What is the Girl Effect?

The Girl Effect. It's what happens when girls are given an opportunity to participate. It's about the unique and indisputable potential of adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world. You see, when you improve a girl's life through education, health and opportunity, these changes have a positive ripple effect. An adolescent girls has the power to stop poverty before it starts, but she needs your help. She needs information, healthcare, and education. She needs laws to change, money in her pocket, and she needs her parents, her government, and the global community to see that she is valuable.

The secret behind the Girl Effect is that it's not one large campaign – it's a movement being led by amazing, ordinary people all over the world. It's about giving you the tools and the network you need to spread the word about what girls can do and, with a little elbow grease, change the world.

Learn more at www.girleffect.org and join the movement at www.facebook.com/girleffect.

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What is the Girl Effect GlobalGiving Challenge?

The 2012 Girl Effect GlobalGiving Challenge is an opportunity for girl-focused organizations and projects to connect with the Girl Effect movement and compete for an opportunity to win a one-year spot on the Girl Effect fundraising page here on GlobalGiving. Twelve winners will be chosen and we will provide them with increased visibility and financial support to succeed.

But, to pick our winning projects, we need your help. Vote with your dollars and donate to the organization(s) that you believe deserve a spot on the page. The six projects with the highest number of unique donors will be selected.

The challenge runs from November 1, 2012 through November 30, 2012, and at that time the winners will be selected.

What is GlobalGiving?

GlobalGiving is an online marketplace for philanthropy that helps donors support causes they are passionate about. Through its public website, GlobalGiving connects donors to more than 1,500 community-based projects addressing themes ranging from education and the environment to health care and human rights in over 100 countries.

Since 2002, more than 5,800 projects have raised over $72 million from more than 280,000 donors using GlobalGiving.org

Learn more about GlobalGiving.

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Terms and Conditions

• The Girl Effect Challenge will begin on November 1, 2012 00:00:00 AM EDT and continue through November 30, 2012 23:59:59 PM EST (GMT-4).
• Project must specifically target and benefit marginalized girls, aged 10-19, living in developing countries, and must incorporate one or more elements of Girl-Centered Design, as outlined in this handbook;
• Organizations must have submitted their Expression of Interest application and been approved by GlobalGiving prior to the start of the challenge;
• Projects selected to advance in the application process that were not previously on GlobalGiving must have successfully completed Due Diligence forms and met GlobalGiving’s requirements around non-profit registration, non-discrimination, internet capabilities, financial record-keeping, quarterly reporting, and the ability to receive funds in US dollars.
• During the month-long Challenge, participating organizations will work to generate donations for their projects, with the goal of being featured on the Girl Effect GlobalGiving page and receiving a share of the Girl Effect Fund for one year following the Challenge (December 1, 2012 – November 30, 2013). In 2011, the Girl Effect Fund raised more than $450,000 via GlobalGiving.org.
• Twelve winning organizations will be determined based on two categories to include:
• the six (6) projects with the largest number of unique donors and
• the six (6) projects selected by the Girl Effect.
• Projects selected by the Girl Effect expert panel will be chosen based upon how they incorporate innovation into their approach, curriculum, and work, as well as how they effect positive change for marginalized adolescent girls.
• Only the projects on the Girl Effect Challenge Leaderboard are eligible for participation in the campaign.
• All online donations received through the GlobalGiving.org or the Nike WE Portal to Girl Effect Challenge projects will count towards the Girl Effect Challenge leaderboard and unique donor counts. Donations made on www.globalgiving.co.uk or any GlobalGiving corporate sites (including Global National Geographic Take Action Atlas , etc) will not count towards the Girl Effect Challenge unique donor counts.
• Online donations will be accepted from November 1, 2012 00:00:00 AM EDT through November 30, 2012 23:59:59 PM EST (GMT-4). Online donations are considered unique if they are made from separate email addresses. The same credit card may be used for multiple online donations. Please note that GlobalGiving will be moderating this in the background and reserves the right to disqualify any attempts of misconduct.
• Similar rules apply to unique checks. Only checks in US dollars will be accepted. Unique checks refer to checks issued from unique checking accounts. Checks received from November 1, 2012 00:00:00 AM EDT through November 26, 2012 (23:59 hrs EDT) will be included in the Challenge and will count towards the number of unique donors for each project. Checks received after November 26, 2012 will be applied to the indicated project(s), but they will not count towards the Girl Effect Challenge. Checks should be made payable to the GlobalGiving Foundation and should clearly indicate the project(s) to which the funds should be applied. Unfortunately, we are not able to accept cash donations.
• Text donations will not apply towards unique donor counts in the Girl Effect Challenge. Projects will receive any funds designated towards them from mobile donations. However, text donations will not count towards the projects' unique donor counts in the challenge.
• Transaction fee for donations: GlobalGiving retains a 15% fulfillment fee on donations but works to keep the fees you pay as low as possible while providing you great services and resources. The 15% fee covers all transactional fees such as credit card charges, as well as helps cover the costs GlobalGiving incurs to promote organizations and projects, provide them with fundraising training and tools, and maintain and improve our online technology in order to keep connecting you with new donors. With our add-on option, we also offer the donor the opportunity to make an additional donation to cover GlobalGiving’s fulfillment fees so that projects receive 100% of the donations intended for them.
• Please note that GlobalGiving maintains the right to make a final decision on all matters concerning the adjudication of unique donors and final results of the Girl Effect Challenge.

Still have questions?

Still have questions about the Girl Effect and what exactly it is? Check out the Girl Effect FAQs.

Still have questions about the GlobalGiving platform and how it all works? Check out GlobalGiving's FAQs.

Still have questions about the challenge and how the organizations were selected? Email us at .

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