Fran Drescher, celebrity judges help pick Argentine Terps as Do Good Challenge winner

Although they may be over the age of 18, five groups of college students were placed under the care of a nanny last night.
Actress Fran Drescher, star and creator of ’90s sitcom The Nanny, was one of the celebrity guest judges at the public policy school’s second annual Do Good Challenge.
Along with nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis and Melanie Schnoll Begun, the managing director and head of philanthropy management at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management, Drescher listened to pitches by five philanthropic student groups.
Argentine Terps, which raises funds to pay for lawyers to work in the slums of Argentina, took home the grand prize of $5,000.
Graduate student Juan Bellocq and 2012 graduate school alumnus Fernando Saltiel developed the program to expand Microjusticia Argentina, the program Bellocq helped found in 2009. The lawyers help poor Argentineans who face legal problems they may not have the financial ability or skills to address on their own.
In Bellocq and Saltiel’s native Argentina, asking for charitable donations is somewhat of a social faux pas. To fund the group, the pair turned to peers and resources in the United States, relying on social media and creating a website to spread awareness through a marketing campaign called “Making the Invisible Visible.”
“It was very exciting, very competitive,” Saltiel said. “There were a lot of good groups up there.”

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