Some low or no cost ways to donate to charity

I try to donate to charities throughout the year. Each person has their own favorites that are near and dear to their hearts. While others just really strike a chord, and compel you to give. I think a lot of people have tendency to want to do more around the holidays. Sometimes some of us are in a tight spot ourselves and wish we could do more.

There are lots of ways to donate to charity and causes for little or no cost. Or by doing things you already do. Here are some examples:

1. One of my favorite charities to donate to during the holidays is Toys for Tots. One way you can give without really spending extra money is through mycokerewards.com. If you collect coke points on mycokerewards.com you can choose to donate some of your coke points to toys for tots. Anywhere from 1 point to all of your points if you wish.


2. Yoplait lids. Around September yoplait has the pink lid campaign. Send in your pink lids for breast cancer research.


3. If you visit one of these sites: www.thebreastcancersite.com you can click on a pink button on the top of their page daily to help fund free mammograms. Also there are other tabs on the site for www.thechildhealthsite.com, www.theanimalrescuesite.com, www.theliteracysite.com, www.therainforestsite.com, and www.thehungersite.com. All of these have different goals for what they do when they raise money with your clicks. All of these can be done daily. Also, if shop through their site a percent of the sale goes to the charity of the site you are shopping on.

4. Donating items to women's shelters. I know each year, especially around the holidays, they place an ad in the paper asking for donations of clothing, toiletries, beauty products, alarm clocks, diapers, toys, and lot of other stuff to the local women's shelter. How many of us have clothes we don't fit into anymore, samples of body products we get in the mail, giveaway prizes, etc that we can donate.

5. Other ideas could be something as simple as shoveling an elderly or disabled neighbors sidewalk, volunteering time, and as bloggers placing an add for a charity, fundraiser, or cause on our site free of charge or doing a blog post about it.

This is only a couple ways. I'd love to hear some of your ideas or some of your favorite charities to donate to.




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Mommy Blogger's Susan G. Komen Passionately Pink Team

I found a link for the Susan G. Komen Passinately Pink for the cure.  I created a team called Mommy Bloggers:
http://www.info-komen.org/goto/mommybloggers
Breast Cancer research is something that I routinely donate to.  My mother passed away 2 years ago from breast cancer that metastisized.  My maternal grandmother was has also been affected by breast concern however she survived.  A little scary history for me.

I decided to start a team.  I called it mommy bloggers.  I thought it might be a great way for us mommy bloggers to team up and raise money for breast cancer research.

How can you help?

1.  Post a link to this post, make your own post with the mommy blogger team donation link:
  http://www.info-komen.org/goto/mommybloggers


2. Tweet this message:  Help mommy bloggers raise money for breast cancer research: http://www.info-komen.org/goto/mommybloggers RT

3.   Collect donations from family and friends.  Checks should be made out to--Susan G. Komen for the Cure
and include team ID which is 7369400 if you collect any donations via check please contact me: angiewith3 at live dot com.  I can either email you my address to send them to to turn them in with donations or you can fill out the donation reply form:  http://www.info-komen.org/site/DocServer/PPFTC__reply_slip.doc?docID=1048
and mail them in yourself in which case you would still need my info since I am the team captain.  

4.  Post about this on facebook


5.  Tell your friends, family, and readers. 

6. Donate care of the mommy bloggers team:  
http://www.info-komen.org/goto/mommybloggers


Please consider helping.  Even if you can't manage a donation now.  Help by spreading the word or doing one or all of the above tasks.  I will take donations until June 20, 2010.  

Also if you do create a blog post or link to my blog post,  let me know.  I am receiving limited edition team pins.  I will be glad to send you one for helping.  I ordered 25 so it will be on a first come first serve basis if you help.

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World Down Syndrome day, How can you help?

Since a blogger friend of mine, Grissell, made me aware of the great organization called:
Reece's Rainbow
I've found myself wanting to help these precious children who have been dealt a tough hand in life.
Reece's rainbow helps to raise funds to help loving families adopt children with special needs such as down syndrome.  Please look over the site  There are so many children that need loving homes and donations are always welcome.

I decided to help by becoming a 21.3.10 Warrior. World Down Syndrome day is March 21. From Reece's Rainbow website here is a little info on it.

"Every year, on March 21 (to honor the 3rd copy of the 21st chromosome presented in Down syndrome), the world comes together to raise awareness and advocate for people living with Down syndrome.  Because Reece's Rainbow has an international focus, we are doing our part to further the recognition of this very special day!" 
I chose one child (which was difficult believe me) to help raise donations for.  I'd love to see this precious little boy find a family:

 

Use the Chip-In widget above to donate money to help Toby find a loving family. Chip in is secure and the money goes directly to Reece's Rainbow into Toby's adoption fund.

Here is a little peice of information about him from the Reece's Rainbow site:

Boy, Born October 22, 2009

Toby is another tiny one, perfect age to blend  seamlessly into a new family and benefit from early intervention.  He does have a heart murmur which will need to be followed by a cardiologist once home.

Reece's Rainbow

If you would like to learn more about adoption through Reece's rainbow you can use the link above I provided or use the widget on my blog to help you get to their site.

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