The Real Dumbledore's Army!

I don't know how many of you saw my tweet from last night telling you guys that I voted for the Harry Potter Alliance to win part of the $5 million that Chase Community Giving is donating to a few lucky charities.

But, right now the HP Alliance is in first place! Yay, however Kristin Brooks Hope Center is not far behind. While it is awesome that any of these charities wins, it would be even more awesome if we can help out one of my favorite charities; The HP Alliance.

So, what does the HP Alliance stand for? We stand for the same principles that Dumbledore's Army stood for! Sure to some it may sound outlandish to try and use a "child's book" as an example (Yes, I'm been told that before by an asshole "friend"), but if its helping make the world a better place WTH does it matter?

HP Alliance Motto
The Harry Potter Alliance is dedicated to using the examples of Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore to spread love and fight the Dark Arts in the real world.

" Harry and his friends start a student activist group called Dumbledore’s Army when the adults and politicians of their world fail to address the concerns of the day. The Harry Potter Alliance is a Dumbledore’s Army for the real world.

Just as Dumbledore’s Army wakes the world up to Voldemort’s return, works for equal rights of house elves and werewolves, and empowers its members, we:"

• Work with partner NGOs in alerting the world to the dangers of global warming, poverty, and genocide.
• Work with our partners for equal rights regardless of race, gender, and sexuality.
• Encourage our members to hone the magic of their creativity in endeavoring to make the world a better place.

So far the HP Alliance has:

• Raise funds to protect thousands of civilians in Darfur and Burma.
• Donate over 14,000 books across the world, including 4,000 to a youth village in Rwanda.
• Increase Mass Equality’s calls to Maine voters to protect marriage equality by over 1200% in one day with over 3500 calls
• Produce and distribute hundreds of videos, the best of which were used at the closing ceremonies of the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide in the Rwanda capital Kigali
• Empower our partner anti-genocide group STAND with a 40% increase in high school chapter sign-ups and a 52% increase in calls to 1-800-GENOCIDE during a two-week campaign
• Register over 900 first-time voters during our Wizard Rock the Vote campaign in 2008
• Produce a podcast on Darfur that was downloaded over 120,000 times
• Gather over three quarters of the 10,000 signatures that the UK based Aegis Trust sent to the UN Security Council concerning Darfur
• Prepare tens of thousands of student leaders to face the global challenges of ending genocide, equal rights, environmental protection, media reform, fair trade, and more!

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So, I'm asking you to please go vote for this awesome charity to insure that they win a piece of that $5 million. I know they'll put it to great use and then you too can join us and become part of Dumbledore's Army!

Only 13 hours left to vote so go go go! :D

Vote here: Harry Potter Alliance