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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

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29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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Join the 29-Day Giving Challenge: Change Lives One Gift at a Time

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I was in a very dark period in my life dealing with a chronic illness (multiple sclerosis) as well as a major move from San Francisco to Los Angeles. To complete the challenge, Walker asks that you submit a story on your 30th day about the impact the Challenge has made on your life. And so I have begun the challenge."

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Grants for Kids To Create Healthy Living Programs in Their Community: What blogs provide inspiration?

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I asked a few colleagues on Blogher and beyond and discovered a few excellent blogs and video blogs that offer advice and recipes for parents who want to make sure their kids are eating a healthy meal. is a garden program that serves low-income youth from San Francisco's neighborhoods. Need some ideas? But, there must be others.

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Good Magazine Wants You To Do Good!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

San Francisco to teaching reading in Atlanta, to rebuilding homes and lives in the Gulf coast communities. Malaria No More engages individuals, organizations, and corporations in the private sector to provide life-saving bed nets and other critical interventions to families in need. The organization works to educate.

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What's Your Moment of Obligation?

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Moments of obligation are described as: "At certain moments in your life, you may find yourself pulled toward a path leading to work that will benefit others. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. Cross-posted from BlogHer. career activism social change

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Solutionary Women: Mei-ying Ho

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The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? I think it is a really good breakdown of what is currently happening in San Francisco in terms of the gentrification. It’s pretty cool.

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29-Day Giving Challenge: An Interview with Cami Walker

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I have multiple sclerosis, and my life was in a very awful place. People have organized group gives in Atlanta, Houston, a couple times in Los Angeles, and it will happen tomorrow in San Francisco, that as a group we get together and give away roses to strangers. A lot of wonderful things have happened in my life.