Exciting news from HQ

Here's an email we received this week, since we are No. 4 in the nation!!!!!!

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Since the start of the semester the Campus Challenge has been a flurry of activity as the best poverty fighters around the country jockeyed for position for this moment: the chance to be in the Top 10.

Now that all the points have been counted, here are the Top 10 colleges and universities in the United States, ranked by their efforts advocating to end extreme poverty:

1. Sacred Heart University
2. University of Nevada, Las Vegas
3. Brandeis University
4. Western Kentucky University
5. Princeton University
6. Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio
7. Kansas State University
8. George Washington University
9. Hofstra University
10. Campbellsville University

And now the competition gets truly intense. Each of these schools will receive a $1,000 grant and support from ONE staff to create their own poverty advocacy campaign. The competition remains open to all campuses though. We invite all of you to create your very own poverty fighting initiative.

In late March, all ONE members and a panel of experts will pick a winner from the top 10 schools' projects along with one "wild card" project from any other university that submits an entry.

And though the competition is narrowing to the schools with hundreds (or thousands) of members, it is important to remember that there will always be simple everyday actions that we can all take to help make poverty history.

For example, right now you can tell your friends to sign the petition asking the Presidential candidates to visit Africa in their first term in office:
http://onevote08.org/onevote08/ontherecord/visitafrica/?id=246-3695625-Shnn6G&t=1

In the last five months, tens of thousands of students have taken hundreds of thousands of individual actions against poverty. Individually, our actions might not seem like much, but together we have moved Congress with our passion, slammed the IMF with emails, and convinced the presidential candidates to make unprecedented commitments to fight extreme poverty.

Thank you for everything that you have given to this fight so far. Let's keep it up.

Erin, Weldon, and the ONE Campus Challenge Team