GOOD WorldWide is inviting new innovative ideas from people for projects with a potential to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa. Projects submitted should be able to be completed within 6 months from the date of the receipt of the grant. Moreover, the submitted projects must be able to be implemented with $5000.
Contest Purpose
The largest humanitarian crisis in the world today is happening in the Horn of Africa, where more than 13 million people are suffering from a deadly famine caused by decades of conflict, instability and the worst drought the region has seen in 60 years. The devastation has spread across four countries, ravaging farmlands, displacing families and killing tens of thousands in Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia. Conditions in southern Somalia are reported to be especially severe. There, emergency assistance continues to be limited or denied, even as many families are forced to walk more than one hundred miles in search of their next meal and children are dying hourly from malnutrition and starvation.
Shockingly, only a fraction of the American public recognizes the urgency of the situation, and according to a recent national survey released by the Ad Council, 52 percent of us aren’t even aware that this catastrophe is occurring at all. In response to these statistics, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Ad Council have launched Famine, War and Drought (FWD), a major multimedia and public awareness campaign that aims to connect people to the East Africa relief efforts in new and creative ways.
GOOD is heeding this call by teaming up with USAID and the Ad Council to offer the next challenge on GOOD Maker. GOOD is inviting people to tell them how they would use $5,000 to help raise awareness for the Horn of Africa crisis in their community, whether by hosting a local event or starting your own grassroots campaign.
Prize
The prize to be awarded comprises of a grant in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the individual who receives the greatest number of valid votes.
Eligibility
The Contest is open to residents of the United States, excluding Puerto Rico, 18 years of age or older as of the beginning of the Contest Period (defined below). Employees of GOOD, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Advertising Council, Inc., their subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, fulfilment or other coordinating agencies, (collectively the “Contest Entities”) and their respective immediate family members and persons living in their same household whether related or not, are not eligible to participate in the Contest.
Voting
Individuals who wish to vote for one (1) or more of the Contest Selections will be required to meet the Eligibility Requirements listed above in Section 1 and will be required to follow the directions on the Site in order to place a vote. If GOOD determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, that any Participant or voter has not complied with these Official Rules in any way, then GOOD reserves the right to disqualify all of that individual’s Votes and disqualify any Application that such individual has submitted and disallow any further participation by such individual in the Contest.
Last date for submitting the entries is November 28, 2011.
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