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

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. 

Vote for Living Philanthropic TV

Vote for Living Philanthropic to receive a $2,500 grant to produce a web series about giving back.

The Idea

The Living Philanthropic Project: a new web series highlighting the joys of giving back through volunteerism. The goal is to produce 12 episodes highlighting a different non-profit organization each week as the host interacts with the organization and tells their story.

The Specifics

The funds would go directly to renting the equipment and paying the crew to help film and produce 12 episodes of The Living Philanthropic Project. The videos would then be hosted on Vimeo & Youtube and provided for free usage to the organizations to help promote their cause.

Creating content can be challenging for some non-profits working on a limited budget. The Living Philanthropic Project hopes to provide high quality videos that help tell the story and inspire action through action. Please share a vote and a tweet or like if you believe in the power of volunteerism.

Vote for The Living Philanthropic Project here: http://jumo-organizations.maker.good.is/projects/livingphilanthropic

Year 2 of Living Philanthropic comes to a close, thank you for all the support and generosity. We made another impact this year, our running reported total has hit a grand total of $54,314!! Amazing! Let’s keep it going for Year 3! For Year 3, I am working on a few goals: Create the Living Philanthropic Foundation - with a mission to help raise awareness for non-profits through a series of programs A top secret project - more details soon Monthly Featured Charities - Moving projects to GiveBack so 100% of all funds raised go directly to the organizations. 100%! Pledge $1 a day to Charity. Will you join me? April 2012 Living Philanthropic Featured Charity 826CHI is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Their services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.With this in mind, they provide drop-in tutoring, after-school workshops, field trips, in-school tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications.All of their programs are challenging and enjoyable, and ultimately strengthen each student’s power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in his or her individual voice. For more information, please visit: www.826chi.org Take the Living Philanthropic Challenge Options: Pledge $1 a day for the month of April ($30) Give once. Give Everyday. Make your contribution to the Team Page: https://www.giveback.org/pages/cause/cause.aspx?cid=30702 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.
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Year 2 of Living Philanthropic comes to a close, thank you for all the support and generosity. We made another impact this year, our running reported total has hit a grand total of $54,314!! Amazing! Let’s keep it going for Year 3!

For Year 3, I am working on a few goals:

  1. Create the Living Philanthropic Foundation - with a mission to help raise awareness for non-profits through a series of programs
  2. A top secret project - more details soon
  3. Monthly Featured Charities - Moving projects to GiveBack so 100% of all funds raised go directly to the organizations. 100%!
  4. Pledge $1 a day to Charity. Will you join me?

April 2012 Living Philanthropic Featured Charity

826CHI is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Their services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.With this in mind, they provide drop-in tutoring, after-school workshops, field trips, in-school tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications.All of their programs are challenging and enjoyable, and ultimately strengthen each student’s power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in his or her individual voice. For more information, please visit: www.826chi.org

Take the Living Philanthropic Challenge Options:

Pledge $1 a day for the month of April ($30)

Give once. Give Everyday.

Make your contribution to the Team Page: https://www.giveback.org/pages/cause/cause.aspx?cid=30702

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.

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Do you LIKE Living Philanthropic? Then, you should check out Living Philanthropic on Facebook! http://facebook.com/LivingPhilanthropic 

Currently, sitting at 3,499 Likes, who will be number 3,500? 

Living Philanthropic celebrates 2 years on April 1st, join LP  in celebrating by sharing the facebook page and help get Living Philanthropic to 5K likes.  

Bottom Line (@bottomlineinc) Success Story: Javier Hernandez

Javier is a student in Bottom Line’s College Success Program and a graduating senior at UMass Boston. He gave this speech at Bottom Line’s 2011 Get In, Graduate, and Go Far Dinner.Visit bottomline.org to learn more.

Bottom Line is Living Philanthropic’s featured charity for March 2012. Join the team at Crowdrise.com/lp-mar12

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

Looking to do a little good? Help my friend Henry on this Habitat for Humanity project and make an impact. henryzhang: Greetings, person on Tumblr! I’m embarking on a Habitat for Humanity Global Village build in Vietnam this summer. We’ll be working with the locals in Tien Giang province in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam for two weeks. Nearly 70 percent of the Vietnamese population live in areas exposed to frequent typhoons, floods, and mudslides. Building affordable, durable, and sustainable housing with and for the families there will not only mean a lot for me, but also have an actual, tangible, and positive impact. If you follow my Tumblr, you’ll know that I’ve been giving $25 to a different charity each month. I only ask that you make a one-time donation of any amount toward Habitat for Humanity Vietnam. I’ll even bring back some Vietnamese paper money for anyone who donates $25 or more as a token of my gratitude and a souvenir from Vietnam. My fundraising goal for Habitat for Humanity Vietnam is $800, and I need to reach that goal by April 12. I pledge to match every dollar that goes into filling the fundraising bar with another dollar of my own. Please help me reach my fundraising goal and support the Global Village program by making a contribution! If you absolutely cannot part with $10, $20, please spare 10, 20 seconds to reblog this post. Thanks for the support and reblogs!
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Looking to do a little good? Help my friend Henry on this Habitat for Humanity project and make an impact.

henryzhang:

Greetings, person on Tumblr!

I’m embarking on a Habitat for Humanity Global Village build in Vietnam this summer. We’ll be working with the locals in Tien Giang province in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam for two weeks. Nearly 70 percent of the Vietnamese population live in areas exposed to frequent typhoons, floods, and mudslides. Building affordable, durable, and sustainable housing with and for the families there will not only mean a lot for me, but also have an actual, tangible, and positive impact.

If you follow my Tumblr, you’ll know that I’ve been giving $25 to a different charity each month. I only ask that you make a one-time donation of any amount toward Habitat for Humanity Vietnam. I’ll even bring back some Vietnamese paper money for anyone who donates $25 or more as a token of my gratitude and a souvenir from Vietnam.

My fundraising goal for Habitat for Humanity Vietnam is $800, and I need to reach that goal by April 12. I pledge to match every dollar that goes into filling the fundraising bar with another dollar of my own. Please help me reach my fundraising goal and support the Global Village program by making a contribution! If you absolutely cannot part with $10, $20, please spare 10, 20 seconds to reblog this post.

Thanks for the support and reblogs!

Living Philanthropic: Give Anything, But Up!

As Year 2 of Living Philanthropic winds down over the next 11 days, I wanted to give a little update. In year 1, we banded together to raise $20K for 365+ charities. In year 2, we teamed up to raise another $32K for charity. Our total combined impact for the past 2 years of Living Philanthropic is $52,496! That’s an amazing number, but I want to say we are not done quite yet.

My personal motto is: Give Anything, but up. 

Which means for continued success in anything you do, you have to keep giving anything you can, just don’t give up. 

As I work to hash out the details of Year 3, we are going to continue the monthly featured charities, but I am working hard to get another program off the ground for year 3 of Living Philanthropic. More details to come soon.

I wanted to personally say thank you for all the support and drive you have shown over the past 2 years, your messages and generosity towards the greater good are a constant inspiration and our success is a collective one. 

I would love to close out these 11 days in style, here are a couple ways you can help!

1. Spread the word. Share this blog, get your friends to like the Facebook page or follow on Twitter. If we can hit 5,000 likes and follows, it would help us spread the word in Year 3. 

2. Pledge $11 (a dollar per each day left in March as of this post) to Bottom Line, the featured charity for March on Crowdrise. The first $1,000 in donations will be matched! http://crowdrise.com/lp-mar12

3. Submit a Guest Blog Post. After you make a donation, consider writing a guest blog post. http://bit.ly/lp-blogger 

Stay Tuned for more information about Living Philanthropic: Year 3.