One saturday a month I go to the Sad Kids Home (great organization) and try to put a little cheer into their lives.
Note: You have to pay for dinner, too. Insider tip: you could eat with Trig every night for just the cost of some strawberry ice cream.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/sports/ncaafootball/30t...
Tim Tebow, Florida's quarterback, has already won two national championships, but his ultimate goal is to run a charitable empire.
http://mashable.com/2009/08/26/blog-social-good/
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Meet Capucine, who's mother is using view counts of her daughter telling stories to raise money for a charity called Edurelief. (via)
This man lifted a 56-pound child with his beard, for charity. A month ago he was only up to 11 pounds, so this is quite an accomplishment. Congratulations, beard-lifting dude!
The filmmaker and meditation guru has launched a website that celebrates “consciousness, creativity and bliss” in the ways only David Lynch can. DLTV will broadcast a live feed from backstage at his upcoming Change Begins Within concert, which teaches meditation techniques to kids. Let's just hope no one gets too close to scheduled performer Ringo Starr, as he's been a bit bristly these days.
Today is World Water Day, a UN-based initiative that seeks to raise awareness to the millions of Africans that live without daily access to clean, safe water. Beck lent his new single, “Time Bomb” to the cause for this stylized video by charity: water. So how can you help? Spread it, interneteers!
Culture Buzz Mustache For Kids challenges “Growers” to raise pledges for their mustaches during “Growing Season” from mid-November to mid-December. Before you dismiss that scuzzy moustache-lipped hipster as just another annoying Black Lips clone, remember that there are sometimes really good reasons to grow a mustache! I'll be starting a Skinny Jeans for Cervical Cancer Awareness chapter pretty soon.
Donate $5 to this charity and you'll buy 2 pairs of shoes for people in need. The goal is to get 50,000 pairs donated in 50 days. You could also win a free trip to hand-deliver a pair of shoes to someone in Mexico, which is a little odd, but better than a totebag.
Politics Buzz Canadian women have come up with a campaign to exploit the Myanmar junta’s superstitious belief that coming into contact with women’s underwear will rob them of their strength. It sounds silly, but any little bit could help the horribly violent situation in Burma. Finally, an underwear trend that I don’t feel guilty or dirty about posting!
Culture Buzz J.K. Rowling writes an 800-word prequel that will not be published, but auctioned for charity. J.K., you’re such a tease! Rabid fans won’t get to read or own it. Although at 800 words, I’ve written fifth grade essays longer than that.
Culture Buzz A new charity lets you “adopt a clitoris” and help a woman who was genitally mutilated pay for surgery to have her clitoris rebuilt. It sounds totally absurd but it’s for a good cause! If you read Alice Walker in middle school like we did, the atrocities of genital mutilation should be an issue particular dear to your hearts, too.
Tech Buzz Instead of leaving your organs to someone else when you die, leave all your intellectual property. Paramedics will have to start checking your iPhone to look for all the ideas you’ve jotted down in Notes. Will this flood the world with donated half-finished novels and get-rich-schemes never tested?