Today is blog action day 2008 and the topic is poverty. So what can you do to help fight poverty? Here’s 88 ways you can do something about it right now.
- Eat meatless meals 2x a week. Donate that grocery money to a local food bank. - TarotByArwen
- Be homeless for a day/night. - Lex
- Stop putting off adopting a child through an organization like Compassion International (or adopt another one). - Lex
- Make a loan on Kiva, or buy a couple gift certificates and give them away to friends. - Lex
- Get a group together to go door-to-door collecting canned foods for your local soup kitchen/shelter. - Lex
- Take a homeless person to dinner and actually sit/talk with him. - Lex
- Stop being lazy. Find a way to do your job better so that you can save an hour a day, or be that much more productive. - Alex Shalman
- Stop buying junk to make yourself look pretty and donate it to homeless people and hungry people. - Craigsnede
- Make flyers to stick in the local library. - Craigsnede
- 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).
Helping out your own community is probably one of the best ways you can help out. Here’s a list of Arizona charities.
Watch this video for a little inspiration. 
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October 15th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Thanks for this post, when I was younger I was so active with community service and these suggestions really have me thinking. I know I’m not alone in this but I have been so focused on work and school I have neglected to really do anything to give back to the community. It is so true that when you give back you get so much more in return.. thanks for sharing this.
October 26th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
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