December Featured Charity: Foundation Escalera

Congrats to Team Living Philanthropic for raising $610 with mustaches for Movember! 

Now for December’s Featured Charity, one of my personal favorites, Foundation Escalera!

I’ve been a big fan of 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.  For the past 2 years, I have volunteered my time during the holidays to go to Chiapas, Mexico to build a school for some kids in need.

This year, I may not be able to attend, but I still want to send my support. If you want to help us build another school this year, please consider a contribution to Foundation Escalera. 

Foundation Escalera is a leader in providing educational infrastructure to indigenous villages in Mexico. www.foundationescalera.org

Take the Living Philanthropic Challenge:
Match my give of $31 ($1 a day for 31 days)
Give once. Give Everyday.

Thank you for being a living philanthropist!

Other ways your contributions can help!
$10 Student school kit (part of the ‘Incentives to Learn’ program)
$25 Back pack (for ‘Incentives to Learn’ program)
$75 Buys a bike for a student to commute to school
$100 Classroom school kits (for ‘Incentives to Learn’ program)
$250 Elementary school scholarship $500 Technical training scholarship
$850 High school tuition, room and board
$10,000 Build one junior high school classroom

Want to be a guest blogger on Living Philanthropic?
Join the team and donate to Foundation Escalera at http://www.crowdrise.com/LP-DEC & 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 second year. For more information, please visit: www.livingphilanthropic.com

Featured Charity: Movember

If you haven’t noticed yet, the featured charity for November is MOVEMBER. What is Movember?

During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces, in the US and around the world. With their Mo’s, these men raise vital awareness and funds for men’s health issues, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives.

The Movember Effect: Awareness & Education, Survivorship, Research
The funds raised in the US support prostate cancer and testicular cancer initiatives. The funds raised are directed to programs run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG Foundation. Together, the three channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programs in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

For more information on the programs we are funding please visit the following:
Prostate Cancer Foundation
LIVESTRONG Foundation
Awareness & Education
Global Action Plan

Take the Living Philanthropic Challenge Options:

Pledge $1 a day for the month of MOVEMBER ($31)

Join the Living Philanthropic Movember team: http://us.movember.com/team/447653

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

World Suicide Prevention Day

twloha:

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, and during September 9 – 15, TWLOHA is participating in National Suicide Prevention Week. We asked you to join us by answering some key questions in our NSPW survey. These are questions we believe can guide the conversation about suicide and depression—not only this week, but year-round. For each day of NSPW, we’ll be sharing a new question and some of the responses we’ve received.

Global suicide rates have increased by 60 percent in the last 45 years—but those numbers can change. So, tell us…

WHY IS SUICIDE PREVENTION IMPORTANT TO YOU?

“It’s important to me for many reasons; because I believe every life matters, because I have empathy for anyone who feels suicide is the only solution, and because I believe in futures.”

“Suicide prevention is important to me because as a college student, I know that my fellow students are greatly at risk for depression and thoughts of suicide. I would be devastated to lose a single person.”

“My daughter died by suicide, and I would like to help save other families from this heartbreak.” – Elaine, 61

“It’s not only about preventing suicide, but also helping with depression and self-harm. The best way to prevent suicide is to treat the things that cause it.”

Read More

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!

Find a Blood Drive Near You. 

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

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

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!