Thanks to your hard work, we’ve caught the attention of some pretty notable people. Here’s a quick summary of the blogs and websites who’ve helped get our message out:
Mashable: Our partners at Mashable ran a full-day banner ad for the entire day on March 4. It was the single largest source of traffic (40%) for us that day.
Silicon Prairie News: One of the first to report, SPN has built quite an audience of innovators and entrepreneurs. They conducted a Skype video interview and shared it on their main page.
Change.org: Highlighting the long-term plans for WeCanEndThis.com, this piece focused on moving past click-only philanthropy.
Savvy Auntie: The leading community of aunts and godmothers have adopted us as their main cause for the month of March and place this story on their front page. Thank you!
3BLMedia: Our friends here work to help corporations tell their corporate social responsibility and cause marketing stories. They are generously featuring us on their daily CSRMinute video story. Go check it out and look around their website for more good content.
TheBeanCast: This weekly podcast about marketing and advertising featured one of our team members and heartily endorsed our efforts.
Boston Medical Center: As a hospital serving the less fortunate, BMC is home to a vibrant food pantry. They posted this blog entry supporting our efforts and encouraging Bostonians to join them.
SXSW Interactive: We are very fortunate and thankful to the SXSW Interactive Festival for promoting our partnership and providing us with a unique platform to launch. Here’s what they had to say.
Share Our Strength: As the leading champion of ending childhood hunger in America, we are grateful for their partnership and kind words.
Feeding America: The largest national hunger organization in the US, Feeding America is playing an active role in encouraging their food bank network to participate and promote our efforts.
Tyson Foods: Our earliest champion, Tyson Foods has played a critical role in helping us launch and they were kind enough to share why here.
Did we get everyone? Let us know if you’ve seen others covering our story by leaving their link in the comment section.
Square and YupGrade Join the Team
We are very pleased to announce two new additions to the WeCanEndThis.com team:
Square: Make Your Donation on the Spot at SXSW
Thanks to Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter and CEO of Square, our SXSWi street team will be outfitted with the latest in payment processing. If you’re there, be one of the first to make a contribution using this new technology.
Square seeks to bring greater immediacy, transparency, and approachability to the world of payments. Using the iPhone, we will be able to swipe credit cards and issue email receipts on the spot. We’re excited to put their system to use and give them real world feedback for to make it better for charities and event-based transactions.
YupGrade: Gather and Share News about Hunger
Featured this week in the Huffington Post, YupGrade gives an easy way to organize and reward your real-world learning activity. Because online learning gets lost in the midst of personal and irrelevant activity, your YupGrade profile will help keep track of the current events and causes you’re following.
To launch their application, they have issued the Hunger in America challenge in advance of an upcoming beta launch. You can earn points by signing in to YupGrade with Twitter or Facebook and sharing a news story about hunger or malnutrition in the United States. Experience it for yourself.