Nonprofit Spotlight: Prevent Cancer Foundation
If you knew it were within your power to potentially stop something horrible and life-threatening from happening to you, what would you do?
Well, you would probably try to stop it, right? Fortunately, when it comes to preventing cancer, there are many easy ways to proactively protect yourself. Prevent Cancer Foundation, one of our nonprofit partners, wants you to do them all and check them in on DailyFeats.
They’ve designed a challenge, Stop Cancer Before It Starts!, which consists of feats geared toward the small steps you can take on a regular basis to prevent cancer in your own life. When you’ve finished the challenge, you’ll have enough points to redeem toward a donation to this foundation, which is funding extremely important and tide-turning research like that of Lauren Trepanier, DVM, PhD, who is using her Prevent Cancer Foundation grant to analyze whether certain enzymes in our bodies are associated with a risk of breast cancer.
In fact, every 50 points you earn on DailyFeats can be redeemed for a $1 donation to Prevent Cancer. Not bad, eh? With a few trips to the gym and some healthy meals, you can help make an impact on this organization’s efforts. Small positive actions lead to big change.
Donate points to Prevent Cancer Foundation here, on our donation rewards page. And keep it up, Featers! Together, we’re changing the world, one feat at a time.
DailyFeats Partners with ONE!
1.4 billion people in the world have to live on less than $1 a day. ONE is trying to change that, and DailyFeats is proud to announce a partnership with them.
ONE is doing the important work of fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease in the hardest-hit parts of the world, particularly Africa. Cofounded by Bono and others, ONE is responsible for some of the most visible fundraising efforts in recent memory - including the Live 8 concerts, Visit Africa, and the efforts to support relief efforts in Haiti following the earthquake in 2010.
Several ONE-sponsored feats and challenges will now be living on DailyFeats.com, including the feats listed above (!livingproof, !goodneighbor, !AIDSawareness, !supportafrica, !fightpoverty, !speak4someone).
A few challenges by ONE will include the Discover Africa challenge, Our Communities challenge, and Act Now challenge. These challenges are aimed at raising awareness, fostering communities, and being proactive in fighting poverty and disease — and completing those feats will award bonus points to the member. Win-win!
See ONE’s page at DailyFeats to get involved with this campaign and with improving your life, one positive action at a time.
Got it covered for the New Year?
It takes more than a blanket to be fully covered in the new year.
Accept the challenge to feel safe and happy between the sheets in 2012.
We love this graphic from Bedsider’s home page.
Today, we launced the Got It Covered challenge with Bedsider, the free online birth control support network. This challenge is all about making sure women are safe and smart before they get sexy.
In four easy but essential steps, you can get informed and ready for some frisky fun in 2012. After completing the four feats in the challenge (doable while you sit on your couch, believe it or not!), you’ll be rewarded with some points you can use toward donations or rewards on DailyFeats.com.
A really cool part of this challenge is you can opt in to receive daily reminders from Bedsider to take or refill your birth control method of choice. These aren’t your average “Reminder: Take. Pill. Now.” messages, though. Last night mine read, “Most couples have about 2,455 fights a year and sex is usually the cause of 87 of them. Bicker less. Do it more. And take your pill.” Ha! I love this. Often the simple calendar alert function on my phone gets ignored because I’m so used to it, but this text makes the act of remembering birth control really stick with you.
We’re thrilled to have such a cool partner in Bedsider. So go - get yourself covered for the new year, and earn rewards while you’re at it —> Got It Covered challenge on DailyFeats.
Learn more about our partnership with Bedsider, and how DailyFeats works, here.
If you take the challenge let me know in the comments or @sahopson/@thedailyfeats! (I did it!)
2nd Annual Fitness & Health Bloggers Conference
The fittest state in the country will be hosting the Fitness & Health Bloggers Conference June 22-24, 2012. Denver’s Colorado Center for Health and Wellness, a state-of-the-art building slated for completion in April, will welcome up to 200 fitness bloggers from all around the country to partake in a (very healthy) smorgasbord of expert speakers, fitness activities, and hands-on “cohort breakout sessions” in labs which include cooking demonstrations, exercise research, and an actual grocery store research study that examines shopping habits and how to improve them.
Allan Wright, who organizes the conference, says this one is “100% different” from most blogger conferences because it’s not focused exclusively on bloggers talking about blogging, but gives bloggers unique opportunities to learn from and interact with the very experts in the field they have a passion for writing about. In addition, there will be a half-day session where bloggers will learn more about blogging.
In its second year, the conference is pleased to partner with the Colorado Center for Health and Wellness, which will be housed in a new Anschutz Building for Health and Wellness starting next year. The building, named for donor Phil Anschutz, reflects the lifestyle its inhabitants preach: upon entrance, instead of finding an elevator, visitors are invited to take the stairs. A running track on the second floor is glass-enclosed, so you can immediately see people in the Center taking positive action in their daily routines. This frame of mind appealed to Wright, who held the conference in his hometown of Boulder last year.
The roster doesn’t disappoint either. James Hill, Google’s top search result for “weight loss expert”, is the executive director of the center and will be giving one of the most buzzed-about talks of the conference. Dr. Inigo San Milan, who advises exercise programs for professional bike-racing teams, will deliver a review of the current state of exercise research.
Interested bloggers and industry enthusiasts can learn more here and register on the conference’s website.
