Voting begins today for the $1 Million Chase Grant Competition and the Matthew Shepard Foundation needs your votes to win.Here's what Jason Marsden, executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, has to say about it, "With $1 million, the Foundation would hugely expand its outreach to high-school and college students to address, and prevent, bias and hatred in campus environments nationwide. Judy Shepard and our staff are able to visit dozens of schools, churches and civic groups every year, but are unable to personally visit every community that invites us. Our plan is to design interactive, scenario-based, live-action e-learning tools which will guide students, teachers and parents through realistic everyday situations involving bias or hatred, offer them a choice of responses, and show the possible outcomes of each decision. We already have the experts on board to put our program on the Web 24/7/365 for anyone who wants to experience it. Your action this week can make the difference in providing the funding to complete the project."
