Key members of the Social Media community are rallying their connections to join them at the walk. In exchange, they will dress up as Social Media Superheroes! Anyone can dress up as any Social Media icon they wish! We have one person coming as Mr. Facebook and likely another as The Incredible iPhone.
On walk day, the superheroes and their followers will walk together under the name A Social Movement. Everyone will be given a bib replicating a Facebook status bar with the statement ‘Walking the Walk, Changing the World at the World Partnership Walk, May 31st’. We also have SonyEricsson providing Cybershot phones on loan so that we can capture the event and tweet.
Current Status:
We have teamed up with AltruismChallenge.com so that the winner of their challenge will have a superhero represent them in our team as well. And as of yesterday, a sponsor has come forward challenging us to raise an additional $5000, which they will match it with another $5000. The full $10000 would then be leveraged to access additional funds from CIDA. We only have until June 14! We are hoping everyone will go to our website and sponsor one of the super heroes. However raising awareness and attendance is just as important as raising funds.
Twitter name: @PartnershipWalk
Thank you for your patience in reading this! I hope you were as amused reading about the concept as we were designing it!
Ismailimail 