Action of the Month
Vote for Minga
During the month of May, Minga’s PSA Campaign has the opportunity to win a $25,000 from Pepsi and we need your help! As a Minga Club you are a vital part of our organization. With your supportive action, we can build Minga to a national movement of empowered youth.
Minga launched its PSA Campaign this year as a way to share our message with 2 million young people, to engage corporate and non-profit partners in our cause, and to amplify the voices of teens who care about ending the child sex trade. We are working to produce a series of PSAs that feature celebrity advocates who believe in our mission and distribute them to youth online and offline. We hope youth will see our PSAs and be inspired to take action in their communities by uploading their own film clips to our website to raise awareness about the child sex trade.
To cover the costs of film production, editing and distribution, Minga needs to garner financial support from contests like the Pepsi Refresh Project. Here’s where you come in. Get as many of your club members, family members and friends as possible to go to www.refresheverything.com and create a Pepsi account. Then either get them to commit to daily voting for ask them to send you their account information so you can vote for them. Make sure they know that creating an account takes about two minutes, and daily voting takes just seconds. It’s a quick and simple process, but it means BIG money to us.
You showed you care by becoming a Minga Club, now you can take action to help Minga be even better. Let’s encourage more teens to take action too. Let’s build a movement.
Thanks for your hard work!
The Minga PSA Campaign Team
How to Vote
1. Go to www.refresheverything.com/minga and click "vote."
2. When the sign in box pops up, click "no I am new here."
3. Provide the requested information.
4. After you are signed in, click "vote" again.
5. Get everyone you know to vote!
Thanks for voting! You will not be contacted by Pepsi.
Also, please download our resources for clubs:
Join Minga's Online Movement
Join Minga's Facebook group, follow Minga on Twitter, and get your friends to join our online movement too! Minga is looking to expand our online presence, and you can help. Having a base of online supporters allows us to raise awareness online, hold fundraising campaigns, hold online events, and keep our supporters up-to-date on everything Minga.
Tell us about how you motivate your friends to join us online. Help Minga reach our goal of hitting 700 Facebook fans by July!
Join Minga's Facebook group by clicking here.
Follow Minga on Twitter by clicking here.
Ideas for Getting Your Friends to Join Minga Online
Start a Facebook event to have some number of people join by a certain time. On the event page, be sure to post a link to Minga's Facebook group.
Post "join Minga's Facebook group to learn about how teens are speaking out against the global child sex trade" as your status.
Tweet about following Minga on Twitter and mention some of the cool stuff Minga has done or is currently doing.
If you're at camp, an office, or anywhere else with a group of people you know, just ask them all to join and say thanks! (maybe throw in a free candy too!)
Hold a "Don't Pimp My Ride" Car Wash
Help Minga tell teens that pimpin' is not cool while you enjoy the summer weather. Media messaging often glamorizes prostitution, telling young people that they should see themselves as sexual objects. To prevent teens from becoming involved in the trade, Minga needs to teach them about the realities of child prostitution.
Get your friends together and help Minga raise awareness and funds. Hold a car wash in your community and educate everyone who comes about the realities of the child sex trade. You can educate yourself here.
Use the fliers below to promote your car wash and be sure to invite all of your Facebook and Twitter friends to stop by too. Be sure to make big posters that make your car wash and Minga's message hard to miss. Submit pictures and a brief description of your event to Minga's RealInteraction Competition and you could win $500 to take an even bigger action. For "Don't Pimp My Ride" bumper stickers to give out at your event email Rebecca@mingagroup.org.
To see an example of how media contributes to glamorizing how teens think of pimpin' watch the 50 Cent PIMP music video. Let us know your thoughts on Facebook.
Get in on the action by supporting Minga's Action Auction
Support Minga's PSA Campaign by getting your family, friends, and colleagues bidding! Buy an awesome vacation, a manicure, a dinner, or anything else you would buy anyways and have the proceeds support Minga. The Action Auction will help you revamp your life while helping Minga's PSA Campaign begin its production process.
Visit the Action Auction look book here.
Bid on eBay at http://donations.ebay.com/charity/charity.jsp?NP_ID=39954.
Please spread these links everywhere. We appreciate your help.