USA Cares New "50 States in 50 Days" Campaign

As you all know, i have been working with USA Cares for about 6 months now. About a month ago, Roger (Co-Founder) approached me with an idea that would take USA Cares into a new realm of technology. I have to say, I am SO excited about this new Campaign... "50 States in 50 Days."

We have teamed up with mGive, (A service of Mobile Accord, a Mobile Application Service Provider/Cause-Marketing Agency based in Denver, Colorado. They offer the strategic and tactical marketing expertise necessary to successfully implement scalable mobile donation and communication solutions on local and national levels.) With them, we are able to accept donations through texting. How much easier can it get?

With that in mind, Roger had this brilliant idea of doing a full out Campaign using the mobile giving idea. That's where you come in! (Hey... don't leave the page... at least hear me out!!!)

The first goal of the campaign is to find 50 volunteers who will take on the challenge of leading their state.

Their goal is to find a minimum of 100 donors within their state, who will text in $5 to USA Cares using the latest technology called mobile giving where the cell phone user texts a key word to a certain number and then responds with a “yes” when prompted to confirm the message. $5 is then added to the cell phone owner’s next monthly bill, and only one time. A person is able to text up to 5 times within a billing cycle. The length of the Campaign will extend over 2 billing cycles. Quotas are recorded by number of texts, not by individual people. So within your own household, you could already have 20 toward the 100 we are asking each Key State Volunteer to reach, and that is only if 2 people text in the maximum from your household.

We are looking for a key person in each state and there are a few that are still open. If you, or you think you know someone that might be interested, please let me know! We are in need of MD, NJ, OK, SD, CT, IA, MI, AR, ID, MN, WI, MO, NE, RI, UT, WV, ME, SC, and WY. Know anyone in those states?!

The campaign is tentatively scheduled to run from 1 April – 20 May 2009. At the conclusion of the campaign, three levels of prizes will be awarded:

1. Three key persons will receive an expense paid trip to Las Vegas on 12 November to attend the USA Cares 2nd Annual Golf Scramble
2. One key person will receive $1000 Visa Card for being first to reach $5000 worth of texts
3. One key person will receive a 32” Flat Screen TV for being first to reach $1000 worth of texts
4. All key volunteers will receive a gift bag at the conclusion of the campaign

I can promise you that USA Cares will commit time and effort in assisting with marketing and networking products and contacts. The 50/50 Committee is very dedicated to this Campaign and have come up with some good ideas to help our KSVs. You won't be in this alone. We are committed to making this almost effortless!

We will soon have a website up and running, but for now, we are doing most of our work through Facebook.

If you feel it's something you would like to do, please contact me and let's talk! My work with USA Cares has been so fulfilling, as you have probably seen on this blog. I'd love for you to be involved, too!

Please don't make me beg!!!!!

Cross posted at My Blog Cares