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Andrew Slack and HPA members participate in Project For Awesome 2010
Project For Awesome 2010 has arrived, and The Harry Potter Alliance is participating! P4A is a project created by our partners, John and Hank Green and the Nerdfighters, where members of the YouTube community take one day to promote their favorite charities in videos. Andrew Slack sat down to support two of our partners on The HPA’s YouTube channel.
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Tagged HP Books, Project For Awesome, Reachout.com, Youtube
Enter the signatures you collected at your Lumos Party
Don’t forget to enter any signatures you collected over the past weekend into our petition! You can do this one of two ways: 1. Enter the signatures manually into the form. 2. Email deathlyhallows@thehpalliance.org. You can send your signatures in via email either by typing up the list yourself, or by scanning and sending a [...]
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Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News, HPA Announcements
Tagged deathly hallows campaign, House Cup, lumos parties, petition
10,000 signatures. Tell us about your Lumos Parties!
This past weekend HPA members and chapters hosted more than 260 Lumos Parties across the globe during the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1. More than 100 HPA members attended our flagship Lumos Party in NYC, which was covered by The New York Times andABC News. Because of the thousands of fans across the globe who came together to support Fair Trade, we successfully hit our goal of 10,000 signatures by Saturday 11/20 at noon.
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Posted in House Cup, HPA Announcements
Tagged Chapters, deathly hallows campaign, House Cup, lumos parties, New York, petition, starvation wages
Not In Harry’s Name: Fighting the first “real-world” Horcrux
We’re inviting Time Warner, the parent company of Warner Bros. to switch all Harry Potter chocolate to Fair Trade. Its been less than 24 hours since we opened up our petition, and we have already collected more than 1,600 signatures. If you haven’t already, head over there to sign the petition now (So far, Ravenclaw is winning the competition by a wide margin).
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Posted in House Cup
Tagged deathly hallows campaign, Fair Trade, House Cup, House of Awesome, John Green, Livestream, lumos parties, movie release, starvation wages
Introducing the new website!
By now, you’ve probably noticed something different about The Harry Potter Alliance. We dusted, scrubbed, and sprayed all the doxies, and now in honor of the fifth anniversary of the HPA, we proudly present our brand new, beautiful website! Please, take a look around and tell us what you think of the new look. Post [...]
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Posted in About, Harry Potter Alliance News
Tagged blog, Harry Potter Alliance News, news, website
Call for volunteers: Show what Harry Potter fans can do!
Since winning the $250,000 grant from Chase Community Giving, The Harry Potter Alliance has been hopping. The scope of our projects are more ambitious, we have a fantastic new website, our membership has expanded; in short, things are wrockin’. And we’re still growing. The HPA is currently looking for talented, passionate individuals to join our [...]
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Tagged chase community giving, members, Staff, volunteer
HPAFTW Press Conference Saturday, 4:30pm PST
A quick update for everyone: Chase bank will be presenting The Harry Potter Alliance with a giant check today (Saturday) at 4:30pm PST at Comic-Con 2010! It will be in room 33A, all Comic-Con registrants are welcome to attend. Andrew Slack, as well as Melissa Anelli from The Leaky Cauldron (a member of our Board [...]
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Posted in About, Harry Potter Alliance News
Tagged comic-con, Harry Potter Alliance News, hpaftw, Leaky Cauldron
A second press conference at Comic-Con 2010
Update: The press conference will be Saturday (7/24) at 4:30pm in room 33A for all Comic-Con attendees! The Harry Potter Alliance and JP Morgan Chase will be participating in a second press conference this weekend in San Diego at Comic-Con 2010! At this this time, we do not know the exact time or location of [...]
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Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News
Tagged chase community giving, HPA
Press Conference to receive $250,000 from Chase
UPDATE #2: The press conference is over now, but we should have some footage and pictures soon! Thank you everyone! UPDATE: The press conference is live at http://www.livestream.com/sayaha NOW! The press conference where The Harry Potter Alliance will receive the check for $250,000 is today at 12:30pm in Orlando, Florida in the midst of Infinitus [...]
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Posted in About, Harry Potter Alliance News
Tagged Harry Potter Alliance News, hpaftw, Livestream, press conference
The HPA wins $250,000, and we blink stupidly in amazment and gratitude.
On Monday, at 11:59pm EST, The Harry Potter Alliance won the grand prize of $250,000 from the Chase Community Giving challenge on Facebook. There was a lot of cheering involved. For those who don’t know, I’m Kate and I’m one of the Co-coordinators for this project. I helped Andrew and The HPA Staff get organized [...]
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Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News
Tagged chase community giving, hpaftw
