Good Deed Essay Contest

 

Long Valley Junior Women’s Club

2012 Good Deed
Challenge Essay Contest Rules

Imagine you were given $100 to make a good thing happen.  What would you do?  Whom would you help?  How? Why?  Think beyond volunteering at the local food bank, or sending money to a worthy organization.  How can you personally make a difference and give of your time and energy to help others?

The Long Valley Junior Women’s Club is all about giving back to our community so we challenge all middle school students in grades 7 and 8 to have a dream for someone else and make it a reality.  Write a short essay on what you would do to make a good deed really happen.  If your essay is chosen, you will receive $100 from the Long Valley Junior Women’s Club to make your good deed for someone else come true.

In your essay be sure to explain:

  • Who you would help, and why
  • How would $100 help you to make a difference?
  • Why do you want to do this good deed?
  • What action you would take to get involved to
    make it happen?
  • What kind of help from others would you need?
  • Why do you want to win?

These are just some of the ways the previous winners have given back to the community:

- Made blankets for Project Linus

- Coordinated the purcha sing of baseball jerseys for students at the Cerebral Palsy School of NJ

- Created bags of crafts and games for children waiting tobe placed in foster homes

- Purchased dance clothing for underprivileged youth

- Provided gift baskets to the residents of Little Brook Nursing and Convalescent Home

- Purchased video games for children to play during their stay at a local hospital

As you write your essay, consider how the people of our community will benefit from your good deed.

 Rules and restrictions apply: 

  • All decisions of the judges are final.
  • The focus of the contest is on the written essay, the originality of the good deed, and its feasibility.
  • The award money must be used solely toward completing the good deed mentioned in the winning essay; any deviation to the
    original written idea must be approved by the event organizer in advance of completion of the good deed.
  • Winners must agree to complete the good deed within 3 months of being announced at the awards ceremony in May, otherwise a
    runner up will be selected.
  • The Long Valley Junior Women’s Club must know all details regarding how the good deed will be carried out to
    completion.
  • Winners must agree to have their photo taken for newspapers as the Long Valley Junior Women’s Club reserves the right to all
    photo opportunities of this event for newspaper articles and club promotion.
  • Winners must send 5 digital photos of themselves by e-mail during different stages of completing their good deed, original
    receipts of their purchases, and names and signatures of people who assisted inthe completion process.  Once these materials have been received and approved, the Club will promptly reimburse award money.

All entries most be submitted to your Language Arts Teacher by March 2, 2012