CROWDRISE ROYAL CRESTS
Crowdrise Crests are the best and most important marks of distinction in the world -- more important than a Nobel Prize, a Lombardi Trophy and winning Best Smile in the 7th grade mock elections. We recommend that you spend all of your time giving back, having fun and finding every way possible to rack up Crowdrise Crests. Those who gather every Crowdrise Crest get invited to a secret ceremony where we get in our PJs and eat those cranberry sauce discs that come from a can.
NAPKIN CREST
You get the Crowdrise Napkin Crest (CNC) by emailing us a napkin pic that gets posted on the Napkin Page. It's easy to send us a picture of a napkin...anyone can do that. But, it's incredibly difficult to understand the nuances of a napkin that inspire people to Crowdrise. It's texture, shape and a perhaps just a certain je ne sais quoi. Recipients of the Napkin Crest are some of the world’s greatest geniuses -- Chagall, Will Hunting, Kafka and Wooderson. If you have a napkin you feel is worthy of review please your napkin photo and the Executive Committee of the Crowdrise Napkin Discussion Council will check it out.
FEATURED HUMAN PERSON CREST
It’s one of the world’s great honors to be a Crowdrise Featured Human Person (CFHP). The CFHP is always someone who’s (possibly whose, we’re not sure) doing beyond incredible work giving back. The Crowdrise Featured Human Person flips every week and the current CFHP gets to choose the next one. Not only does the current CFHP get featured on the Crowdrise homepage for the week, but a recent study by Fish People Magazine reported that the CFHP can expect an amazing amount of support from the Crowdrise community, better breakdancing moves when it really counts, and without question, the best week of your life.
Marie Antoinette Crest
Every couple of weeks, Crowdrise staff from all over the world, get together to discuss the best pajamas for dignitaries and diplomats to wear to different world events. If you watch the highlights from the latest IMF meeting or the G20 Summit, for example, you'll see countless people talking about really important stuff while wearing their PJs. We’re not saying the added comfort is the only reason some things get solved but we are pretty sure it helps. As a side conversation when the Crowdrise staff is all together, we also find one really amazing Crowdrise project to bestow the Marie Antoinette Crest upon. Winners of the Marie Antoinette Crest get their project mentioned on the Crowdrise home page, they get to use the word ‘bestow’ as often as they want, and they get all sorts of other love on Twitter and Facebook.
STAPLER CREST
The Crowdrise Stapler Crest (CSC) is for everyone who ends up on the Crowdrise Pics page. To make that happen, a pic while you're doing something amazing for the world with a little Crowdrise love. That means holding up a Crowdrise Flag while you’re volunteering or putting a Crowdrise Bumper Sticker across your forehead when running a marathon for charity or wearing a Crowdrise Tee when you promise to eat a hundred slices of cheese each time someone donates to your Crowdrise Fundraiser. That was the longest sentence ever.
BABY QUINTAS CREST
The Baby Quintas Crest (BQC), named after our own Baby Quintas, is the most special crest in the world. No one has a Baby Quintas Crest yet. Once a year, on the second Saturday in July, the Crowdrise Sirs and Dames gather at the Crowdrise Summer Dance to determine who, if anyone, should get the coveted Baby Quintas Crest. If there’s a winner, it’s announced on October 31st. No one will ever know the factors that go into earning the Baby Quintas. Is it the person who gives back the most, the person with the poofiest hair, the person with the most dangerous walking habits? We will likely never know. The Sirs and Dames have vowed to never reveal the reasons and they're sworn by a bond and alliance so deep and intimate that we can't even write about it anymore. Please don't talk about it either. Please just stop looking at this page.
BOLOGNA CREST
The Crowdrise Bologna Crest (CBC) is for people who have made their way to the Crowdrise Impact page. The CBC is a reflection of your passion, dedication, and courage in a world with too many kinds of chairs. If your Crowdrise project is having an incredibly meaningful impact, please the story, one photo, and the secret code “Turnip Chair” and we’ll get you into the running to show up on the Crowdrise Impact page. Note to Ms. Claire's second grade class at Green School, if you think you’re getting a Bologna Crest for that awful play you put on, think again...this is the Crowdrise Bologna Crest and we know extraordinary impact when we see it.
Thomas Jefferson CREST
Since 1815, the Top Point Earner over a given time period will sometimes earn the Thomas Jefferson Crest as well as a Thomas Jefferson founding fathers wig. We don’t do this often but be on the lookout for it since it’s a tradition older than any major sporting event and more revered than any of their trophies. Jefferson himself was overheard saying that 'those who earn the Jefferson Crest do so knowing its importance but they'll likely never know its deep and awesome significance.' The few that earn the Jefferson Crest will also get a founding father’s wig in the mail and you are required to wear it to all family and government related functions.
Pheidippides CREST
Pheidippides was a crazy, sick runner in ancient Greece. But, perhaps more importantly, he was also an extraordinary fundraiser. In 500 BC, Pheidippides raised nearly 72 drachmas by getting all sorts of friends to sponsor his run from the fish market in Piraeus to his aunt Leslie's house in Sparta. Now, in honor of Pheidippides, anytime someone chimes in after raising $2,620, they earn the Crowdrise Pheidippides Crest. Most people believe that earning the Pheidippides Crest is way, way better than running a marathon.
WOODERSON CREST
Once every seventeen years, the Cloud Commission on Philanthropy unleashes the Wooderson Crest. In 1977, the Wooderson Crest was given to the United Nations to pass along to the most charitable country along the Tropic of Capricorn. And, in 1994 the Wooderson was given to the NCAA as the trophy for the team that ended up ranked 5 in the AP's college football poll. And in 2011, the Wooderson Crest was given to Crowdrise. To say we're honored to receive this year's Wooderson is most certainly an understatement. We're proud to pass along this special honor to the Crowdrise human person who gets the most Crowdrise points by the end of November.
Officer Franklin Crest
We get a crazy amount of feedback from awesome fundraisers on Crowdrise. That feedback is critical to making Crowdrise better. So, anyone who gives us some decent feedback gets the Officer Franklin Crest. Previous winners of the OFC include Tami Taylor, Matt Saracen and Lyla Garrity. More importantly, please email us if you know the movie that inspired the name Officer Franklin or the TV show that Tami, Matt and Lyla are from and we'll add 400 Crowdrise Points for you.
DOCTOR CREST
Crowdrise Doctors have earned 100,000 Crowdrise Points. When you're a Crowdrise Doctor you get to put Dr. in front of your name on Twitter, Facebook and on all your legal documents. You also get to legitimately wear those doctor pajamas in the coffee shop and earn all sorts of respectful glances.
TSAR CREST
Crowdrise Tsars have earned 200,000 points and get to join the long lineage of benevolent Tsars. We're not positive what that means but you get to wear a cape year round and you get invited to the monthly Tsar Conference on Malta which really doesn't exist.
MIME CREST
Crowdrise Mimes have 300,000 Crowdrise Points. Being a Mime means you don't have to talk to anyone until you earn another 200,000 points. Some Mimes have found that not having to talk is so great that they actually stop trying to help the world thus earning no new points. Thus.
BARON CREST
Earn 500,000 Crowdrise Points and you'll be a Crowdrise Baron. Barons get a special moat, a bunch of invisible medallions and full time use of a really tall Knight.
DJ CREST
Crowdrise DJs have earned 750,000 points. DJs get to choose the music at the always magical Crowdrise Prom, and if we ever have a Crowdrise Airlines, DJs get to fly first class.
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