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Millennium Campus Conference: Highlights from Saturday

If David Letterman had attended the Millennium Campus Conference at Columbia this past weekend, he would have heard some of the greatest global advocates of our time speaking to an auditorium of college students, empowering them to help solve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. And then he probably would have condensed all this overflowing inspiration into a Top Ten list. Since Mr. Letterman had other plans on Saturday morning, allow us to do the honors!

Top 10 Moments from the Millennium Campus Conference
(Sat. 9am-1:30pm — we dropped by for a bit; get full weekend coverage via #MCC2010)

1. Scott Harrison’s speech: he received a standing ovation for telling the story of how and why he started charity : water, much like he says here (a BILLION people in our world don’t have clean drinking water). charity : water reinvented what charity means; put an emphasis on branding, transparency, truth; believed in the power of small donations. We strive to be like them:

2. Watching Kim Perry, the Director of the Girl Up campaign, present their PSA “Connecting the Dots.” Like She’s the First does for an audience of college and 20-something women, Girl Up gives a call to action to teens/tweens to creatively fundraise for sponsorships for girls in the developing world and spread awareness.

3. Discovering @allgirlsallowed, allgirlsallowed.org, which advocates against the injustice of China’s One-Child Policy. Keep an eye on this issue, because if mothers are pressured to abort their babies when they find out they are expecting a girl, how are we ever to achieve gender equality in schools? Continue reading →