Support The Campaign
The Doctors Without Borders ‘Be There 1st’ campaign is an interactive, online fundraising experience like no other. You and your team will fundraise for a lifesaving cause and learn about the work of our MSF Emergency Response Team. As the ‘emergency’ unfolds, you will receive personal updates from staff who have worked with MSF in the field, and weekly situation reports (“sit reps”) based on MSF’s previous emergency responses. At the end of the campaign you will walk away with a clear picture of how MSF quickly mobilizes the extensive human and medical resources necessary to mount a humanitarian intervention, and the challenges our staff and patients face during a crisis. We make it easy to participate with our online fundraising tools, so sign-up now. You don’t want to miss anything!
There are many fun and easy ways to support the ‘Be There 1st’ campaign.
Here are just a few of the possibilities:
You Can Make A Difference
Tweet about the campaign - Make sure you're following our Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/msf_usa
- Use the #bethere1st hashtag in all your tweets
- Retweet the campaign's tweets (and anything else relevant)
- We make it easy to tweet about the campaign. You can sign-in to your Twitter account from the ‘Be There 1st’ homepage and send a tweet or use one of the suggested tweets below.
- Wish you could go to the field with Doctors Without Borders? Get an insider’s view at www.bethere1st.org/ #bethere1st
- Help Doctors Without Borders be there 1st when there is an emergency. www.bethere1st.org/ #bethere1st
- It costs $1 to protect someone against Meningitis. How many lives can you save? www.bethere1st.org/ #bethere1st
Suggested Tweets:
Join our Event page on Facebook
Join the ‘Be There 1st’ event on Facebook and encourage your Friends to do it with you. You will receive campaign updates and meet others who are passionate about Doctors Without Borders.
Write a blog post
Blogging is one of the easiest ways you can support ‘Be There 1st’ and Doctors Without Borders. Whether you are running WordPress, an account at LiveJournal, or a blog on MySpace or Facebook, by writing about a cause you are passionate about you are helping to build awareness. Because your friends or readers already share your interests, what you say makes a difference. This is also a great way to ask your social circle to donate to your personal fundraising page or to join your team.
Create a video shout-out message about the campaign
There are a large number of social networking tools to help you express yourself using video. When you record a video shout-out about your support for Doctors Without Borders, you can make your message more personal and passionate. You can use sites like 12seconds.tv, Vimeo, and YouTube to easily record and spread your video message. You can also upload your video to your BeThere1st personal fundraising page: sign-up to find out how.
Embed a Widget on your personal webpage or blog
Doctors Without Borders offers embeddable widgets that you can add to your social networking profiles, blogs, email signatures, or personal webpages to showcase your support for the campaign.
You can grab your widget by clicking Get Widget to the left. This widget will link directly to bethere1st.org.
Widget embed code:
- To highlight all the embed code within a box, triple click on it (or press Ctrl-A to select all)
- Right click your mouse and select 'Copy' (or press Ctrl-C to copy)
- This embed code can be pasted into other sites, either by right clicking and selecting 'Paste' (or by pressing Ctrl-V to paste)