Do you live near Oklahoma City? The FreeOK freethought convention will be sponsoring a literacy drive to benefit schools affected by the Oklahoma tornadoes. On Saturday, June 22, the convention will act as a drop location for book donations and monetary contributions for creating a mobile library/book store or rebuilding/restocking school libraries. Click here to learn more.

The Foundation Beyond Belief International Light The Night Team, as represented by Triangle Freethought Society and the NC State and East Carolina University Secular Student Alliances, appears on the cover of this year's handbook for all LTN walkers. The caption reads "FBB 2012 Top non corporate team in the country." The FBB team earned this honor by breaking the Light The Night record for most money raised by a first-year non-corporate team and by having more local teams than any other national LTN partners last year.

International Team Captain Todd Stiefel had this to say: "Just a few years ago, it would have been almost unfathomable for a major charity to willfully show freethinkers in their marketing materials. It is amazing that we were featured at all, let alone that LLS chose to make us the first thing seen at the top of a national brochure. This is a phenomenal testament to how far we have come as a movement and how much public benevolent action can break down false stereotypes about the nonreligious."

Thanks to all of the Team FBB 2012 walkers for contributing to our very successful LTN walk season last year -- now let's do it again in 2013!

Interested in joining Foundation Beyond Belief’s Light The Night team, which raised $430,000 for cancer research last year? Chances are there’s already a team in your area. To find it, when you register with Light The Night, on the first page select “join a team” and on the second page search for “FBB.” Or go to the team page and browse the list of teams at the bottom of the page. If you’re still having trouble locating a team in your area, check out a list of established teams hosted on our website, listed alphabetically by state.

But even if there’s not a team near you, we’ve still got you covered. If you are in a U.S. or Canadian local group that is not near an LTN Walk, please contact Breanna Baer and she will assign your group to a walk for which your group will be able to fundraise. You don’t have to attend the nearest walk; you can host your own walk! If you’re interested in help planning your own walk, email the FBB Light The Night staff or join the Beyond Belief Network Facebook group and download our DIY walk guide.

If you are in an international group outside the U.S and Canada that would like to create a fundraising team, please contact Breanna Baer and she will help you create a team as part of our international “virtual team.”

If you are not a part of a local group or live outside of the U.S. and Canada, you can still independently join the FBB team as a “virtual walker.” Click here to join the FBB “virtual team.”