About Us

DailyChallenge.org is a social network for do gooders!

Our mission is to effectively utilize the tremendous power of social media to connect, inspire and mobilize people to create profound change through small and simple daily acts of kindness.

Through social media, DailyChallenge.org works to connect conscious individuals, responsible businesses and worthy causes, and empowers them to collaborate in creating greater change.

For The Conscious Individual

DailyChallenge.org enables individuals to take action on fun and simple challenges that once done by many people have the potential to change our world. Users can easily submit and share challenges with their networks and create positive impact.

To submit a challenge and create impact click here.

For The Responsible Businesses

Businesses are becoming more active in and are showing higher dedication to social causes. Through DailyChallenge.org, responsible brands can communicate their message to conscious consumers and work together for sustainable solutions.

To see examples of how organizations are collaborating with consumers to do good click here.

For Worthy Causes

Whether it's the environment, a community or a charity we can all relate to a cause and have the desire to contribute to it. However, simply donating money does not excite others to participate in many fundraisers. We believe that in order to mobilize people one needs to excite them. Through DailyChallenge.org we connect with socially active and conscious "do gooders" and provide exciting opportunities for them to become aware of and contribute to important causes.

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Meet the Team

Afshin Mousavian, Zoo Keeper (Co-Founder)

Afshin was born an entrepreneur, grew up on the computer and just can’t seem to get all his socializing in during waking hours. That’s why he’s so grateful for social media, and has been actively involved in it on both personal and professional levels for the past 6 years. His passion is to enable people to change their world and create the impact that they desire in their life.

Fun Fact: On occasion, Af helps Batman fight criminals. But don't tell anyone!

Darius Bashar, Rain-Maker (Co-Founder)

“Life is about connectivity, community and communication. Social media allows me to live my philosophy with ease.” With a strong interest in human development and social change, it’s been Darius’s dream to create websites that can change the world. Daily Challenge is the realization of this dream because of its enormous potential to virally create positive change.

Fun Fact: Darius is also a professional Shower Singer and competes internationally in the World Shower Singing Federation (WSSF). See him in action!

Luciano Sampaio, The Code Master (Chief Architect)

Luciano eats, sleeps, walks, talks and dreams in code. He is a master multi-linguist and is fluent in PHP, C#, C++, ActionScript, .NET, AJAX, CSS, XHTML, Javascript, MySQL, Portuguese and English. He’s also been dabbling in developing Facebook Applications, Firefox Add-ons and WordPress Plugins. Since moving to Canada from his home country of Brazil, he’s been scheming a way to move the equator more North.

Fun Fact: Luciano currently holds the Guiness Book of World Record for having watched The Chicken Song video 99,459 times in a single sitting.

Verne Ho, Creative Super Hero (Creative Director)

A user-experience jedi and a HTML/CSS ninja, Verne drives Daily Challenge's creative pulse. In his prior life, he was a creative director for a Toronto-based digital agency for 5 years. Verne is also an avid blogger on marketing, design and entrepreneurship, and lives by the maxim that life is all in the details.

Fun Fact: Verne’s arch nemesis is Jack Johnson who he claims stole the song “Better Together”. Don’t believe us? Check it out here!

Stephanie Miller, Head Health Nut & Word Witch (Community Director)

A social creature at heart, being community director allows Stephanie to be the people person she was born to be. Daily Challenge benefits from her background in writing, psychology and a passion for cooking healthy food, and sharing it. She’s passionate about healthy, balanced living and blogs about it on www.livelighter.org.

Fun Fact: Steph is obsessed with the Dog Whisperer but doesn’t have a dog. Don’t be too surprised if you meet her and she uses dog psychology on you!

Julie Ryland, Media Magnet (Media Relations)

Whether she is climbing the Norwegian mountains, trekking in the rainforest or blowing up a storm in the Sahara desert, Julie’s suitcase of experience and curiosity is always ready for an adventure. Born and raised in Norway and a Viking at heart, she has been exploring Toronto with a notepad and a fresh perspective since 2005. By asking questions, connecting with people, and building herself a career as a graduating student from Ryerson School of Journalism – Julie has kept adding to her portfolio of freelance writing, as well as her experience within media relations and PR.

Fun Fact: The Vikings discovered North America. Julie arrived late, but brought over organic salmon and euro trance.