February 2012
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Valentine's Day? How about Generosity Day?
“This Tuesday, Valentine’s Day, is going to be rebooted as Generosity Day: one day of sharing love with everyone, of being generous to everyone, to see how it feels and to practice saying “Yes.” Let’s make the day about love, action and human connection – because we can do better than smarmy greeting cards, overpriced roses, and stressed-out couples trying to create romantic meals on...
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February Featured Charity
Quick update, we’ve raised $2,120 for Operation Respect as January’s featured charity, thank you to everyone who contributed to the cause!
February’s featured charity will be I’m Too Young For This Cancer Foundation. I met I’m Too Young’s Development Director, Colleen O’Neill in San Diego when they won their Classy Award and she turned me on to the...
January 2012
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Nichnamtic Expedition Update
LIOTE! [leo-tay] That’s Tzotzil for Hello!
Happy New Year Everyone! I’m excited to back in Chicago, I had an amazing trip to Chiapas, Mexico over Christmas break. It was a truly wonderful experience.
To provide a quick wrap up, we built a 6 classroom school house plus a basketball, and installed 40 wood burning stoves in the homes of those most in need in the village of Nichnamtic.
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January 2012 Featured Charity: Operation Respect
LIVING PHILANTHROPIC’S JANUARY 2012 FEATURED CHARITY is OPERATION RESPECT!
FIRST $1,000 in contributions matched by State Farm’s Go To Bat Program and Anonymous Donor CYPHER!
Operation Respect is a non-profit organization working to assure each child and youth a respectful, safe and compassionate climate of learning where their academic, social and emotional development can take...
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December 2011 wrap-up
Happy New Year Everyone! 2011 was an amazing year for me and I look forward to what 2012 has in store for us!
I just got back from my expedition in Mexico, I’m working on an update post and will send it out shortly.
I wanted to send out an update about the December Featured Charity AMERICARES, we’ve raised $2,085 for Americares thanks to State Farm’s Go To Bat Program and...
December 2011
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“If you can learn how to fall in a graceful and humble way, you can find the...”
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Expedition Nichnamtic Update
I leave for Mexico in 11 days. In addition to the school we are building in Nichnamtic, Chiapas, we are installing wood burning stoves and water filters in the homes of those who need and request them. Here is the stove we are installing, it will consume 65% less firewood a year and prevent the build up of carbon monoxide inside their homes. The $2,000 donation I received from Ticketmaster &...
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Featured Charity for December 2011
Just to update on Movember, Team Living Philanthropic is waiting on a pending $1,000 donation, but the grand total will be $3,675 raised for our collective moustaches. That’s awesome work, gentlemen.
Now for December 2011’s featured charity, Living Philanthropic is supporting Americares.
AmeriCares is a nonprofit disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization which provides...
November 2011
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Cyber Giving Monday!
TODAY! November 28th, 2011 is #CyberGivingMonday!
Join the movement!
What charity will you support Cyber Giving Monday? Make a donation and tweet about it or share on facebook. #CyberGivingMonday
My goal for Cyber Giving Monday is donate $5 to a different charity every hour. That’s 24 charities in 24 hours!
Let’s put the giving back in thanksgiving!
#cybergivingmonday
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Let's start Cyber Giving Monday!
I was composing a guest blog post for Latinovations yesterday, you can read it here. And I mentioned Cyber Giving Monday, so to expand on that, let’s all take the Cyber Giving Monday Challenge.
Step 1. Find a organization you love and want to support. (I’m choosing Foundation Escalera.)
Step 2. Make an online contribution, whatever you can afford $1, $5, $1,000 on Monday, November...
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FundChat article about #CyberGivingMonday →
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October 2011
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“”The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world,...”
– Steve Jobs (Rest in Peace)
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October Featured Charity: Foundation Escalera
Last year I donated to an organization called Foundation Escalera, one of their programs involves expeditions to the neediest villages in Mexico to build schools as a way to combat poverty through access to education. So last December I volunteered my time during the holidays to go to Chiapas, Mexico to build a school for some kids in need.
This year I am considering going back for Round 2!...
September 2011
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3 more days to get your donation tripled!
There are 3 more days in this month’s featured charity fundraiser for American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. This is an amazing opportunity to triple your impact, turn your $10 contribution into a $30 donation! Thanks to a partnership with anonymous matching donor (CYPHER) who will be matching the first $1,000 in donations made to the Crowdrise Team page. Plus, there will also be a...
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Kate Voegele | Official Blog: this guy is my hero →
Kate Voegele just moved her blog to Tumblr. Follow her. She’s awesome! This still makes me blush. Thanks, Kate!
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check out the article below from www.Mashable.com about Carlo Garcia- who started a really amazing project that is all based on giving to a different charity - even if it’s just $5 - every day for 365 days. it makes me feel so good read stuff like this! and it’s...
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Classy Awards Wrap-Up!
Re-writing this post because the first one was lost when my browser crashed, so I may not remember everything from the first draft. :(
This past weekend I attended the 3rd Annual Classy Awards in San Diego and I’ve returned to Chicago with an energized sense of duty and purpose. Being in the room with so many talented, intelligent, driven, and giving people who are inspiring and creating...
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to...”
– (via worldwidewhocares)
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Classy Awards Tonight
Tonight at the Classy Awards at the San Diego Civic Theatre, presented by Stay Classy and Southwest Airlines. I am honored that Living Philanthropic was recognized as a top 10 nominee for Volunteer of the Year, it’s been an amazing year and a half. I am so thankful for all the support and generous people I’ve met along the way to help shine a light on the power of we have as...
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Brilliant Corners for Charity!
Looking for something fun to do this weekend and help local non-profits in Chicago? Then, please check out my friends at Brilliant Corners in Eckhart Park this Friday through Sunday for some awesome music from A Hack and a Hacksaw, A Lull, Fool’s Gold, Shellac, Dan Deacon and more! Plus, a ton of circus acts and carnival rides!
Brilliant Corners is partnering with Chicago Not For Profit...
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ALF Contest for Suicide Prevention
It’s National Suicide Prevention Week! I’m having a little contest and giving away one of my little desktop buddies. I have this vintage clip on ALF figurine that I am giving away.
The next 10 people who donate to the Living Philanthropic featured charity American Foundation for Suicide Prevention on Crowdrise will be entered to win! You have a 1 in 10 chance to win this awesome...
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National Suicide Prevention Week
Today is the start of National Suicide Prevention Week and it culminates with World Suicide Prevention Day on Sept. 10. Here is some tips to celebrate raise awareness and get involved.
Step 1: Please watch this video
Step 2: Donate $10 to American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. If you donate at http://crowdrise.com/lp-afsp it will be matched by TWO matching donors arranged by Living...
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August Recap! + September Featured Charity!
August was a great month for Stand Up to Cancer! With your help and the lovely support of our anonymous donor CYPHER and State Farm’s Go To Bat Program, we collectively raised $2,861 for Stand Up To Cancer! That’s Super Amazing!
And now we have the opportunity to do it all over again!
Living Philanthropic is proud to announce that the featured charity for September 2011 is...
August 2011
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Guest Blogger: Anne Bradley
Raise your hand if you have never known anyone that fought cancer.
(I’m not actually hearing crickets right now. Cicadas, but same idea.)
That’s the point. Is there anything more insidious than cancer? We are better at diagnosing it. Better at “managing” it – I’ve heard that we are getting to the place where cancer is considered a chronic illness. I’m not sure I buy that, but in fact, the...
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Day 494: St. Jude Children's Hospital
I was at a Chili’s in Detroit last night and decided to donate $5 to St. Jude Children’s Hospital to create-a-pepper for the kids. Using 4 crayons and some artistic liberty this one is honor of the coming football season… :) Go Bears!
Amount Donated: $5
PS, Only two more days to get your donation matched times TWO for Stand Up To Cancer! Make a contribution at...
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Day 491: Children's Miracle Network :)
It’s been 491 days since I started Living Philanthropic and so many amazing and inspiring things have happened since then. It’s been a while since I featured a daily charity, but this one is a bit kismet, so I thought it warranted a post.
Charitable projects are slipping into my professional life and I am loving it! I was recently cast in a feature film entitled...
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StayClassy: Featured Philanthropist: Carlo Garcia →
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Carlo Garcia is a micro-philanthropist. He has given to more charities in the past year than most people have even heard of. Through his project, Living Philanthropic, he’s experienced first-hand the wide array of fundraising and engagement strategies organizations are using (or not using)…
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Standing Up for My Dad
It’s been really hard for me to write this post. I’ve been pretty emotional this week. My dad has been diagnosed with Lymphoma and we are waiting for a biopsy to find out what stage it is in. He’s a strong willed man and taught me how to swing a hammer and how to measure twice and cut once, for those skills he handed down to me have come in very handy. I do love him very much and...
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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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Carlo Garcia nominated for Volunteer of the Year!
Carlo Garcia and Living Philanthropic have been nominated for Volunteer of the Year at the Classy Awards in San Diego. Winning this award can help move Living Philanthropic closer towards becoming it’s own foundation and we need your help!
Please vote for CARLO GARCIA under the category
VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR at
http://classyawards.stayclassy.org/classy-awards/voting
click SUBMIT BALLOT...
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Living Philanthropic going to bat for Stand Up 2...
In addition to our anonymous matching donor (Cypher) for the month of August, who is matching donations made to the Crowdrise team page up to $1k!
Living Philanthropic will be going to bat for Stand Up To Cancer in State Farm and MLB’s online home run derby for charity, each week 40 charities have the opportunity to win a $18K donation from State Farm.
But these organizations and my choice...
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August Featured Charity: Stand Up To Cancer
Living Philanthropic is proud to announce that the featured charity for August 2011 is Stand Up To Cancer. I am also proud to announce that we have an anonymous matching donor for this month who will be matching the first $1,000 in donations made to the Crowdrise Team page!
This is an amazing opportunity to double your impact, turn your $10 contribution into a $20 donation! I could not be...
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July Featured Charity: Wrap-Up
Children’s Health Fund feature on Living Philanthropic has ended, but the Check-In for Checkups program is still going strong. From now until December, you can have your healthy habit check-ins count towards the tally and Clorox will donate .10 for each one you submit. Please check out checkinforcheckups.com and Check-In as often as you want to help raise $100,000 for Children’s Health...
July 2011
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Children's Health Fund - Connect with Anastasia
Help support Children’s Health Fund provide more services, by checking-in your healthy habits to www.checkinforcheckups.com
I have been acting as a social media activist to promote the program. I am adopting a few healthy habits for the summer and each time I complete a habit, I will be checking-in and .10 cents for each check in with be donated by Clorox to the Children’s Heath...
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Did you Check-In today?
Did you check in your healthy habit today? If not, go wash your hands with warm water for 15 seconds to help curb the spread of germs and go “check-in” at www.checkinforcheckups.com or tweet the hashtag #checkinforcheckups and Clorox will donate 10 cents for each check-in, up to one million check-ins, to CHF as part of its goal of providing half a million checkups for children in...
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“Sometimes the best give is to forgive and sometimes it’s also the hardest.”
– Living Philanthropic