This month’s Monthly Impact Challenge is simple: Share What You’re Doing.
We know many of you have your own projects, causes and concerns where you’re making your own personal Impact. This month, we encourage you to share what you’re doing in your family, neighborhood or the larger global community. We want to know.
Examples
- Do you donate or buy at charity shops? Which ones?
- Do you volunteer at your church or at your local hospital? If so, what kind of work do you do?
- Did you buy an extra sandwich for the homeless man outside the cafe yesterda?
- Did you participate in a charitable event? A walkathon?
Do you share your knowledge some way to help others grow? If so, how?- Are you lowering your carbon footprint and trying to eat more healthfully by growing your own produce? Or do try to buy local?
- Are you an organizer for a women’s group? Do you do advocacy work for an animal welfare organization? Do you plant trees with an environmental concern? Do you serve up dinner at a local soup kitchen?
- Have you done some Random Acts of Kindness lately?
- Do you bicycle, carpool or walk to work? For the sake of the environment and your own health.
So, stop! Here’s your chance to show what YOU’re doing! Please share as often as you like in the comment section.
Note: If you’re working with a specific organization, we encourage you to provide the full name of the organization and a link to their website.
To Enter for the July MIC Prize
To participate in this month’s Challenge, you can submit however you want, whenever you want during the month. HOWEVER, to enter for the July MIC Prize, please make sure you include:
- A description of your Impact Effort.
- If it’s with an organization, please include the organizations’ full name and (if available) website link.
- If there was a particular reason you decided to make this Effort, please describe.
- What Impact do you believe you make/made with this Effort?
- How does/did this Effort Impact you?
We look forward to hearing from you!
CW Note: Delighted to include the first of hopefully many “shares” of our friends and followers. Thank you, Mesmered, for a nice start!
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It’s been a while since I did volunteer work, almost 8 years, and whilst I am an adoptive parent of an orangutan through the Australian Orangutan Project, I felt it was time to do something worthwhile and opted to work in our state’s version of a dog shelter: the Dogs Home of Tasmania (http://dogshomesoftas.com.au)
Why did I choose dogs? Simple. I love them. I’ve four of my own (2 domestic, 2 farm) which live a spoiled life and I wanted other less fortunate canines to feel the love that mine have.
As a volunteer, I am certified to walk dogs, work in the laundry washing and folding daily bedding, washing dogs and sitting having love-ins. Feeding, kennel cleaning, vet care, puppy care and PR is done by permanent staff.
Mostly I walk between four and six dogs in two hours. We have marvellous paddock and native bush access and we take them on smelling heaven. Till now, most of my dogs have been HUGE and I come home, stiff, sore, and tired. It’s akin to volunteer horse work which I’ve also done. But my favourite time is just cuddling and talking to the dogs and I come home feeling happy that in my time there, I may have contributed to the general contentment of a few dogs in any one day.
PS: Adoption success rate at the Home is wonderful. On the last PR exercise with 12 dogs, 12 dogs were adopted and 500 dogs have been adopted since January!
I started a tri-generation skype book club, the purpose being to help keep my elderly mom excited in a future possibility, keep her confidence going, and to bring us all closer, since we’re separated by states and even continents. It worked like this: I mailed 4 paperbacks of Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (initially 5, but my husband ran out of time to finish) out to mom, my 2 daughters, age 27 and 23, and to myself. We chose it because it was literary, wittily written, and short. Short was the operative word–we needed to finish the book, and have “the call”, to see if we could make it a success.
Three of us finished quickly, and we couldn’t resist side conversations about the loathsome but also sad and pathetic characters in the book, while we waited for the busiest daughter to finish. In the end, we ended up with lots of conversations about the book, but never the 4-way call. We still considered it a success, and mom is excited to choose the book after the next one. It’s given her new scenarios to antipate and a deeper connection with her grandaughters. Now I’ve got to get the next book mailed out, and I’ll keep you posted on the next months’ (pl) progress–we move slowly. We’ve chosen The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman. It’s short too.
I love this idea! What a lovely way to bring family closer together! Thanks for sharing this.
1. When possible, I bike or walk or take public transport.
2. We drive a car on LPG. Least damaging to the environment of all the regular fuel choices.
3. Next month my first KIVA loan will be paid off. I am going to reinvest somewhere else immediately. My money makes a difference!