3rd Loan on Kiva goes to...
My Kiva loan was just re-paid for the 2nd time. Time to re-lend to another great project!
The most important part of donate is DO.
Life is full of chances to do good. #giveeveryday #dogood
Let’s win $25K for Waterkeeper!
Living Philanthropic’s featured charity for May is the Waterkeeper Alliance. Waterkeeper Alliance helps communities stand up for clean water and believe that clean water is a basic human right for everyone.
To celebrate Earth Day, Groupon is giving $25K to the green charity that raises the most funds on Crowdrise. I would love to be able to get this needed support for Waterkeeper. If you would like to help, please join the team, spread the word, or make a donation. The contest ends on May 15th, 2012.
Also, if you donate $10 or more to Waterkeeper on Crowdrise before May 8th, you will be entered to win an Eco bike from New Amsterdam Bikes!
Join the team and show your support here: http://www.crowdrise.com/lp-waterkeeper
826CHI update & a martian jellyfish!
Thanks to a donation from Ticketmaster, we’ve raised $2,040 for 826CHI, Living Philanthropic’s Featured Charity for April. I truly admire the work that they do to make reading and writing fun for kids. If you would like to help 826CHI do more excellent work, consider joining the team and pledging your support: http://www.crowdrise.com/LP-826CHI
And now story time courtesy of the 2nd Grade Class at Wicker Elementary in Chicago!
The Story of Lary Snakefish, the Martian Jellyfish
Once upon a time lived a Martian jellyfish named Lary Snakefish. He had dragon wings and was orange with blue and yellow polka dots. He lived in a seaweed house in Jellyfish Ocean on Mars. Lary was no ordinary jellyfish. All the jellyfish on Mars had dragon wings, but Lary had the special ability to breathe fire.
Every morning, Lary would wake up feeling super grouchy because he hated waking up in the morning. He would go and drink some of his favorite jell-o coffee with a side of cranberry juice. Then he would put on his jellyfish hat and gracefully float to work.
Lary worked at the library. His favorite thing to do in the whole wide world was to read. He liked to read books about dragons, baking, dolphins, and Power Rangers. The only problem was that everyone in the library hated when Lary worked because he breathed fire, so he would sometimes burn the books.
One day, the head librarian, Mrs. Seahorse, who was surprisingly an elephant, came up to Lary and said, “Lary, you keep burning all of the books. I’m going to have to fire you.”
Lary replied, “I understand. I’m so sorry. Could I pay for the books?”
“Yes, but the books are really really expensive! You burned 100 books so you will need to pay a trillion dollars!” said Mrs. Seahorse.
Since Lary no longer had a job, because he got fired from being a librarian, he had no idea how he was going to earn a trillion Martian dollars.
“Oh no!” said Lary, “What am I going to do?”
Read more stories at 826CHI’s Writing Gallery: http://www.826chi.org/writing_gallery
Excellent Video from Mama Hope. http://www.mamahope.org/
“Build a Future. Not a Stereotype.”
This post is a wishing well. Close your eyes, make a wish, and reblog.
Bid on this signed FourSquare ball to help raise money for Illinois State University Student Scholarships! This ball was signed by Carlo Garcia, Producing Director of Mary Arrchie Theatre and founder of Living Philanthropic. If you’d like to bid on it, email your maximum bid to webmaster@daretosuck.com by tonight at Midnight and they will only bid what is necessary (up to your max) to win the bid (similar to eBay).
More about the Foursquare marathon here: http://www.daretosuck.com/square/
When you near the end of your life, will you look back and be proud that you stood for something? What are you for?
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