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Video Contest: We Want to See The Most Creative Ways to Mobilize on Campus
Global Brigades wants to learn your unique/creative way of recruiting others to join or support your brigade. How do you attract attention to your Global Brigades chapter on campus?

Through a 2-5 minute video or animation, share with us your unique way of advocating the Global Brigades mission on your campus or in your community.

If your video is selected, Global Brigades will sponsor the in-country program donation of two brigaders for your next brigade.

Questions and requests for the Contest Entry Form can be sent to vanessa@globalbrigades.org
Contest ends October 15, 2010 at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time
Winner will be announced at the October 22, 2010 Club Presidents Retreat and will be posted online

Rules and Eligibility

• ·You must be a US citizen or legal resident to enter and win.
• ·You must be 18 years of age or older to enter and win.
• ·Videos must be 2-5 minutes in length.
• ·Videos must not contain violence, profanity, sex, or direct attacks on individuals or organizations.
• ·The video must be your own original creation. No copyrighted music, video, or images may be used in the video.
• ·Videos must not infringe on any third party rights.
• ·Videos must not have been produced for compensation.
• ·Entrants must complete a contest entry form. This form must provide valid contact information.
• ·Videos must be accompanied by a video release form (included in the contest entry form).
• ·Winners must provide a copy of the original video file to Global Brigades to receive an award.
• ·By submitting a video to this contest, you grant to Global Brigades a royalty-free license to copy, distribute, modify, display and perform publicly and otherwise use, and authorize others to use, your video for any educational purpose throughout the world and in any media.
• ·Global Brigades reserves the right to make your video available to the general public from its Web site and to distribute it to groups and any other organizations interested in showing it for educational purposes, including, but not limited to, on Internet sites, at conferences and events, on television, and other media outlets.
• ·Global Brigades will disqualify any entries it deems to contain offensive material.
• ·Entries must be received or postmarked by October 15, 2010. Winners will be notified via e-mail and announced on the contest Web site on October 22, 2010. The winner will also be announced at the annual Club Presidents Retreat on October 22, 2010.
• ·Entrants must agree to these terms and conditions.

If your video follows the rules and meets the eligibility criteria above, it will be judged by a panel based on creativity, originality, message content, and video/audio quality.

Video Contest: We Want to See The Most Creative Ways to Mobilize on Campus

Global Brigades wants to learn your unique/creative way of recruiting others to join or support your brigade.  How do you attract attention to your Global Brigades chapter on campus?

Through a 2-5 minute video or animation, share with us your unique way of advocating the Global Brigades mission on your campus or in your community.

If your video is selected, Global Brigades will sponsor the in-country program donation of two brigaders for your next brigade.

Questions can be sent to vanessa@globalbrigades.org

Contest ends October 15, 2010 at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time

Winner will be announced at the October 22, 2010 Club Presidents Retreat and will be posted online

CLICK HERE FOR CONTEST ENTRY FORM – Download the form, fill it in, and email it to vanessa@globalbrigades.org

CLICK HERE FOR RULES AND ELIGIBILITY

Check out videos on our YouTube Channel to get some inspiration!

Global Water Brigades Director, Ben Erker, had an essay published by the US Center for Citizen Diplomacy on their website.  Read Ben’s personal story about his work helping to bring clean water to communities in Honduras, and read other stories about the work being done by average citizens across the world to create goodwill among the United States and other nations.

http://www.uscenterforcitizendiplomacy.org/share-stories/entry/benjamin-erkers-story/

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Dental Brigades by the numbers: 2010 Statistics Breakdown (so far!)

# Patients seen: 12456

# Extractions: 5205

# Fillings: 384

# Fluoride treatments: 7894

# Brigade days: 162

# Communities visited: 98 (some visited more than once)

If a team wants to offer dental care on their brigade, please contact Program Advisor Kate Leeming at kate@globalbrigades.org or Director of Student Affairs, Michelle Menclewicz at michelle@globalbrigades.org.

Photo: Students from September 2009 UChicago GMB “working” in the dental station.  In July 2010, Madhuri Nishtala (pictured) and Maddie Allen led the dental portion of their joint medical-dental brigade.

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Contact Danny De Valdenebro at danny@globalbrigades.org for more info on the Global Brigades Microfinance program, and visit www.facebook.com/GlobalBrigades.org for weekly microfinance updates.

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