Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
Give Blood, Save a Life
The Blood Supply is at its lowest level in 15 Years and summer is a slow time for blood donations, which makes it important to give blood and potential save a life.
Here are some upcoming Blood Drives in the Chicago-land Area.
August 08, 2012 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
909 Davis Street-NAI Hiffman
909 Davis St
Evanston, IL 60201
Donation Types: Blood
August 10, 20121:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Chicago Old Town Merchants & Residents Association
W. North Ave & N Wells St.
Chicago, IL 60610
Donation Types: Blood
Notes: Presenting donors will recieve admission for two to the Second City while they last!
August 13, 2012 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
East Bank Club
500 North Kingsbury
Chicago, IL 60654
Donation Types: Blood
August 14, 2012 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Chicago Illinois Association of Defense Trial Council, Young Lawyers Division
Site: Swanson, Martin & Bell, L.L.P.
330 North Wabash
Chicago, IL 60611
Donation Types: Blood
August 15, 2012 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Cook County Headquarters
50 West Washington
Chicago, IL 60602
Donation Types: Blood
Notes: White Sox raffle for presenting donors
August 15, 2012 12:30 PM - 5:30 PM
DePaul University Ray Meyer Fitness Center
Site: DePaul University Student Center
2250 N. Sheffield
Chicago, IL 60614
Donation Types: Blood
Notes: Presenting donors will recieve a gift card while supples last!
How to Donate Blood
Simply call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org to make an appointment or for more information. All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for patients. A blood donor card or driver’s license, or two other forms of identification are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 years of age (16 with parental permission in some states), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.
If you are unable to donate blood, please consider pledging $1 a day for the month of August to the Chicago Red Cross. http://www.crowdrise.com/lp-redcross
Featured Charity for August: Chicago Red Cross
AUGUST 2012 Living Philanthropic Featured Charity
My friend John Wilson is donating his birthday to the RED CROSS CHICAGO, he hates needles and will be donating blood on this birthday August 8th. He will also be throwing a party on August 11th to raise money for the Red Cross Chicago and Living Philanthropic will be partnering with John to hopefully raise more.
On a side note, anyone who donates blood to the Red Cross gets into the party for free.
Please consider pledging $1 a day for August or giving blood this month to celebrate the Chicago Red Cross!
The American Red Cross of Greater Chicago serves more than 9.6 million people in northeastern Illinois and northwest Indiana. Counties within our jurisdiction include Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Lake, Kane, Kendall, McHenry, Will, DeKalb, and Kankakee in Illinois, and Jasper, Lake, and Newton in Indiana.
Today, in addition to domestic disaster relief, the American Red Cross offers compassionate services in five other areas: community services that help the needy; support and comfort for military members and their families; the collection, processing and distribution of lifesaving blood and blood products; educational programs that promote health and safety; and international relief and development programs.
The American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help our neighbors—across the street, across the country, and across the world—in emergencies. Locally we respond to 1,200 disasters every year and more than 4,000 volunteers help the Greater Chicago Red Cross deliver services. We also teach more than a quarter million people in Chicagoland each year health, safety and disaster preparedness skills.
For More information, please visit: http://www.chicagoredcross.org/
Take the Living Philanthropic Challenge Options:
Pledge $1 a day for the month of AUGUST ($31)
Give Blood this month.
Take up a cause and give a tweet!
Give once. Give Everyday.
Thank you for being a living philanthropist!
Want to be a guest blogger on Living Philanthropic?
Join the team and donate on this page & submit your blog post about why you made a contribution here: http://bit.ly/lp-blogger
Living Philanthropic was founded in April 2010 as one man’s mission to give to charity everyday for a year. This mission is built on a belief that you don’t have to be rich in dollars to make a difference; you only need to be rich in spirit. After completing his 365 day mission, the spirit of giving everyday carries on through his friends and in his mission to continue his micro-philanthropy for a third year. For more information, please visit:www.livingphilanthropic.com
CYPHER our anonymous donor celebrates 1 Year Anniversary with Living Philanthropic donating $12,000 to charity. I am extremely grateful and inspired by their support. Help me thank CYPHER by pledging $10 to Grassroot Soccer for July on Crowdrise.
Featured Charity for July: Grassroot Soccer
The featured charity for July 2012 is Grassroot Soccer, join the Living Philanthropic team on Crowdrise and make you $1 a day pledge for July and help the youth of Africa live HIV-free lives.
“Grassroot Soccer’s work is a refreshing and highly promising effort that can help turn the tide against HIV. Soccer is like a universal language…Grassroot Soccer thus reaches large numbers of young people with HIV education, and bases its programs on the best available evidence.” - Helen Epstein, author, The Invisible Cure
Mission: Grassroot Soccer uses the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize communities to stop the spread of HIV.
Vision: A world mobilized through soccer to create an AIDS free generation.
Strategy: To achieve our mission, we continuously improve our innovative HIV prevention and life-skills curriculum, share our program and concept effectively, and utilize the popularity of soccer to increase our impact.
Grassroot Soccer is a leader in sport-for-development and HIV prevention, Grassroot Soccer improves health among youth by continuously developing and improving our innovative educational tools and techniques, sharing our model effectively with like-minded partners, and tapping into the power and popularity of soccer to advance the global fight against HIV and AIDS.
For more info, please visit: http://www.grassrootsoccer.org/
Take the Living Philanthropic Challenge Options:
Pledge $1 a day for the month of JULY ($31)
Take up a cause and give a tweet!
Give once. Give Everyday.
Thank you for being a living philanthropist!
Want to be a guest blogger on Living Philanthropic?
Join the team and donate on this page & submit your blog post about why you made a contribution here: http://bit.ly/lp-blogger
Living Philanthropic was founded in April 2010 as one man’s mission to give to charity everyday for a year. This mission is built on a belief that you don’t have to be rich in dollars to make a difference; you only need to be rich in spirit. After completing his 365 day mission, the spirit of giving everyday carries on through his friends and in his mission to continue his micro-philanthropy for a third year. For more information, please visit:www.livingphilanthropic.com
Join the Living Philanthropic team and pledge $1 a day: http://www.crowdrise.com/lp-grassroot
HOPE. COMPASSION. KINDNESS. UNDERSTANDING.
Thank you to Linda Anderson, Wendy Smith, and especially Cypher for their donations to the featured charity for June 2012: Homeboy Industries.
The total raised for Homeboy Industries has reached $1,055.
If you would like to join the team, please visit: http://www.crowdrise.com/lp-homeboy
Education vs. Incarceration
(see also: Homeboy Industries)
(give also: http://crowdrise.com/lp-homeboy)
Featured Charity for June: Homeboy Industries
“Homeboy Industries is the living example of our mission statement, “nothing stops a bullet like a job.”
Started as a jobs program offering alternatives to gang violence in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Homeboy Industries assists at-risk, recently released, and formerly gang involved youth to become contributing members of their communities through a variety of services in response to their multiple needs.
Free programs — including counseling, education, tattoo removal, substance abuse and addiction assistance, job training and job placement — enable young people to redirect their lives.
Homeboy provides them with hope for their futures and is the nation’s largest gang-intervention and re-entry program – a model to all.
For more info, please visit: http://homeboy-industries.org
Take the Living Philanthropic Challenge Options:
Pledge $1 a day for the month of JUNE ($30)
Take up a cause and give a tweet!
Give once. Give Everyday.
To make a pledge, please visit: http://www.crowdrise.com/lp-homeboy
Thank you for being a living philanthropist!
Want to be a guest blogger on Living Philanthropic?
Join the team and donate on this page & submit your blog post about why you made a contribution here: http://bit.ly/lp-blogger
Living Philanthropic was founded in April 2010 as one man’s mission to give to charity everyday for a year. This mission is built on a belief that you don’t have to be rich in dollars to make a difference; you only need to be rich in spirit. After completing his 365 day mission, the spirit of giving everyday carries on through his friends and in his mission to continue his micro-philanthropy for a third year.
Want to appear on an episode of LP TV?
There is nothing GOOD on TV. At least not yet, Living Philanthropic wants to launch a new web series highlighting the joys of giving back through volunteerism.
The goal is to produce 12 socially good episodes highlighting a different non-profit organization each week as the host interacts and volunteers with the organization and helps to tell their story.
We have the idea and we only need one thing: YOU!
Your support can help launch this idea off the ground and into the interwebs, besides some cool perks, you may also have the option of volunteering along side us and appear in an episode!!
THE FIRST 10 DONORS THAT DONATE OVER $100 WILL HAVE THE OPTION TO VOLUNTEER WITH US AND APPEAR IN AN EPISODE! (Sorry, Travel & accommodations not included. But, you never know where we might end up!)
Visit http://bit.ly/lp-tv and pledge your support today!
Featured Charity : Waterkeeper Alliance
Access to clean water is a natural basic human right. I am glad that organizations like Waterkeeper Alliance and many others are out there working to keep our natural resources clean and protected.
Today wraps up Living Philanthropic’s featured charity for May and we’ve raised $337 for Waterkeeper this month.
If you would like to join the team, please visit: http://www.crowdrise.com/lp-waterkeeper
Thank you for all your support.
$8,741
$56,159*
