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On the day that the Nerdfighter Kiva Lending Team hit $2 million, our Executive Director Andrew Slack was able to snap this photo with Muhammed Yunus at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum.
In 2006, Muhammed Yunus and Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below.” They basically invented the concept behind Kiva and microfinancing.
Let it be known: Muhammed Yunus Doesn’t Forget to Be Awesome!
Nerdfighters have teamed up with The Harry Potter Alliance for DFTVA! Participate and help your House in the HPA’s House Cup Competition by sharing the banner of your House colors on facebook! http://thehpalliance.org/dftva
In case you missed it!
You can watch the 2.5 hour entirety of Hank’s EqualityFTW livestream from earlier this week right here. Includes pizza, bacon, songs, a bit of impassioned speaking and oh so much more.
Perk Update: Clarification
Hank Green’s music is going to be an actual, physical disc. Not just a digital download. If you didn’t provide your address don’t worry — you will be contacted later for it!
Hank will be live at 6pm EST on the HPA's Imagine Better livestream! →
Be there or be square! Hank will be doing all kinds of amusing and crazy things, we’re sure, while rallying support and donations for the Harry Potter Alliance’s Equality FTW campaign.
We are doing a live broadcast at 9pm EST tonight to support the Harry Potter Alliance’s EqualityFTW FUNdraiser. Tune in here:
http://www.livestream.com/imaginebetter
And get ready to donate here:
http://www.indiegogo.com/EqualityFTW
This live broadcast will include songs but it may also include 1) the Animaniacs Theme Song 2) an 8-minute reenactment of E.T. the Extraterrestrial or 3) prank calls. Who knows?!
Nerdfighters! Don’t forget to check out the Harry Potter Alliance’s fundraiser! By donating, you can get a PDF of an unfinished, abandoned John Green novel called The Sequel, an EP of all of Hank’s Harry Potter songs (including the one he debuted at Leakycon), or a ton of other super special fancy exclusive exciting perks!
Also check out the livestream, going on now, for some crazy HatP goodness.
Equality FTW
The Harry Potter Alliance has organized a campaign called Equality FTW. They’re raising money to continue the awesome work they’ve done to ensure equal opportunity for all kinds of neglected populations: from undocumented immigrants to LGBTQ people to children in underserved community.
There are several cool perks: You can get a wizard rock Hank EP or the first 6,000 words of my abandoned story THE SEQUEL or (as I chose) get the Potter Puppet Pals to hold a sign with your name on it.
But most importantly, you’ll be giving to an organization that has meant a lot to nerdfighteria for a long time (they facilitated many of the early Projects for Awesome) and also meant a lot to Esther Earl (the HPA also has partnered with This Star Won’t Go Out).
So they’ve helped us a lot over the years. Please join me in helping them continue the fight for equal rights and equal access.
I remember John reading parts of The Sequel back in 2009 on blogtv. It was insanely mysterious, intriguing, and suspenseful, so I for sure am gonna pledge money to get that & I suggest y’all do as well. Or to get Hank’s EP of wrock songs! Or any of the other prizey perks (I have heard on good authority that there will be a bunch more rad pledge level things being released in the near future, so look out for those!).
You can keep up with the campaigns developments by following the Harry Potter Alliance’s twitter.
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