Progressive Wednesday

“Five for Fighting” Autism, breast cancer, children’s poverty…

May 3rd, 2007 by Eric

What kind of world do you want? That’s the question musician John Ondrasik, a.k.a., “Five for Fighting” wants you to answer. But he doesn’t want it typed up and emailed. He wants it videotaped, tagged and uploaded to whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com. Why? Because he has started “the first video community that gives back.”

Here’s what he wants you to do:

Tell the world what kind of world you want and raise money for charity by making and uploading a video of yourself, your friends or your family answering the question, “What Kind Of World Do You Want?”

Using the video software, Revver, they have set up a system that will donate 49 cents to one of six selected charities anytime someone watches your video. Just stick the video intro for the charity of your choice at the beginning. Those six charities are:

1. Fisher House - Watch the video intro
2. Breast Cancer 3-Day: Komen for the Cure - Watch the video intro
3. Save the Children - Watch the video intro
4. Autism Speaks - Watch the video intro
5. VH1 Save the Music Foundation - Watch the video intro
6. NY Police and Fire Widows & Children - Watch the video intro

Anytime someone watches your video and clicks on the sponsor’s link at the end, that sponsor will donate 49 cents to your charity. You can get complete upload instructions here. By the same token, watch the videos that others have posted. Don’t forget to click on the sponsor at the end. It’s 49 cents each time, so watch and click, watch and click, and watch and click some more.

What kind of world do I want? I want a world that’s better today than it was yesterday. A world where a child in the South Bronx has access to the same health care as one on the Upper East Side; where parents can raise their children comfortably and without fear, whether they live in Los Angeles or Sierra Leone. I want a world where it’s harder to get a gun than it is to get a job; where we pollute less today than we did yesterday. I want a world where we wage peace ferociously, and war is proven ineffective. But most of all, I want a world that, when I leave it, is better for my daughter than it was for me, because I was in it.

Now… Where’s my camera?