You’ve probably heard of MySpace. You know, MySpace. That thing you do when you really need to procrastinate?
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably wasted more time on MySpace than you care to admit: denying friend requests from bad bands and fake profiles, commenting on your friends’ latest ridiculous pictures, looking for that one boy or girl you had a crush on in high school, etc.
Good news: now you can waste time on MySpace doing something that actually makes a difference: the awesome grassroots, global-warming-fighting non-profit I work for, Focus the Nation is one of three finalists (along with the Wild Dolphin Foundation, and Erin Brokovich) for this month’s MySpace Impact Award and we need you to vote for us.
If you don’t know, the Impact Awards are monthly online awards where various non-profits square off in a heated competition and America votes for their favorite (not unlike that one TV show.) The winner receives mad crazy skrilla (ten large) which would be huge for us, considering that we’re currently run out of an attic in Tualatin, Oregon (but soon, due to the incredible generosity of Lewis and Clark College, we’ll be moving into an attic in Portland, Oregon). Plus we’d get a heck of a lot of exposure from being featured on the Impact Awards site and in MySpace banner ads. To give you a sense of how big of a deal this award is, last month’s winner was one.org and they’ve got Brad Pitt as a spokesperson.
The theme this month is environmentalism, in honor of the Live Earth concerts, so it seems appropriate that a grassroots educational effort to fight global warming should win! The dope thing about this award is that you can vote, like, all the time. Once every day. Chicago style (NB, if you get that joke, you’re officially a political nerd).
Now, we don’t have Brad Pitt (yet), but we do have you, and you are all it will take to win this thing. Vote now, vote tomorrow, vote every day until July 20th. With the combined forces of the entire youth climate movement we can beat Jordin Sparks Erin Brokovich. Not that Erin Brokovich isn’t awesome and all, but really — she’s had a fair bit of publicity lately you know? She doesn’t need this like we do.
If you’re really a champ, add us as a friend and put us in your top 8. Your friends will think you’re way awesomer, and we promise not to send you comments about how to get a free Macy’s gift card.
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Seriously, vote for Focus the Nation! Vote early, vote often
(and yes, I get the Chicago joke… nerdy me I suppose).