Second Harvest....Food For People Who Need It

With these hard times more and more people are turning to others to help feed their families and themselves. If you are able to donate please do. If you are able to volunteer they have a link for that too. If you need to find a pantry to either donate or because you need help there is a link for that also. If you are a corporation they have a link to help you come up with fundraising ideas.

September 2008 is declared Hunger Action Month.

http://www.secondharvest.org/

Of course Second Harvest is not the only organization that collects food and money to help feed people who desperately need it. There are many many places from schools, churches, stores, and countless national and world organizations out there to help people and who need your help.

So please please whether you need help (and many people will at some point in their lives) or are able to help do not feel embarrassed either way. Jobs are lost, people get sick, divorces happpen as do natural disasters and just plain life. Anyone and everyone will need help in some way or form at some point in their life.

If you are the type of person who has always been willing to give even if it is only a small amount and suddenly you need help just remember the person you did help might actually be the one able to help now.

WE LIVE IN ONE WORLD.....WHAT HURTS ONE PERSON IN ONE SPOT HURTS THE WHOLE WORLD.....THAT ONE PERSON HELPED MIGHT TURN AROUND AND DO SOMETHING INCREDIBLY HELPFUL AND GOOD TO SAVE SOMEONE ELSE

The Peace Fund---Now Accepting Pay Pal Donations

The Peace Fund--Protect Educate Aid Children Everywhere
This organization was started by actor Adrian Paul (mostly known from Highlander: The Series).

If you want to donate to them you may now do so through Pay Pal. You can use money in your Pay Pal account or a credit card. You do NOT have to have a Pay Pal account to pay with your credit card now.

If you would rather send a check or money you may do so.

Just make the check or money out to The PEACE Fund in U.S. Funds and send it to:

The PEACE Fund C/- Ron Myers
15233 Ventura BlvdSuite 610
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
United States of America

To learn more about what this organization does, to use their Pay Pal button, events past,
present and future, just click on the link below.

http://www.thepeacefund.org/donations.html

If you are interested in assisting us with our efforts in any way, please contact Jenni Bohn at donations@adrianpaulpeace.org

To see some of the celebrities that are lending their names, et cetera click on the link below.
I think I have watched all their shows. LOL Seriously there are actors from some beloved television shows and movies (past and present).
http://www.thepeacefund.org/donations/celebrity.html

To see some of the corporate sponsors involved click on this link.
http://www.thepeacefund.org/donations/corporate.html

Breast Cancer site--click to help underprivileged women

I received an e-mail about this from my sister-in-law a few minutes ago

and I checked it out and it is legitimate.

So, if you are interested please check it out.

A favour to ask, it only takes a minute....

Please tell ten friends to tell ten today!

The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman.

It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on 'donating a mammogram' for free (pink window in the middle).

This doesn't cost you a thing.

Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.

Here's the web site!

Pass it along to people you know.

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/

Reading Is Fundamental

I know a lot of people have probably heard about this organization, but few know when or how it started.

It started in 1966 by former teacher Margaret McNamara and some school volunteers to collect, distribute, and to motivate children to read.

On their website you can learn the full story, how to become a volunteer, corporate sponsorship, the board of directors, jobs, annual reports, and so so much more.

I am still amazed that so many people in this country still do not know how to read or like to read (I have found that most of the people who do not enjoy to read usually have trouble reading--at least in my life).

There is not a job out there that does not require some form of reading, either for the job application or on the job itself. It just does not make sense that parents do not do more to know if their child reads or how well they read. Then again most adults only read magazines about entertainment, girly magazines, car magazines, etc. or tabloids. When was the last time you picked up a book to read?

As adults it is up to us to make sure the children in the world learn how to read, how to fill out an application, and read for both pleasure and to better themselves. They learn by example more than anything else.

READING REALLY IS FUNDAMENTAL

Illiteracy is a problem that everyone can help eliminate.

http://www.rif.org/about/leadership/default.mspx

First Book Organization--gives low income kids free books

First Book gives low income children a chance to read and own new books. This organization has been around since 1992. First Book has distributed over 50 million books nation wide in over 3,000 communities.

***A personal note here--We have 2 in my neck of the woods and they both came in this week to the store I work at and were able to purchase many books for the children to enjoy thanks to our wonderful customers this past Christmas. Borders, Inc. and Waldenbooks raised 1.1 million dollars during the 2007 Christmas season. This was the third year that First Book and Borders, Inc. teamed up to raise money. To any of my local Waldenbooks customers that donated I thank you from all of us.***

First Book is looking to go international.

If you go to their website there are tabs for donating, getting involved, receiving books, corporate involvement and more. You can learn the full story of the company and some of the goals they have in mind.


http://www.firstbook.org/site/c.lwKYJ8NVJvF/b.674095/k.CC09/Home.htm


http://www.bordersstores.com/features/world.jsp?file=waldenlocator

http://www.bordersstores.com/index.jsp