Posted by Susan Gordon on July 28th, 2010
Brianna Donovan, a member of the cause Thank a Soldier, posted a video called Thank Your Military to the cause last year. The video has a simple message: thank the men and women in our military and show them that there are people who appreciate their service and sacrifice. Her goal is to spread the video to every present and former military person across the globe. Well, she’s getting close. As of today, over 6.7 million people have watched the Thank Your Military video on Causes. That is more than any video currently in YouTube’s “Nonprofits & Activism” channel.
I think one of the most touching parts of this story is the number of people who have written to Brianna and thanked her for posting the video and posted comments on the video about the vets they want to thank. This is the kind of community I hope is created in every cause. So how about it? Do you know any vets that you can send this video to and say thank you for their service? I know I’m sending it to a couple dear friends now.
Posted by Susan Gordon on July 22nd, 2010
When Danielle Brigida from the National Wildlife Federation heard the cause she started, Help Wildlife Impacted by the Oil Spill, had reached 1 million members, she contacted me to say what pretty much boils down to “Wow. What now?” After only three weeks, over 1 million people have joined the oil spill-focused cause and those members have donated almost $100,000 to the National Wildlife Foundation’s surveillance and clean-up efforts in the area. I was happy to get Danielle’s email because she was not content with getting a lot of people in a cause. She immediately started thinking of what fundraising projects, volunteer opportunities, or other campaigns these 1 million people could participate in in order to achieve the real goal of this cause: to help wildlife impacted by the BP oil spill. The members of this cause are clearly enthusiastic and ready to take action, as evidenced by the comments on this video.
So I’d like to ask you, what do you think the next steps for this cause should be? How can the cause members help and make sure an oil spill like this doesn’t happen again? Donate? Call the head of BP? Write to Obama? Write your ideas here and I’ll make sure they’re heard.