We have a winner!
What an evening! After intense campaigning by the two leading contestants in the battle to become the Linchpin Magazine charity, the poll closed a short while ago at midnight, and Seeducation won with a 15 vote lead. Thank you to all 2,608 of you who cared enough to vote. Thank you also to Child’s I Foundation for campaigning so hard and with such passion.
Seeducation are trying to create a movement; they want to host the world’s greatest thinkers, movers, shakers, concepts and practical lessons in education, and build a world where knowledge is shared openly, where teaching and training is given because people realise it will actually benefit themselves and everyone else. We look forward to helping them achieve those goals.
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Congrats! Seeducation
I voted for Child’s I Foundation:)
I wanted to thank EVERYONE who has helped us achieving this. People have talked, called and jump off their chairs to make this a success and we want to thank them all!
I also want to say well done to child’s i foundation which were stressing the whole of seeducation and fans for 5 days, we never thought we would make it. Please do get in touch with us (or vice versa) and we should arrange a little gathering, if you’re up for it of course
Thanks to Linchpin magazine to let us participate and organise this competition.
All Seeducation Love: http://www.seeducation.org
Ruben & The Team & The Fans & The Families
Sad to say, I feel sorry I voted. Sincere apologies. Not because I voted for who turned out winner, but because I supported a contest among charities. Does not feel right. Most contests result in losers, usually more than winners.
Now, I am not saying change the rules for this contest. It is done. Everyone who participated knew the deal or had the chance to know.
However, it would be pure greatness if Seeseducation would go ahead, take the prize and shared it with Childsi and Kiva by the proportion of votes. And make it public, set a great example of caring and sharing for others to follow.
“No charity left behind”, even if that resembles a tepid slogan. I think sharing prizes among charities would be a story worth spreading.
Hi everyone,
Thank you so much for the amazing experience of running for this competition
I am thrilled by the impact this partnership will have on Seeducation: every little bit of it will give us the possibility to work full time on our baby social enterprise and to do more good in the world. Thanks to you we’ll be able to run, jump and fly!!
CoCreatr, I think you should feel proud to have been able to give our 3 charities the opportunity to participate in this competition. I believe that winning or losing is just a question of perspective…
On Monday when we realized we’re competing with Kiva (a massive charity!) and Child’s i (a well established charity that has been running for 2 years), we believed it’d be impossible for us to win… but that we’d do our best as it’s the point of a competition: to test ourselves and stretch to our limit.
Competitions are not to be won, or lost… they’re there to test us. Winning and losing is just a question of attitude.
Child’s i brought together 1,199 votes… isn’t that a big win for them? The fact they have strengthened the relations with their existing supporters, and have reached some who’d never heard of Child’s i. That alone is worth more than winning in my eyes… as that’s all we were hoping to win from the start!
I believe competitions are important for everyone else because they allow us to dream. Competitions give us hope, and these intense emotions of caring for something… just take a look at messages posted on our Facebook:
“Congratulations all the way from Bangladesh! Follow your dreams!”
“Congratulations man! Truly great achievement. It would not be possible if you were not a man who can build great relationships and ignite people to action. That only proves that Seeducation is able to make a real change as people act upon your leadership. Congratulations once again!”
“YOU DESERVE IT! NOW MAKE EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED YOU PROUD TO HAVE BEEN PART OF THIS!”
“Happy for you to live your dream and will do my share to help you helping others if need be. Thumbs up from Warsaw
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When I first dropped out of University about 5 years ago to run a business that will have a positive impact and change the world for the better… everyone thought I was crazy, that I was foolish to pursue an impossible dream.
I feel that competitions like these are won not just for us, but for everyone else who looks up to us and who has given us their support.
We need to keep giving people a reason to follow their dreams despite challenges and the fact that they’re alone… if they believe strong enough that what they’re doing is right, people will give them support and that they’ll make the impossible, possible.
That’s why I believe that competitions are fantastic, for companies, charities, social enterprises and everyone else…
And losing is not a bad thing: my most demanded talk when I started giving training at conferences was on the “success of failure”. Failing is the most beautiful thing that can happen: it shows us we’ve reached our CURRENT limit, and from failing and losing, we can learn, we rethink ourselves and try again.
We are strong not because we never fall, but because we always stand back up… and this I learned fit very literally from Remi Van Ketz, my judo teacher… and I wish everyone to fall, and stand back up.
Regarding “no charity left behind”, I believe that our help to Child’s i and Kiva is worth a lot more than the cash divided between 3 orgs (Kiva has already turned over $100 million of loans…).
Regarding helping Child’s i, we’re already on the case: we can’t wait to explore how to help you tomorrow at the Linchpin
For Kiva, we already have plenty of ideas on how we can help this organisation that gave us dreams when we started… we just need a contact: if anyone from Kiva wants to get in touch with me (www.linkedin.com/in/noamkos or noam@seeducation.org), I highly look forward to having a chat!
CoCreatr, I understand that you felt bad, and I hope that my lengthy answer makes you feel better about supporting this competition
I look forward to meeting you at the Linchpin tomorrow…
All the best,
Noam
Noam, thank you for taking the time to respond. Meanwhile I have watched your talk at TEDxWarsaw and understand a bit more your angle. Would love to meetup with you,when you are in Japan.
Just hosted a virtual Linchpin meeting, connecting a few of the people who posted a meetup and appeared single 72h before. http://www.meetup.com/Linchpins-are-everywhere-raise-the-flag/8297/