Cease Fire Charity Team!

Well, we have officially completed all the work for our Seminar classes! For my Seminar class, we had to create a human rights campaign. My group decided to do something with the violence in Chicago, after watching the film, The Interrupters. The film is about the organization Cease Fire, who go out to some of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods to fight the violence going on there. My group contacted Cease Fire and asked about how we could get involved. They said that they would need the most help in the fundraising aspect of their organization. So my group put our heads together to try and come up with ideas that could fit Cease Fire’s needs and what we needed to do for our project. We ended up coming up with the idea of creating a charity team in Cease Fire’s name for the marathon this coming October. We were able to get in touch with the marathon and create a page online where people can go to donate to a specific runner in Cease Fire’s behalf. Currently, I am the only runner for the team because I am the only one in the group that is registered for the marathon. We are searching for more team members through the connections I have made by running with different running clubs. We have also sent out emails to the individual donor list at Cease Fire to inform them of our project and show them how they can help out. We have also put the information on a flyer to send out. So far we have raised $75! And the page had only been up for about 48 hours! So coooooool. Here is a link to the site if you wanted to take a look at it and maybe donate…. J

www.crowdrise.com/ceasefirechicago