The Chase Community Giving Program will be awarding $1 million to one charitable organization next month--and Invisible Children needs your help to take home the prize.
Chase Bank has been holding a donation campaign through Facebook, asking users to vote for their favorite charity. The organization with the most votes will receive $1 million in grants, and the top five runners-up will receive $100,000 each.
Invisible Children is currently ranked second in the voting, and is asking its supporters for a final push before voting closes on Jan. 22. "THIS IS HUGE," said Invisible Children in a press release earlier this week. "Especially right now in this climate of financial hardship, and it is such a simple thing for people to do."
Founded by three young filmmakers-turned-humanitarians after documenting the tragedy of Uganda's child soldiers, Invisible Children sparked a grassroots revolution to help restore peace in Northern Uganda and protect children across the globe. The San Diego-based foundation works closely with staffers and volunteers--95 percent of whom are from Uganda--to create long-term social change for the youth of the wartorn region. They have also garnered support from hundreds of full-time volunteers as well as thousands of students and educators across the globe to put an end to the conscription of Uganda's children.
The Chase Community Giving competition kicked off last November with the first round of voting. The top 100 vote-getters in that preliminary round progressed to the second and final round with each semi-finalist banking $25,000 in grant money. Voting for the second round will decide who takes home the $1 million prize.
To help Invisible Children take first place, visit the Chase Community Giving application on Facebook. Users are allowed five votes per Facebook account. Voting is entirely free and open to all Facebook users. The contest winners will be announced on Feb. 10.
Invisible Children hopes that the same grassroots spirit that built its organization will help bring in the $1 million prize for the children of Uganda.
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