Come to our 3 on 3 basketball tournament on March 10, 1-pm to 4pm  on the Peter’s Parking Deck, Georgia Tech.

Click here to register.

The Pledge tree idea has been repeatedly discussed within the confines of the Ripple Effect headquarters. Well, the prototype of it finally come to fruition! In theory when someone makes a pledge, her name falls under the name of her referrer, and the pattern continues when the person recruits someone else.

This prototype is manually updated, so don’t expect change right away. In addition, people without referrers aren’t able to be added, and if a referrer hasn’t taken a pledge himself, then the referee can’t be added either. Hopefully, these logistical issues will be fixed in the near future. In the meantime, if your name isn’t up when you think it should be, please resubmit your pledge with the referrer information filled.

Let’s make this tree grow! Go make a pledge today.

Ripple Effect is currently working in partnership with BOAT (Believe, Organize, and Act Together), a youth group founded to promote wellness and unity among students living in the Alpharetta area; this is one of Ripple Effect’s  first initiatives in reaching out to young children in our community.

It is important to understand that our future lies with children and educating them about the spread of HIV/AIDS; this is of utmost importance in order to help prevent the spread of HIV and encourage them to think of creative activism at an early stage.

One of BOAT’s members, Ali Nayebi, helped open the festivities by sharing his talent with the piano.

This was followed by a young girl’s performance with her violin.

Then, one of the executive officers of BOAT, Ali Khosravi, gave a presentation on how BOAT and Ripple Effect are coming together with the shared goal of fighting HIV.

Ripple Effect then took the stage, with Hasan, Sadib, and Stan, giving a visual and verbal Ripple Effect presentation. Sadib made sure to show off our awesome shirts!

Throughout the week, we agreed that the key to HIV/AIDS prevention was peer education, but that peer education alone was not quite enough. We wanted to push peer education one step further. Through our outreach, we don’t just want to peer educate, rather, we want to make peer educators. We want every person that we reach to spread the word about HIV/AIDS. We want to create a Ripple Effect.

This is where you come in. By taking the Ripple Effect Pledge, you can help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. It doesn’t matter who you are, and it doesn’t matter how you do it, but we want you to publicly declare how you will educate those around you about the risks posed by HIV/AIDS. Whether you’re a parent pledging to educate their children, a teenager pledging to send a Facebook message to ten friends, a political leader pledging to educate their constituents as part of their campaign, or a celebrity musician pledging to educate their fans about the risks of HIV/AIDS at every concert, we want you to pledge to fight HIV/AIDS in your own way.

To help you do this, we have started this website to equip you with key tools necessary to start your own HIV-prevention campaign. Learn, think, pledge, and read about the HIV/AIDS advocacy that we have been doing in our own communities. We hope that this provides you with the inspiration, the innovation, and the motivation to create change in your community.

HIV started as a ripple. Let’s end it with one.

-Jacob and the Ripple Effect Team