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What are we?
How we started
Who are we?
Russian Orphanage Helped
What are we?
Challenge2Society has a very simple mission:  Inspire and Motivate the world to donate 1 Billion community service hours.

And while our vision is simple, it will take work to achieve it.  This site is a work in progress; it will allow us to gather as a community and find those causes that we are passionate about.

Please log on and get started, your time is valuable.
How we started The idea for Challenge2Society to inspire and motivate people has it roots in the USMC's Toys-For-Tots (T4T) program. For the years 1995-7, Steve Gardner (GySgt Gardner) was running the T4T program for roughly 1/3 of Virginia, and was able to partner with radio DJ Slam Duncan.

In the photo you see a RV suspended by a crane, where Slam and Steve broadcasted 24 hours a day asking the people of Roanoke to donate bikes; and Steve, Slam and Neil standing in the sea of donated bikes.
Who are we? Challenge2Society- is simply put, everyday people; It is you, me, your neighbor, your Neighbor's 15 year old child, and the retired school teacher that lives next to you.

Challenge2Society is all of us that still feel the desire to help; Although sometimes we simply don't know how to..

Chalenge2Society is without boundaries; we embrace the world's causes as easily as we help with the local book drive.
Russian Orphanage Helped Orphanage receives toys and hope... In July 2007, I had a chance to help a friend-  On this particular occasion I was studying Russian at Moscow state university (Moscow, Russian Federation) and a friend's son (who with his two brothers, was adopted from a Russian Orphanage about two hours drive of Moscow) wanted to try and find his birth-mother after ten years. So I offered to help any way that I could. Little did I know that this would be the catalyst to start the Challenge2Society Site.  

How do I start? (click the links below)

Support challenge2society

We have been working so hard and need caffeine to survive, if you like our services then please buy us a cuppa coffee to keep things going.

Challenge2Society- Volunteer portal

Challenge2Society has a simple idea- Inspire and motivate the world to donate 1 Billion community service hours.   We hope to do this, by creating an easy to use site that allows people to search for volunteer opportunities that matter to them.  We have access to over 500,000 opportunites basically everywehre in the world, some can even volunteer their time while they sit at their computer drinking a cup of coffee.

Our challenge- is for people to pledge to volunteer at least 1 hour a year; some will decide to volunteer 1 hour per month, and others will aspire to 1 hr per week.  All donated time helps.

So, how do you get started? Read on...

1st- become a member

2nd- Search our list of volunteer opportunities (seach by jobtype, Location or keyword).

3rd- Think about supporting Challenge2Society; we are constantly adding items made to support local communities.

4th- Invite/Challenge your friends to get involved.

5th- Sign a petition.  As the site grows, we have found, petitions are yet another way people can show their support to a specific cause (strength in numbers).  For now, all petitions are created by Admins on our site (please feel free to submit ideas)- we are doing this simply to ensure they are not used to spam people.  

6th- Submit your ideas on how we can help better help the volunteers that use this site.

Note: the site is a work in progresscontinues to change-  (it has been up/running for a few years, and continues to change in appearance and sometimes gets reborn fresh like a phoenix and a newer version amerges with fresh/new technology).

 

 

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