I was reading over at The Prudent Homemaker and ran across a page of hers that talks about how to help others when you're having your own difficulty.
She has a ton of great budget philanthropy ideas, some really creative ways to help others. The key point is to look deep within yourself -- at your strengths and your talents -- and find ways to use these to benefit others.
What are your strengths and talents? Check out Prudent Homemakers Helping Others page to see if any of yours are listed there.
I ran across a site where you can donate $5 for free. Sort of.
At the Kellogg web site if you donate $5 for the Feeding America program, Kellogg will give you back $5 in coupons. Effectively, that means you've made your donation for free!
This is one of my FAVORITE projects on the Internet. Caitlin's crusade is to end toxic "Fat Talk". Operation Beautiful is a movement of posting anonymous messages in public -- messages of positive and upbeat messages of encouragement such as a simple "you are beautiful" to the more specific messages on a scale that says "This number doesn't matter. You are gorgeous right now..." or on a dressing room mirror, "Beauty has nothing to do with the size of your clothes."
This is a totally free way to spread change! All you need is a pen and a piece of paper and a public place to put a note. Are you ready to inspire total strangers? Get out there and get to writing, get to inspiring!
Oh and by the way, you're beautiful today. Everyday, really. I'm serious.
Have you seen The Changepot? It's a fun blog about a family who is constantly on the lookout for money that other people have dropped.
In the first three years of their blog, the Humphreys collected $1032.46. They have collected almost $50 since the beginning of the year.
How about this for a philanthropy project? Start your own "free money" changepot. Get a big jar and put a sign on it that tells the name of your particular cause. Then just watch for the change. Train yourself to have an eagle eye. Looking at The Changepot's blog it's easy to see how it all adds up.
At the end of the year, donate all the money to the cause you've been saving up for. All it cost you was a little time and attention.
Spread Change is all about budget philanthropy -- making a difference on a dime. We'd all like to be generous philanthropists, but not all of us can afford to be as generous as we'd like. Instead, we give our time, we give our pennies, dimes and nickels, we commit random acts of kindness. The beauty of this system is that if we all do it, the goodness adds up to create a far better world. Let's get started.
(Oh, and if you want to browse by topic there is an index at the very bottom of the page. It's a long scroll, but worth it if you are looking for a particular topic.)
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