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StrongLikeYou Raksha Necklace -100% Proceeds Donated – SALE Price $20 until to 7/2

June 21, 2017 By Paula Leave a Comment

In partnership with the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, Jane is committed to provide opportunities for survivors at Raksha to heal, move on, and thrive. There are several ways you can get involved and make a difference. I’d like to take a moment to tell you about two of them.

1. THUMBPRINT NECKLACE
Help donate to Raksha’s shelter by buying one of these unique necklaces. 100% of proceeds go to Raksha children’s shelter.

Each necklace is stamped with the fingerprint of a child from Raksha, so you can hold their stories close to your heart. You’ll also receive an insert that tells you a little more about each of them. You will receive 1 of 11 necklaces at random. If you purchase multiple, you will receive unique necklaces. There were just 1,727 necklaces when this campaign started June 1st so they will be selling out soon!

When you give one of these necklaces you are giving a gift that gives back because when you purchase one of these Raksha necklaces, 100% of the proceeds help support children in Nepal who are survivors of predatory crimes.

#StrongLikeYou Raksha Necklace | 100% Proceeds Donated – Was $49.99 – Now $19.99 (6/1 to 7/2)

About Raksha Children’s Center

Children taken into Raksha’s care are given a caring family-like environment, psycho-social counseling, nutrition, medical care, tutoring, and reintegration into the public-school system. Thanks to these resources, the children at the shelter have been given a second chance and hope for the future. Many of these children aspire to be nurses or doctors one day, so they can give back and help other survivors of predatory crimes. For more on Raksha, go to jane.com/stronglikeyou

2. GOFUNDME

Share your strength and help support children at Raksha. Donations will go directly toward rebuilding Raksha’s shelter and the resources they provide.

In 2015 a devastating earthquake left Nepal in ruins. As a result of the earthquake, thousands of homes were deemed as no longer livable; among them was one of Nepal’s children’s shelters, Raksha. This shelter has been an advocate, protector, and home for underage victims of predatory crimes, abandonment, and emotional exploitation for over 10 years. Not only does this shelter do incredible good, but without it, these survivors wouldn’t have a safe haven to call home. And now Raksha needs our help to rebuild this center.

HELP SECURE A NEW HOME FOR RAKSHA CHILDREN

Jane will match any donations made up to $100,000!

I invite you to join the Jane community by making a contribution as they work towards making this happen! When you visit Jane just click on GOFUNDME and to do your part in creating opportunities for them to heal, thrive, and move on to become the resilient, talented, and dignified members of society they already are.

Let’s Do This! Spring Cleaning with a Purpose

May 6, 2017 By Paula 7 Comments

Let’s Do This! Spring Cleaning with a Purpose

Spring is finally here! As you may have noticed, I am excited and have had several posts about it over the last few months. In addition to all the beautiful flowers emerging from their long Winter’s nap, Easter, Spring Break, and warmer weather; Spring means that we start spring cleaning.If you haven’t been motivated to participate in the spring cleaning craze before now, knowing that you can benefit your community and help create jobs by spending just a few hours of your day doing it, making your spring cleaning worth it, may motivate you to join the rest of and do it!

According to Google Trends, searches for “spring cleaning” typically peak around the first days of spring through the middle of April. Where you one of those searching? Did you find any great tips? I recently posted some Spring Cleaning Tips and a Spring Cleaning List to help make the task easier for you. As you get your home sparkling clean and refreshed, it is also the perfect time to purge your closets, cabinets, garage, and other spaces of all the extra items that you no longer need and donate them. A great place to take those items is Goodwill. Did you know that donations of clothing or household goods to Goodwill help create jobs directly in your community? In fact, those items get a second act in another person’s life. That’s spring cleaning with a purpose!Be sure to check out these Spring Cleaning Tips from Goodwill, too.

Let's Do This! Spring Cleaning with a Purpose - Goodwill Logo

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In addition to donating and shopping at Goodwill, I have spent many hours volunteering at several of our local Goodwill stores. I learned a lot about this organization while doing it. Just as the needs of our community keep growing so do their need for your donations so that they can continue to help all those who rely on them.

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Remember my post about recycling boxes to Change a Life? Check it out HERE and see how easy it is to use the Give Back Box® platform, a free shipping service, to donate items you no longer need to Goodwill. Donating couldn’t be easier!

Let's Do This! Spring Cleaning with a Purpose - Goodwill’s Donation Impact Calculator

You can even calculate how much your donation helps your local community by using Goodwill’s Donation Impact Calculator, a feature available within the Goodwill Locator App available for Android and iOS devices and at www.Goodwill.org (click “Explore Our Map” on the homepage). Simply input the items you’re donating to calculate the number of hours of career counseling, on-the-job training, résumé preparation, financial planning classes, and other services you’ve helped provide people facing challenges finding employment.

Goodwill Helps One Person Find a Good Job Every 23 Seconds:

Thanks to the programs and support services made possible by donations of clothes and household items, Goodwill helped place more than 312,000 people in jobs in the United States and Canada in 2015 – that’s one person finding a job every 23 seconds of every business day.
Through its 162 local, independent headquarters, Goodwill collectively provided job placement services, onsite and virtual skills training, and other community-based services (such as English-language training, financial education, youth mentoring and access to transportation and child care) in 2015. Last year, nearly 2 million people engaged in face-to-face Goodwill services to advance in their careers. More than 35 million people accessed education, training, mentoring and online learning tools offered by Goodwill virtually to strengthen their skills and gain industry-recognized credentials.
Goodwill sells donated goods at more than 3,200 stores across the U.S. and Canada, and channels more than 85 percent of sales revenue from donated goods to provide job preparation and placement, education assistance, and other support services for people who are unemployed or underemployed. Employment is more than a paycheck. It’s a resounding victory for that person, their families, and their community.

The Ad Council teamed up with Goodwill to show how your donations of clothing and household items can support job growth in your community. Here’s How They Do It!

What you may not want or have a use for may be perfect for someone else! If we have perfectly good items that can be loved by someone else, why not help our community? Goodwill’s career centers, training programs, and staffing operations give people the resources, skills, and confidence that changes thousands of lives each year.

So how can you help to be a part of this growth and effort in your own community?

It’s easy! Donate to Goodwill = create jobs!

We have done our part! Now it is time for you to do yours! Tag us on your social media posts with a photo of your Goodwill donations using #DonateStuffCreateJobs.

Giving Back is Free & Easy – Donate With Give Back Box

December 22, 2016 By Paula 1 Comment

Donate With Give Back Box

If you’re like me, you have done a lot of your shopping online with Amazon and have boxes that those items arrived in lying around. What to do with them all? Now there is a great way to get rid of them!

Thanks to the teamwork of Amazon and Goodwill® those Amazon boxes that have been showing up on our doorsteps this holiday season can now change a life. Working together to make donating easier than ever and reusing those boxes that would otherwise be filling our trashcans. By using the Give Back Box® platform, a free shipping service, you can now donate items you no longer need to Goodwill.

It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3:

Open Your Box: Unpack your merchandise from your Amazon shipping box.
Pack Your Box: Fill the box with clothing, accessories and household goods you no longer need and print your free shipping label from GiveBackBox.com.
Send Your Box: Let UPS or the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) deliver your box of donations to Goodwill for you.

Donations go directly to your nearest participating Goodwill organization using a free shipping label and empty Amazon (or other) box. Goodwill sells the donated goods, and the revenues help support employment placement, job training, and other community-based services to create strong families and communities.

Go to GiveBackBox.com and make a difference today!

Follow These Steps To Get the Tax Write Off On Your Taxes: These donations are tax-deductible, but you need to follow these few steps to make sure you can claim it on your taxes.

Create an account with Give Back Box.
Use the tracking number you get when you create your label and itemize donations online.
Once your donation has been accepted and processed, you will be notified by email and receive a receipt.

*MBSS d/b/a Give Back Box does not plan, manage, advise, consult, or prepare materials for or with respect to any charitable solicitation. Give Back Box does not act in the capacity of a professional fundraiser and does not solicit donations for Goodwill Industries International or its Members.