The Advocacy Team is all about passion and we hope you are too! So no matter what you're an advocate for, donate for the Advocacy Team and help the School of Information make the world a better place!

The Advocacy Team is part of the University of Michigan’s School of Information Alternative Spring Break fundraising campaign. What is Alternative Spring Break? ASB is a service oriented trip graduate students take in service of non-profit or government organizations. Over the course of a week the students put to work the skills they practice in the classroom, helping these organizations with work that is important, but where they lack the money or expertise to hire professionals to solve their problems. The graduate students volunteer in multiple cities, including New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Washington, DC. The organizations they volunteer for are just as diverse including the Brookfield Zoo, Coalition on Temporary Shelter, Center for Responsive Politics, the Library of Congress, Folger Shakespeare Library, Prevent Child Abuse America, and many more.

Prizes For The Ann Arbor Community!

There's a little internal competition between the Team Captains of the various SI Teams. The captain of the team that raises the most money wins an iPad. However, I will up the ante - if the Advocacy Team raises the most money out of the other teams I will donate the iPad to either the School of Information, a local school or library. When you donate, comment where you think the iPad should go!

Prizes For Donating or Raising Money!

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Lunch Prizes

Donations Between 2/13 to 2/24:

• Monday - Friday: Lunch with Twitter's Claire Diaz Ortiz *
• Donate $500 for a chance to win

Donations Between 2/27 to 3/9:

• Monday - Friday: Lunch at Facebook with Paul Adams *
• Donate $500 for a chance to win

*Travel and Lodging Not Included

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Week 1: 2/13-2/17

• Monday: North Face Jacket First Team Member to Raise $1,000 Wins
• Tuesday: Patagonia Jacket  - Donate or raise at least $50 for a chance to win
• Wednesday: North Face Jacket First Team Member to Raise $75 Wins
• Thursday: $10 Moosejaw gift card - First 25 to donate any amount
• Friday: Patagonia Jacket - Donate or raise $25 for a chance to win

Week 2: 2/20 - 2/24

• Tuesday:  Patagonia Jacket - Donate or raise at least $50 for a chance to win
• Thursday: North Face Jacket - First Team Member to Raise $75 Wins
• Friday:  $10 Moosejaw gift card - First 25 to donate any amount

Week 3: 2/27 - 3/2 (ASB Week)

• Monday: iPod Shuffle - First Team Member to Raise $100 Wins
• Wednesday: Patagonia Jacket - Donate or raise at least $50 for a chance to win
• Friday: North Face Jacket - First team member to raise $75 Wins

Week 4: 3/5-3/9

• Tuesday: North Face Jacket - First team member to raise $50 wins
• Friday: Patagonia Jacket - Donate or raise at least $50 for a chance to win