Welcome to Holly Harz our first new 3 Million Meters team member. She has started to log her meters by rafting the Grand Canyon in January! Way to go Holly!! Check out our crowdrise site now!
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Help 3 Million Meters raise its charitable goal by participating or giving, now or throughout 2014.Download PDF: Challenge & Opportunity
3 Million MetersChallenge & Opportunity The Challenge:Challenge yourself in 2014. Participate in the inaugural year of 3 Million Meters and help raise money for Women for Women International. Log your activity in running, biking, rowing, multisport—even reading, drawing, or performance. Create a fundraising goal. Help make a difference for women in conflict areas around the world. Even if you are already raising money for your favorite cause, you can add this annual goal at what ever level you feel comfortable with. (3 Million Meters = less than 36 miles/week)Why: Raise money for Human Rights causes. Prove your commitment to persistent, consistent, endurance based activity. Join a community of caring, active individuals working together to make a difference in the world. Raise money for Human Rights cause, Women for Women International—helping the neediest women in 8 countries conflict-stressed countries with job training and human rights education. (Video Clip) How: Go to crowdrise.com/3millionmeters and select the The Team tab. Choose, JOIN the team and set up your fundraiser. It only takes a few minutes to join the team. Choose any amount you want to raise; you can always change it later. There is an option to add a milage tracker. 1,864 mi = 3 million meters. (That’s less than 36 miles per week!) Soon enough there will be a 3millionmeter.org website to keep track of various activities separately. When: January is a great time to start logging miles, hours, or meters for your goal. Join us for this exciting inaugural year! Join any time you like, but the new year is a great time to start. Keep track of your own miles and log them using the tracker on crowdrise. The 3millionmeters.org website is under construction. No Cost: There is no charge for participation or membership this year. As the community grows, funding will be sought through grants and sponsorships. (Someday, when there are wonderful perks, maybe…). GOALS: More INFO: We imagine 3 Million Meters as a community committed to helping human rights causes over the long term by harnessing the energy employed in sport, art, and literary endeavor. If you run, bike or row; if you swim with a team, or read with a book club; if you write, draw or play in an orchestra or band, you can log your time, distance, or count as meters towards this cause. Technical: Artistic, performance, and literary based activity may need even more creative thinking. For instance, if you play an instrument, figure on 80 beats per minute average equaling 4,800 beats (meters) per hour, requiring 625 hours/year to equal 3 million meters. Readers or writers may translate a word as a “beat” or measure, and use the average number of words on a page to total 3 million. Whatever your activity or combination of activities, alone or as a team, you are welcome to join in this new community of engaged athletes and artists! TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS Donate directly to Artistactivist to fund this project:
To join in the meantime, check out our Crowdrise site and click to join the cause. You should be able to set up your own page to help raise money for Women for Women International through 3 Million Meters. The goal, to log 3 million meters in 2014 can be accomplished through distance in any sport, or through various artistic activities. Check out our PDF describing What, Why, and How and When: Challenge & Opportunity All the best for the new year, We’re nearing Thanksgiving and the end of 7 months of running for 3 Million Meters. I should pass 2 million meters of my running goal by the end of November. I am very grateful to have come this far, healthy and still enjoying the challenge– though the Chicago weather is making it more challenging. Now is the time to ramp up some fundraising for Women for Women. Please check out the link on the right column, or go directly to crowdrise.com/3millionmeters One week to go until the Chicago Marathon. I’m curently about 200 miles or 325K ahead of schedule on the 3 Million Meter Challenge, and have just started the fundraising for Women for Women International. But of course Winter weather is a challenge for running in Chicago, so we’ll just have to hang in there. And send out the appeal for the fundraiser. Launch of new Artistactivist fundraiser. See sidebar
3 Million Meters from Rigel Valentine on Vimeo. BBC interview with Women for Women – Iraq director in April 2013 Valentine has run over half way in under 5 months – at 1,539,820 meters as of September 25th. 4 months in to the 3 million meter project, I have recorded 1240 killometers or 1,240,000 meters. Over the next few weeks I should have a crowdrise site up to raise money for Women for Women International which helps train Iraqi widows among other initiatives. For the 10th Anniversary of “Mission Accomplished” artist activist Kevin Valentine is running 3 million meters (3 thousand kilometers) in one year to commemorate Iraqi widows. After his first month he has run 272.6K or 169.4mi. |
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