Your Vote Can Help Bring up to $5,000,000 to Columbia to Help Local Charities & Attractions

Chase is giving away $5 million to local charities around the US based on votes received through Facebook. Please take a minute to help bring that money to Columbia by voting for local nonprofits. You have 20 votes in the first round and can only vote for each charity once each round, so make sure to use all your votes and vote for 20 Columbia nonprofits! To vote for local nonprofits, simply click on the link below.

Vote Here:
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving



Following Round 1, Chase will donate $25,000 to each of the 100 Charities receiving the most votes in Round 1. Following Round 2, Chase will donate $1,000,000 to the Round 2 Charity receiving the most votes and will donate $100,000 to the five runners up. The Chase Community Giving Advisory Board will select one or more nominated Charities to receive donations with a combined total of $1,000,000.

Each person receives 20 votes for round one and 5 for round two, and voting is open through December 11, 2009. Once you vote, you can post it to your wall, tweet it and invite your friends.

Here are the complete rules:
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/home/rules

If you need ideas of Columbia nonprofits to vote for, here's a list of several I found in the database and there are hundreds more. Some I searched for weren't in the database because they didn't qualify for some reason or another -- including United Way of the Midlands, American Red Cross of Central South Carolina and Harvest Hope.

Columbia Opportunity Resource (COR)
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/1229419

Home Works
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/220800

Healthy Learners
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/1271323

Project Pet
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/504918

United Way Association of South Carolina
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/1284682

The Nickelodeon Theatre (Run by the Columbia Film Society)
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/294058

Columbia Museum of Art
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/884247

South Carolina State Museum Foundation
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/705520

Riverbanks Zoological Park Society
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/811725

Historic Columbia Foundation
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/437700

EdVenture Children's Museum
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/743275

The River Alliance
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/15305

South Carolina Philharmonic
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/70617

Keep the Midlands Beautiful
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/227330

Friends of Congaree Swamp (Congaree National Park)
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/910696


Columbia Township Auditorium Foundation
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/317708

Renaissance Foundation
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/280813

Columbia City Ballet
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/848778

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Columbia SC
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/740230

Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/437902

Columbia Childrens Theatre
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/1232344

Junior League of Columbia
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/877485

Navigating from Good to Great Foundation
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/234082

South Carolina Hospitality and Tourism Educational Foundation
http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/502042

This is by no means a comprehensive list, so please help add to it by posting voting links to other local 501c3 organizations have you found in the database in the comments to this post!