Launching the Give Blog: Our $50,000 Challenge to You!

To celebrate the launch of this blog, with your help, we hope to give away $50,000 to five charities – The Hunger Project, The Grameen Foundation, Safe Passage, Catholic Charities USA and the Eastern Illinois Foodbank.  Beginning today through December 24, we will match contributions of up to $100 from new donors to these charities, and each charity can receive up to $10,000 from us.  (We will match up to $100 of new donations to each of the five charities such that a person who has not given to any of these charities in the past could be matched up to $500.)  So together, with your contributions, we can give $20,000 to each of these charities, or $100,000 to all five of them.  If you would like to participate, just email us stating the amount that you will donate and make the donation directly to the charity.  The charity will confirm that you are a new donor and the amount of your donation, and then we will match your contribution.  Thanks for considering a contribution.  Email us giveblog@gmail.com.

This blog is being launched to motivate ourselves and others to give away more money to charitable causes. We were in South Africa a few years ago, and we regularly saw people, including children, who just wanted food and clean water – nothing else.  The pic is of a woman and a child in the community where we were.  There are literally millions of people throughout the world who do not have these basic necessities of life, and lots of people face other problems, including not being able to find a job or shelter. With this blog, we are writing about how we can, on a daily basis, live our lives in such a way to enable us to give more.  In living this way thus far, we have felt much more fulfilled from giving than we did from consuming.

Each week on the blog, we will feature stories about our lives and others, and media relevant to the blog.  In Our Conscious Living on Tuesdays, we will share stories on how we try to live consciously to be able to give away more money. In On the Ground on Wednesdays, we will feature a story about a person who has been helped by a charity.  On Thursdays, Fridays and Mondays, we will feature news articles or other media relevant to giving.

 

 

Comments

[Paul]

I am both excited and a little bit frightened by your Challenge, your blog, and by the way you have chosen to live your lives. This is an amazing decision, and I know great things will come of it! I also know that by following your path, even vicariously, I will be forced to change some of my decisions -- that's where the fear comes in.

To be honest, there's a special sort of despair that sets in when you see someone doing the very hard, but very RIGHT thing, right in front of you. But it's a good kind of despair, I think, as long as it prompts change.

Regardless, you are both amazing, and I am excited to start this journey with you!

PJS

[jill]

Hi. I think this is great that you want to do this. I would like to make a donation to the Eastern Illinois Foodbank and have you match it, however I will need to email you directly since my email program doesn't work with the link above. Can you please provide your email address somewhere here on this site? I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue and maybe this would help increase the amount that we can all give.

Many Thanks for your generosity!

Jill

[Malcolm Sargent]

Hi. Our thoughts about a donation & problems with your website are the same as Jill's. Mac.

[Alexandra]

I would love to donate to Safe Passages, but I can't get the link to your e-mail address to work. Could you post the actual e-mail address in your blog or in the comments? Thanks!

[Alexandra]

I think the e-mail address is giveblog@gmail.com. Worth a shot!

[Elliott]

I usually never read blog posts. But this is an exception, you have some awesome topics on here and some i found on http://www.rapidpig.com. Will visit daily and tell others for sure.

[Tom the Charity Auction Software Guy]

Im going to take you up on this Challenge and since I live in Illinois, It makes it easier to give knowing its helping an org close to me.

[קוסמטיקאית]

Hi every one ! "Charity Leads God ", the central theme of this blog is marvelous really a great job.I will spread this among my near and dears.

[מאפרת]

Hi! I am makeup artist.Your generosity is great.You are doing a wonderful job. Your interest in collecting contributions and your way of thinking about charity is marvelous. Keep it up!!