Eco-Friendly: Simple Ways to Live Greenermy world • giving organizations
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I think it’s safe to say, don’t you think, that none of us wake up thinking: “What can I do to harm the planet today?” To some extent, most of us want to help our planet in some way. We realize it’s not an infinite resource and that we need
Acts of Kindness: Bake It Forward One Cookie Tin at a Timemy world • giving organizations
…Mom It Forward is the title of our site, but it’s also a verb, an action. The phrase is, at its heart, a call to be proactive in the improvement of our world. The phrase means to not wait until someone helps you, or until someone else makes that end-all-be-all
Baby Care: Diapers on Every Little Bottom Is the Goalmy world • giving organizations
Have you ever found yourself, when you had babies or toddlers, without diapers? Have you ever had that feeling of desperation? That is a feeling that 1 in 3 American parents and 1 in 5 Canadian parents in poverty feel on a regular basis, according to a recent study….
Corporate Giving and Social Media: Kudos for Osh Kosh B’gosh Cranes for Kidsmy world • giving organizations
In my mind, any time a corporation takes on a cause with more than lip service, that’s cause for praise. And when they use social media to get the word out, not just about their philanthropy but about opportunities for jane-schmane to help them out from home, that’s gratifying. It…
Operation Beautiful: Ending Negative Self-Talk, One Post-It Note at a Timemy world • giving organizations
Are you ever your own worst enemy? Does the little voice inside your head ever say cruel, demeaning things like, “You’re fat,” or “You’ll never be good enough?” After a heart-to-heart with yourself, are you left feeling discouraged and demeaned?
Caitlin Boyle, founder of OperationBeautiful.com…, was tired of fighting
Girls on The Run: Building Self-Esteem One Runner at a Timemy world • giving organizations
…Last Fall, a friend called me in a bind. She had volunteered to be a running partner for a young girl in a 5K event, but had to back out at the last minute, due to a family crisis. Knowing that I am a regular runner, she asked if I
Poverty: Mothers Save the Children With Frigidaire’s “Making Time For Change” Campaignmy world • giving organizations
If you are anything like me, and I’m sure you are just by virtue of the fact that you’re visiting MomItForward, …you’re passionate about children: raising them, helping them, improving the lives of your own and others through proactive engagement in service and social consciousness. Recently, I had the chance
Outside Play: Dr Pepper Snapple, KaBoom, and Mom 2.0 Partner to Build Playgroundmy world • giving organizations
You may have heard that play is on the decline, that children these days are less active than those of previous generations. The Centers for Disease Controls… reports that 62% of children aged 9-13 years do not participate in any organized physical activity afterschool and 23% do not engage in
Dawn: Educating Children on Ways to Save the Wildlifemy world • giving organizations
Did you know that only 15% of of the birds affected by the Gulf Oil spill that happened last year made it through? Over 6,000 dead birds were found in areas affected by the spill (source…). Over 2,000 birds were found alive, but only 1,246 of them were
Charitable Children: Giving Can Be as Easy as Eatingmy world • giving organizations
In a December 2010 survey… of 501 children, when asked: “Which of the following, if any, do you think you would enjoy doing to help people in need?,” 80 percent of the kids surveyed said they would most enjoy donating goods, such as clothes or food. Of those children, 77
Find a geocache with your kids.
Date: Wed., May 30
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: Dad Rules by Treion Miller
