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Helping Furry Friends Everywhere

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, volunteering, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 25, 2011 | Comments Off

He was a medium-sized, brown mutt of indistinguishable breed. Whether it was his sad eyes or tentative approach that softened my heart, I cannot say, but it was clear to me he just needed some loving. It was he who drew me to the “Animal Hope-Nitra” (ATN — German only) booth at the pet show [...]

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Coupon Winners!

Posted in Children, Education, volunteering, tagged , on April 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »

While we weren’t exactly bowled over by the number of entries to our Donors Choose coupon contest last week, we were gobsmacked by the words that came in. To say we were moved is an understatement. Our thanks to everyone who participated by responding to: Name one (or more) things that 52 Weeks of Impact has [...]

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Just Reading

Posted in Literacy, volunteering, tagged , , , , on April 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »

On Saturday, April 9 at 2 pm my time, I begin a 24-hour Read-a-thon. In a nutshell, I’m committing to staying up for 24-hours, doing “nothing” but reading, blogging about my reading, and participating in reading challenges. I’m doing this because: I love reading. I can. Reading is something I take for granted; knowing the [...]

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Win a FREE Coupon to Support Kids

Posted in Children, Education, Literacy, volunteering, tagged , , , on March 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Last year, during Week 17 Impact Kids, through Donors Choose, we donated toward the purchase of books for a school in South Carolina. Recently, as a follow up to our support, we were asked to participate in a brief survey. In return, we received five free! $25 coupons to be used toward any project on [...]

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Our project to help Japan, follow up

Posted in Disaster Relief, volunteering, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 20, 2011 | 7 Comments »

When we left you last Sunday with the posting on “Helping Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami Victims“, I was still contemplating how to use my/our personal talents to help raise money for the cause. As I’ve mentioned in earlier postings, I’m not so clever in arts and crafts. So, finding talents I could use to raise [...]

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What Impact Impact has on the Impacter

Posted in Random Acts of Kindness, volunteering, tagged , on March 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »

This week’s Impact Effort was about inspiring others to action; I had two opportunities to present motivational speeches. For the first one, I had been invited to speak to an organization for which I have great respect, the American Women’s Association, on a subject that sits close to my heart … you guessed it, 52 [...]

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Marking 25 years of MLK Day

Posted in volunteering, tagged , , on January 17, 2011 | Comments Off

Twenty-five years. It feels like an eternity, it feels like yesterday. I remember well when the “King Holiday Bill” was struggling its way through Capitol Hill in the United States. The bill, seeking to make Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s birthday a federal holiday languished in Congress and the Senate for years. With the likes of Republican [...]

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Week 47: Traveling Impact

Posted in Children, Sustainable Tourism, Travel, volunteering, tagged , , , , on December 28, 2010 | Comments Off

For Week 47, one of my dearest friends since college days, inspires us through her efforts to benefit the communities to which she travels — and she travels a lot! Here’s a report of Lisa’s latest voyage and Impact Effort with her partner, Ken. (Nils’ and my round-up follows tomorrow) “The Khmer Rouge thing is [...]

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Week 43: Winner of the Slacktivist Impact Challenge

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Homeless, Hunger, Micro-volunteering, Random Acts of Kindness, volunteering, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »

After due consideration, and review of all the votes for our four finalists, we’re happy to announce the final results of the Slacktivist Impact Challenge. So, the results show that winner is … … … … the winner is … … … … the winner is … … Aw heck, we just couldn’t do it! [...]

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Week 42: Speaking as a Drop in the Ocean

Posted in Children, Children - Chronically Ill, click-to-donate, Eco-Friendly, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Homeless, volunteering on October 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Still a little bit backwards as I try to catch up after this flu. Week 41 (from last week) will be posted shortly. Tuesday evening, I had the privilege to speak to an audience at my local Toastmasters meeting. It’s not something that I do often enough, I still fear public speaking. But when there [...]

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