Starting today at 3pm EST, SAFER will try to win a special challenge from Facebook. Please join in to help us win $1,000!

Facebook.com, in partnership with the Case Foundation, has launched the Causes Giving Challenge. Every day, the non-profit cause with the most unique donors in 24 hours will receive $1,000.

SAFER could be that cause! Starting today, Friday Dec. 21st at 3pm, we ask our supporters to log on to or join Facebook and donate to the SAFER Challenge Drive.

Please ask your friends, colleagues, and acquaintances to join you in supporting our work to end college sexual violence.

Giving is easy. Just visit Facebook.com, sign in or sign up (any one can join!), and visit the SAFER Challenge Drive. Click “donate” to make a gift of any size $10 and up, and you will be counted as a unique donor for the Challenge Drive. You can use Facebook to invite your friends to the Challenge Drive too, or email them a link.

Remember not to give before 3PM EST today. Then check out Facebook tomorrow, Saturday, at 3pm EST to see if SAFER has won!

This challenge is only for a day, but there is an ongoing challenge on Facebook to see who can have the most unique donors in 50 days. The winning group gets $50,000. That’s nearly twice our operating budget! How amazing would that be?

So even if folks don’t donate within the next 24 hours, keep spreading the word! The more people that hear about our work, the better. Everyone needs to know what’s going on on our college campuses!

The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday regarding the charges of rape leveled by a former Kellog, Brown and Root (KBR) contractor who was working in Iraq. Jamie Leigh Jones (she has chosen to release her name and has a website in support of her cause) alleges that she was drugged and gang-rape by several co-workers. When she reported the incident to her superiors at KBR, they confined her to a guarded shipping container from which she was freed by U.S. State Department officials. The story gets worse; the rape-kit collected by an Army doctor has gone missing after it was given to KBR officials and her alleged attackers may be immune from prosecution because contractors in Iraq may not be subject to either U.S. or Iraqi law.

The hearing on Wednesday will hopefully shed some light on what the Justice Department has found about the case. In the meantime, check for organizations that are rallying around Jones’s cause or take some action on your own.

Our new shirts, magnets, buttons, etc. are ready! Check them out on the right, or click shop on the left to see everything. I think they rock. My favorite one is the “SEX IS FUN when you’re awake” shirt. Such an important message, some folks are writing a whole book about it! (ok, not about our message exactly, but about lots of related stuff. Check it out on feministing, and submit your own essay. )