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Around the Web: Wooden Ark, Singing Talent and a Piggy Bank

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Every Sunday we 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.

Holy Cross Catholic Church

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Holy Cross Catholic Church in Deerfield, Illinois, is treating Lent as a time to help somebody else, and not simply give something up. The church is seeking donations for Heifer and created this wooden menagerie to represent each of the animals. How cute its that?

Katherine Merwin

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Katherine Merwin, along with her musical partner Julia Cipriani won first prize in Morristown’s Got Talent! They plan on donating some of their prize money, Julia to her long-time Guatemalan pen pal and Katherine to Heifer. Thanks for putting your talents to great use!

Starting about three years ago, a woman gave extended family members each a white piggy bank and asked them to deposit extra pocket change into the bank. At Christmastime, they combine the money collected and guess the total amount. Whoever guesses closest gets the choose where to donate the money. They’ve given to Heifer International, World Vision, and this year, the local YWCA. A great idea and a reminder that just the little bit of change in the bottom of your purse or pocket can add up.

Oshun Spirit

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You can help beeeeee the change in the world! Twenty percent of profits from the sales of Oshun-branded items will be donated to Heifer International. And according to Oshun Spirit, they have supported our honeybee program since 2001.

We were saddened to hear this week that Bill Williams, the man who donated the land for what is now the Heifer’s Learning Center at Overlook Farm, in Rutland, Massachussetts, passed away. When he donated the land, it became home to animals, mostly goats, that were shipped to villages in Guatemala and Honduras. Heifer changed its model for distributing animals from local sources, and the Learning Center was born.

Around the Web: Kissing a Goat, Spare Change, and Bees for Bach

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Every Sunday we 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.

Goat kissing

Photo credit: Mike Haskey, Ledger-Enquirer

Administrators and faculty at the St. Luke School in Columbus, Ohio, kissed Lilly the goat Friday, rewarding the students for raising more than $2,000 in January for Heifer International. The project was one of the school’s many mission efforts each year, which have benefited a variety of local, state and international organizations.

Lakewood FFA

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North Carolina’s Lakewood FFA members collected spare change to support Heifer International, raising more than $300. They chose to purchase a pig, honeybees, two flocks of chickens, a goat, and the agricultural education needed to care for and manage these resources.

Big Bag Lunch

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J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences oboe and voice students will perform in the “Bees for Bach” concert, a fundraiser for Heifer International, on Sunday, Feb. 17, at Good Shepard Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Every year the first-grade classes at Columbus Magnet School in Connecticut hold Big Bag Lunch, a market for the entire school community, held in the first-grade hallway. It is the culmination of a social studies class on farming and a science class on parts of a plant, with math integrated into the market as students weigh produce, inventory items, and count money. For the second year in a row, students sold reusable grocery bags designed by students on the design committee to promote environmental awareness and to raise money for Heifer International.

Around the Web: Inspired by a Goat, 40 Days to Give

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Every Sunday we 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.

Kids making signs

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The kids at First Presbyterian Yellow Springs are inviting you to a Pancake Supper fundraiser on February 12, with donations going to Heifer International. If you like wheat, gluten-free or blueberry pancakes and boiled Yellow Spring eggs you won’t want to miss out!

During Lent, members at St. Andrews United Methodist Church in Mottville, NY, will save coins to donate to Heifer International. “We’re going to have 40 days to give up to give back,” Rev. Val White said. “At every meal, you put a coin in the bank. If it’s pennies, that’s fine. If every family member puts in a penny, that’s going to be a good amount after 40 days to give.”

Beatrice's Goat

Beatrice’s Goat

The diversity club at Eagle Heights Elementary School is tackling everything from bullying to poverty and hunger. They started the year out with a bake sale, inspired to help Heifer International after reading the book Beatrice’s Goat. The students made all the goodies to sell at school and raised enough to buy two goats and a beehive.

The students at Dogwood Elementary are collecting pledges, reading books and buying animals as part of Heifer International’s Read to Feed Program. In fact, they raised enough to buy three-plus Arks full of animals. Watch the video of the news report on wreg.com.

This Valentine’s Day, Roz Warren is thinking outside the box this year and tells us to Say It With Chickens in this entertaining blog post.

Around the Web: Ceramic Bowls, Ornaments and Weaving for a Great Cause

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Every Sunday we 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.

Art students at Cretin-Derham Hall and Nativity of Our Lord Elementary School in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be selling their handmade ceramic bowls at the annual Empty Bowls Benefit on Feb. 6. Proceeds from the event will go to Heifer International.

Holy Apostles Youth Group. Photo credit: The Post-Journal

Many thanks to The Holy Apostles Youth Group, who donated to Heifer International, purchasing shares in chicks, pigs and llamas.

Mom blogger Meagan Paullin says her favorite nonprofit is Heifer International, according to Babble Voices post: 17 Mom Bloggers Share Their Favorite Nonprofits to Support in 2013. She said, “I love the way Heifer International helps build up a whole community. Instead of just giving people food because they’re hungry – they bring in chickens, teach them to raise them, give them the resources that they need. Then they have eggs to eat, or to sell. They can breed and raise more chickens, to feed their family. Then, after they grow enough, they are able to give a small herd of chickens to the next family in their community.”

The St. Bernard’s Art Club for Charity surpassed its goal of raising enough money to buy a water buffalo through Heifer International. In fact, they raised $370 from selling their Christmas ornaments and weaving in November and December, and decided on two shares in a sheep, one share in a pig, one share in a trio of rabbits and a flock of chicks in addition to the water buffalo.

Students at Trinity Episcopal Day School are in the middle of their “change for change” fundraising project for Heifer International. Grades are competing to see who can raise the most funds; the 8th graders are in the lead as of January 17 with $106, but it’s still wide open with and end date of February 14. Simply put by 10th grader Alex Miller, “It’s always good to help other people.”

Around the Web: Christmas Budgets, Awesome Fundraisers, Spirit of Giving

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Every Sunday we 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.

Jack Topchik shares some one-liners in this article, Savor Life, including one he got from an ad campaign, that can seem especially timely this time of year, including ”If your cup runneth over, spill some.”

Family finances may be forcing smaller Christmas budgets, but moms are hoping the changes they are planning this year will be a chance for something more meaningful for their families.

Daniel Dreifuss/Staff Bethany Hester holds her two-year-old son Asher as they hang homemade ornaments on their Christmas tree in their Orcutt home. Photo credit: Santa Maria Times/Daniel Dreifuss

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Author and long-time Heifer supporter Patrick Rothfuss and his non-profit Worldbuilders has raised more than $1 million for Heifer International! This year’s Worldbuilders fundraiser runs through January 18, and all proceeds go to Heifer.

Andean trekking specialist Llama Expeditions is donating a llama through Heifer International and inviting kindhearted adventure travelers to join them this holiday season.

This lead definitely caught my eye: “Culinary arts students at Rocky Hill High School are doing their part to end world hunger.” These kids created and baked gingerbread houses to auction them off to benefit Heifer.

Here’s an interesting fundraiser: People bid on the opportunity to play Dungeons & Dragons with eight accomplished authors next January, including Patrick Rothfuss, who is mentioned above. All the proceeds go to Worldbuilders, the fundraising organization that gives its money to Heifer International.

Read about this mom’s quest to share the spirit of giving with her kids, despite a little bit of resistance. Luckily, her boys are fond of Heifer and the concrete idea of using their money to buy a flock of chicks to provide for a family.

Bates Creative Group, who partnered with Heifer to create our World Ark tablet magazine app, wrote a blog post all about it: Stop the Insanity With Innovation.

Who couldn’t help but read this story: HELPING HOOVES A Flying Moose Gifts Water Buffalo to Third World Family?

Gift Guides/Gift Ideas/Charities Lists
Thank you to all who mentioned Heifer in gift guides and in their charity lists. Here are some we came across this past week:

Around the Web: Climbing, Running, Biking and Learning for Heifer International

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Every Sunday we 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: Clergy Family Confidential

Tim Schenck wrote a great blog post about the children at his church participating in “Animal Crackers,” a program sponsored by Heifer International to teach kids how animals can help eradicate global hunger. The children raised enough money to purchase a cow, goat and pig to help families in need. Learn more about Animal Crackers.

This blogger just exercised his way to buying a goat for a poor farmer in Africa using EarndIt. Not only did he earn points toward a goat, he has seen improvements in his own exercise tracking. A win-win for everyone.

Andy and Kim Holloway are participating in the Nation’s Triathlon today in Washington, D.C., hoping to raise money and awareness for Heifer International. We’re rooting for you guys.

Ian Urban

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Talk about reaching new heights, 13-year-old Ian Urban recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and raised money to end hunger and poverty with Heifer International at the same time!