The Stokes Me Surfers Helping Humans fundraising campaign is in its final hours. Mandy Lausche of SIMA updated us on the progress made during this innovative online challenge.
The Stokes Me Campaign is in its final day! When’s the cutoff?
The Stokes Me Campaign officially ends today (Tuesday, October 30th) at 11:59 pm Pacific time. We expect to see a lot of movement on the board as the deadline approaches!
What are the teams doing to raise awareness of the campaign?
We’re seeing all kinds of great posts. Rob Machado just tweeted about Stokes Me.
Kelly Slater posted about the challenge on his Facebook page and got more than 2,500 likes. And the band Switchfoot posted about the campaign on their Facebook page.
The reach of this challenge is tremendous. We’re seeing tons of donations come in from all over the country. Our top fundraisers have each set up their own fundraising page with their own messaging. You can click on their name on the stokesme.org page to see the videos they created.
Remind our readers what’s at stake here?
First of all the campaign benefits 10 amazing surfing-related organizations. The best thing about the challenge is seeing everyone rallying to raise money for a cause, not just to win a prize.
That said, those who raise the most money will win some great prizes. The brands are competing to win the prestigious SIMA Humanitarian Award and complimentary advertising on Surfline.com and in Surfer Magazine and TransWorld Surf magazine.
Individual fundraisers are competing for a trip for two to Hawaii to attend the Triple Crown of Surfing on the North Shore.
We’re excited for the final day and we can’t wait to see what our fundraisers do in these last few hours to raise awareness and encourage donations – this is a very competitive group!
