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Last Day of Voting for USAID Challenge

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Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.

It’s true: Today, Friday, is the last day to cast your vote for up to 5 favorite USAID project submissions.  Get out the vote, now!

The Word on the Street…

Project teams and others are telling their friends, families, colleagues and communities about the vote, hoping to make it to the next round where 15 projects will be presented to the USAID judges.  If you want to learn more about projects than what is provided in the Project Gallery, check out the Community Blog where projects are discussing their ideas and asking for your support.

Oliver Subasinghe recently told the devex community about the USAID Challenge and check out this testimonial from quazi on the community blog:

Learning about various projects through the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge

I am glad that I voted for 5 projets posted here on NetSquared. What I liked most is that I now will have access to ideas as I prepare to use social web technologies to advance our cause for leadership development in Bangladesh, especially for the youth.

Get out the Vote!

This is the last day to help select the 15 projects moving on in the Challenge. Cast your vote now!

The voting process is simple, interactive and fun. It’s our goal to be as inclusive as possible because it’s your job to pick the projects that best deserve the time, attention, and funding that this Challenge can offer.

How to vote:

  • You must Register and Login to the NetSquared site to participate in the Vote (please check your junk mail folder if you do not see a registration email confirmation)
  • Each registered user has one (1) ballot
  • You must vote for at least three (3) Projects and no more than five (5)
  • All votes are weighted equally (in other words, your first choice and fifth choice have equal value)
  • You can only vote for each Project once, yes that includes your own
  • You must review and cast your ballot for your vote to count (details below)

Share your feedback, ideas, or favorites on the Community Blog after you’ve voted!

One week to vote in USAID Challenge!

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Today, the voting opens to select the top 15 projects in the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge.  Voting only lasts this week so check it out now:  http://netsquared.org/usaid/vote

For more information about the Challenge, visit: http://netsquared.org/usaid

Why vote?

The voting process is simple, interactive and fun.  Plus, your voices together are better than ours alone and voting in the USAID Challenge Community Vote will help select the very best 15 projects to move on to the panel of judges.

Voting begins on Monday, December 8 and closes on Friday, December 12.  That’s just one week of voting, so we hope you’ll get the word out to friends and colleagues to help support the projects you care about. You don’t have to be part of a project team or even be a mobile tech expert to participate. 

Go Vote!

How to vote:

  • You must Register and Login to the NetSquared site to participate in the Vote (please check your junk mail folder if you do not see a registration email confirmation)
  • Each registered user has one (1) ballot
  • You must vote for at least three (3) Projects and no more than five (5)
  • All votes are weighted equally (in other words, your first choice and fifth choice have equal value)
  • You can only vote for each Project once, yes that includes your own

Contact us if you have any problems or questions - we want to make sure your vote counts!

For more information about voting, visit USAID Vote!

The top 15 selected projects will be announced Monday, December 15th and will be presented to USAID, where a panel of judges will select the final 3.  For more information about the Challenge, check out the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge page.

London Net Tuesday - Social Media Exchange December

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Last night was the second London Net Tuesday event and another success for the local nptech community to share ideas, ask questions and learn together.  This month, we took a different approach - instead of focusing in on one tools or story, we had a Social Media Exchange to celebrate the festive time of year.  Here’s how it worked:

(Video by David Wilcox after the event.)

Social Media Exchange

How it worked:
The room (which was a round cafe with an upstairs) was set up with four designated sections downstairs and two upstairs.  These topic areas were marked by labels on the wall and included:

  • blogs & Twitter
  • photos / Flickr
  • voting & e-democracy
  • tagging & social bookmarking
  • social networks & communities
  • videos / YouTube

Everyone was given a game board of sorts to fill in while filtering throughout the room.  For 45 minutes, participants were able to move from section to section and join in or start conversations with others in that topic area.  The game board had prompts for notes and questions including:

  • Best example of tool in use
  • Best lessons learned
  • How to evaluate for success
  • New idea for my organization
  • New contact for questions/ideas

The participants in the Social Media Exchange had a chance to:
- hear about examples of social media in use
- get new ideas and contacts
- share their stories, lessons, and ideas
- have fun!

Collaborative Roundup

After the free exchange period, the group came together for a roundup of the conversations and ideas.  I had a piece of paper on the wall for each of the six topic areas and the group supplied examples of organizations, events, conferences or individuals using each tool to be captured on the paper.  We also discussed lessons learned and things to keep in mind.  This gave people who hadn’t made it to one of the topic areas a chance to gain some of the key take-aways and ask questions.

You can see photos of the 6 collaborative roundup sheets on the London Net Tuesday meetup group!

Have you participated in a similar exchange event? What did you like most/least about it?

Were you at London Net Tuesday last night? What were some of the best conversations or ideas you went home with?

Five days left to submit to USAID

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on December 1, 2008
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Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.

This is your last week to submit ideas to the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge. Proposals are stacking up in the USAID Project Gallery already!  You can read proposals, star your favorites, leave comments and collaborate with project teams, or submit your own!  Check out the newest projects!

Submissions are due December 5th! Submit your idea today!

From the Project Gallery:

  • ROBO Calls for Health - a developing country proposal
    A Problem in many developing countries is that many people who require medical care for chronic illnesses (high pretension and diabetes) and child health (Pre and post natal) often forget their appointment or to maintain their home treatment plan.   Such situations result in HIV AIDS, loss of ability to work (resulting in economic stress and poverty) premature death including high infant mortality rates. Most of these individuals already have mobile phones through which they can be reached by health care system (village, district, national level).  Through phone calls and/or text messaging patients would be reminded of their appointments and/or home treatments.
  • BizWiz - The Business Helper
    BizWiz - the Business Helper- is a cell phone application that helps small and micro entrepreneurs keep track of their business expenses and sales more easily, streamline financial information, and analyze it on a more regular basis. BizWiz allows the creation of an immediate record of the transaction as it happens, ensuring that expenses and revenues are properly managed.
  • Cell by Cell Community Twitter
    I’ve been involved with community development in urban slums and small rural towns in Brazil for the past fifty years.  There is an assumption by “outsiders” that because of the density of the slums and the circumscribed boundaries of the small rural towns, communication circulates freely and rapidly.  I believe the opposite is true.  Residents of these communities tend to stay close to their residences, sources of food, access to transportation and community services such as schools and health clinics.  They tend to venture out to social gatherings such as church attendance in groups.  They would never think of just walking their dog outside the immediate confins of the street in front of their house or shanty.
  • Global PocketSchool Network (PSGN)
    PSGN is a global open network distributing mlearning-based edutainment solutions to places where there are no schools. This project is to help extremely underserved children develop literacy, numeracy, and life-skills to participate in global information, knowledge, and creative content economy. The philosophy for this is “everyone can learn and contribute to world peace and prosperity.”

Participate in 4 easy steps:

  • Register and/or Login
  • Click on Username
  • Click on “Submit a Project to the Project Gallery” under My Project Idea
  • Select “USAID” from the Prize Tag menu located below Additional Cause Area Tags on the Submission Form

Visit the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge Project Gallery to check out proposals, star your favorites, and comment and collaborate with the project teams or learn more about the Challenge.

Interview: Chris Spavin on Global Entrepreneurship Week

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Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.

It’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, so I have the inside scoop from Chris Spavin, a member of the Make Your Mark team working with partners to deliver GEW, catalyze events overseas, and assist the campaign’s development abroad.  Chris believes, “there is so much untapped potential in people and sometimes all we need is a simple catalyst.”  Learn more about the work below in Chris’ own words and find out how you can get involved!

What’s Global Entrepreneurship Week all about?

Global Entrepreneurship Week is a campaign to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs, and to unleash ideas that will address some of society’s biggest issues.  The point is we need entrepreneurs and we need more of them, now more than ever.  Organizations in over 75 countries are supporting this cause by ‘hosting’ their own national version of the campaign.

How is Make Your Mark contributing?

Make Your Mark is a co-founder of Global Entrepreneurship Week, along with a US-based organization called the Kauffman Foundation.  We are both responsible for coordinating the global campaign, and offering support and guidance to our partners around the world.  The campaign model is based on Make Your Mark’s Enterprise Week in the UK, which will be running for the fifth time this year as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.  We’ve got great experience running this type of campaign—there are over 6,000 events during the week in the UK alone this year—and we’re sharing it.

How can people get involved in GEW?

One of our main aims of this campaign is to mainstream entrepreneurship so there’s something that everyone can do to get involved.  Individuals can register on our website and our forum.  Organizations can run their own events, either for the public or for their staff, to inspire more entrepreneurial, or innovative, behaviour.  Educators can get their students involved in competitions, including the Make Your Mark Challenge if you’re a school in the UK, or something like Stanford’s Global Innovation Tournament if you’re in a university.  You can attend a Speednetwork the Globe event if you want to meet like-minded people in person, or you can meet them via our online community.  If you’re involved in the media, you can write about Global Entrepreneurship Week to help us raise our profile.  All of our competitions and events are available on our website, and there really is stuff happening everywhere.

Is this going to keep going beyond the end of the week?

Absolutely.  This has been the very first Global Entrepreneurship Week and it’s going to run year-on-year.  We’ve been doing it for five years in the UK but the vast majority of other countries are running this campaign for the first time.  They are tremendously excited to build on their initial success this year, and to make an even bigger bang in 2009.  We can’t wait to see how things grow.

What are some of the ideas you’ve heard about this week that inspire you?

There are a few of them that stick out in my mind.  Amy Carter-James is a young British woman who set up her own lodge in Northern Mozambique that is both a high-end hotel and social enterprise that ploughs its profits back into the local community.  I think it’s going to have a massive impact on Mozambique and the idea itself is quite simple.  I also met an entrepreneur called Shed Simove who comes up with new novelty gift ideas - the kind of crude and hilarious things you find at Urban Outfitters.  Although both of these entrepreneurs are on opposite sides of the social benefit spectrum (Shed may disagree with me about that!), they are people who have taken simple, fun ideas from out of their minds and turned them into profitable businesses.  I find that the simplest business ideas are often the most inspirational because they really demonstrate that: “hey, I could do this, too”.

If you could be anywhere in the world for GEW, where would you want to be?

Aaaah, this is a difficult question!  And it’s actually one of the first questions I asked myself and a few colleagues at the beginning of the week.  I have to pick three.  The Brazilian campaign is really impressive: they’ve got lots of amazing things going on and even managed to get a commercial featuring Michael Dell on national TV.  Plus it’s nice and warm there—or at least I imagine it to be!  The campaign in Kenya is also exciting: they had a big football/music event in Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi.  Finally, Malta joined the campaign only very recently but have managed to pull lots of stuff together; the team there is so enthusiastic and pro-active.  I would spend my time between the three places  :-)

What, in your opinion, is the most important reason to get involved in GEW?

I believe that everyone on this planet realizes why entrepreneurship is important, even if it’s not right for them.  Not everyone can be an entrepreneur, or wants to be (it’s not easy!), but I think every young person, no matter where they’re from, should be encouraged to at least consider it for themselves, and have access to the necessary support should they decide to take the plunge.  There is so much untapped potential in people and sometimes all we need is a simple catalyst - could be meeting a person, or an inspirational story on the net - to take the next step and start turning our ideas into reality.  Entrepreneurs - whether self-employed or currently employed by somebody else - are the people who will come up with the new ideas and create the new businesses that will lead us into a more prosperous time.

How you can get involved:

Net Tuesday London: December is a Social Media Exchange!

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Join us for Net Tuesday London, this month: Social Media Exchange!

Details:

  • Tuesday, 2 December
  • 5:30 pm doors open, 6 pm event starts
  • Charity Technology Trust, 1 London Bridge
  • Topic: Social Media Exchange
  • RSVP: Net Tuesday London group

* How it works:

  • The room has designated topic areas throughout, marked by labels on the wall (including: blogs/micro-blogging; photos/videos; voting/contests/edemocracy; tagging/information sharing; social networks/lists/communities)
  • Everyone is given a game board of sorts to fill in while filtering throughout the room
  • When in a designated topic area, talk with others about 1. a project you/your organization has done in that area 2. success stories or unsuccess stories & lessons learned 4. questions you have for working in that area 5. how to evaluate success

* What you’ll get from participating:

  • examples of social media in use
  • ideas and contacts
  • opportunity to share your story, lessons, and ideas
  • have fun!

We’ll also have a time at the end, as a big happy family, to discuss some of the best stories or lessons learned that came up in the exchange to make sure we all have a chance to hear it and can create a list of brilliant tid bits for the group to refer to.

Join the Net Tuesday London group to connect with others, see photos and notes from the last meeting, and more.

You can learn more about Net Tuesdays and see if there is one in your city on the NetSquared website. (Don’t see one in your area?  Let me know if you’d like to start one!)

USAID Development 2.0 Challenge: Extended Deadline Dec. 5th!

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If you have an idea for mobile technologies for good and you haven’t submitted to the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge project gallery yet, it’s your lucky day!

The Challenge submission deadline is extended to December 5th!

To participate in the USAID Development Challenge please Register and Login and submit your idea. To view, comment on or star a project, visit the USAID Project Gallery.

About the Challenge

Mobile technology, including everything from inventive applications for smart phones to simple text messaging, is increasingly ubiquitous in the developing world. USAID challenges you to explore its potential through an innovation for maximum development impact in areas such as health, banking, education, agricultural trade, or other pressing development issues.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Government agency that delivers economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide on behalf of the American people, is sponsoring a challenge to find the best in mobile innovations for good. Through a NetSquared community vote, fifteen finalists will be chosen. A panel of judges, selected by USAID, will then select the winners. The first place winner will receive a grant of $10,000, the two runner-ups will receive grants of $5,000 each. All three winners will have the opportunity to present their ideas to senior USAID officials, experts, and the public in Washington D.C.

How It Works

Individuals and organizations working with mobile technologies to create change are invited to share their projects with the community through the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge submission form. Once you’ve hit submit for your challenge, it’s public. This provides you with an opportunity to get feedback from your community, the USAID community, the NetSquared community and other friendly collaborators.

Once the project submission process has closed, we will hold a community vote to select the top fifteen projects. Those projects will then go in front of a panel of USAID-selected judges who will determine the three winners.

Four Easy Steps to Participate:

  • Register and/or Login
  • Click on Username
  • Click on “Submit a Project to the Project Gallery” under My Project Idea
  • Select “USAID” from the Prize Tag menu located below Additional Cause Area Tags on the Submission Form

Learn more about the Challenge and enter your idea here.

Net2ThinkTank: Lessons from the campaigns

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Whether your candidate won or not on Tuesday, we can all be happy to be rid of campaign commercials, right?  Since the campaigns are still so fresh in our memory, I wanted to use it for this month’s Net2 Think Tank question.

Topic:

What was the best example or lesson learned about leveraging social media from the political campaigns this year?  We saw candidates speaking to citizens through various mechanisms, but we also know that candidates have a lot more money than most of our nonprofit organizations (even if the tools are free, staffing and strategy development isn’t).  What social media tools, tricks, and strategies were employed that could be used successfully with nonprofits?

Here are a couple links from the applications themselves in case you didn’t see them:

Deadline:

Saturday, November 22nd
(The round-up will be posted on Monday the 24th.)

How to contribute:

  1. Blog your answer to the question either on your blog or the NetSquared blog. (For directions on contributing to the NetSquared blog, click here)
  2. Tag your blog with net2thinktank
  3. Send me the link to your post! (You can leave a comment here, email me, etc.)

Thanks again to everyone who participated last month.  I’m really looking forward to your ideas and insights this month and think we have a lot of examples to choose from.  Be sure to send me the link to your post by Saturday, the 22nd!

The Net2 ThinkTank roundup will be posted on the NetSquared site on Monday, November 24th.

Chain Reaction: Social change conference in London

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Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.

chain reaction conference logo“None of us on our own can change the world, not governments, not businesses, not charities. We succeed when we work together.” That’s the premise of Chain Reaction, an event that brings together social leaders, community activists, policy makers, business leaders, young people and people like you from around the globe to share learning and to generate new ideas for social change, locally, nationally and globally.

What’s Chain Reaction?

Chain reaction, taking place in London, UK, promises to be a unique experience, convening space for a multitude of potential collaboration and creativity. How do you want to change the world?

At Chain Reaction you will meet people from all walks of life, who are saying “we can build a better world”, shaping new ways of living and working and inspiring others through their ideas and their actions. Chain Reaction is the place to learn about HOW social change happens, and to get involved in developing new and exciting projects.

The two-day event will include key note speeches, workshop sessions, and open spaces to ensure everyone has a chance to connect and to be inspried (not to mention to inspire others)! You can check out the program to see what sessions interest you.

Details:

I will be at Chain Reaction and will be posting about the event throughout the two days right here on the NetSquared blog. Want to join me?

Train for Humanity: Interview with Mark Hayward

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Mark Hayward, co-founder of Train for Humanity, sets out today from his home to participate in the Miami Man Triathlon and raise awareness (and funds) for relief in Darfur. Train for Humanity launched this September with social media as a core aspect of communications, fundraising, and more. I recently connected with Mark to hear more about Train for Humanity and how social media is working for them. Learn more about Train for Humanity in the interview below or at http://trainforhumanity.org

Tell us a little about what Train for Humanity is and the work you do:

Train for Humanity is a new, innovative, non-profit humanitarian awareness and fundraising organization focusing on trying to assist children, refugees, and orphans who have been affected by genocide. The concept is loosely based on the successful campaigns that the Team in Training (Leukemia & Lymphoma Society) and Joints in Motion (Arthritis Foundation) have waged to raise funds and awareness for their respective health-based organizations by utilizing every-day athletes and their training efforts. However, Train for Humanity participant athletes will combine their passion for getting in shape or training to help raise awareness and funds for humanitarian crises.

We are vastly different from most humanitarian organizations in that we exist purely as an online entity, which means we have NO overhead costs to consume funds. Also, all of our PR and advertising to date has been done online using blogging and social media as a means of spreading the word. In fact, our mission is simple:

getting fit + social media + blogging = social good

During our pilot phase we have three “blogger/athletes” training for various endurance events to help raise awareness and funds for Darfur Peace & Development Organization.

What got Train for Humanity going?

While I was serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the jungles of Papua New Guinea ten years ago I was present the evening that a young woman from my village died from the effects of cerebral malaria simply because the proper medication was not available. Following that incident, I didn’t know how I was going to do it or what I would create, but I knew some day I would start a humanitarian organization.

Of course, life moved on: I went on to get a Master’s degree in International Development, continued to travel and live in various countries, and worked my way through numerous jobs. But, the idea to create “something” that could assist those who are facing humanitarian crises was always in the back of my mind.

About two years ago I was heading out the door to go running when a news clip on CNN wound up stopping me in my tracks for a minute. The story was about the horrific activities that were (and still are) taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan.

When the piece was over, I continued on my way and headed out the door for my run. However, during the workout the images of what was happening in Darfur stayed with me.

All of a sudden, out of nowhere as I was listening to Lucky Dube on my IPOD, I began to think of the successful campaigns that the Team in Training (Leukemia & Lymphoma Society) and Joints in Motion (Arthritis Foundation) have waged to raise funds and awareness for their respective health-based organizations by utilizing every-day athletes and their training efforts.

Then it HIT me: Why hasn’t anybody implemented a similar model of using endurance athletes in training (getting fit) to assist with humanitarian fundraising and awareness?

And thus, the initial idea for Train for Humanity was born.

Why Darfur?

People watch horrific events on the news on a daily basis, however, what’s happening in Darfur is the first genocide of the 21st century. At present, the situation is dire. Over the past five years, more than 200,000 (some estimates have this number at 300,000- 400,000) men, women, and children have died due to violence, malnutrition, and disease associated with genocide and an additional 2.2 million people have been displaced.

I am not quite sure why the global leaders haven’t really done anything to ensure that the violence will stop. Again, for me, it comes back to the children, who by some circumstance happened to be born during this crises. When I think about them losing their parents for no reason I always come back to the same conclusion - I live in the Caribbean, my life is good. How could I not do something?

How have you seen social media help the organization?

Social media and blogging are almost a complete bottom-up approach to marketing and branding. When used properly small business can utilize blogs, fellow bloggers, and social media (like Twitter and Facebook) to help promote their business or particular cause. Train for Humanity is working to leverage the power of blogs and social media to raise awareness. For example, Project co-founder Leo Babauta, has over 70,000 subscribers to his site and I think he gets close to a million page views a week, so anytime he mentions TFH on his site, he has the ability to reach a huge audience. Also, I have been writing guest posts, which highlight Train for Humanity for such popular blogs as Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger and the Successful Blog owned by Liz Strauss.

The latest statistic that I read stated that over 150,000 new blogs are created on a daily basis. The ability for even a small percentage of those blogs to help us make an impact is mind-boggling.

Social media sites such as Twitter and PLURK are primarily “micro-blogging” networking applications but if you are helpful toward the people who “follow” you, then they are always willing to promote your work in return.

We launched Train for Humanity on September 9, 2008 with nothing BUT social media so its intrinsic value (for us as an organization) is huge. In fact, without social media, Train for Humanity, would not necessarily exist. All of the blogger co-founders live in various corners of the world and we were brought together via our shared passion for helping people, social media, and the internet.

As a specific example, on the launch day we did not use traditional media for a press release. Instead we relied on social media tools like Twitter and random blog posts around the web to help spread the word about this new fledgling humanitarian organization. Our very first day the Train for Humanity website went from ZERO pageviews to around 7,000 within a ten hour period.

How are you leveraging social media in your current training campaign?

During phase one of Train for Humanity we aren’t specifically focusing on one particular training campaign. Rather, we are posting weekly training updates on our blog and we also want the TFH site to be a resource for others who might like to launch an online non-profit or business. To that end, I recently posted an article titled, “One Month After the Launch: Ten Lessons Learned.”

Our broader strategy has been to guest post on larger blogs like chrisbrogan.com, problogger.net, successful-blog.com, and the FourHourWorkWeek. We have also used Twitter (and to a lesser extent PLURK and Triiibes) to engage new readers in order to help us keep the buzz going.

What has surprised you about social media use with the organization/campaigns?

I have been truly humbled and inspired by the number of online acquaintances, whom I’ve never met, that have come forward to help with Train for Humanity either by sponsoring one of the athletes, blogging about us, or “retweeting” Twitter messages for me.

Also, I might add that combining social media and social issue awareness seems to be a tricky beast to tame (at least for me). The one thing that has sort of surprised me is that every time, without fail, if I send a Twitter message about something that is going on in Darfur I will lose between 3 and 5 followers. Which is okay because they probably followed for one reason and every now and again they get hit with a message on Darfur, but I am still curious as to “why.”

What have you seen to be the best social media tool for engaging your supporters?

GREAT question! Hands down, from my experience, people respond best to tweets (and countless retweets from friends) directing them to blog posts that are going to teach them something. Seth Godin emailed me some priceless information a while ago and he essentially told me:

Don’t tell people what you are about or try to jam it into them…teach them something about you, your organization, or what you have learned.

In that way you can provide value while still trying to gain Train for Humanity evangelists, sponsors, and participant athletes.

How can people follow you on SUNDAY?

You know I did just get a BlackBerry so I hope to tweet and blog most of my experience. Starting with leaving my little B&B business on Culebra Island by ferry this Wednesday to crossing the finish line on Sunday, November 9th, and everything in between.

Follow Train for Humanity on Twitter and the blog. Here’s Mark’s Twitter to follow, too!

How can people get involved with Train for Humanity?

If the genocide that is taking place in Darfur moves certain people to want to help or assist then I would strongly encourage those individuals to get involved. However, even if it’s not TFH, chances are, if you are reading this interview you are wealthy compared to most. Please know that you CAN make a difference!! If you are moved by animal welfare issues then support honest people who are trying to make a difference in the lives of animals or if your child’s school needs some help then maybe try to assist them.

The easiest way for people to get involved at this time is to send an email to trainforhumanity@gmail.com and if you would like to support us by sponsoring one of the TFH athletes then visit the sponsor-us page.

Learn more about Train for Humanity and how to get involved here.