Help Our Friends

Jessica Remington, founder and director of One World Youth Project, is an amazingly talented young woman and a good friend. Her organization One World Youth Project is outstanding and they need your help! One World Youth Project (OWYP), facilitates high quality partnerships between schools or youth groups worldwide for the purpose of cultural exchange and community service toward the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals. Through a unique curriculum that encourages collaborative learning, OWYP creates global communities while strengthening local communities. It is our belief that recognizing one’s existence in a global community of shared challenges at a young age promotes a future of cross-cultural collaboration. One World Youth Project is an initiative incubated within Georgetown University’s Office of the President.
Below is a message from Jessica, calling for your assistance.
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Dear Friends,
I REALLY need your help and quickly.
OWYP is entered into the Pepsi Refresh Everything contest: http://www.refresheverything.com/oneworldyouthproject. We have a 1 in 29 chance of winning $50,000 in this contest! The 10 organizations within the 50k category who receive the most number of votes within March win. You can vote for OWYP once a day. So, basically we need to mobilize thousands of people to vote for OWYP every day of the month. Right now we are 38th out of 290 organizations. It is believed that we need to jump to the top 10 in 48 to 72 hours in order to start on a winning track. I NEED YOUR HELP and QUICKLY!!
Would you be willing to serve as a “Captain” in OWYP’s “get out the vote” strategy?
Who are Captains?
-Captains are in charge of recruiting a group of 10 of their friends who commit to voting for OWYP in the Pepsi contest EVERY DAY of this month.
-Captains must be in the USA OR have the ability to recruit 10 people who are in the USA (as the contest only works for USA based IP addresses). THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT, as non-USA IP address votes, will not count.
-Captains must remind their “group” of 10 to vote every day for the month (e.g. you could send a quick email, send them a facebook message, text them…what ever works best for you & which you know will be effective).
-All Captains must send the email addresses of their group members to win@oneworldyouthproject.org. So, that they can receive important updates from OWYP related to the contest.
-Captains agree to change their facebook profile picture a “Vote for OWYP” graphic (see attached)
Can you commit to being a Captain for OWYP? PLEASE email me back with a “YES” or “NO” as soon as you can. If you respond with a YES, then I’ll send you an email template to help in recruiting your 10 voters. (P.S. If you can’t be a Captain, would you consider becoming an OWYP Friend by voting every day & convincing 1 other person to vote with you every day?)
Let me know in the next 24 to 48 hours if you can help. I need you. We have some stiff competition and REALLY need to win this contest.
In Solidarity,
Jess
P.S. Join us on Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/One-World-Youth-Project-OWYP/184125839202?ref=ts
On the left side of the page, right under the profile picture, click on “suggest to friends” link and invite your facebook friends to join us! So far we have 488 fans, we are aiming for over 20, 000 fans.
Follow us on twitter: www.twitter.com/owyp
Read our Blog: http://owyp.wordpress.com/
LET’S BUILD A MOVEMENT…!