community service

Giveaway: Stephanie’s Choice

January 12, 2012

Last month, I did a giveaway with Lands’ End  and DonorsChoose.org. The talented Stephanie Sabbe helped me out with this. I’m way behind on posting this, but check out her post to find out what classroom she supported and find out how you can win a Thomas Paul-print pillow sham! Deets on how to win at [...]

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Holiday Giveaway: Natalie’s Choice

December 13, 2011

Today’s Donors Choose story is from Natalie of Greenleaf Goods. Natalie is an all around amazing person. She’s a PhD student, but somehow finds time to make amazing quilts and scarves. Also, she is the one who convinced me to buy a SodaStream, so I am forever grateful to her.  If you are remotely interested [...]

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Holiday Giveaway: The Greatest Gift of All

December 11, 2011

I’m excited to share a holiday giveaway with you from Lands’ End! I love Lands’ End. I praise God every winter for my portable down comforter winter coat. This year, Lands’ End is partnering with DonorsChoose.org. DonorsChoose is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help out students in need. Thousands of teachers are using [...]

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C is for Cookie, Charity, & Cure

November 26, 2011

Swap.com and the Boston Food Swappers are teaming up for an awesome holiday charity event! On December 18, get ready to bake up a storm. These swaptastic organizations have teamed up with the Glad to Give campaign to raise money for Cookies for Kids with Cancer. For every cookie swapped, Glad will donate 10 cents to charity. [...]

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The Purple Purse Campaign

November 4, 2011

Last month, I got word of a new project from the AllState Foundation and the YWCA called Purple Purse. Admittedly, I was supposed to write about this weeks ago since October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, but I got distracted by my dissertation. I’m not too bothered by the delay though. Domestic violence, which affects [...]

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How to raise money and save money

December 14, 2010

How to raise money: GoodTwo On behalf of anyone who has been auctioned off as some creepy guy’s “bar buddy” for charity or who had to do a dance to a Coyote Ugly song on a stage in front of a bunch of fraternity guys for a date auction (who’s bitter?), I bring you GoodTwo. [...]

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This weekend

February 26, 2010
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Giving back

February 16, 2010

how I’m celebrating my birthday

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Call to service

January 14, 2010

In 1994, Congress passed legislation encouraging Americans to observe the King Holiday as a national day of service that brings people together from different backgrounds to meet needs in their community. The Corporation for National and Community Service was designated as the lead federal agency to execute the King Day of Service. Participation has grown [...]

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