I hope the trip to Vegas was great if you went, I know that Ryan and Richard said they met up with a lot of readers and marketers so I was extremely pleased to see that we got a lot of good feedback even if I couldn’t meet you. I’ll be at the next one though and look forward to putting my face to my name as well.  I haven’t done a lot of work since school started mainly because we had fraternity rush week.  It was a pretty hectic first week of school but I’m ready to buckle back down and use some of the connections Ryan and Richard made for a profitable and busy 2010!

Anyways, I wanted to reach out to some fellow entrepreneurs/marketers out there for a little help reviving a charitable organization that gives scholarships to about 550 entrepreneurs across the country.  After the death of the founder of Monster.com and the McKelvey Foundation, Andy McKelvey, they have had trouble making ends meet.  I personally won a $40,000 scholarship from them in 2008 for my ZeroPriceTags, Inc. business plan.  I’m not necessarily asking for your help solely so I can get my money back but for the organization as a whole.  I know of at least 10 fellow scholars who aren’t able to attend college at all because of this organization having to take a step back.  I can’t imagine the frustration both parties are experiencing.  The many scholars thought that since they were awarded this scholarship they had struck a gold mine and would be set for 4 years… The foundation had foreseen many years of bringing education to entrepreneurs across the nation but the economic downturn and his death said otherwise unfortunately.

So here’s where your help can come in.   No emails, no cold calls, no donating, just a few clicks on Facebook.com.  Chase has agreed to give the charity with the most votes in their Facebook contest 1 million dollars!  Here’s how to do it:

1. Click on the following link: Chase Community Giving

2. Just click “Become a Fan”.

3. Vote for the McKelvey Foundation.

I greatly appreciate it and if you have any ideas to spread the word, please let me know!

I was just going through my emails this morning and found an American Express survey that promises to donate $2.00 to charity for completion.  It literally takes 2 minutes to do it and it’s not much more than filling in a couple sentences and hitting buttons on a 1-10 scale.  I realize this isn’t something new that Amex is doing but regardless, I want them to fill up their queue.

It really sucks that they have the limit set at $1,000 per charity because I’m sure they get a much bigger response than that when they do it.  I’m sure the credit card giant Amex gets their money’s worth from donating a measly $2.00 per review but whatever, I’ll contribute even if it just means I have a chance of giving $2.00 to a good cause for 2 minutes of my time.

Anyway, hopefully they were sent it to a lot of Amex cardholders and they can fulfill the $3,000 pledge to charity.  Be sure to search through your email on this one, a couple of mine have gone to the spam folder. The title is: “American Express Needs YOUR Feedback!”

We plan on doing a lot for charity here in the near future.  Does anyone know of any other similar charity acts?  We would love to generate some buzz about them for our readers.