Squidoo Charity Giveaway

Hey! Have you heard? The March of Dimes is in the running for the $80,000 Squidoo Charity Giveaway. http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-charity-giveaway

They need our help! Every vote is worth $2. The contest is running until October 15th or there are 40,000 votes. Please, please go and vote for MOD. It is a great way to support all the work they do without it costing you a dime. Isn't that refreshing!

Free Rice

I know you have heard about the doubling and tripling of the price of rice around the world. It has been on all the news programs. Then with the disasters in Burma and China that problem is even worse. Heck, I am even concerned about it since rice is my starch of choice. How much is rice by you?

A while ago, I stumbled on this cool vocabulary game that donates rice for each right answer. Free Rice is the sister site to Poverty.com. It donates 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program. I LOVE it. Have you played the free rice game? Try it and tell me how you do.

WalkAmerica

Have you noticed that every charity has some sort of Walk or Run or Race these days? Have you ever participated? Well, today, I did WalkAmerica for the March of Dimes. This walk is the granddaddy of them all. It started in 1970 and has been going strong ever since. It felt good to get out there with all of the other walkers to do something for a good cause. There were groups of folks from companies walking together. There were teams from high schools, and there were lots of people that were walking with a baby’s picture on their t-shirts. There were families, there were dogs, there were clowns, there were cheerleaders, it seemed like everybody and their brother was there. There were lots of babies, which made sense, since the mission of the March of Dimes is to prevent birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. There are Walks in many communities in every state. Check out their website at WalkAmerica.org. Put on your shoes, get out there.