By AliciaMarie112 on September 2, 2010
Yesterday was Good Neighbor Day, and in honor of that I would like to share about the 29-Day Giving Challenge. According to the website, “29 Gifts is a global giving movement with nearly ten thousand members in 42 countries. Our collective mission at 29 Gifts is to revive the giving spirit in the world. We change lives—and change the world—one gift at a time.”
It’s really easy to join in. “Sign up and then give away 29 gifts in 29 days. Your 29 Gifts can be anything given to anyone… money, food, old sweaters, smiles, your time, kind words or thoughts. You can start your own personal 29-Day Giving Challenge at any time—there’s no official begin or end date. To complete the challenge, submit a story, post a piece of your original artwork, create a short film or write a song. Tell us about your favorite gives and the impact it made on your life to focus on giving.”
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Here are ten inexpensive giving ideas to get you started:
- Leave a dollar where someone else can find it.
- Bring cookies to your neighbor.
- Pay for the coffee of a person behind you in the drive-thru.
- Rake leaves off a neighbor’s lawn.
- Leave a note of appreciation in your mailbox for your mail carrier.
- Bring dinner to a new mom.
- Drop off snacks and some reading material to a parent who is at the hospital with their child or their parent.
- Hand out water and a meal voucher to a homeless person.
- Donate toiletries to a woman’s shelter.
- Call a friend going through a hard time and give them some words of encouragement.
I have signed up for this challenge, and if you’d like to join me I’d love it if you’d leave a comment below.
By AliciaMarie112 on August 26, 2010
P&G is providing a day of clean drinking water (2L) to a person in a developing country for every vote cast during the Clean Water Blogivation. As of this Wednesday, August 25th there were 8,584 days of clean water being provided. This campaign ends tomorrow so you have two days to vote. It’s easy to [...]
By AliciaMarie112 on August 19, 2010
According to their website, Help A Mother Out‘s mission is “to improve the lives of mothers, children, and families in need one diaper at a time.” They “envision a day when all families in America are able to meet the basic human needs of their children, including access to an adequate supply of diapers.” One [...]
By AliciaMarie112 on August 12, 2010
“Kiva.org allows people the very American satisfaction of both helping someone and getting their money back.” – John S. Johnson, The Huffington Post. Kiva.org is a non-profit revolutionizing the fight against global poverty by enabling people to connect with and make personal loans to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world. Through Kiva, anyone can make [...]
By AliciaMarie112 on July 22, 2010
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a charity that grants wishes of children ages 2½-18 years old who have a life-threatening medical condition. The Foundation has granted the wishes of more than 196,000 children since it started in 1980. The Make-A-Wish Foundation, in 2009, granted 13,465 wishes. A child’s wish is granted every 40 minutes! According to [...]
By CorrinRenee on July 1, 2010
I love this idea from Chipotle (one of my husband’s favorite restaurants)… For every ten junk emails you forward to nojunk@chipotlejunk.com, Chipotle will donate $1 to The Lunch Box Organization, which provides much needed funding to school districts which allows them to make nutritious food available to students. Read the complete press release for all [...]
By AliciaMarie112 on June 28, 2010
Today, I would like to share a charity called Little Dresses for Africa. According to their website, “Little Dresses for Africa is a non-profit, Christian based organization which provides relief to the children of Africa. Simple dresses are made out of pillow cases and distributed through the orphanages in Central Africa to plant in the [...]
By AliciaMarie112 on June 17, 2010
Human hair. We shampoo it because it collects oil so why shouldn’t it be used to clean all the petroleum that has spilled into our water from the recent oil leak? That is the idea that sparked the creation of hairbooms. A “boom” is collected hair that is stuffed in nylons and many times covered [...]
