Do you wish you could give to a worthy charity this season, but don’t have the funds? No cash means no problem for Facebook users thanks to the latest partnership of Facebook and Chase Community Giving. In an innovative new program, Facebook users have the chance to participate in third-party giving to their favorite charities.
Chase Community Giving is launching this grassroots campaign to inspire what they hope will be a new way of corporate philanthropy. Facebook users, now totaling more than 300 million, can simply add Chase Community Giving as a friend and then vote for which of more than 500,000 small and local nonprofits will receive donations from Chase totaling $5 million.
Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase says, "The grassroots nature of Facebook will allow us to hear directly which local charities matter most to our communities, hopefully creating an even bigger impact."
Facebook executives are happy to see their social network harnessed for this philanthropic cause. "Chase’s creative approach – crowdsourcing for charity – puts the power of corporate giving directly in the hands of Facebook users," says Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook.
More than 500 nonprofits with an operating budget of $10 million or less will be eligible. The charity receiving the most votes will be awarded $1 million, the top five runners-up will receive $100,000 each, and the 100 finalists, including the top winners, will be awarded $25,000 each.
The voting process for round one has already begun and will continue through December 11. In this preliminary round, Facebook users will vote for non-profit organizations they think should receive a portion of Chase’s philanthropy funds.
Then, in round two, the top 100 organizations will have the option to submit a Million Dollar Grant proposal to Facebook users, detailing the difference they would make in their local community with the significant extra resources. Round two voting will be open to facebook users from January 15 to February 1.
This charitable crowdsourcing could be the latest trend in the growing number of online giving techniques companies are using to promote corporate philanthropy.
Our Dear Friend,
I’m writing today because we stand ready, to help, but we can’t do it alone. Can you real help us to raise $ 29,000 to start farming Project for Overland Mission Tanzania by January? To your donation will help to start Organic cattle Farm/ Cows of the Blunders race, pig and chickens, as well as 100 hectares of non-organic wheat, maize and rapeseed. We will keep track of every dollar, and we measure our results
We are small an NGO. Though enabling the bush Pastors to free themselves from poverty, trying to save lives by providing clean drinking water to kids and family’s to the bush but also work in the field of environment.
And we will open our own chains butcher shops.58 percent of the population lives on less than $ 1 per day.
Three quarters of the hungry live in rural areas and including farming family’s .A significant number of region depends on basis food imports to meet their consumption needs. However not everyone can afford to buy food and the recent food price likes depend problem even more. It is an ironic that in regions so richly endowed with a high diversity of plants (at least 1000 of which can be eaten as green leafy vegetable), per capita consumption of fruit and vegetable is declining. Traditional diets of grains and vegetable are giving way to those high in fat and sugar, as the main producers and preparers of the food.
You’ll make a great difference in the lives Bush Pastor’s family struggling to live healthier lives, and those who will be most divested by the consequence of climate change . Your contributions will help to build a stronger institute and greater opportunity for all.
Thank you, as always, for all you do.
overlandmissiontz@hotmail.com
Peter Feer Msumari.
Chief Executive Officer
Overland Mission Tanzania.
P. o. box 16869.
Arusha Tanzania- East Africa.
I hope visitors to your blog will consider casting one of their Chase Community Giving votes to save lions, tigers and other big cats at VoteCats.com
I am writing to ask you to take a few moments out of your busy day and support The Present Theatre Company, Inc. (producers of The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC)) and support the arts.
I’m not asking for money, merely your vote on Facebook. Here is what you need to know about FringeNYC:
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Please VOTE for FringeNYC via the Chase Community Giving Program. It only takes a few minutes, but you must do it NOW. VOTING ENDS DECEMBER 11th!
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/780875
WHO WE ARE:
http://www.youtube.com/fringenyc
HOW WE DO IT:
http://www.fringenyc.org/Donor/
Thank you SO MUCH for your time and consideration! Now that you’ve voted, why not pass this message along to your friends, too?
This sounds like a wonderful idea. I have a non profit organization, the Chilren of Mtaya which supports a pre school for the orphans of AIDS in a remote village in Zambia. How can we be included in your list of charities?
thanks so much for any information you can give me.
Best regards
Carolyn Kulisheck
Stewpot could sure use your help! We had to shut down an emergency shelter in 2009 in which we had served over 600 women and their children in the 20 months that it was open. The shelter helped women find jobs and permanent housing and required the children to be in schoolo and attend afterschool
Isha Foundation is a non-profit corporation established in the USA and a charitable trust founded by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev in India in 1992. The foundation serves as an educator, catalyst and resource for yoga science and natural health. Isha Foundation conducts various public welfare programs to advance physical, mental and spiritual development through the intergration of body mind and spirit. The foundation improves the quality of life for the impoverished through humanitarian and social outreach programs such as “Action for Rural Rejuvination,” medical and disaster relief for the poor, student scholarships for destitute children and prison yoga programs entitled “Inner Freedom for the Imprisoned”. A significant amount of the foundation’’s efforts involve Mobile Health Clinics for rural villages in India and facilitating Yoga Programs to help individuals regain health, find peace within and become responsible to the world around them. Through humanitarian programs and other advanced yoga programs, Isha Foundation provides the potential and process for individual transformation, helping to establish a peaceful and prosperous global society.
Please Vote for Isha Foundation
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/1111517
FMC Family and Community Services, provides a Free Health Clinic, counseling for the family as well as referrals for food, housing and employment to the Oak Cliff Community. We also provide a Free Summer Camp for Children of the 75216 and 75217 zip code.
We are serving more clients as the financial situation of more families is becoming more strained. Any additional funds would be appreciated.
Thank you for sharing this contest with your readers. Sustainable Harvest International is a non-profit based in Surry, Maine that could really use this miracle right now as several of our biggest donors find that they cannot donate what we expected from them this year. A minute or two of people’s time might just make the difference for Sustainable Harvest International in winning up to $1 million in this contest! Please consider giving one of your 20 votes to “Sustainable Harvest International” or click here: http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/707760?isrc=my_history
SHI provides farming families in Central America with the training and tools to overcome poverty while restoring our planet’’s tropical forests. Since the organization’s start in 1997, SHI has planted more than 2.6 million trees and converted thousands of acres to sustainable uses; thereby saving tens of thousands of acres of tropical forest from slash-and-burn destruction.
SHI works with families and students throughout Honduras, Panama, Belize and Nicaragua implementing alternatives to slash-and-burn farming, the leading cause of rainforest destruction in the region.
Thank you!