Here is part two of my year in
review! Hope you enjoy and remember to share it with others!
Year Two:
Wetopia – https://www.facebook.com/WeTopiaOfficial
I am not usually a person who
plays games but I do play this one and have for well over a year now because
you are playing for good. You create a village by building houses, shops, joy
grounds, crops, etc. and in return you get joy points and other items. The joy
points can then be donated towards good causes. It is a fun, and addicting,
game yet you can justify playing it because you are ultimately helping others!
Pura Vida – http://puravidabracelets.com/
Buy very simple yet very cool
bracelets that support many different causes as well as local artisans in Costa
Rica. If you buy a bracelet for a certain cause anywhere from $1 to 100% of the
proceeds will be donated to that cause.
Being Green – http://thelittlethingsdomatter.blogspot.com/2012/02/being-green-means-happy-environment.html
In this post I focused on ways to
help our environment. Check out the link for all the ways I listed however a
few are to use reusable bags when shopping (I’m pretty sure I haven’t gotten a
bag from a store in over a month!), if you don’t use a reusable water bottle
(which you should) at least make sure you recycle the bottle, as I sit here in
Starbucks typing this blog I also thought about how many cups they give out and
how many end up in the trash and not the recycle bin. All of their cups are
recyclable so make sure to recycle them! There are so many ways to be green
however if you are new to the concept start with a few, maybe just recycling
more, and go from there!
The World Needs More Love – http://www.moreloveletters.com/
Hannah Brencher felt that the
world needed more love letters so she created a non-profit with the goal to
solve that problem. Anyone can join The More Love Letters team and write lover
letters for the organization or even request ones for a friend in need. They
send out letters to people who may need a little lifting and it takes people
like us to help!
Milkshake – http://www.getmilkshake.com/index.php
Learn about different companies
and organizations that are giving back and making a difference. You can find
them on their website or sign up to get a weekly e-mail.
Bully – http://www.thebullyproject.com/
Bullying is still happening today
and although it has been a year since the movie came out there is still a lot
that can be done starting with, have you seen the movie? I know I haven’t, so
maybe it’s simply watching the movie to increase your knowledge on the
situation.
Outnumber Hunger – http://www.outnumberhunger.com/
By purchasing participating
General Mills products and then submitting the codes and your zip code you can
help give meals to those in need. For every code entered, $0.65 is donated to
Feeding America which ends up being 5 meals.
Dawn – www.dawnsaveswildlife.com
Help Dawn save wildlife by simply
buying a bottle of Dawn and then entering the code online. They are donating up
to $500,000 to the International Bird Rescue and The Marine Mammal Center; $1
for every code entered online.
Visit this site after March 20th
to take part in this year’s plant-a-tree program. Last year they had projects
that you could vote on and the top 10 projects won $10,000. The projects that
you can vote on have to do with our environment and making it greener.
Bing - http://www.bing.com
Join their rewards program and get
points for using Bing.com. You can then use your points for different rewards
some of them being to donate money to non-profits. I mostly use Bing as my
search engine now because of the rewards program!
America Recycles Day – http://thelittlethingsdomatter.blogspot.com/2012/11/america-recycles-day.html
Even though America Recycles Day
is in November, we can always recycle and learn about new ways to recycle. Head
on over to this blog post for some ideas and organizations that focus on being
green.
It looks like this post is much
shorter! As I went back and looked at the previous year’s entries I noticed
that many of the posts are no longer going on or that it is in celebration of a
certain day. I will try and continue doing that this year but will also continue
my search for ongoing ways to help others. Hope this post and the last help you
to find a cause that you are interested in taking a part in.
Until next week,
Annie
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