Charity / volunteering

I watched Andrea – Queen Of Mantas on the Eden channel a few days ago. It’s a great wildlife program, watch it if you get a chance. It’s a documentary about Andrea Marshall, who has devoted her life to the study of manta rays and giant mantas. The giant manta is a species of manta [...]

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Its once again time for the BBC Children In Need 2011 appeal. Last night they had raised over £26 million. I just donated £30 myself so if you missed the TV coverage last night you can still donate, just visit the BBC Pudsey website to securely donate online.  The money raised goes to worthy causes [...]

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This UNICEF Somalia drought fund donation is my first Aid Renegade charity donation in quite a while. I’ve been watching the news about this growing crisis and have just donated £30 to the UNICEF drought fund. Well, you have probably seen my previous ‘Fuck The Maid‘ post and that’s another story. Suffice to say it’s [...]

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Help out this cystic fibrosis fundraiser! I’ve donated £20. Darren Darling, who’s son was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis two weeks after birth, plans to enter the Cystic Fibrosis Trusts London to Paris cycle ride but needs to raise a total of £1350 to do so. If you visit the Just Giving fundraising website you will [...]

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Help and how to fund your American charity. In these tough economic times charities are finding it harder to get donations. How do charities get more funds? One possible solution to help your American charitable organisation is with the help of the All Solutions Network, based in California. All Solutions Network By using the All [...]

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Unfortunately I’m unable to do any micro philanthropy this month. I’ve barely earned enough to cover my own bills. Add to that it’s MOT & road tax month and I’m pretty much broke. Also not sure how I’m going to make my ‘donation’ of £600 to the taxman by the end of the month. If [...]

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Continuing with my ‘pay it forward’ theory I’ve supported our British wounded soldiers with a £20 donation to Help For Heroes. Help For Heroes supports wounded British soldiers in many ways in the form of grants to 28 organisations to help fund various projects. These rage from a quick reaction fund that helps the armed [...]

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Just logged into stumbleupon for the first time in a while & came across the stumbleupon clean water project for a school  in Haiti with mycharitywater. A cholera outbreak has started in Haiti but cholera is easily preventable by supplying clean water. Stumbleupon aim to raise $20,000 to sponsor a project to supply clean water to [...]

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American Rachel Hunnicutt Knight from Texas needs donations to cover her bone marrow transplant operation expenses not covered by her insurance. Rachel is currently in a critical condition but still needs donations to cover the extra medical expenses incurred for her bone marrow transplant operation, such as aftercare & various drugs. Normally co-pay insurance pays around [...]

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I’ve donated £25 to the BBC children in need charity. The BBC children in need charity is kind of like ‘Jerry’s Kid’s’ if you’re from the USA & reading this. I know that £25 may not sound like a life changing amount to many who read this but I’m still paying of the very last [...]

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Help for talking to alzheimer’s and dementia patients. First I’m not in any way qualified in this field, this is just an idea based on a comment from someone who has worked with dementia & alzheimer’s patients. At the bottom of this post are links to some official guidelines to aiding patients. My friend worked [...]

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This is about Starbucks coffee business ethics in regards to a request by British troops who requested some of their coffee while on duty in Afghanistan. This info came via a ‘email your friends’ style viral email campaign. Feel free to copy & paste this into an email to your friends. We know some of [...]

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How to donate your car to the Vietnam Veterans of America. In today’s tough economical climate it is becoming harder for the VVA to raise money to continue supporting Vietnam veterans. One way is by donating your car through their car donation website. You can also call toll free on 1-800-Help-Vets. Weather you have an old [...]

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View  US / American charities  with twitter profiles. I was originally going to build a list of UK charities listed on twitter but someone’s already beat me to a list of UK charities on twitter. Well done! You get a link from my charities blog post! I just searched for US / American charities on [...]

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While looking at new twitter followers sites & blogs I came across a great post about ways to support charity online using social media sites.  The 10 topics covered are: Write a blog post, share stories with friends, follow charities on social networks, find volunteer opportunities, embed a widget on your site, organize a tweetup [...]

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