One of my favorite organizations, Polaris Project , does incredible advocacy work to prevent trafficking and also does amazing hands-on work rescuing and rehabilitating women who are victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation. They have asked for people to donate clothes to help get their clients back on their feet. These clothes can be anything from...
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Donate Clothing to Survivors of Trafficking
Donate Your Old/Broken Cell Phone and Save Lives
I recently stumbled upon one of the most brilliant and “outside the box” ideas I have ever seen to help people in developing countries.
Basically, by using recycled cell phones to create a kind of “911″ text message service, a med student from Stanford has revolutionized a hospital in rural Malawi. In just 6 months of...
Donate Somebody Else’s Money
I recently got an e-mail from an Australian based company called Hotels Combined letting me know about their new marketing initiative. They decided that instead of spending their advertising budget the way they normally would, they would donate their money to different non-profit organizations in exchange for word of mouth advertising by us. When you blog about...
See Jane Celebrate- Chapter 1- “The Concept”
Welcome to my Christmas experiment! This most beloved holiday has two very different sides: the warm & fuzzy/family traditions/hot chocolate side and the greedy/spoiled children/consumerism side.
There has been a push in the last few years to change the consumeristic parts of Christmas. Movements like The Advent Conspiracy are sparking changes in people’s Christmas practices that...
Donate Your Wedding Dress
Ok, ladies. I know your wedding dress is special and I know we all have fantasies of our daughters wearing it someday. However, the truth is, we will never wear it again and more than likely neither will our daughters (I know, it sounds harsh, but do you know anyone who wore their mother’s dress???)....