Below are ways to take action at your school. They're meant to raise visibility and awareness, help you gain more members, perhaps provide us all with some comical photos and videos, and above all, effectively fight extreme poverty.
Action |
Points |
Reporting Link |
Invite |
10 |
We'll take care of this one automatically.
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Description: Send an invite through our system to a valid email address.
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ONE your pet |
50 |
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Description: Take a picture of your pet dressed up in ONE gear.
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Blog about ONE |
75 |
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Description: Include ONE in your personal blog with a logo/link to ONE.org, minimum 50 words per post (Maximum one post per day).
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Sign up! |
100 |
We'll take care of this one automatically.
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Description: Sign up a student, faculty member, staff, alumni, family member or friend with your school's code (online or by mobile).
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Band a student group |
100 |
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Description: Get another student group to wear ONE bands around campus. (Group must have a minimum of 5 members.)
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ONE your shirt |
150 |
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Description: When creating a new shirt for your chapter/club/team include a ONE logo. (At least 1 1/2 inches in diameter, maximum one per club.)
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ONE Your Greek Fam |
150 |
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Description: Deck out your Greek family in ONE gear and take a picture.
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ONE on the field |
1/10 pt. per seat |
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Description: Work with your athletic department to place a ONE logo on the playing field during a game (only counts when done with permission!)
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ONE the marching band |
1/4 point per person in attendance (cap. at 20,000pts) |
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Description: Get your marching band to incorporate ONE in their performance at a game (spelling out ONE, wearing the shirt, etc).
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ONE scoreboard |
1/4 point per person in attendance at largest event (cap at 20,000pts) |
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Description: Ask to have texting information displayed on the scoreboard during a game. (After 4 times on the scoreboard you'll get 1/4 of a point per person at the largest event).
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ONE web tool |
Up to 17500 |
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Description: Create an awesome web application that will help ONE further awareness, membership and mobilization. (Contingent on ONE's use).
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ONE Blog |
300/week. |
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Description: Start your own blog that follows your ONE activities on campus or your involvement in ONE. (Minimum of 5 posts per week).
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Make your own action |
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Description: Tells us what you did and how many points that you think it should be worth. (The better the description and evidence the better).
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ONE facebook group |
200 |
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Description: Create a ONE facebook group for your campus.
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ONE head coach |
250 |
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Description: Convince the head coach of one of your teams to wear a ONE shirt to a game or at a school function.
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Fly a ONE flag |
250 |
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Description: Create a ONE flag and get your school administration to fly it on campus or at a sporting event.
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Customize your campus' page |
250 |
We'll take care of this one automatically.
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Description: Have your campus leader log in and customize your schools page on this website.
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Video bonus points! |
250 |
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Description: Submit a video along with any action worth 250 or more points.
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ONE royalty |
250 |
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Description: Convince your homecoming king and queen to wear a ONE shirt or band to an official function.
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Storm the dorm |
300 |
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Description: Arrange a special talk about ONE issues at a dorm through a resident advisor.
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At the movies |
350 |
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Description: Hold a screening of one of the many movies that show the reality of extreme poverty to inspire more people to get involved in the campaign. (This is also a great chance to have a captive audience text to join ONE.)
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Meet |
400 |
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Description: Hold regular in-person ONE Chapter meetings. (Minimum of five people per meeting, maximum 2 meetings a week.)
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ONE your team |
500 |
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Description: Get an athletic team at your school to wear bands during a game or sporting event (BONUS 5,000 points if it appears on off-campus TV).
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Sign a ONE Petition |
500 |
We'll take care of this one automatically.
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Description: Click submit on an online ONE petition.
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Submit an LTE |
500 |
We'll take care of this one automatically.
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Description: Submit a letter to the editor using ONE's online tool even if your letter doesn't get published. (Maximum 5 letters).
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Write letters to voters |
500 |
We'll take care of this one automatically.
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Description: Write letters to potential voters to encourage them to vote.
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Write letters to Congress |
500 |
We'll take care of this one automatically.
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Description: Write letters to members of Congress when ONE issues a call to action. (letters sent in bulk-exceeding 25- will only be accepted once per year of OCC.)
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ONE ad space |
500 |
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Description: Get groups to donate ad space in any printed materials or on their webpage.
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Left and Right ONE |
500 |
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Description: Get College Republicans AND Democrats (and any other political student groups) to endorse ONE by issuing a proclamation.
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Participate in ONE days |
500 |
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Description: On the 1st of every month, take the campus by storm in an all out push by setting up a table during the day, wearing your ONE shirt, etc. (BONUS 2,500 points for 6 consecutive months).
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Bird-dog on the campaign trail |
500 |
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Description: Give a candidate running for office persistent attention on the campaign trail until they agree to wear a ONE band or T-shirt. (Remember to be respectful and considerate.)
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ONE group photo |
500 |
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Description: Organize a BIG (25+) group of students in ONE merchandise at an iconic location on your campus for a photo opportunity.
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Human ONE logo |
500 |
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Description: Organize a group of students to spell out ONE in a public place using their bodies (BONUS 20 pts per person over 5, minimum 5 people).
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Monthly Call Participation |
500 |
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Description: Join a monthly call using our toll-free number and participate in a student-led informational call with other students from your region, the COAs, and special guests.
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On-campus tabling |
600 |
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Description: Set up a table with a ONE banner or sign and have your friends text to join the ONE Campus Challenge. (From main pathways to the student union, there are plenty of people moving about on a college campus who might be willing to give a minute to help fight extreme poverty.)
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Off-campus tabling |
600 |
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Description: Set up a table with ONE materials and sign-up sheets at a community event off campus.
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Get on the ONE Blog |
750 |
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Description: When submitting information about actions you have taken be sure to provide good details, pictures and/or audio. (BONUS 750 points if it's selected for the ONE Blog).
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ONE creative project |
750 |
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Description: Include ONE in a published, displayed, or publicly performed creative project.
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ONE school leadership |
1000 |
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Description: Get a dean, president, or provost to wear ONE gear around campus.
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Hang a banner on greek row |
1000 |
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Description: Hang a ONE banner on your chapter house and keep it up for the semester.
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Hang a banner |
1000 |
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Description: Hang a ONE banner in a high-traffic area on campus.
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Invade the classroom |
1000 |
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Description: Talk to professors you know, and publish a bulletin to find others who teach relevant classes that might have an interest in getting a ONE representative to speak at their class, even if just for 5 minutes.
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ONE tailgate |
1000 |
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Description: Set up a ONE tent or tailgate at sporting events to sign up members.
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Phone calls to Congress |
1000 |
We'll take care of this one automatically.
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Description: When ONE has a call to action use the 1-800 number provided to register your call to your member of congress.
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House Party vs. Poverty |
1000 |
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Description: Throw a party to recruit and educate new members and get people to take the Campus Challenge as part of the entrance.
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Campus Letter to the Editor |
1000 |
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Description: Submit and have a Letter to the Editor on extreme poverty published in a campus newspaper.
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ONE campus media |
1000 |
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Description: Let your campus media know about events and get your activities covered in campus publications/radio/TV.
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Photo of the Week |
1000 |
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Description: Have your photo selected by ONE as the best student submitted photo.
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High-profile Letter to the Editor |
1000 |
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Description: Submit and have a Letter to the Editor about extreme poverty published in major city/regional/national newspaper.
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Debate |
1000 |
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Description: Host a debate with college Democrats, Republicans, and the debate team to talk about the real political solutions to extreme poverty.
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ONE your representative |
1000 |
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Description: Take and submit a picture of a member of Congress or state politician wearing ONE gear. (BONUS 250 points for a ONE T-shirt).
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Power 100 summit |
1000 |
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Description: Attend the Power 100 summit.
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High school outreach |
1000 |
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Description: Go to high schools in your community and talk about ONE and ONE's issues.
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Faith in ONE |
1000 |
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Description: Work with a local place of worship to incorporate ONE into a service or religious event.
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High-profile blog |
1000 |
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Description: Submit and be selected to have your entry about extreme poverty posted on a high traffic blog (over 1,000 views a day).
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Engage an advisor |
1000 |
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Description: Have a faculty or staff advisor help promote ONE on campus and become a member of your ONE Chapter.
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Build a ONE coalition |
1100 |
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Description: Talk to other groups and their members about endorsing ONE and get 5 groups on campus to endorse ONE's goals by signing the ONE Declaration.
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ONE student government |
1500 |
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Description: Have the student government pass the ONE Proclamation.
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Organize ONE regionally |
1600 |
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Description: Team up and plan an event with other ONE chapters at nearby schools.
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Create a commercial |
1700 |
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Description: Make a short, creative TV/radio ad talking about ONE. (BONUS points for great production value).
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Local Letter to the Editor |
1800 |
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Description: Submit and have a Letter to the Editor published in local newspaper about extreme poverty.
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First ONE meeting |
3000 |
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Description: Organize and hold your campus' first ONE chapter meeting.
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ONE congressional visits |
12000 |
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Description: Get a group together and visit your senators' or representatives' offices and talk to the member about the current bills in Congress. (Take something they can hang in the office (be creative) to remind them of your visit. 12k for meeting with a member, 1k for meeting with staff. Maximum 5 for school.)
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ONE curriculum |
2000 |
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Description: Have professor lecture on ONE's issues (see them at ONE.org), make a ONE activity a requirement or make ONE some way involved in the course (be creative).
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ONE Partner project |
2500 |
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Description: Work with a ONE partner on a community service project. ONE has over 150 partner organizations across the country, check out the list of our partners at http://www.one.org/partners to see who you can pair with on campus.
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ONE mascot |
2500 |
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Description: Get your school mascot to wear a ONE shirt at a sporting event (we're talking people in mascot outfits people, not real animals).
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Get local attention |
2900 |
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Description: Let your local media know about events and get your activities covered in local publications/Radio/TV.
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Battle of the ONE bands |
3200 |
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Description: Arrange a performance of campus and local bands. (Try to keep the cost low and make part of the price joining the ONE Campus Challenge).
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ONE float |
4000 |
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Description: Design and create a ONE float for homecoming/community parade.
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World AIDS Day event |
4000 |
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Description: Plan an event on campus for World AIDS Day (December 1st).
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October 17th-19th event |
4000 |
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Description: Plan an event on campus for “Stand Up and Take Action” against poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals (October 17-19th).
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Elect a board |
4000 |
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Description: Elect your ONE chapter governing board (at least a president and vice president).
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Speakers on campus |
4000 |
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Description: Work with academic departments to bring speakers to campus. Encourage professors to take their classes and make sure to sign up people at the door. (BONUS 500 points for crowd over 50 students. EXTRA BONUS 1,000 points for crowd over 100 students.)
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ONE gear in bookstore |
4600 |
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Description: Have your campus bookstore sell ONE merchandise to increase your reach on campus.
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ONE books in bookstore |
4600 |
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Description: Work with your campus bookstore to select books on global poverty and disease and put them in a ONE section.
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ONE your .edu |
4800 |
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Description: Work with your school to get a ONE logo or ONE Campus Challenge link on your school's website (BONUS 250 points if on the campus homepage).
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ONE conference |
6000 |
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Description: Get a group of students, professors, experts, and others together and hold a conference about global poverty and disease.
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Email ONE to your school |
10,000 |
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Description: Work with your school to send a ONE Campus Challenge dedicated email to your student listserv, with a link to your ONE campus page. (1,000 for just a partial mention).
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Major media feature |
10000 |
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Description: Get your activities covered in major city/regional/national media. (Newspapers, magazines, radio and TV count).
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Weekly Challenge Reporting |
10000 |
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Description: Win this week's weekly challenge.
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ONE chapter |
12000 |
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Description: Work with your student government to recognize your ONE Chapter as an official group on campus.
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ONE city |
12000 |
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Description: Have the mayor or local government sign a proclamation declaring your university's city a ONE City.
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Congressional speaker on campus |
16000 |
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Description: Reach out to a member of Congress to speak to students on campus about ONE's issues (minimum 50 people in attendance).
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ONE Campus |
20000 |
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Description: Work with the administration and the student government to declare your campus a ONE Campus.
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Rock your campus |
50000 |
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Description: Complete all ONE actions on this list.
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