We Need Your Help!

Posted by Gabe on March 18, 2011 under Kids are Heroes | Read the First Comment

MaryMargaret, the founder of Kids Are Heroes, has an opportunity to win a $10,000 scholarship and a $5000 donation to Kids Are Heroes! And YOU can help make that happen.

The Energizer Bunny is hosting a Hall of Fame contest for people of all ages who are involved in their communities. Most of the online voting systems require voting once a day, maybe for as long as a month. This one is SUPER easy. We need just ONE Facebook ‘Like’ to get her in the top ten!

Here are the 2 easy steps:

1) Go to MaryMargaret’s Energizer Bunny Hall of Fame Contest Page. (Must be a Facebook member and logged in. If for some reason the link doesn’t take you there, see below for Troubleshooting.)

2) Click the “Like” button underneath her name.

For more information about the contest, click here. Even if she just makes the top ten, KAH will still get a $1000 donation. But let’s think “positive energy” and take her all the way!!

If you are wondering why she deserves this award, here are the cliff notes:

  • In March of 2008, she founded Kids Are Heroes by asking her daddy to build her a website. Since then, she has worked countless hours not only promoting the organization, but carrying out her own projects at the same time.
  • On her 9th birthday she gave up her birthday gifts for the Defenders of Wildlife.
  • The following year she hosted a lemonade stand which netted $600. With that money she bought 80 Webkinz and delivered them in person to a local youth cancer camp.
  • She instigated a cell phone drive at her school which brought in 150 used cell phones so troops around the world could speak to their loved ones via the prepaid phone cards that the phones were traded in for.
  • For 10th birthday party instead of gifts she had a sleeopover party where all of her friends brought pajamas, slippers and bathrobes to donate to the local homeless shelter.
  • In 2009-2010 MaryMargaret spent more than a year fundraising for her most ambitious project. In 2010, she delivered 250 pre-loaded MP3 players to two area youth hospitals as part of her Music for Life initiative.
  • In the summer of 2010 she won the Nestlé Drumstick Hero Award given for her philanthropic achievements, which consisted of games, T-shirts and hats,  and enough ice cream cones for 50 kids. Instead of throwing a party for her friends, she did it for the Community Action Agency in her neighborhood which serves local needy children.
  • MaryMargaret’s current project is called “Black to Blue” where  she and two friends are raising money to help clean up the animals affected by the gulf oil spill.

For more details, read the press release about her being chosen as a role model by the Discovery Girls magazine.

Troubleshooting: From the Bunny himself: “It seems as if those who cannot view the tab have the “secure browsing” feature enabled on their Facebook account. If you choose to change this, you can do so by going to Account > Account Settings > Account Security and unchecking the box next to Secure Browsing (https). In the meantime, we are working with Facebook to make sure everyone can view the tabs, regardless of whether or not that feature is selected.” We’ve experience that some people are still having trouble, i.e. getting a “stack overflow” problem, but with repeated attempts they were finally able to get through to vote.

Thanks for your patience!!

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