Postcards for Satori – 10 Year Old Girl About to Have Major Spinal Surgery

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This is a little off topic, but I wanted to share it. Melissa Lewis, aka @HautTotes, [...]

Pink Slipper Project Warms Hearts and Toes of Women and Children Spending Winter in Shelters

Women from across the nation unite to remind abused women and children they are not forgotten.
Each year, domestic abuse forces hundreds of thousands of women and children to leave their homes and seek safety and healing in shelters across the United States.

While shelters can fill basic needs and provide counseling services, often [...]

Proceeds at Crafted By Design Etsy Shop to Support Family After Losing their Son

I know a lot of us are shopping this week trying to squeeze in some oline orders before shipping deadlines etc… I am posting this to send you over to Crafted By Design on Etsy.com, one of my favorite Etsy sellers. She is currently donating proceeds from the sale of all her doll blankets and [...]

Helping a Family Pay their Electricity Bill to Avoid Shut Off

My mission today is to help a family member pay their past due electric bill before it gets shut off. It was slated to be shut off on Monday, but we somehow managed to convince the electric company to extend this until the 25th of November. I wish they had come to me sooner so [...]

Quick & Easy Party Favors

It’s holiday season – my favorite time of year! I always have a party or two during the holidays, and I want to give my guests a little favor to take home with them. I found the idea of making candy satchets around Valentine’s Day, and I thought, “You can do that with round tulle, [...]

Holiday Shopping for a Good Cause

The holidays are coming whether we are ready or not! Most of us probably have some gift shopping we’d like to get done. What better holiday gift than one that benefits the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America? You’re giving gifts already, right? Why not give a gift that not only gives to [...]

Save Our Homes Portability Petition

Something a little bit different to talk about today. We have reviewed several different charities and pointed out some current events in the past. This is one of those times. This petition is for a citizen’s initiative in order to provide “Portability of the Save Our Homes Assessment Cap.” Miami real [...]

What’s your favorite charity?

I don’t know that I have a favorite, after all it’s hard to choose a favorite thing when the things you are donating to can be attached to such sad news. Most of the charities that I enjoy helping whenever I can are related to helping children, and cancer research. Those two types [...]

Stitch to CURE Diabetes Challenge

You will notice this shiny new button in the right hand sidebar today and I just wanted to take a moment and let you know what it is there to represent. I made that button today after receiving some information about this challenge.
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Sandy Grossman-Morris Designs Challenges all NeedleArts Shops [...]

helping hands

I found this charity interesting. W often take the use of our hands for granted when being creative. I vaguely remember seeing a movie/documentary about a program similar to this when I was younger, and I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called. Helping Hands monkey’s are [...]

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