Giving Back

World Sight Day 2012

by Charlotte on October 11, 2012

Today is World Sight Day 2012. This day was started in order to create awareness around blindness and vision loss. Did you know? About 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide: 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision (severe or moderate visual impairment) Pin It

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Blessing Bags

by Lisa on September 14, 2012

I have started something with my family and it is called Blessing Bags.  I make Ziploc bags full of goodies to hand out to homeless people or people who I feel God is wanting me to give them these bags. I keep them in my car and it is a great opportunity instead of handing out [...]

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We recently got the opportunity to participate in a large back-to-school paying it forward event.  Sponsored by Gutzy Gear and hosted by Madame Deals Media. Gutzy Gear graciously donated $25 and challenged myself and 80 other bloggers to buy as much school supplies we could. Then, we were to choose someone local in the community [...]

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One of my co-workers came to me a few weeks ago letting me know that her family was putting together a fundraiser to support their cousin who was recently diagnosed with evasive breast cancer. So, I wanted to share with all of my local readers, so that you might be able to come and show [...]

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Local Back-to-School Drive on 8/26!

by Charlotte on August 21, 2012

  For all of my local readers in the Piedmont Triad (NC), there will be a community Back to School Drive this Sunday 8/26 from 2-7 pm. WMMG and several other community leaders have partnered together to put this event on to collect school supplies for 500 deserving children in the community! My family and [...]

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Give Freely

by Charlotte on May 13, 2012

Welcome to Give Freely! One in five Americans deals daily with the issue of not having enough to eat. Many of those are children. As couponers, we have the unique opportunity to buy items at extremely reduced prices (or even free) to feed our families. The goal is Give Freely is to present you each [...]

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Stamp Out Hunger 5/12

by Charlotte on May 12, 2012

On Saturday May 12th, letter carriers in more than 10,000 communities will collect food items and deliver them to local food banks to help some of the millions of Americans, including an estimated 13 million children, who face hunger every day. Since 1993, families have donated more than a half-billion pounds of food to Stamp [...]

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Give Freely 5/4

by Charlotte on May 4, 2012

One in five Americans deals daily with the issue of not having enough to eat. Many of those are children. As couponers, we have the unique opportunity to buy items at extremely reduced prices (or even free) to feed our families. The goal is Give Freely is to present you each week with freebies or [...]

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New DASANI Photosynthesis App for Facebook!

by Charlotte on May 4, 2012

I recently wrote a post about DASANI’s new PlantBottle and their partnership with New Balance to create a shoe out of totally recycled products. If you missed my post, then you can read it here. But, I have some more exciting news!! DASANI has created a new App on Facebook called the “Photosynthesis” App and [...]

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Locals: Hope Du Jour 2012

by Charlotte on May 1, 2012

For all of you that live in the Winston-Salem, NC area, be sure to eat out today and participating restaurants! Hope Du Joir 2012 is a partnership with local restaurants to help support the Crisis Control Ministry. 10% of all profits will be donated to Crisis Control, a local Christian-based emergency assistance organization. They provide [...]

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