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Heifer Around the Web: Goatstock concert and CD to benefit Heifer International

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Every Sunday we will highlight some of the people who are funding our work creatively or helping us spread the word of our mission online. If you spot Heifer International while you’re surfing the web or know of a fun or creative fundraising effort, please share it with us here in the comments.

If you’re in Somerville, MA, on Saturday, June 9, you might want to check out Goatstock, a concert with three bands — Astro Al, TimWorld, and Mission Creep — all to benefit Heifer International through the donations of goats to communities in need. Official Goatstock CDs will also be for sale, with proceeds going to Heifer.

Thanks to Andrew Mersmann of the Change by Doing blog. Andrew is a long-time Heifer fan, and features our newest project starting in the United States, Seeds of Change, in a recent blog post.

Check out the blog “Down the Rabbit Hole We Go…” and the post about community gardening and urban gardening, with a nice mention of Heifer as charity to help provide the most basic of human needs.

Thanks to babypips.com’s Espipionage blog for making Heifer International the featured charity of the month for June, and for donating proceeds this month to help eliminate poverty and hunger around the world.

You don’t have to say this five times fast, but we are grateful to the blog “she shoots sheep shots” put in a good word for this very cool fundraiser selling bags of yarn made from donated fibers spun into yarn by volunteers, with all the proceeds going to Heifer.

 

Heifer Around the Web: Preschoolers Trike-a-Thon for Heifer

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Every Sunday we will highlight some of the people who are funding our work creatively or helping us spread the word of our mission online. If you spot Heifer International while you’re surfing the web or know of a fun or creative fundraising effort, please share it with us here in the comments.

Photo credit: The Henshaw Family Blog

Proud mom Joy blogs about her 3-year-old daughter participating in her preschool’s trike-a-thon to raise money for a playground and for Heifer International. Her class decided to donate a hive of honeybees.

The student-run newspaper at  Leesville Road High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, tells about a very successful fundraiser many classes and clubs have taken part in. They hadn’t decided which animals to buy at the time the story was written, but are considering a camel, goats or llamas.

The University of Arkansas’ Heifer International student organization  held a concert to benefit Heifer in Fayetteville. The lineup for the benefit included Tim Meitzen, The Skinny Quartet, Teenagers, Swimming, Allison Williams and the Hot Ash String Band, and DJ Hayden Luckenbach. Thanks to the bands for playing, and the audience, who paid $5 per person to listen to good music and help fight hunger and poverty around the world.

Creative sixth graders at Kinawa Montessori came up with an idea that raised about $650 for Heifer — selling friendship bracelets made of twisted colorful thread and hearts made of construction paper, and asked local businesses for cash donations. That’s enough to buy a cow, goat, sheep and 50 chickens, and help families across the world.

Great Cloth Diaper Change

The Great Cloth Diaper Change. Photo Credit: Can I Decide Later Blog

I spotted Lisa’s blog first, Simple Journeys, where she shared some photos from her visit to the Heifer International Campus for Earth Day last weekend. She referred her readers to her daughter Kristin’s blog, Can I Decide Later, for the “low down” of the day’s events, including the record-breaking Great Cloth Diaper Change. Great photos and a great read! We are glad you had so much fun!

Author and blogger Carole Carson found a recipe for kale and bean soup in the Fall 2010 issue of World Ark, a magazine published by Heifer International, and offers her revised version of the recipe (including options to lower the calories). You can find the recipe here; let us know if you try it out.

Franny Bolsa gives Heifer a mention on her blog 8 Mother’s Day Gift Ideas. After all, she so cleverly notes, a Heifer gift doesn’t have to be dusted!

 

Heifer Around the Web: Japanese Students Hold Bunkasai Festival to Raise Funds

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Every Sunday we will highlight some of the people who are funding our work creatively or helping us spread the word of our mission online. If you spot Heifer International while you’re surfing the web or know of a fun or creative fundraising effort, please share it with us here in the comments.

You’ll want to check out these blog posts we spotted this week: 

We were honored to be included in ABC News blogger Lauren Torrisi’s blog post, Fight Hunger With These 5 Charities.

Abby Van Derstuyf, on right, competes with Brooke Isaacs during a chop stick race.

Abby Van Derstuyf, on right, competes with Brooke Isaacs during a chop stick race at a Bunkasai festival. (Photo courtesy of Oberserver & Eccentric)

Roby Brock, of TalkBusiness.net, writes about several Heifer enthusiasts who put the “fun” in fundraising: an 8-year-old creating and selling greeting cards, a group jigsaw puzzle, Jog for a Hog, Big Moo Canoe, as well as some celebrities helping to bring in cash for our projects around the world.

From daily Lenten activities to a Japanese festival and a man dressed up as a cow, the entertainingly unique fund-raisers keep coming:

The JBAB Chapel Protestant Community Challenge hoped to collect $5,000 for one Gift Ark during Lent. “Ark Banks” were given out along with calendars daily activities ideas for adding to the bank. Each week, a different animal was featured, along with an explanation about how the animal could help a family become self-sufficient. The challenge ended with the $7,779 in donations.

North Farmington High School Japanese language students held their first Bunkasai festivallast week, offering those attending everything from rice balls to origami lessons. The event raised $700 for Heifer International and provided fun and learning for students and those attending.

Holy Cow! I was especially interested in this story about a school principal wearing a cow suit after his students fundraiser for Heifer! The school is Salem Lutheran, which is about two miles from my pre-Arkansas home in Affton, Mo.

If you know of any unique fund-raising events or ideas, let us know so we can share them in a future post!