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Jen Louden, Savor and Serve: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Jen Louden, Savor and Serve: How I Have Fun, Do Good After reading my friend Keri Smith's book The Guerilla Art Kit , my 16-year-old daughter Lillian decided it would be delish to write little-bitty love notes and plaster them all over our tiny town. She's just started a one year experiment in savoring and serving the world.

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Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good Buy art from artists. One of the most fun ways to do good is to buy art and hand crafts directly from artists and artisans. I combine my passion for travel, art and teaching by taking people to off-the-beaten path places that have lively arts and handcrafts scenes.

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Emily Goligoski, The SanFranista: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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Soon after, I had the opportunity to write about a Bay Area non-profit, the Art of Yoga Project , that brings yoga, writing, and arts to girls in juvenile hall. By the time the story ran, I was so in awe of the Art of Yoga Project's work that I enrolled in a yoga teacher training.

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Meg Worden, Feed Me Darling : How I Have Fun, Do Good

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Supporting art and artists, writers and books. Music, walking, running, happy hour with girlfriends, yoga, living by the ocean, and the way the internet bends time and space so I can meet people anywhere at anytime. Feeding people.

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Beth Terry, Fake Plastic Fish: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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I have a couple of friends, artists Richard Lange and Judith Selby Lange, who scour the beach regularly for plastic trash to include in their art projects. For example, instead of getting depressed when I stumbled upon the fact that chewing gum is made from plastic (polyvinyl acetate, to be precise), I felt like I had made a big score.

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Heather Meyer, Work it Out!: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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When I first started teaching dance fitness, I approached it with a more serious attitude, as I had found my strength studying martial arts. It has been a lengthy process of reclaiming movement and dance. And, myself. I taught my classes by mixing kickboxing with dance.

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Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock: Adding to Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. Amy Sample Ward writes a blog about nonprofit technology and social media and is the community builder for Netsquared. Rebecca Krause Hardie overs the arts sector and use of social media. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site.