Coptic Solidarity announces that it will join CrowdRise, the largest crowdfunding platform for charitable causes, to participate in the CrowdRise Giving Tower Holiday Challenge. Coptic Solidarity will utilize donations from the #GivingTuesday campaign on December 1, 2015 to further its advocacy and awareness efforts dedicated to advocating equal citizenship for the Coptic Christians of Egypt and minorities in the Middle East.
2015 was a year of more tragedy for the Christians and other minorities of the Middle East, which intensified the resolve of Coptic Solidarity to create a voice for the region's most embattled citizens. Coptic Solidarity hosted the year's largest conference in Washington D.C. dedicated to the creation of awareness and soliciting policy suggestions for assisting Copts and other minorities suffering from systemic discrimination. Coptic Solidarity also strengthened its ties to both freshman and incumbent federal legislators in the US Congress, and joined with the Middle East Christian Committee in ongoing advocacy efforts with UN Security Council Members to find sustainable solutions for bringing security and equality to the targeted Christian communities of the Middle East.
The CrowdRise Giving Tower is a virtual tower made up of bricks, each of which represents a donation made to charity on #GivingTuesday, providing charitable organizations an organized, zero-cost way to raise funds to support their causes. As donations are made, donors, organizations and consumers can watch the tower grow brick by brick via a free virtual reality application available in the iTunes store and Google Play. Last year, the CrowdRise Giving Tower raised $4.1 million.
The Giving Tower campaign will kick off CrowdRise's annual Holiday Challenge – a friendly fundraising competition between charities that runs through January 7, 2016. The charity that raises the most in the CrowdRise Giving Tower on #GivingTuesday, December 1, from 12 a.m. ET through 11:59:59 p.m. ET will get an additional $25,000 donation to their cause. Participants also will have the opportunity to win up to $250,000 in grand and weekly prizes, and donors will have the chance to win everything from a five-day vacation in Belize to a $2,500 shopping spree at Century21.
To help Coptic Solidarity, head to www.crowdrise.com/protectindigenousrel/fundraiser/copticsolidarity
ABOUT COPTIC SOLIDARITY
Coptic Solidarity is an organization seeking to help minorities, particularly the Copts, of Egypt and we support those in Egypt working for democracy, freedom, and the protection of the fundamental rights of all Egyptian citizens. Our international organization is headquartered in the Washington, D.C., area, with regional chapters through the United States, as well as in Canada, France and Egypt. Coptic Solidarity believes that the international community plays a key role in helping ensure the protection and upholding of the rights of religious and ethnic minorities. For more information, contact Lindsay Vessey at 801-512-1713 or [email protected]
ABOUT CROWDRISE
CrowdRise is the world's largest and fastest growing online platform dedicated exclusively to charitable fundraising. CrowdRise is used by millions of individuals, tens of thousands of charities, hundreds of companies and many of the most famous artists and athletes in the world to creatively leverage their resources and networks to unlock the power of the crowd and raise hundreds of millions of dollars to support positive social missions.
Founded by actor Edward Norton, film producer Shauna Robertson and Robert and Jeffrey Wolfe, CrowdRise has conceived, implemented and powered campaigns that have raised over $250 million to date. For more information, visit www.CrowdRise.com.
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