Saket Vora

Ok, shameless plug here: help Nourish International win $50,000. There is a Causes application on Facebook with a running contest in which the organization that gets the most # of unique donors will receive an award of $50,000. The deadline is February 1st. Nourish International started at UNC in 2002 with a goal to help poverty through student action. Sounds like the typically lofty ideal goals of naive college students. But then the students started doing stuff. Entirely student inspired, managed, and executed, they pulled off large popular benefit events. They started serving a ‘Hunger Lunch’ at UNC’s brickyard that has been going on for nearly four years. They have executed projects in sustainable agriculture in seven different countries on three different continents, while expanding to 4+ universities. Nourish entered a UNC and Duke business plan competition for a universal nut sheller project and took home 1st place in both. These guys mean business!

I learned about Nourish through my sisters and friends at UNC, who were very active in Nourish. I played ultimate frisbee each week with the current president, Joel Thomas. I worked to found a Nourish chapter at NC State, and I’m currently working with Joel (and Win) on the WaterPLUS project.

It’s simple. Go to their page here on Facebook and donate $10. If they are also a daily leader in unique donors, they get an additional $1,000 award. So check out the leaderboard (on the linked page) and choose wisely when to donate.

Ok, end of shameless plug. Thanks for being patient.