and preventable diseases a top priority. I have been in wonder at the commitment and creativity they have shown, and can't wait to see which school earns the top spot," said David Lane, ONE President and CEO.
The top ten schools are: Brandeis University; Campbellsville University; George Washington University; Hofstra University; Kansas State University; Princeton University; Sacred Heart University; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Western Kentucky University; and Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.
"Over the past few months, I've gotten to know these students as they have worked, week after week, to make the end of extreme poverty a reality. Their potential to create real change is thrilling. Together, they have made more than 10,000 phone calls to Congress, asking for their support of lifesaving legislation. They've made more than 2,000 phone calls to the presidential candidates, asking them to make fighting extreme poverty and treatable, preventable diseases a top priority of their foreign policy proposals," said Erin Eagan, Student Outreach Coordinator.
Eagan continued, "Students' efforts have been instrumental in achieving substantial victories for the world's poorest people, including earning Senate support for the Jubilee Act, which would provide debt relief to impoverished nations with good governments, and successfully urging the IMF to honor a commitment to provide debt relief for Liberia that it made 18 months previously but had yet to honor. Each of the top ten schools' accomplishments in such a short time is outstanding, but the result of their collective action is overwhelming."
ONE is providing each of the top ten schools with a $1,000 grant to build a project, program or event that draws attention to the global crises of poverty and disease, inspires people to action and helps build the political will to encourage elected leaders to support the proven solutions to these problems. The students have five weeks to create their project and at the end of March, every ONE member will have the opportunity to vote on which of the final ten they consider the most effective and impressive.
The projects will also be ranked by a panel of experts, including Gene Sperling of the Council on Foreign Relations, Sam Worthington, President of InterAction, and ONE Campus Challenge leaders Erin Eagan and Weldon Kennedy. The school with the best project, as determined by votes and panel ranking, will be honored as the university among more than one thousand nationwide that has done the most to advance the fight against poverty over the course of the school year. As if that distinguished honor was not more than enough to celebrate, the winning school also receives an on-campus performance.
Launched for the first time in September 2007, ONE has rewarded students for reaching milestones as the OCC progresses, stoking the competition and encouraging participation. ONE's use of cutting-edge Internet-based technologies gives students an unprecedented level of organization and involvement (one.org/campus).
In January 2008, student leaders from the top 100 schools arrived in Washington, D.C., for an elite student summit. The Power 100 Summit stoked the competition as students learned from each other what was working on campus, and sized up the competition to make it to the finals. They not only learned from each other, but also from the best of what Washington, D.C., can offer in the form of policy experts, activists and political leaders. Among them were former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, the Council on Foreign Relations' Gene Sperling, Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Paul Begala, political contributor and Democratic strategist on CNN's The Situation Room.
THE ONE CAMPAIGN is a grassroots advocacy organization rallying people -- ONE by ONE -- to fight the emergency of extreme poverty and global disease. ONE is millions of people working with more than 150 of the leading relief, humanitarian and advocacy organizations to build the political will to combat debilitating poverty and preventable diseases.
For more information, please visit: ONE.org
Washington, DC - After six months, tens of thousands of phone calls and letters to Congress and the presidential candidates and hundreds of events on campuses across the U.S. to raise awareness of extreme poverty and preventable disease, ten universities have earned a spot in the final round of the ONE Campus Challenge.
The top ten schools earned their position by accumulating the most points in the first two rounds of the ONE Campus Challenge (one.org/campus
Campuses earned points in the ONE Campus Challenge through a variety of actions, including forming a ONE Chapter on their campus. ONE chapters work to rally the student body around these issues. Students are using their ONE Chapter to cultivate a culture of activism on campus, to bring students interested in the issues together and organize around them in order to take their concerns directly to their local elected leaders.
Students on more than 1,000 campuses nationwide are participating in the ONE Campus Challenge and ONE members are present on more than 1,400 campuses nationwide. In its first 12 hours, the OCC signed up new members of the ONE Campaign on more than 1,000 college campuses across the U.S.
"The ONE Campus Challenge is a game changer. The innovation, energy and ideas that America's young people bring to the movement are making America's leaders pay attention. These amazing young voices are saying loudly that they want their next President to go to Africa and make ending suffocating poverty and preventable diseases a top priority. I have been in wonder at the commitment and creativity they have shown, and can't wait to see which school earns the top spot," said David Lane, ONE President and CEO.
The top ten schools are: Brandeis University; Campbellsville University; George Washington University; Hofstra University; Kansas State University; Princeton University; Sacred Heart University; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Western Kentucky University; and Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.
"Over the past few months, I've gotten to know these students as they have worked, week after week, to make the end of extreme poverty a reality. Their potential to create real change is thrilling. Together, they have made more than 10,000 phone calls to Congress, asking for their support of lifesaving legislation. They've made more than 2,000 phone calls to the presidential candidates, asking them to make fighting extreme poverty and treatable, preventable diseases a top priority of their foreign policy proposals," said Erin Eagan, Student Outreach Coordinator.
Eagan continued, "Students' efforts have been instrumental in achieving substantial victories for the world's poorest people, including earning Senate support for the Jubilee Act, which would provide debt relief to impoverished nations with good governments, and successfully urging the IMF to honor a commitment to provide debt relief for Liberia that it made 18 months previously but had yet to honor. Each of the top ten schools' accomplishments in such a short time is outstanding, but the result of their collective action is overwhelming."
ONE is providing each of the top ten schools with a $1,000 grant to build a project, program or event that draws attention to the global crises of poverty and disease, inspires people to action and helps build the political will to encourage elected leaders to support the proven solutions to these problems. The students have five weeks to create their project and at the end of March, every ONE member will have the opportunity to vote on which of the final ten they consider the most effective and impressive.
The projects will also be ranked by a panel of experts, including Gene Sperling of the Council on Foreign Relations, Sam Worthington, President of InterAction, and ONE Campus Challenge leaders Erin Eagan and Weldon Kennedy. The school with the best project, as determined by votes and panel ranking, will be honored as the university among more than one thousand nationwide that has done the most to advance the fight against poverty over the course of the school year. As if that distinguished honor was not more than enough to celebrate, the winning school also receives an on-campus performance.
Launched for the first time in September 2007, ONE has rewarded students for reaching milestones as the OCC progresses, stoking the competition and encouraging participation. ONE's use of cutting-edge Internet-based technologies gives students an unprecedented level of organization and involvement (one.org/campus).
In January 2008, student leaders from the top 100 schools arrived in Washington, D.C., for an elite student summit. The Power 100 Summit stoked the competition as students learned from each other what was working on campus, and sized up the competition to make it to the finals. They not only learned from each other, but also from the best of what Washington, D.C., can offer in the form of policy experts, activists and political leaders. Among them were former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, the Council on Foreign Relations' Gene Sperling, Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Paul Begala, political contributor and Democratic strategist on CNN's The Situation Room.
THE ONE CAMPAIGN is a grassroots advocacy organization rallying people -- ONE by ONE -- to fight the emergency of extreme poverty and global disease. ONE is millions of people working with more than 150 of the leading relief, humanitarian and advocacy organizations to build the political will to combat debilitating poverty and preventable diseases.
For more information, please visit: ONE.org
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