GLSEN Wins a MySpace Impact Award!

We are happy to announce that GLSEN is the winner of the August MySpace Impact Award! The Impact Award is awarded monthly to organizations "who are using their MySpace pages to make a difference," and MySpace users vote to determine the winner. GLSEN competed for the award alongside the Solar Electric Light Fund and the Kanye West Foundation.

We're very proud of the support we received, considering the competition. Kanye West promoted his organization's nomination on his social networking sites, which have huge numbers of followers--Kanye has around 1 million friends on MySpace, and almost 1.6 million fans on Facebook! Nevertheless, GLSEN captured around 60% of the vote, winning both the award and $10,000 that will go toward making schools safe for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.

We'd like to thank all of our supporters, fans, and allies who voted for GLSEN--some of you even signed into MySpace every day to vote for us! Every single person who helped us to win the award contributed to the work that we do by taking a stance against anti-LGBT language, bullying and harassment. We'd also like to recognize the support that we received from Hilary Duff, who used her website and newsletter to encourage all of her fans to vote for GLSEN as well! You can check out the PSA she filmed for the AdCouncil and GLSEN's ThinkB4YouSpeak campaign.

Once again, thank you to all of our supporters! We couldn't have done it without you.