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The Great American NO BULL Challenge is a global video contest and education program that impacts millions of teens by spreading awareness about anti-bullying and digital responsibility in a unique and exciting way. By inspiring youth to have a voice and demonstrate leadership skills through video creation, the campaign truly inspires creative social change at the youth level. NO BULL understands the importance of building partnerships, establishing collaborative programs, and cross-promoting campaigns and resources to help creations anti-bullying solutions in schools and communities. We are proud to partner with youth-led organizations and global nonprofits and corporations whose missions are aligned to spread awareness about the importance of bullying prevention and digital responsibility.
CAMPAIGN FOUNDER
Shawn Marie Edgington: Shawn is a cyberbullying prevention expert and your go-to cyber safety advocate. Shawn’s the author of the bestselling book, The Parent’s Guide to Texting, Facebook and Social Media: Understanding the Benefits and Dangers of Parenting in a Digital World, the Founder of the Cyber Safety Academy, The Great American NO BULL Challenge and Teen Video Awards. Shawn is also the CEO of a national insurance firm, where she provides risk management for companies across the country.
After a personal experience she had with her then 16-year-old daughter being physically threatened and stalked by text and on Facebook, Shawn has made it her mission to help teens, educators and parents take the steps necessary to promote digital responsibility among our Nation’s youth.
CAMPAIGN PARTNERS
i-SAFE, Inc: A leading publisher of media literacy and digital citizenship education materials and programming with worldwide distribution channels. Founded in 1998 and supported by the U.S. Congress and various executive agencies of the U.S. government, i-SAFE is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and empowering youth (and others) to safely, responsibly and productively use Information and Communications Technologies. To date, more than 32 million students have been trained utilizing i-SAFE curriculum in more than 5,100 school districts across the United States and in 33 countries around the world.
National Organizations for Youth Safety: (NOYS) is the longest standing premier youth health and safety coalition in the United States. The Coalition is dedicated to saving lives by creating programs and providing resources to address important youth-related topics. NOYS is comprised of over 70 national members that include nonprofit organizations, business and industry leaders, and federal agencies. The mission of NOYS is to create sustaining, engaging, and educational programs of work with youth and not to youth.
The Cyber Safety Academy: The Cyber Safety Academy is proud to present the Great American NO BULL Challenge. What if we used the power of social networking to inspire America’s teens, so they build each other up instead of tearing each other down? The CSA has a mission to eradicate the cyber abuse and bullying of our vulnerable, constantly connected teenagers! Cyber safety is increasingly important and vital to protecting our children from the growing threat of our virtual world, and you can help by using the Cyber Safety Academy in your school or organization.
4-H: A positive youth development organization that empowers young people to reach their full potential. A vast community of more than 6 million youth and adults working together for positive change, 4-H enables America’s youth to emerge as leaders through hands-on learning, research-based 4-H youth programs and adult mentorship, in order to give back to their local communities.
The Anti-Defamation League: Founded in 1913 “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” Now the nation’s premier civil rights/human relations agency fighting anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, ADL protects civil rights for all. A leader in the development of materials, programs and services, ADL carries out its mission through a network of 30 Regional and Satellite Offices in the United States and abroad.
ADL’s A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute is a leading provider of anti-bias education, bullying prevention and diversity training programs used by schools, universities, corporations and community organizations throughout the United States and abroad.
In 2010 ADL educational programs reached more than 75,000 students, educators and community members across the U.S. Since its beginning, over 1.2 million adults and youth have directly participated in ADL’s Education Division programs, and are changing the hearts and minds of millions more.
The Bully Project: The Bully project highlights solutions that both address immediate needs and lead to systemic change. Starting with the film’s STOP BULLYING. SPEAK UP! call to action, The Bully Project will catalyze audience awareness to action with a series of tools and programs supported by regional and national partners.
The Bully Project is a collaborative effort that brings together partner organizations that share a commitment to ending bullying and ultimately transforming society.
Business Professionals of America: The leading CTSO (Career Technical Student Organization) for students pursuing careers in business management, office administration, information technology and other related career fields. BPA has more than 51,000 youth members in over 2,300 chapters in 23 states.
The California Endowment: The California Endowment’s mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.
Communities in Schools: By bringing caring adults into the schools to address children’s unmet needs, CIS provides the link between educators and the community. The result: teachers are free to teach, and students – many in jeopardy of dropping out – have the opportunity to focus on learning. It is the mission of CIS to champion the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life.
FCCLA: Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is a dynamic and effective national student organization that helps young men and women become leaders and address important personal, family, work, and societal issues through Family and Consumer Sciences Education. FCCLA has more than 190,000 members and nearly 6,500 chapters from 50 state associations, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The organization has involved more than ten million youth since its founding in 1945.FCCLA: The Ultimate Leadership Experience is unique among youth organizations because its programs are planned and run by student members. It is the only Career and Technical Student Organization with the family as its central focus. Participation in national programs and chapter activities helps members become strong leaders in their families, careers, and communities.
GuestAssist: It is the mission of Guest Assist to empower their customers to elevate guest experiences, enhance security and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. Their goal is to achieve this for every guest on every visit to every venue.
HealthCorps®: A proactive health movement co-founded by heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz and his wife Lisa, is fighting the obesity and mental resilience crisis by getting American students and communities across the country to take charge of their health. Like a Peace Corps for Health, HealthCorps is a national service and peer mentoring initiative. In high schools, HealthCorps “Coordinators” empower teens in underserved populations to make simple lifestyle changes to enhance their well-being and resilience and take the message to friends, families and neighbors.
InTouch Mobile: Based out of Canada, InTouch Mobile is at the forefront of mobile communication solutions helping organizations cater to an increasingly mobile audience.Whether you are a school board looking to provide anonymous reporting for students, parents and staff, a sport club looking to improve communications with your membership or a business looking to serve an increasingly mobile customer InTouch Mobile has a proven solution for you.
Megan Meier Foundation: The mission of the Megan Meier Foundation is to bring awareness, education and promote positive change to children, parents, and educators in response to the ongoing bullying and cyberbullying in our children’s daily environment.
Michael Walton Foundation: The mission of the Michael Walton Foundation is an organization that provides creative outlets for youth development. Their purpose is to foster leadership skills and behaviors in young people by helping them to identify and cultivate their talents, set goals, and make informed career choices.
Not In Our School: What is Not In Our School? Across the country, students and teachers are sharing stories, joining together and taking action to create safe schools, free from stereotypes, intolerance, and hate. They’re part of a movement called Not In Our School (NIOS). For more than a decade, Not In Our School has inspired students of all ages to develop and share innovative ways to resist bullying and promote an atmosphere of acceptance and inclusion. The Not In Our School videos, activities and resources on our website showcase the immense capacity, energy, and creativity of young people who are creating new ways to make their schools safe for everyone.
Not In Our Town: Not In Our Town’s mission is to guide, support and inspire people and communities to work together to stop hate and build safe, inclusive environments for all. We believe that change takes place at the local level, which is why we seek to foster and support models of change that result in resilient, locally-driven efforts to address intolerance and hate.
Project Change: A youth/adult partnership organization whose mission is to promote positive youth development and enhance leadership skills by engaging youth to contribute to their community through quality community service projects and peer mentoring activities. Project Change’s You Have The Power! Bullying Prevention Peer Education Project features high school mentors working with groups of elementary and middle school youth after school about the characteristics, risks, and consequences of bullying and how to be an ally in a bullying situation. Teen mentors also lead presentations addressing bullying prevention at schools, community meetings, and national and international professional conferences.
Students Against Destructive Decisions: SADD has 350,000 students actively participating in over 7 million + schools. Originally, the mission of the SADD chapter was to help young people say “No” to drinking and driving. Today, the mission has expanded. Students have told us that positive peer pressure, role modeling and environmental strategies can prevent other destructive decisions and set a healthier, safer course for their lives. And that is why SADD has become a peer-to-peer education, prevention, and activism organization dedicated to preventing destructive decisions, particularly underage drinking, other drug use, risky and impaired driving, teen violence, and teen suicide. It is SADD’s mission to provide students with the best prevention tools possible to deal with the issues of underage drinking, other drug use, risky and impaired driving, and other destructive decisions.
Sears: Team Up to Stop Bullying: Team Up To Stop Bullying is an initiative developed by Sears to connect bullying solutions with victims, families, educators, schools and communities.
Team Up To Stop Bullying provides a trusted place for students, children, victims, parents, educators, schools and communities to find bullying solutions.
teenDaily Strength: A moderated teen community for 13 to 19 year olds.
teenDailyStrength represents a unique collaboration that leverages the teen expertise of HealthCorps.org, founded by Emmy award-winning, nationally syndicated talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz; ShareCare.com, the expert Q & A platform for health and wellness; and DailyStrength.org, Sharecare’s recognized online support community. ShareCare will serve as the platform and operator of the site.
Youth Service America: YSA (YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA) improves communities by increasing the number and the diversity of young people, ages 5-25, serving in substantive roles.
YSA supports a global culture of engaged youth committed to a lifetime of service, learning, leadership, and achievement. The impact of YSA’s work through service and service-learning is measured in student achievement, workplace readiness, and healthy communities.
Friends of the Challenge
Mark Levy, Branding and Marketing Strategist
Kathryn Rose, Author and Social Media Expert
Jordan Harris, Computer Graphics Student, Bob Jones University