Chase Community Giving

Posted by Brandon Lagao | Posted in | Posted on 1/29/2010 10:12:00 AM

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SD Represent! I just wanted to note that myself and some friends dominated an Invisible Children Dodge Ball Tourney in the early stages of their movement. I take a lot of credit for that victory, but we also did have a current NBA player(Jared Dudley) on our team. We ended up winning an Apple Computer and donated it back to them...i'm sure they can buy quite a few computers now!


Here's the story:
"Facebook users selected San Diego-based charity Invisible Children to receive the top award of a $1 million grant from Chase in the final round of Chase Community Giving, a popular corporate philanthropy program on the social networking Web site.
More than 2 million Facebook users participated in Chase's online voting program.
Invisible Children works with the support of U.S. high school and college students to advocate for the rescue of children in central Africa who have been kidnapped from their homes and forced to serve as soldiers in a civil war in Uganda. More than 30,000 children have been abducted to become both the weapons and the victims of this tragic war. The organization, which will use the funding to build African schools and microeconomic programs as well as raise awareness in North America, received 123,990 votes in the program's second round.
To celebrate the victory, the nonprofit held an event Wednesday morning at Invisible Children Headquarters in downtown San Diego."

Link: http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20100128tga

NBA Jam Returns!!!

Posted by Brandon Lagao | Posted in , | Posted on 1/05/2010 05:00:00 PM

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This probably means nothing to most people, but to those that it does, here's the story: http://mashable.com/2010/01/05/nba-jam-nintendo-wii/

So Excited I bought a Wii now!