Tag Archives: Donations

Helping Haiti: Are you going to help?

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Posted by Joe on January 14, 2010 – 11:50 am
Filed under Featured, Making a Difference, Rant

I’m not going to pretend like I know what it feels like to have everything ripped away from you in a matter of seconds. I’m not there in Haiti. However, what I do know is that the images and videos from Haiti are moving. It’s so sad to see the heartache and the pain that these people are going through.

I posted a link on my website (listed above – I’ll keep this link on the site for future reference) with a link of websites where you can help the cause to help the victims and their families during this tragedy. This is going to be a monumental relief effort by the United States and the World, but we can do it.

When tragedies of this magnitude happen, we are no longer people separated by borders, we are people of the world. We are one species in this world.

So my question to you is – are you going to help?

Here are a list of websites which you can contribute to the cause:

If you can’t contribute financially then please encourage your family and friends to donate money to the cause. If nothing else, spreading the word could put these links to people who may be able and want to help. Together we can make a difference for all of those affected by this terrible tragedy.

Fight For Preemies!

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Posted by Joe on November 17, 2009 – 12:24 pm
Filed under Making a Difference, Promotion

Did you know that “One in eight babies born in our country is premature. The rate of premature birth in America is higher than that of most other developed nations?”1 Today I would like to bring awareness and dedicate this post to preemies and their friends and families. November 17th is bloggers unite to try to bring awareness on this cause. However, we shouldn’t limit it to today – we should fight everyday. We can make a difference and I hope you share this information with people.

Many premature babies will face lifelong challenges. Babies who survive a preterm birth risk serious lifelong health problems including cerebral palsy, blindness, hearing loss, learning disabilities, and other chronic conditions.2 Some babies don’t survive the first month. About one million deaths in the first month of life (28 percent of total newborn deaths) are attributed to preterm birth.3

Here is a video clip from the March of Dimes.

You can learn more about Premature babies at the March of Dimes.

How you can help?

Advocacy: Contact your local government representatives and tell them your story about a premature baby. Also help the March of Dimes.

Bring Awarness: Contact your local paper, news agency and blogs to publish information about premature babies. If you need help with writing or contacting news agencies, feel free to contact me.

Volunteer: You can make a difference by spending a little bit of your time helping others. Check out local March of Dime chapters.

Donate: You can donate to this cause by purchasing wristbands, magnets, crystal bracelets or honoring a baby.

You can make a difference!

If you have a personal story and would like to share it on the blog, feel free to post a comment. Please, please, please share either this post with your family and friends or please pass on the March of Dimes website to help fight for these babies. “We need to fight ― because babies shouldn’t have to.”

  1. http://marchofdimes.com/prematurity/index_map.asp [↩]
  2. http://www.marchofdimes.com/prematurity/21295_10699.asp [↩]
  3. http://www.marchofdimes.com/prematurity/21295_10699.asp [↩]

Help me Make a Difference!

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Posted by Joe on November 12, 2009 – 1:20 pm
Filed under Joe's Life, Making a Difference

I just recently joined a website called Bloggers Unite which allows bloggers to promote a cause on their blogs. The way it works is on the day of the “cause” members of Bloggers Unite will blog about the specific cause to raise awareness on the cause. Each time a new cause comes up on the website I will update the banner on the right to reflect the new cause.  I don’t want any of the causes to become lost as a new cause comes up so  I will create an archived page for past causes so you can access the cause in the future.

I want to do this to help make a difference and raise awareness. Sometimes we get caught up in things in our own lives and we don’t realize what is happening around us. I’m guilty of this – most of the time it’s worrying about college, jobs, personal life issues that sometimes we lose sense of other things that are going on around us.  In certain circumstances, we don’t realize how bad the situation really is.

Being a journalist, I have the ability to communicate with a large group of people. By blogging about these various causes, I hope to reach many people and raise awareness of these issues. Web designers know to put the most important stuff “above the fold” – just like in newspapers. If you don’t read anything else on my site – I want you to read the “Make a Difference” portion of the sidebar.

If you don’t donate to the cause – which I hope all of you do then please, please, please pass either the posts I write on the issues or direct them to the organizations website. All you have to do is copy and paste a link into an email, AIM message, Facebook/Twitter status. That simple action could help someone!