Once again we’ve spent a weekend indulging and over spending. Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and lastly Cyber Monday. But now it is time to take all those savings and give back to those who are worse off than you are. And no matter how bad you think things are, there is always someone …
Copied from last years post, and updated with some stats: For the 8th straight year I will be spending the night before Thanksgiving helping to feed the homeless. Tonight at 6PM at the Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn College will be hosting a Thanksgiving meal for the Homeless. Joined by the fraternities, sororities, current students and …
There are all sorts of ways to give to charity, and most of those ways involve giving from your own wallet. Well, what if there was a way to exercise AND give to charity, all while costing you nothing? Well, Charity Miles (available on Android and iOS) is there to help. Whether you are walking, …
Donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation today!
April is National Autism Awareness Month. and today, April 2nd. is National Autism Awareness Day. I myself donate to Autism Speaks to help support the cause, as well as try and wear my “Blue Puzzle Pin” from time to time to promote the cause. If you have extra charity money (come on, 10% of your paycheck …
This Sunday I went to the Tanger Hillel at Brooklyn College (at which I’m a board member) to do our yearly Passover Deliveries to the Elderly. Every year we get in different goods to deliver, thanks in part to the Met Council on Jewish Poverty, and this year we had a nice haul to spread …
Whenever a disaster happens, people tend to start giving to charities again…and now with all the cold weather I heard reports last week of an increase in the usage of Red Cross and how they were requesting donations and funding. Me, well I refuse to give to the Red Cross and rightfully so. The story …
I’ve had this topic in my drafts for the longest period of time, and decided to finally talk about it. I had seen a Wells Fargo ad, which featured #HashtagLunchbag, and I had thought at the time “I should do something like that”…but of course I got lazy and didn’t do it. To explain, their …
After spending a ton of money on Thanksgiving Thursday, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, it’s time for all of you to donate to charity on Giving Tuesday. The point is to take the money you saved on those days and give it back to people and organizations who can use it wisely. …
So I successfully completed Movember! (Granted I started and ended a few days off (both early, so I did get a full month!)) Thank you to Brooke Morris, Carissa Kopp, Malka Sabghir, Tova Medetsky and Yelena Azriyel for your donations and helping me exceed $200 on my first try. Hopefully next year I’ll do it …
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