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Around the Web: More Creative Types Donate Profits to Heifer; Pumpkins, Teachers, and Fair Trade

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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: Kara McGraw

Thanks to Mother Moment for the blog post Caring Causes: Heifer International, which featrues an introduction to Sarah the Goat, our online interactive giving experience for children.

Singer/songwriter Kara McGraw is donating profits from her song, “Miss Comfortable,” to Heifer International. Check out her music.

Sugar Valley Church of the Brethren youth group held a spaghetti and meatball dinner yesterday in Eastville, Pennsylvania, and accepted donations to benefit Heifer International.

Earth Diva’s Blog has a very interesting post on fair trade and how it “alleviates poverty, and becomes a powerful, transformational force of good in struggling communities.” In it she talks about Heifer International’s model and its similarities to fair trade.

Pumpkins for sale

Photo credit: connectionsnewspapers.com

If you are in Virginia and find yourself pumpkin shopping, consider the 19th Annual Pumpkin Sale at Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill, from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. daily Oct. 7-31. The sale benefits many of Alexandria’s charities and international charities including Heifer International and the Haiti Micah Project.

The Caldwell Retired Teachers Association in Saline County, Arkansas, are organizing a fundraiser for Heifer International as a memorial for Alice Glover, a former 2nd grade teacher at Caldwell Elementary School who died in May. The money collected will be presented on Nov. 20 at the school gym.

We’ve discovered another author who is giving proceeds from each book sale to Heifer. Read this blogger’s review of the book, Thorn, by Intisar Khanani.

Around the Web: Authors Giving Back, Recycling for Heifer, and More

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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.

Alchemystic

Preorder this book, and $2 goes to Heifer International. Photo courtesy of patrickrothfuss.com

Longtime supporter and author Patrick Rothfuss, founder of the charity Worldbuilders, which raises funds for Heifer International, tells us about his rival and antagonist Anton Strout, who very generously will donate $1 (matched dollar for dollar by publisher Penguin Books), for every preorder of his next book, Alchemystic. To find out how to preorder yours, take a look at Patrick’s blog post.

Author Jan Lebak liked this idea so much that she decided to make her own offer: Preorder her book, The Wrong Enemy (release date is 9/28), and she will donate $1 to Heifer International as well.

We’d like to thank Jason Tomaszewski, EducationWorld Social Media Editor, who wrote a great review of Heifer International’s new Read to Feed site.

And thanks to Michael Fullam for giving us a shout-out on his blog, It’s NOT about me. I like his words: “I write here about giving back – Heifer International is more like giving forward.”

Runners and walkers participated in the I Heart Kids and Cows 5K Fun Run/Walk in Anchorage, Alaska, yesterday. Proceeds raised will be donated to Heifer International and Covenant House Alaska, which assists homeless youth.

Photo credit: OrovilleMR.com

Two of our favorite things, caring for the Earth and fighting hunger and poverty, came together in this year-long recycling program that fights hunger and poverty through a donation to Heifer. First United Methodist Church of Oroville Sunday School children raised $728.68 and bought a trio of rabbits, one sheep, a flock of chickens, one water buffalo, one pig and one llama through Heifer International.

For music fans in Chicago, the “wacky but soulful” Blooze Brothers Band is set to appear on October 11th at Sun City in Huntley, IL, in a concert to benefit Heifer International.

 

 

Heifer Around the Web: Garbage-Men Care For the Earth with Eco-Friendly Music

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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.

This is one of the most interesting stories I’ve come across lately. The Garbage-Men, a fun eco-friendly band of teenagers from Sarasota, Florida, make music using instruments made from recycled materials: guitars from boxes, a horn from pipes, and a keyboard from old bottles. Not only are they eco-friendy and care for the Earth, they give 100 percent of the money from one of their CDs, as well as money from merchandise, to Heifer. Read all about The Garbage Men on Time for Kids and their own website, thegarbagemen.com.

Garbage-Men play instruments from recycled objects

Teen band The Garbage-Men perform: (left to right) Jack Berry, Ollie Gray, Harrison Paparatto, Austin Siegel and Evan Tucker. Photo by Robin Rosen, www.timeforkids.com.

Basketball game for Heifer

Faculty and staff play students in a basketball game that benefits Heifer International. Photo credit: www.wabi.tv

Further north in Maine, the International Club at Eastern Maine Community College put together a basketball game with teams made up of students vs. coaches and faculty – entertaining for all. All the proceeds went to Heifer International. Watch some video taken by the local news here.

You’ll want to keep an eye on this group of adventures, the Arkansas Chuggabuggs. They are taking part in the grueling Mongol Rally, a 10,000 kilometer, six-week adventure across Eurasia in a second-hand car. They’ve selected Heifer  International as their team’s charity, and we can’t wait to hear more about their adventure!

Teen volunteer Kara Shen, of Central Bucks East, was honored at the 2012 Bucks County Teen Volunteer of the Year awards ceremony along with about a dozen other teens. Her work includes volunteering at Doylestown Hospital, teaching English to a class at a rural elementary school in Taiwan, serving as a peer tutor and participating in various service initiatives through Heifer International and the Key Club. Congratulations Kara!

Turkey at Heifer Ranch

A turkey walking the grounds at Heifer Ranch. Photo Credit: Flour Sack Mama

Flour Sack Mama (read the about section to find out the reason for the interesting name) blogger and her family visited Heifer Ranch. She wrote about their experiences and the Ranch itself every day this past week, well worth the read.

Nchimunya Muganya writes an opinion piece for the Times of Zambia on the positives of goat farming, and gives Heifer a mention about our willingness to set up a goat processing plan to enhance processing technology and value addition in the sector.