Days for Girls International Joins the Revlon LOVE IS ON 2016 Million Dollar Challenge on Crowdrise
Help Days for Girls win $1 Million Grand Prize by Donating
Press Release – SEATTLE, September 23, 2016 — Days for Girls has joined the Revlon LOVE IS ON 2016 Million Dollar Challenge, a fundraising competition that lives on CrowdRise.com — the largest crowdfunding platform for good. Launched by Revlon, the Challenge was created to help charities supporting women’s health raise as much money as possible for their cause. During the course of the six-week Challenge, leading women’s health organizations will compete to raise as much money as possible with $1,425,000 in prize money at stake. Days for Girls has joined the challenge on CrowdRise to raise money to enable girls to go to school around the world, through providing them with lasting feminine hygiene solutions.
Throughout the world, one of the most common reasons girls miss school every month is lack of access to sanitary supplies. Providing hygiene solutions is a simple way to keep girls in school. “There are so many things that are hard to change in our world. This is not one of them. This is something we can change now…together,” said Celeste Mergens, Days for Girls Founder, speaking at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 2016.
The Revlon LOVE IS ON 2016 Million Dollar Challenge launched on CrowdRise on September 14th at 12pm ET and runs through October 26th at 1:59:59pm ET. The team that raises the most during the Challenge wins $1M, second place wins $100,000, third place wins $75,000, fourth place wins $50,000 and fifth place wins $25,000. Weekly Bonus Challenges enable charities to win up to another $175,000.
CrowdRise Challenges are innovative fundraising competitions for charitable organizations. Designed to build capacity, create massive engagement, leverage the power of the crowd, these Challenges provide new, meaningful funding streams for organizations in every sector.
To help Days for Girls win the Revlon LOVE IS ON 2016 Million Dollar Challenge, visit https://www.crowdrise.com/days-for-girls-international-revlon2016
ABOUT DAYS FOR GIRLS
Days for Girls is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a more free, dignified, and educated world through providing access to sustainable feminine hygiene solutions and health education. Since 2008, Days for Girls has reached over 400,000 women and girls in over 100 countries. Hygiene solutions are a simple and effective ways to help girls succeed. 12-year-old Noreen from Kenya said it best: “When we have those kits, we can do something great in this world.” The former First Lady of Kenya affirmed this, saying, “This is what has been holding girls back in education, this must now come to an end. There will be no need to drop out of school or to have early marriages.”
Days for Girls was featured at the 2015 and 2016 UN Commission on the Status of Women, was selected by the Huffington Post as a ‘Next Ten’ organization positioned to change the world in the next decade, and is a two-time Girl Effect Champion. Days for Girls is committed to reaching ‘Every girl. Everywhere. Period.’ By 2022. For more information about Days for Girls, please see: www.daysforgirls.org.
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