Vote for the Giving of Life Grant!

Guess what, y'all? Global Support Mission is currently in the running to win a Giving of Life grant! The Giving of Life grant will be going to organization that are giving life to people throughout the world - something that GSM embodies in everything it does. This year, they're giving away 20 grants ranging from $2,000-$50,000. In order to be eligible for the three biggest grants, you must be in the top 20 organizations in terms of votes on their website.


Today, we're at #31. We're dreaming big and planning on making it to the top 20 and winning a grant. It's your turn to help us get there!


Here are the simple eight steps to optimize your votes. Track with me - these are so simple:

1) Go to http://www.givingoflife.com2) In the top right corner, click on "Register for More Votes!"
3) Fill out the form, including your email address, and submit.
4) Go to your Inbox, find the email that Giving of Life sent you, and click the link in it to confirm your email.
5) Go back to Giving of Life and sign in.
6) Find Global Support Mission (or click directly here: http://www.givingoflife.com/browse/global_support_mission/ )
7) On the left panel, click "Vote!" three times (you get three votes when you register your email).
8) You can register your Twitter handle (or use mine: karenemcgee) to get two more votes! To do that, after you have voted 3 times for us, click on "get more votes" in the upper right corner. Enter your Twitter handle, go back to GSM's page, and vote two more times.

I checked my stats from the last month. Did you know that if every reader from...
- the United Arab Emirates voted, we'd get 15 votes
- Namibia voted, we'd get 35 votes
- Australia voted, we'd get 45 votes
- Germany voted, we'd get 45 votes
- Senegal voted, we'd get 10 votes
- the Czech Republic, Canada, Brazil, Israel, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, and Russia voted, we'd get 40 votes
- the UK voted, we'd get 70 votes
- the US voted, we'd get 2,755 votes


In case you lost count, that's 3,015 votes! Even more if you vote on every email address you have (let's face it: many of us have had more than one email address since the internet debuted 20 years ago).


Please go vote for us right now! Voting ends on FRIDAY. And then tell your family to vote...and your coworkers...roommates...friends...neighbors...fellow coffeeshoppers...the car next to you in rush hour...classmates...significant other...not-so-significant other...dog...