LOS ANGELES, March 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Fund Duel™, a fundraising platform that
promotes charities and raises funds through gamifying social media
challenges, is partnering with Delaware School for the Deaf and The
Jr. National Association of the Deaf in a campaign that will
benefit ten U.S. schools for the deaf. The campaign titled,
Let's Raise Funds for Schools for the Deaf, creates fun
competition between the schools to see who can raise the most money
for programs that will support various initiatives through their
schools.
Fund Duel asked the student body from all ten schools to upload
and share a sign language music video to their favorite song. Each
video is currently posted onto the Fund Duel platform and folks all
over the world can join the challenge by donating and sharing their
favorite video!
The campaign will be further amplified by influencers and
incredible deaf community advocates and ambassadors, that
significantly impact the deaf community including Comedian CJ
Jones, America's Got Talent Singer and Songwriter contestant
Mandy Harvey and ASL Music
Interpreter Amber Galloway
Gallego. Others have been invited to join and anyone
is welcome to jump on the social media campaign and further share
and spread the word to their social networks.
"I'm honored to be an ambassador for Fund Duel and this
campaign. Joining forces to raise money for deaf schools is
amazing. I'm so impressed to see the talent and creativity that
went into the ten schools' videos. These students need to
know that they can do anything they set their minds to and this
campaign helps them realize this," said CJ Jones - Comedian and
Ambassador.
"DSD and Jr. NAD is excited to be working with Fund Duel as it's
the ideal platform to drive this fundraising campaign. So, why a
music competition? What better way to show each other and the
world what we can do? The Deaf Community is proud and we all
deserve our 15 minutes of fame! Our students are amazing,
creative, smart, funny, and extremely talented. Our goal is to
watch them thrive," said Francine
Patalano, HS Science Teacher at Delaware School for the
Deaf. "By being a part of Fund Duel, we have been able to achieve
just that, by coming together as one community, and to receive the
supports from our schools, the community, and for all of those to
see, to help continue our growth!"
The campaign runs February 18th - April
5th, 2019. The ten schools participating are: Delaware
School for the Deaf, Marie Katzenbach
School for the Deaf, Rochester School for the Deaf, Ohio
School for the Deaf, Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf,
Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, Laurent Clerc National Deaf
Education Center, Maryland School
for the Deaf, Western PA School for the Deaf and Public School
47.
"We're so pleased that Fund Duel can help DSD and Jr. NAD with
this campaign. This is what Fund Duel is all about - raising
awareness and funds for a great cause and putting the creativity
and action in the hands of the students. The power of social media
and our fabulous ambassadors further amplifies this message with
social media. The students love it, the faculty love it, and
the fans and friends watching these videos are so touched by their
ambition and creativity," remarked Linda
Hansen, CEO & Co-Founder of Fund Duel.
About The Delaware School for the Deaf
The Delaware School for the Deaf is both unique and united.
They are unique because they are the only School for the Deaf in
Delaware that provides all of
their Deaf and Hard of Hearing students complete access to learn
through both American Sign Language (ASL) and English. They
are unique because their Deaf Community is small and rely on each
other for support and advocacy.
However, in the Deaf World, they are united. They know
their own, and they know others on a national level. They
compete both athletically and academically with Deaf and Hard of
Hearing peers across America! They join summer camps together to
build both knowledge and friendships. They are part of the Jr.
National Association for the Deaf (Jr. NAD), an organization that
teaches their students about leadership and advocacy. A
portion of all of the winnings from this Fund Duel campaign will go
towards the Jr. NAD to support their National Conference in the
Fall, 2019. "We are all unique, yet we are united."
About the National Association of the Deaf
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is the nation's premier
civil rights organization of, by and for deaf and hard of hearing
individuals in the United States
of America. Established in 1880, the NAD was shaped by deaf
leaders who believed in the right of the American deaf community to
use sign language, to congregate on issues important to them, and
to have its interests represented at the national level. These
beliefs remain true to this day, with American Sign Language as a
core value. The advocacy scope of the NAD is broad, covering a
lifetime and impacting future generations in the areas of early
intervention, education, employment, health care, technology,
telecommunications, youth leadership, and more – improving the
lives of millions of deaf and hard of hearing Americans. The NAD
also carries out its federal advocacy work through coalition
efforts with specialized national deaf and hard of hearing
organizations, as well as coalitions representing national
cross-disability organizations. The NAD is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization supported by the generosity of individual and
organizational donors, including corporations and foundations. For
more information about Jr. NAD, visit
www.nad.org/youth/junior-nad/.
About Fund Duel
Founded by female entrepreneurs and business women Dr. Linda Hansen and her daughter Jasmine Toomalatai, Fund Duel is an end-to-end
platform solution that puts the FUN back in fundraising through a
most innovative, gamified online dashboard. Participants are
encouraged to post their own challenge video or image for the
campaign they are supporting. Fund Duel streamlines campaigns in a
dueling/contest and prize-winning environment, allowing the spirit
of gamification and social media to generate huge awareness, raise
funds and achieve success to any charity no matter what the point
of entry. Companies and individuals can compete to raise funds for
one charity or challenge each other to raise funds for different
charities. Competition and the opportunity to win prizes from
gift cards, sponsored product, celebrity meet & greets to the
yearly jackpot of $62,000, which will
continue to increase. This model has proven to drive social media
sharing and increase donations. An estimated $410 billion was given to charitable causes in
2017, most of which were online contributions. Online donations are
growing twice as fast as offline; that is where Fund Duel's
innovative platform capitalizes on this exponential growth.
To create a Fund Duel campaign or find out more information,
click on: www.FundDuel.com. Coordinators can collaborate
to support creative ideas, process and marketing initiatives to
help grow and amplify all campaigns.
Support the Let's Raise Funds for Schools for the Deaf
campaign by visiting: www.fundduel.com/JrNAD
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