We would like to take a moment to congratulate Sophia & her Crowdrise fundraiser for F Cancer. They have officially won the Firefox Challenge. The current total raised stands at over $117,000. You can still donate as a congratulations to all the hard work that is being done to beat cancer.

BENEFITING: New Venture Fund
EVENT: Mozilla Firefox Challenge

HERE’S THE STORY:

Mozilla Firefox just launched an AMAZING holiday campaign and is donating $25k to the charity that raises the most money and I want to win that money for F Cancer!

What is F Cancer you may ask? Why am I swearing? Well…for good reason.

With the exponential growth in technology and education, F Cancer has set out to educate everyone to recognize crucial early warning signs of cancer and inspire them turn around and spread the word to loved ones who may be at risk.

So many important charities are focused on finding a cure, when over 90% of all cancers are curable if detected in stage one – Crazy right? If it was any other disease, we’d say that a cure has been found. It’s definitely important that we continue research, but right now, early detection is the best cure we have for cancer. And yet, not everyone knows that.

We can save lives just by showing people how to detect early signs of cancer.

Let’s put an end to late stage cancer diagnosis. Here’s how you can help…

Educate yourself here.
Donate, Join my team, and help me raise money and win $25k for this important cause.
Get the word out about early detection. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell anyone that’s willing to listen.

Early detection is key and the only cure that we have. Join my team and help win $25,000 for F Cancer this holiday season.

If you give $29 right now, you’ll be entered to win an FCancer tee and I’ll sign it and everything. You can check out all the rules for the contest below.

xoxo

Sophia

**The New Venture Fund currently provides fiscal sponsorships to nonprofit organizations and also coordinates small-grants programs. Funds raised here for New Venture Fund will be allocated to FCancer.**

Rules – Win a F Cancer Tee Shirt Signed by Sophia Bush

Watch this video below to hear the story behind F Cancer from it’s founder Yael Cohen

Photoshoots: 2011: Session 6

Also, make sure to check out Sophia’s newest charity project: Defend Tomorrow Initiative. We’ll have more information up on it soon as we’ll be launching a new section focusing on her charity work.

August 18 – Do Something Awards

Thanks to Jessica.

Thanks to Chloe for the following information! Sorry for the short notice!

We just announced that eMission gamers will have the chance to win a Skype Date with spokesperson Sophia Bush. Entering to win is simple. Facebook users are asked to sign up and play eMission, the online game that challenges players to take offline environmental action, by April 1st and one lucky activist will win the chance to speak with Sophia Bush to chat about eco-goodness.

Sign up and play eMission: http://dosomething.org/emission

In addition to the contest, eMission is also offering five $1,000 scholarships! Again, the ask is simple–simply sign up and play our social game for social change and tell us how you’re improving the environment for an opportunity to win. More details can be found here: http://www.dosomething.org/games/emission/scholarships.

December 7 – Entertainment Tonight

When Sophia Bush and her “One Tree Hill” co-star Austin Nichols returned from their trip to Grand Isle after the Deepwater Horizon exploded and oil began to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, they found themselves disheartened… and then they turned that feeling into action.

“We couldn’t get on the beaches, they threatened to arrest us, they wouldn’t let anybody help with the cleanup, and they also wouldn’t tell you where you could go to quote-unquote train to do cleanup,” Bush tells Zap2it. “They were really trying to shut people out. There was sort of this overarching feeling of helplessness, like, how are any of us supposed to make a difference with this if we can’t get our hands dirty, if we can’t volunteer, you know?”

That helpless feeling subsided during a visit with Bush and Nichols’ good friend singer/songwriter Amy Kuney. “My dear friend Amy came over, and she said, you know, I want you guys to hear this song,” Bush says, referring to Kuney’s track “Gasoline Rainbows.”

“She wrote it because she was so upset – she’d started watching this show called ‘Whale Wars,’ about what they’re doing out on the ocean with whale poaching. Nobody knows. And then this well exploded and all these people died on the rig. Why are things going on out in the ocean that would never be allowed to happen on land?”

Kuney talked to Bush and Nichols about her plan to put the song on iTunes and donate the proceeds toward helping aid in the restoration of the Gulf. “Austin and I looked at each other and we thought, well, we’ve got a lot of friends in bands. What are we doing? Why are we thinking small? We could put an entire album together and hopefully raise a lot of money and also make people aware,” Bush says.

Continue reading the article at Zap2it.