My ONE Blog

This blog will be devoted to my involvement with the ONE Campus Challenge, through the ONE Campaign to make poverty history. Last Saturday I found out about the ONE Campus Challenge, and I got excited. I immediately joined, invited people, made a Facebook group, and wrote an article about poverty for the campus newsletter. Why, you ask? To get points!

It seems strange that there exists a competition to reduce poverty, but it's definitely a motivator. My only fear is that people will get too distracted from the cause while they're focusing on winning.

Wilmington College is a small school. We were founded by the Quakers (or the Religious Society of Friends) in 1870. We have approximately 1200 students. And ONE is taking over the campus like the best kind of epidemic you can imagine. In five days, we went from #133 in standings to #33! Can you believe that? I think we can make a difference. Tiny little Dub C can make a huge difference.

We recently expanded our Service Learning Office into a campus-owned house, and we're now the Center for Service and Civic Engagement - and if this isn't Civic Engagement, I don't know what is.

The point of the Campus Challenge is to get points by doing ONE-related things, like dressing your pet in ONE gear, or taking a picture of 25+ students in ONE gear at an iconic location on campus. Some more tech-based points come from making a Facebook group (done!), and blogging about ONE.

If I continue to write in this blog 5 days a week about my involvement with ONE, Wilmington College will receive 300 points a week! I can do that! I'm going to start writing my 5 weekly posts this Sunday, October 7th.

Sign up to help Wilmington College in the ONE Campus Challenge! You don't have to be a student here - friends, family, students, and alums are all welcome to join, and if you're willing to help us out, you're definitely a friend of WC!

Go to http://one.org and look for the ONE Campus Challenge! Specify that you're for Wilmington College in Wilmington, OH and help WC make poverty history!