In the continuing spirit of this month’s Impact Challenge to “Smile and Engage” and to honor National Down Syndrome Awareness month in the U.S., we invite you to visit “My Great Story,” a unique public awareness campaign by the National Down Syndrome Society, honoring and celebrating the achievements, dreams and aspirations of those with Down Syndrome. [...]
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October’s Impact Challenge: “My Great Story”
Posted in Disabilities, Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), tagged Down Syndrome, My Great Story, National Down Syndrome Society on October 14, 2010 | Comments Off
October’s Impact Challenge: “We’re More Alike Than Different”
Posted in Disabilities, Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), tagged Down Syndrome Awareness Month, monthly impact challenge, National Down Syndrome Congress, We're More Alike Than Different on October 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“We’re More Alike Than Different” is a short video by the National Down Syndrome Congress in the United States. In the spirit of this month’s Impact Challenge to “Smile and Engage” and to honor National Down Syndrome Awareness month in the U.S., we post a link and invite you to watch. It’s a pretty fabulous [...]
October’s Impact Challenge: Smile and Engage
Posted in Disabilities, Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), tagged children with disabilities, Down Syndrome on October 1, 2010 | 7 Comments »
We’re delighted to present a guest posting by friend and follower, Sylvia van Bruggen. She shares a bit about her pride and joy and the Impact he has on her life and those around him. Sylvia and Tijs offer up October’s Impact Challenge. Let’s rise to it! ========================================================================================= This is my nephew Tijs. He is [...]
Future Monthly Impact Challenges
Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), tagged blog your cause, guest blogger, impact blogging on August 1, 2010 | Comments Off
July’s Monthly Impact Challenge was a blast! So many friends and followers posted submitted and, rightly, boasted their personal Impact efforts through the month. As a result, we’ve decided to change the Monthly Impact Challenge concept. We hope that once a month we can feature what one of our friends or followers is doing to [...]
July MIC: Share What You’re Doing Challenge
Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC) on July 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
June MIC: The Winners
Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC) on July 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Heck, there was so much darn happiness being spread around during the month of June, everyone should be declared a winner! But, we can only give prizes to the two top! So, based on votes that came in between Monday, 5 July @ 7:30 a.m. EST and Thursday, 8 July @ 5:00 p.m. EST, the prize [...]
June MIC: Vote Your Top 3 Faves
Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Personal Development, Random Acts of Kindness on July 5, 2010 | Comments Off
If you heard a dull, hollow “thonking” noise yesterday, I confess that was me. Between the hours of about 2 – 4 p.m., I was whacking my forehead with the the heel of my hand repeatedly and firmly, crying, “stupid, stupid, stupid!” What foolishness made me believe that Nils and could easily sort through friend [...]
June MIC: Happiness Challenge Follow-up and Vid
Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Personal Development, Random Acts of Kindness, tagged gratitude journal, happiness, happiness challenge on July 3, 2010 | Comments Off
The entire month of June was marked by serendipity. Opportunities to connect with friends, family and strangers just seemed to fall into our laps. While sadly, not all needs for connection were happy ones, the combined efforts made for a most fulfilling month. June’s Monthly Impact Challenge was a Happiness Challenge and all about appreciating [...]
Happiness Challenge – Halfway Mark Update
Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Personal Development, Random Acts of Kindness, tagged gratitude journal, happiness on June 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Our Monthly Impact “Happiness Challenge” is chugging along nicely. As always, we wish there were more people participating, but we send our thanks to all who are getting involved. We thought we’d share a few tidbits and samples of what some friends and followers have posted, sent to us, added to their Butter Be Happy [...]
May MIC: RAoK Wins All ‘Round
Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Personal Development, Random Acts of Kindness, tagged random acts of kindness, RAoK on June 7, 2010 | Comments Off
If Impact were judged by variety and creativity, May’s Monthly Impact Challenge of Random Acts of Kindness would certainly get two thumbs up. But, we mostly judge Impact by impact. Based on that criterion, May’s RAoK month was a winner by miles! Thanks go to everyone who played along with us and submitted RAoK and [...]


