Isha Foundation Chased the Lead in $1MM Online Competition
Isha Wins $100,000 in Chase Community Giving/Facebook Competition to Help Build a School for Rural Children in Southern India and Medical Facility in Tennessee
(PressMethod) - On Thursday night, people from all over Southern India rallied to bring out the vote for Isha Foundation's race to win the Chase Community Giving charity contest hosted on line by Facebook. The Isha Foundation, an international non-profit humanitarian social organization with U.S. headquarters in middle-Tennessee and international headquarters in Tamil Nadu, India worked tirelessly to win the coveted $1mm first place prize. Isha's expected winnings were earmarked to build a school in rural India and a health care clinic in Tennessee. Placing second by a mere 1200 votes has won them $100,000 towards their objective. "Even though we are disappointed to lose the $1 million which would have made a huge difference for thousands of disadvantaged children in India and patients in Tennessee," Isha Foundation President, Dr. Kalpana Rajdev began, "we are excited to win $100,000 which will still help us do so much."
While the U.S. offices worked round the clock, volunteers in India, mobilized tens of thousands of supporters to vote at computer stations in more than 60 schools and universities. Homemakers, laborers, villagers and students came together to vote to support Isha constructing a new school for the rural children in their area. Even through the night, voting kiosks were opened in remote areas where people, who never had the opportunity to use a computer, were able to vote online to break their cycle of poverty for the next generation. The proposed school construction project, part of Isha's "Big Idea" grant submitted to Chase at the outset of the competition, would be the seventh school in Isha's budding, Isha Vidhya rural education program
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