90,000 reasons I need your help.
Oct 23rd by Jon- Tagged in:
- advertising,
- free
Great comments, post is closed. Thanks so much for sharing your charities. I will pull together a list of ten that we can all vote on. I’m actually going to give away 2 spots instead of 1 the response was so big. Keep an eye out for the vote soon.
From September 6 to October 6, more than 90,000 unique people visited Stuff Christians Like.
That’s roughly 180,000 eyeballs. (I used roughly because Google Analytics does not currently track number of pirate visits.)
So what right? Web traffic is a silly thing to talk about and ultimately a stupid thing to get obsessed about, and it’s all a reflection of how awesome God is not how awesome I am, but seeing that got me thinking about generosity.
That’s what reading a blog is, people sharing their ideas and their time and their lives with you. Readers of Stuff Christians Like are incredibly generous, so how can I be generous back?
Tossing out free buttons like my name was Johnny Appleseed is a start, but I have a different idea. I think we should pick a charity we all love and give them the biggest banner on Stuff Christians Like for free in November. I only have one big square banner on the left hand side, so essentially they’d be on every page of the site for a solid month.
What do you think? Are you a charity that could use some love? Do you support a charity we should all know about? Post a comment with a link to your charity until Tuesday, October 27th. I’ll pick ten and then post them for everyone to vote on. The charity with the most votes will be the featured sponsor of Stuff Christians Like for the month of November. For free.
Let’s chill this weekend and simply answer the question …
What charity or mission would you suggest for Stuff Christians Like?
Comments
[b]I second this[/b]
Please consider From HIV to Home. We are a small ministry that is "paving a road home for the world's HIV+ orphans" We do this by:
* partnering with in-country, community-based HIV+ orphan care sites
* and connecting waiting HIV+ orphans with adoptive families
Many of us working with From HIV to Home are adoptive families, some with HIV+ children. Please consider helping us serve the very "least of these". Thank you.
http://fromhivtohome.org/
http://www.cvmcanada.com
I volunteer with Christian Volunteer Movement, a non-profit group in Canada. We are both a Christian mission and development organization who works in The Gambia, West Africa. I love that the faith and development components both take priority as we love people and their community.
A unique feature is that we use people in their areas of giftedness, whenever possible, to assist with our projects. There are nurses training their peers to reduce infant mortality, pharmacists partnering to improve medication flow, engineers working for water in villages, teachers teaching teachers and students, people loving children, theology professors and students developing a seminary, HR consultants, surgeons, millwrights, carpenters, business men and women, retirees, students, teenagers, and so very many more.
You could start a KIVA team, and then all your readers could sign up under the SCL name–very team spirit-y! http://www.kiva.org/
Teach for America Miami-Dade. teachforamerica.org
Teach for America is a non-profit organization that recruits recent college grads to work in inner city and rural schools across the nation. These schools are the least of these. They are under resourced, understaffed, and underachieving. These school graduate at a 50% rate and the "lucky" ones who do graduate are at an 8th grade reading an math level. These schools are in areas that are heavily afflicted with poverty and single-parent (if any) homes. Expectations have been set low and the lack of an education these children are receiving has resulted in a never ending circle.
I have been blessed to work with TFA for the last 2 years and have personally seen the achievement gap close. With high expectations, hard work, and strong management, the kids who sit in these classrooms can learn just as much as there affluent peers across the county. Education for these kids is everything. It means graduating, college, a job, and a brighter future in general.
Teach for America works. It is changing lives and enabling others to do the same.
I agree with the Operation Christmas Child posts – fits the season!!!
ijm.org!
Hey Jon! I'd like to recommend OneVerse. http://www.oneverse.org/. Here's a video that explains it, not on youtube so I couldn't embed it. http://www.theseedcompany.org/media/transmission
http://covenantmercies.org/
I suggest Voice of the Martyrs (http://www.persecution.com). They take care of Christians in countries where they are threatened for their faith by hostile governments and neighbors. They provide these Christians with the basics when their possessions get destroyed, send them evangelism materials, give them surgery when they are attached, support widows of martyrs, etc. It builds the persecuted church and helps them evangelize. I love this organization.
Also, in Novemeber is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, so it would be another way to help the persecuted church!
Family Legacy Missions International ministers to American families as it leads groups to minister to the aids orphans of Zambia, Africa. Through Camp Life, Americans go to Zambia to teach and love the orphans; through Fathers Heart, Americans sponsor kids to provide access to medical care and education and through the Tree Of Life Village, Family Legacy provides a loving home for those kids that are in immediate harm's way. http://www.legacymissions.org/family-legacy/
http://www.restorenyc.org/
The biggest problem of our time is the enslavement of women and children for sexual exploitation. There are more slaves now than at ANY other time in history. This organization provides long term healing and care to victims of this terrible crime in NYC.
There are a lot of good charities out there, I'd just say go with an organization that is definitively Christian.
Have little food, and make mud pies to survive. Have thousands of children, and few to teach them. Have little support from the richest country in the world, just miles from her shore.
http://www.childrenslifeline.com/
Athena Center, which is a non-profit, publically funded drug and alcohol treatment center. athenacenter.org
Program cuts have forced us to take less clients and many people who need treatment are not being served. Our clients are low-income, society's marginal, sometimes homeless, have lost their children to DCFS, and very typically have criminal backgrounds..in and out of prison. Many people are afraid of the clients and as a result, we have no volunteers. We could use some help. The clients need continued resources, mentors and people with whom to walk a mile with them.