Hello Do Gooders of the world! Well it has been a while since we’ve had any posts up, and we figured what better time to connect with you than this beautiful time of year.

First off, Happy Holidays! Whether you are celebrating this time with your family, friends, do gooders or whoever, we would like to wish you a Super Fantastic holiday!

This time of year is usually when a lot of us reflect on the previous year. Well, this was an amazing exercise for us because as you know a ton of great things happened here at Daily Challenge and we have you amazing people to thank for all the awesomeness of the past year.

To quickly review - the 11 highlights of 2009:

1. On November 4th 2008 we launched our blog and started to share our story with you (yes I know this was not in 2009, but I think its important to remember the beginnings
2. We had Verne Ho do his thing (click here) isn’t he awesome?
3. Deepak Chopra was a guest challenger and he challenged us to join him in his movement (click here)
4. We joined #TwestivalTO and partied hard with you to raise $ for Charity Water (click here)
5. We proved that Toronto has still got Do Gooders - and trust me it was freezing (click here)
6. In March we launched Daily Challenge’s new design - lots of sleepless nights for @dariusBashar @verneho and Luciano
7. We joined Improv Toronto in the random subway dance party (click here)
8. We had our First Pay It Backward Day and broke a world record (click here)
9. We added Robin Sharma  to our list of celebrity Do Gooders (click here)
10. We partied again (much harder) at Twestival. This time for the Meal Exchange (click here)
11. We launched our 2nd Pay It Backward Day #pibDay, had over 20,000 people participate across Ontario and raised $15,000 for SickKids Foundation (click here)

Like I said earlier, none of this would have happened without you all. So thank you for all of your support and encouragement.

In 2010 we hope to do the following:

1. Take Pay It Backward Day across Canada - So mark September 30th, 2010 in your calendars! And boy oh boy do we have some surprises up our sleeves.
2. Bring you other events and initiatives that with your collaboration will change our world for the better.
3. Develop DailyChallene.org and establish it as a tool that helps and empowers you to launch your own good initiative. (DC 3.0)

We always love to hear from you. So please send your comments, tweets, emails and let us know what you’re thinking.
Wishing you a super duper new year!

The Daily Challenge Team

Wahooo! It looks like Eli Freeze and his Freestyle Soccer peeps, who attended the April 4th #pibTO are back again! They will be  joining us at the Pay It Backward Day heaquarters (Second Cup cafe @ Queen St. & John St. in Toronto) from 1-3pm TOMORROW - working their footy magic on and around the red carpet of Do-Gooders! Check out the video below, for a brief preview of what creative, amazing footskills these guys can rock:

…can YOU do that? Yeeeeeeeah. Can’t wait to see these guys in action, LIVE tomorrow!

*Check back in soon for more updates on what other exciting stuff will be going on at the Pay It Backward Day HQ location tomorrow! Hint: Expect BIG things.

As many of you know, Daily Challenge is a tech startup that is looking to change the world by making it easy to Do Good. As part of our efforts to get the word out about Daily Challenge, we have submitted a 60 second elevator pitch to TechCrunch. TechCrunch is a prominent technology blog that covers the latest in the tech industry and provides valuable information for users, industry people as well as investors.

The 60 second videos are voted on and the top video in each week/month gets featured in a TechCrunch post (which is very valuable).

So here is how you can help:

1. Take 60 seconds to watch our elevator pitch
2. and if you like it then vote for it

Voting is simple, you do NOT need to provide an email or even sign up. You can just click the green arrow (see the image) and that’s it. If you are really inspired, then you can also leave a comment for us.

We know that many of you have already put in your vote, and we want to thank you for taking the time. For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, please take a look and help us continue to get the word out about Daily Challenge and work together to create the change we want in our world!

Sincerely,

Daily Challenge Team

Sometimes we all forget how easy it is to smile and change our mood. Being that today is Friday, I think everyone is a bit more receptive to the idea of simply smiling!

This was posted as one of our challenges. You can click and complete the challenge here: See the challenge!

Hello Do Gooders of the world.

Today I would like to address a question that was recently asked through our feedback form: “Is Daily Challenge a for profit or a not for profit company?”

Well the answer to that question is that Daily Challenge is a for profit social enterprise. Social enterprises are social mission driven organizations which trade in goods or services for a social purpose (Wikipedia).

Our goal at Daily Challenge is to build the worlds largest network of Do Gooders. Therefore, we are working hard to make the act of doing good fun and easy. The opportunity for Do Gooders on Daily Challenge is to be able to suggest challenges that they believe can greatly impact their communities, and invite their networks to join them in completing that challenge.

Who said changing the world can’t be fun!?

Please continue sending your feedback and your thoughts, Daily Challenge is a community built by you for you!

Do Gooders, we welcome you to the Daily Challenge Blog. This blog is here to tell the Daily Challenge story and get you directly involved in the project so you become part of the story, too.

You’ll be able to provide your opinions on all our plans and everything we do. You’ll also get a chance to know the Daily Challenge team and see first-hand where the magic happens.

Here is some titillating information to look forward to in future blog posts:

• How did Daily Challenge come to be?
• Meet the Daily Challenge team
• Why Daily Challenge?
• Meet the Daily Challenge Band (This is a good one!)
• What changes can we expect and when will we see them?
• Who are these celebrity challengers and who can we expect to see?

All this and more! And we’ll do our best to make the story exciting and digestible through text, videos and images (not to mention some really killer Daily Challenge contests).

If you haven’t already:

• Visit www.DailyChallenge.org
• Learn How to Use the Site
• Become a Do Gooder, sign up for free!