making a difference! • my world • Mom It Forward Mondays • tips for giving back
This week’s Season of Service challenge is to serve by washing, or enabling someone else to wash things. How on earth can I serve by washing, you say? Let me count the ways…
10 Ways to Serve by Washing
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Charitable Children: Boy Scouts of America Eagle Projectmaking a difference! • my world • giving organizations • bettering communities
I am the mother of three boys and one girl. All of my boys are involved with the Boy Scouts of America Scouting Program. I love the things that this organization does to teach leadership, service, commitment, and goal setting….
My boys start the scouting program
Global Coalition: Mom Bloggers For Social Good is a Blog that Makes a Differencemaking a difference! • my world • moms making a difference • bettering communities
Once each week, we like to tell you about a women making a difference somewhere in the world. We’ve talked about blogosphere pioneer Jeanette Kaplun, author and photographer Karen Walrond…, and many others who are using their talents and their social media involvement to increase positivity in
Service Ideas: 10 Ways to Scrapbook and Serve Those In Needmaking a difference! • my world • Mom It Forward Mondays • tips for giving back
We talk a lot in these Season of Service posts about using your talents to help others. We’ve talked about service through singing, through writing, and many other special ways to share. This week is for those of you who have a gift for crafting things with paper …
Service Ideas: 10 Simple Ways to Play and Have Fun With Your Kidsmaking a difference! • my world • Mom It Forward Mondays • tips for giving back
This week’s Season of Service challenge is to Play…, or in other words, to: occupy oneself in amusement, sport, or other recreation; or to act or conduct oneself in a specified way.
Since “playing” is most often associated with children, most of these bite-size ideas are things you can
Service Ideas: 10 Ways to Use Your Computer or Your Skills to Help Othersmaking a difference! • my world • Mom It Forward Mondays • tips for giving back
This week’s Season of Service, to use your computer, internet connection, and/or skills to do good, rivals last week’s in terms of easiness. These are all things you can do to improve the condition of others… while in the comfort of your own home or a friend’s. There is
Service Ideas: 10 Inspiring Short Videos and Movies to Watchmaking a difference! • my world • Mom It Forward Mondays • tips for giving back
This week’s Season of Service challenge is so easy, anybody can do it. We challenge you to do nothing more than watch at least one of the videos or movies listed below to expand your awareness and inspire… you to serve.
Except for the first video, all of them
Donations: Simple Ways to Give to Charity and to Those in Needmaking a difference! • my world • bettering communities • bettering communities
January is typically a month when people want to get organized. They go through their closets and pull out old coats, jackets, scarves…, and outdated fashions to make space for all the new things that Santa left under the Christmas tree. They also go through their cupboards and donate
Giving Organization: Sole Hope Provides Closed Toe Shoes to People in Africamaking a difference! • my world • giving organizations • bettering communities
There are so many giving organizations like the Ronald McDonald House, Project Night Night, and Bake It Forward. Recently, I discovered a great organization I wanted our family to support called Sole Hope….
Sole Hope provides closed toe shoes for people in Africa. I liked their
Service Ideas: Helping Those in Need Dress to Impressmaking a difference! • my world • Mom It Forward Mondays • tips for giving back
…There are so many easy ways to give. This week’s challenge centers around opportunities to give that help “dress,” or clothe, those less able to clothe themselves, or opportunities that incorporate the word “dress.”
To start, we invite you to go to your closet or your kids’ closet right now
Double the amount you prepare for dinner tonight and take half of it to a lonely neighbor.
Date: Wed., February 29
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: 365 Manners Kids Should Know
