As the end of quarter has encroached upon us, we are reminded of just how far WriteCause has come. WriteCause is a very unusual brainchild. During a party for incoming students, three classmates spent the three hours mingling and sharing interests. At the end of the day, they came away with the outline of an organization framed around writing for important topics that affect everyone alike.
Five quarters later, we find ourselves closing out the topic of Environment. And despite our short fifteen month life, WriteCause has seen major improvements. Our submissions this quarter are double that of the last, the most submissions coming from people in Connecticut. 20 percent of submissions have come from overseas, from countries such as India, Taiwan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Ireland.
Our team members have grown to fourteen people, spread across five teams and two continents. The most common age of writers was 16, followed closely by 17, with the lowest number of submissions coming from people aged 18. Of these submissions, the majority of submissions (six times the submissions from January) have come in during the month of March, with the highest number of submissions on March 31.
Humans or Human Nature was our most popular blog post, followed by How to Be Friendly with the Environment. The quarter was also marked by a 400% increase in the number of silver memberships compared to the Privilege quarter.
The journey to this point has been the fruit of the dedication of our leadership team, our board of advisors, and our judges. We want to give thanks to all of our judges, and in particular: Claire Boyles, Rin Chupeco, and Omar El Akkad. These esteemed authors have graciously agreed to help with our topic this quarter: the environment.
The environment is a broad issue to cover, and we wanted to narrow it down further to give more purpose to this prompt. This topic entails not just the world around us, but our relationship with it. What is the importance of the environment in our lives? How can we begin to understand our impact on it? Throughout the quarter, we emphasized these questions, hoping that those submitting would keep them in mind as they wrote. Now, as the minutes tick down to the new quarter, we hope not that we have found a way to combat climate change, but that we have bettered our relationship with the world around us. Because buying metal straws or owning solar panels is not going to do as much for this world as changing the way we think of it as a tool to thinking of the world as our home, just like the homes we return to each day.
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