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October Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days

by Elisa | Oct 20, 2025 | Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Global Health, Human Rights, Mental Health, Poverty, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

Want to make doing good easier? Create awareness? Take advantage of the resources out there...

Every Day Charity: The Man With A Cardboard Sign

by Elisa | Feb 1, 2014 | Poverty, Spiritual Discipleship, United States | 0 |

I was bored. My son was driving me crazy, asking to visit pretty much every person on earth we know. Honestly, sometimes we would think he didn’t know anyone’s names until he starts to list them off: “Can we go...

The Richest Houses in the DC Suburbs in Contrast with Global Inequality

by Elisa | Apr 29, 2013 | Create Awareness, Poverty | 2 |

Sometimes I just feel so much tension about how wealthy I am. Yes, although I drive a scrapped up, clanking 1999 Dodge mini van I am still rich. After all, I have TWO cars. I have a 1996 Honda too. Both just shy of 200,000...

Incomparable: The God Who Cares About the Poor and Oppressed

by Elisa | Apr 11, 2013 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Poverty, Seeking Justice, Spiritual Discipleship, United States | 0 |

How Does God View the Poor? “I will praise Him from the bottom of my heart: “Lord, who can compare with you? Who else rescues the weak and helpless from the strong? Who else protects the poor and ...

Action: Crafting on Etsy for Charity

by Elisa | Dec 3, 2012 | Children-in-Need, Fair Trade Products, Global Health, Good Charities, Spiritual Discipleship, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

An Average Illinois Teen Became an Advocate Abby and I connected a month or two ago via twitter. I was drawn to her immediately because of her conviction that she can make a difference in our world. She is doing something...

Action: Operation Christmas Child Box

by Elisa | Nov 15, 2012 | Children-in-Need, Fair Trade Products, Good Charities, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

A New Tradition Are you disappointed in your holiday experiences? Here are a few examples of why you might need to work on making a new tradition: You now a vegan who is unable to eat Thanksgiving turkey. You are a very boring...

Action: September Campaign For Charity: Water

by Elisa | Oct 29, 2012 | Clean Water, Global Health, Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Poverty, Ways to Make a Difference | 1 |

This is a guest post by Namira, a law student who just returned from the The Hague, where she was interning at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Apparently, she cares a lot about those without clean...

Action: Do a Microloan in Honor of Mandela Day (& Win a Contest)

by Elisa | Jul 18, 2012 | Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Poverty, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

Humans remember things. Its true we all like to remember different things, whether it be birthdays, anniversaries or holidays. I like to remember days which bring awareness to a specific cause, like Malaria Day orAIDS Day. Even...

Awareness Resource On Poverty: Survive125

by Elisa | May 29, 2012 | Create Awareness, Poverty | 0 |

$2.10 My favorite is iced coffee. I love sipping on iced coffee- a tall, but in a venti cup. I add about a 1/4th a cup of milk, a dash of cream, and 5 packets of sugar. I cheat the system: It tastes just like an iced latte but...

Malaria 101

by Elisa | Apr 26, 2012 | Global Health, Poverty, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

World Malaria Day Every year on this designated day (April 25th), we are reminded that malaria still exists. I have had a few friends who have caught malaria overseas, convincing me that it is nothing I’d want to contract....

International Women’s Day 2012

by Elisa | Mar 7, 2012 | Good Charities, Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

So this day which is yearly acknoledged, is here once again. March 8th: International Women’s Day. We celebrate it because women are so often not celebrated. In fact, they are the most oppressed group on earth. Why women?...

What is Famine? Defining Hunger Around the World

by Elisa | Feb 28, 2012 | Fair Trade Products, Poverty | 0 |

It seems there are endless famines. And they only occur in Africa. But, no, there are not endless famines. And no, they don’t only occur in Africa. (But we should probably remember that Africa is actually pretty big....