When I first heard about the Chase Community Giving application, I immediately emailed Chase to get our organization added into the program. I never got a response from them, so I never had a reason to check back on the application.
However, yesterday I got a notification from Evelyn Laminack about StudentRND being on the Chase Community Giving application!
This is an incredible opportunity.
Chase will be giving $25,000 to 100 nonprofits with a budget under $10m.
This can be us. We can be in the top 100.
Currently, over 300,000 people have voted in the Chase Community Giving application. 1% of that is 3,000. However, there are over 500,000 organizations in the database. That’s an incredible number.
I believe if we can get 3,000 votes by December 11th, we have an excellent chance of getting into the top 100 organizations and receive the grant.
This will be a difficult endeavor. However, I believe with enough focus and determination, we can get this done.
To do this, we should have a multifaceted campaign:
1. In-Facebook Campaigning
We’ll create an event and invite everyone we know to the event. This is an easy way to get people to see our voting thing. It’s going to be easy to invite everyone we know to the event, due to the “invite everyone on your friends list” trick.
2. High School Campaigning
We definitely need people to talk to others, post up fliers, etc, at high schools. Tim should be creating fliers within this week. If you have a in-school club/group or facebook group/page that gets reach to high schoolers, we definitely need to send out communication to the members to help us. If you know anyone who has this type of reach, that works even better.
3. College Campaigning
We have only set up the leadership team for StudentRND UW so far, but we can still create a huge impact on the college level. We could combine this with our recruiting efforts and go around and tell people about our organization and mission, as well as give them a quick and easy way for them to help us. Even if we need to go door to door at the dorms, I believe we can mass a good number of votes through the effort of the leadership team and people that we may recruit.
As I said earlier, this will be a difficult task, but we can do it!
