Care2

This week’s blog is back to helping others in a completely free way. I found another website that uses daily clicks to help others. Care2 is doing a lot of work to help others, including the land and animals, and one of those ways is through daily clicks. You can click daily to help stop violence, pets, children, the rainforest, and the list goes on. You can also sign petitions and sign up on the site to get “butterfly” credits in which you can redeem for other rewards to continue helping people, and send free e-cards. There is a lot you can do on this site and can probably explore for hours. But for those of you who only have a few minutes each day, try and check out the daily clicks that you can do to help others. So as you’re doing some internet searching this weekend check out Care2 and the work they are doing. Happy clicking!

Until next week,

Annie

http://www.care2.com/

Sonic - Limeades for Learning

Sorry for last week’s absence. This week we are going back to school and helping teachers receive needed materials. I love how much the internet helps me in finding my weekly materials and I just came upon this cause. Sonic has teamed up with donorschoose.org to help donate money to public classrooms. The voting for the different projects only goes through September 30 so I wanted to get this out to you as soon as I found it. You are voting for different projects that teachers have put online and those with the most votes will have their project funded. Some of these projects are for books, markers, journals, etc. You can look at the whole list or separate it by what state you live in, the grade you want to support, the resource you want to give or the subject of the class. You can vote once a day with any valid e-mail address and if you are someone who eats at Sonic, you will receive a code for an extra two votes on your bag. This is a great thing, easy, doesn’t cost anything, and helps teachers be able to continue teaching our next generation. So for the next couple of weeks just take a couple minutes each day, find a project you like (on the find a project tab!) and want to support and vote for them. Happy Learning!

Until next week,

Annie

http://www.limeadesforlearning.com/

Music

This week, although a bit late but still here, I am focusing on Music. Music has been a part of me my whole life so I love whenever I get the chance to support the arts. I am focusing on three ways to help different groups but there are countless ways to help. The three that I am bringing to the table this week are the African Children’s Choir, Playing for Change, and Carols for a Cure. The African Children’s Choir is an organization that through music has helped improve the lives of hundreds of kids throughout Africa. Part of their work is putting together choirs and the choirs, which are made up of children from seven different countries in Africa, tour throughout North America and the UK. There are many different ways to support them but one that I like is to buy their CD’s. They are on iTunes and are absolutely wonderful. Playing for Change is an organization that is doing wonderful things. They have a CD that you can purchase and listen to artists from all over the World. Many of them were street artists at one point and this has given them the opportunity to be heard by others. They have a foundation that helps with music education. Lastly we have Carols for a Cure. This is a CD that Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS releases every year and the proceeds go to help the work they do with those affected by HIV/AIDS. The casts from Broadway shows contribute their voices and each show gets one song. It is a wonderful CD for a great cause and great voices! So when you are trying to figure out what music to listen to this week while driving to work, think about maybe trying out one of these three organization’s CDs. You will not be disappointed. Happy listening!

Until next week,

Annie

African Children’s Choir: http://africanchildrenschoir.com/index.php

Playing for Change: http://www.playingforchange.com/

Carols for a Cure: http://broadwaycares.stores.yahoo.net/caforcucds.html