The Action Blog

Eat meatless meals 2x a week. Donate that grocery money to a local food bank.

That’s the spirit! Thank you! Keep ‘em coming - more, more, more!

Make us LAZY Americans understand that they have to stop buying billions fo dollars worth of junk to make them look pretty and donate it do homeless people and hungry people.

millions rather spend money on making them selves look nice and pretty while people are dieing from hungry.

If you have a musical instrument you no longer use, donate to the still-struggling musicians and students in New Orleans, who are still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.

A few great organizations that will accepts musical instruments are Tipitina’s Foundation (www.tipitinasfoundation.org) and The New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund (www.nomrf.org/donations.html).

I’m interviewing a Capuchin monk vowed to Poverty about his work with Detroit’s poor for my blog, and I’m trying to arrange a fund raiser with my author and PIVTR radio station friends.

Stop drinking Coke and bottled water for a day and save on plastic. Will save a lot of plastic if each of us does it for only one day.

Visit an orphanage,
Stop being Lazy
Give comfort to the poor,
Donate…

On one day only eat food that you have asked someone for directly or for the money you need to buy it.

Pay attention to the feelings.

Divya: I never drink stuff in bottles and I just about all the time have meet meals only a few times a week.

Anyone have ideas for posters? we could make some and stick them around, ya know?

Organize a Hunger 101 Program for a local youth group. Our Girl Scout community learned about what they could do to help the working poor in our community. http://spedr.com/da5f This inspired them to organize several Take Action events: http://spedr.com/krfw

if any of us knew or aware about any organisation which can help educate them, like, skills centre, entrepeneurship centre..u know, stuffs they do to help these pople actually do something to improve their life, we might try to collect name carsd from these organisations (NGOs or ministries), and walka round and passed these cards to them, with of couse, maybe some donations of any supplies..

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Volunteer at a soup kitchen!
Play freerice.com!
If you have take out coffee, skip it for an entire week, donate the savings!
Give 5 bucks to a homeless person who looks hungry!
Talk with your children about poverty and who it affects.

One of my favorite movies of all time is “Pay It Forward”. In similar spirit, if each person involved in Blog Action Day did nothing more than to do something to touch 3 people or to reach out to 3 people and get them to participate, the overall reach of the project would be 4 times greater. If we could reach 20,000 originally, then we could reach 40,000 by touching or reaching out to 3 others each.

The question then becomes, what could you do 3 times to have the greatest impact on poverty?

I just reviewed several of the resources you list on the “Resources” page and I was dumb founded by the staggering statistics! One child dies every 3 seconds from poverty. Water problems affect half of humanity. The poorest 10% of the population account for only .5% of the consumption world wide, while the wealthiest 10% account for 59% of all consumption. Yikes!

These statistics are so horrifying and yet it is obvious that poverty is not simply an issue being felt in third world countries. Rather, it is felt globally — even right here in America. Even the smallest of actions can have an enormous impact with these kinds of statistics.

Why not …

* Give a gallon of water to each of 3 people who need it?
* Give a $10 gift certificate to each of 3 homeless, single mothers so that she and her children can have one hot meal at a fast food restaurant?
* Ask 3 entrepreneurs to each make a donation to 3 people or causes?

Online, I am known as “The JV Queen” because of my many years of experience in organizing large product launches for people like Shawn Casey, Willie Crawford, Russell Brunson, and many more. What made me enjoy the career so much is that it allowed me to leverage the assets of others to get bigger results.

What intrigues me about the last suggestion above is that it is truly a way to leverage others assets as well. To that end, there are many ways that joint ventures could afford the basis for this type of leverage as well.
Let me tell you about one of my students …

About 1 1/2 years ago, I sold a course that was all about organizing joint ventures. One young woman used it in an extremely unique way. She happened to work with a non-profit organization in her local area that helped single, homeless moms. Here’s what she did …

She got a group of local merchants together. These included a barber shop and a beauty shop, a 5 star restaurant, a bus company, and a department store. The merchants worked together to arrange for 500 homeless teenagers to be picked up by bus on Martin Luther King Day and be taken to the barber or beauty shop where they would get their hair done. Afterward, they were taken to a department store where they could each pick out a new outfit. Once they were looking great and feeling hot, they were taken by bus this time to the local restaurant (which was closed because of the holiday) for a gourmet lunch.

My student made sure that she told the local media about this event. That meant contacting local TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers. That day, they ALL did stories about the project. In the end, the media exposure brought so much new business to the handful of business owners involved that not only did THEY beg my student to repeat the project in the future, but dozens of other merchants became interested in participating in the future as well.

What started out as a way to help a few homeless kids turned into almost an entire city full of business people wanting to add what they had to offer as well! How many more children could they reach with all the added resources? How much greater would the impact be on ending poverty in their city?

This wasn’t the kind of project that required any kind of specialized knowledge or an extensive network of
contacts to organize. It was simply some very out of the box thinking on the part of a bright young woman.

If each person reached through Blog Action Day were to get just 3 others together to do this type of a joint venture and reach out to the homeless kids or homeless moms in their local area, in the end, we would have together had enough of an impact to potentially make at least a small dent into the issue!

The best part is that it creates a true “win-win-win” scenario where there is a win for the person organizing this event and the business owner they bring in because of the exposure that they will have through the media; while at the same time there’s a giant benefit for the homeless people who are the recipients of the goodwill.

Even if the project only provided something to a small group of homeless kids or their parents, it would still have a MUCH bigger impact on poverty than what we could make on our own, in just our small group.

This is an example of true “Social Entrepreneurship” at it’s best. The business owners make more money for themselves as a result of their participation,. And, at the same time, there is a bigger dent put into poverty because of the use of leverage — even without the business owners tapping into his profits to participate.

If you do the math from this kind of project, how many MORE people can be reached through this type of leverage? How great is the impact that we can have on poverty?

Host a 1 day famine and collect donations. With the donations, pass it to a Welfare/Poverty Organisation.

pray. because I believe in a God who loves and cares for those suffering even more than we do.

I agree with Monica! God can change everything.

To add to the previous suggestions, rather than just donate money to homeless people, why not use the money you would use on yourself for a coffee to buy one for someone else. If you get coupons for free beverages or meals, keep them with you and give them to someone in need.

As you find organizations to which you like to donate food, clothing, etc., spend some time volunteering for that organization. Contribute to the organizations you are already supporting in other ways.

Educate others. If you are a teacher, talk to your students about poverty. Get their opinions. Inspire them. If you work in other areas, strike up a conversation with your colleagues in the lunchroom or lounge. Get educated so you can answer questions and provide information that might spur others into action.

Be compassionate.

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[1] Do not waste water on that day.

[2] Express your love and compassion for one street child by having an enrolment conversation with her.

[3] Ask your child to share her food with the child of your maid on that day.

[4] Make a list of five items you haven’t used for long and have no plans to use them in future either. And distribute them among local poors with all humility.

[5] Compose a poem on the theme ‘Making Poverty A History’ and get it published in a local magazine or paper. Also, ask your baby to recite the poem in her school.

[6] Talk to your five relatives about the poverty issue and invite them to come up with their suggestions to eradicae poverty.

[7] Organize a drawing competition for kids on the poverty theme and exhibit their works in a local school or community centre.

[8] Do not overeat on that day.

[9] Save electricity on that day and contribute the equivalent savings to a local charity.

[10] Contribute your one day salary to a child rehabilitation centre.

Si tan solo los gobiernos hicieran mucho mas por este flagelo, la pobreza se reduciría en un 70% por no decir 100%. Observo como a algunos gobiernos que han prometido en sus campañas electorales que acabarían con este mal, luego de llegar al poder y por motivo del oro negro les entran grandes cantidades de dinero, ¿y que es lo que han hecho con el, en vez de ayudar al pais? Financiar con ese dinero (que se supone es del pueblo), proyectos políticos solo para sus intereses personales… da tanta tristeza ver cuanta gente tirada por la calle, sin tener que comer, o donde dormir, mientras estos señores se gastan el dinero de tantos ciudadanos, comprando poder para satisfacer su ego.

On your next off day from work, go to a homeless shealter and help serve food to those who are there, talk with them, listen to their stories, you will find that they were at one time, alot like yourself.

Let’s learn to love and respect one another, and to give to those who have less.

(I will be blogging about this on blog action day!)

Instead of video games and other toys, give your neighbors and friends gift certificates for classical music lessons. For every $1 spent on music education, by my calculations, you get a $4.57 return on your investment from age 4-22 and that investment can never be taken away from you. Throughout one’s lifetime it pays much, much more. Take the money you save and give it in music lessons to the next person.

Go to your school board meetings and demand better music education. The arts are part of the core curriculum of “No Child Left Behind” and as I’ve been telling people for a few months now, the less we have to pay for health care and crime, the more we have to spend on food and shelter and doing good for our neighbors.

The more intelligent we are and the more productive we are, the more fruitfully we can spend our time, and the more we can produce to give away.

Like Geldof & Bono tried to point out, they don’t want your long term aid, they want G8 & The Corporate West to take a foot off their throat so they can compete on a level playing field.
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Prayer is a form of action, Brinstar - and many people believe that there is a higher power that acts when they earnestly pray. We all need to ponder poverty, and pray if we believe in prayer - and then get up and roll up our sleeves and get to work. Educating the world is one of the greatest quests we can all undertake.

Hi Blog Action Day Bloggers! Breadline Africa is launching a Blogger Bake Off to help raise awareness and funds. If you want to do something on Blog Action Day, you should turn your talking (which is very worthwhile) into action: donate to a charity. Organisations that use funds directly in poor communities will be using your money where it can do the most good: at the grass roots level.

We can talk and blog all we want, but we need to do at the same time.

Giving money to the poor isn’t the best solution in my opinion as they might use the money for food only, then the next days they may once again become starve and suffer. Most of the poor don’t even have enough money for education therefore they may not be able to apply for a job as they might not be qualified, yet they can be trained to be manual workers; to open their own small business. What I’ve seen here in Indonesia, some of non-profit organizations hold some kind of “Free school” events for the poor children, who live under the bridges of Jakarta, or along the busy streets of Surabaya ( East Java).
Donate your old books, for instance storybooks, to the poor. Help them learn.
I do think education plays important role in reducing poverty, as I believe in this saying ‘ Read more, learn more and educate yourself then you’ll know lots of things as being ignorant and read less are close to poverty.”

Reforzar con un grupo de jóvenes que se reúnen en mi comunidad: Sonsonate (El Salvador) a orar y hablar durante ese día sobre la pobreza en el mundo y apoyar los esfuerzos encaminados que se hacen para la reducción y eliminación de la pobreza: participación de los bancos comunitarios promovidos por la Comunidad Bahá’í, y que eliminan de raíz la pobreza económica, porque pienso que realmente el ser humano no es pobre, es un ser noble y creado rico para desarrollar todas sus potencialidades, lo que hay que buscar es los medios, cambios de actitudes y oportunidades para superar la pobreza….

Play the word game at FreeRice.com: and feed rice to the hungry through the United Nations World Food Program. http://www.freerice.com/

All you do is pick a word defnition form a multiple-choice display. For each right answer you get 20 grains of rice, which adds up quicly and gets translated into the real thing beyond your living room.

Game level of difficulty adjusts. Fun for individuals and groups. I’ve made it part of a devotional gathering, a game night, an afternoon with children.

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Ayudar a traducir este sitio así más gente es capaz de leer y tomar parte!

Okay, we’re in the thick of things (On Blog Action Day…), but we can still do things.
Get your child’s Class, or your Local Club, or the folks in your office to use a Piggy Bank to collect money until you reach a monetary goal to donate to some place like microloans (Kiva.org or microplace.com), or to sponsor a child/ family (www.healingbridges.com) or some other favorite and personal-to-the-group cause.