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Chase Contest For ME/CFS Non-profits Has Begun

Opportunity Knocks!


The Chase Giving Contest is back and with it the opportunity to get cash-starved ME/CFS non-profits some real cash. All it takes is your vote and spreading the word for the next two weeks (Sept 6-19th). This, in the world of non-profits is a remarkably easy (if nerve-wracking) way to make money…

Over the past two years Phoenix Rising has played a key role in getting Chase to pump over $170,000 into ME/CFS non-profits coffers and now we and eight other organizations are in the contest. The Top 200 vote getters this year will win from 10K to 250K.

Where We Are Now - Because you only have two votes we suggest that you focus them on organizations with a good chance of winning. In this blog we're going to focus on the top two vote-getters; Phoenix Rising and the Neuro Immune Disease Alliance or NIDA, an ME/CFS research funder. On the fifth day of the two week contest here are the votes for the two orgs with a strong chance of winning money..
  • Neuro Immune Disease Alliance at 54th place - winning 20K
  • Phoenix Rising An NEID Corporation at 86th place - winning 20K
To Vote on Facebook

NOTE: The Chase FB site is overloaded at times, so if it behaves weirdly, please try again later!

If you do not have a Facebook Account - go to www.facebook.com and quickly create a page. Since you must ‘like’ Community Chase Giving first in order to vote go to Community Chase’s Facebook pagehttp://www.facebook.com. Each person has two votes (plus a possible bonus vote, see below).

If You Have a Facebook Account

1. Go to Phoenix Rising's page at http://fb.chasegiving.com/charity/view/ein/27-3313361

(Or type NEID in the box "Search Charities".) "Phoenix Rising, an NEID corporation" will appear. Click “Vote”.If it asks you to "Allow" or "Allow App", click Yes. Then click the Like and Send buttons to spread the word about Phoenix Rising and the contest.

2. Then go to NIDA's page: http://fb.chasegiving.com/charity/view/ein/27-2861703

(Or type NIDA in the box “"Search charities".) "Neuro Immune Disease Alliance" will appear. Click "Vote". At the question "Allow" or "Allow App", click Yes. Then click the Like and Send buttons to spread the word about Phoenix Rising and the contest.

To Vote From Chase (all Chase customers)
Chase Bank and Facebook Users- can vote for the same organization twice...If you get a Bonus vote you can vote for an organization a third time.

The Bonus Vote

A Bonus Vote is an extra vote you can win and then use to vote for any organization you wish. In the grand tradition of Chase Giving the bonus vote is a complicated but getting Bonus votes could make a big difference...We're going to explain as simply as possible how to get an extra vote. If it's too much - forget about the Bonus vote strategy and just vote!

To Get a Bonus Vote

Sharing Content - To get a bonus vote Chase wants you to share an organization you like with a friend and then have them vote for that organization.
  • the person voting for the organization must click on your link and then vote without going to any other pages..
  • you only get one Bonus Vote..
How to Share An Organization

a) Go to Phoenix Rising's page at http://fb.chasegiving.com/charity/view/ein/27-3313361 and then click the like button to put the organization on your Timeline. Then ask one of your Facebook Friends to click on it and vote...You'll then get a Bonus you can use to vote for Phoenix Rising or another organization, including ones you already voted for.

b) For Family and Friends - Clicking on the 'Send' button is a great way to get a string going with family and friends. Click the Send button will send the organization's profile to a person's Facebook page, their email address or to their twitter account.

For instance, I'm asking my brother, Cass, to vote for Phoenix Risng An NEID Organization and NIDA. I will get a bonus vote when my brother votes. He will ask his partner to vote for the two organizations; once his partner has done that Cass will get a vote. Then his partner will send a message to my sister, who will send the message to her husband to his son etc. As long as the string continues everyone gets 3 instead of 2 votes.

You can also try The Bonus Vote Exchange we created.

Phoenix Rising's Winnings

Phoenix Rising has several projects it could spend the winnings on. Check some of them our here:
  • Rate a Practitioner program - to help ME/CFS patients save time, money and improve their health by finding good doctors and avoiding bad ones
  • Community Rising program - to break up the isolation and connect people in their local communities, provide avenues for assistance, reviews of local clinics and physicians, etc.
  • Making the Forums More Accessible to the Visually Impaired - upgrading the Forums so that as many as possible can participate.
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Scandinavia is pitching in!

RME, the Swedish national ME Association, has created a Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/143503745793340/

- and RME has also sent an e-mail to all members, encouraging them to vote for Phoenix Rising and NIDA

ME Foreningen, a Danish ME Association, has created an event too:
https://www.facebook.com/events/103252766495772/

Norges ME-forening, the Norwegian national ME Assocation, has posted on its wall:
https://www.facebook.com/MEforeningen?ref=ts

And the Norwegian journalist and author of the book about ME "De bortgjemte" (The Hidden Ones), Jorgen Jelstad, has posted on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/De-Bortgjemte/273407159344792

Can we Nordic advocates challenge the rest of you....? ;-)

PS. Cort and other PR team members, are you OK? I haven't seen posts in a while. Hoping all is well and that you're not giving up on Chase!
 
Merry
Contest stats as of 8:15 EST today:

Neuro Immune Diseases Alliance 62nd with 1279 votes
Phoenix Rising an NEID Corporation 153rd with 624 votes

So, NIDA up one position from yesterday. Phoenix Rising continues to slide.

ME/CFS organizations not on the leaderboard:

Rocky Mountain Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Association 79 votes
New Jersey Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Association 49 votes
Enterovirus Foundation 43 votes
HHV-6 Foundation 2 votes

Six more days in the contest.
 
Merry
Dolphin said:
As with the other Chase contests (and some other ones e.g. Vivint), it has been highlighted quite a lot by the me and the Irish ME/CFS Association in the Rep. of Ireland.
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Dolpin, I'm grateful to you for your work on this and contests in the past. Please tell others in the Irish ME/CFS Association that their help is very much appreciated.
 
Simon
Voted now, even got my niece to vote (who was amazed that I'd actually been on facebook).

We are slipping a little on the leaderboard but currently showing at #157 with 737 votes and still on course for $10,000, with 3 days left. Still worth plugging as much as we can.
 
Merry
Contest stats as of 8:30 am EST:

Neuro Immune Diseases Alliance is 66th with 1555 votes. Phoenix Rising an NEID Corporation is 161th with 761 votes.

Other ME/CFS organizations continue to pull in some votes but still are not on the leaderboard. Rocky Mountain CFS Association is top of this group with 83 votes. To get on the leaderboard, an organization would need at least 668 votes.

Four days remain in the contest.

Thanks to all who are helping out.
 
K2 for Hope
Oh, Merry, please don't feel that way. All your help is much appreciated. I think the way the voting is set up, it makes it very difficult to keep us even paced.

You can only vote once, then you must rely on getting everyone else to vote. It's hard to get people who are really busy or ill to sign on and vote. Also, you know that there will be a "final push", which is why I was sort of saving my votes.

Now, I've voted and am trying to get friends and family to vote, stating, it is only on til Sept 19th. Just do it once.... please... ;)
 
K2 for Hope
From Facebook Team Member, Helen W. Atkinson:

For Facebook members;

HUGE CHARITY CONTEST! CHASE IS GIVING OUT 5 MILLION DOLLARS- HELP US WIN $250,000 of it!!
Each voter gets 2 votes to start
Allow app, 1st time, then VOTE, number will change
Phoenix rising http://fb.chasegiving.com/charity/view/ein/27-3313361

NIDA http://fb.chasegiving.com/charity/view/ein/27-2861703

PLEASE LIKE it too SO it will appear in your feed, or on wall. If someone enters through your share, you will be given one more vote.
 
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