Giving
You have probably noticed there are some advertisements on my blog, and they are there for good reason: to give. Originally, I opened an Amazon Associate account to help pay for my hosting and domains, but I don’t want to profit from what I write here.
So I am giving it away. So, if you like to buy from Amazon, please stop here first and click through one of my book links first and 4%-6% of you purchase will go toward the charity listed for that month!
Starting March 2011, all proceeds from my blogs (www.crmooney.com and http://www.christianwriterscorner.wordpress.com) will be given to a different ministry or cause. I will be posting a capture of my earnings and receipt of the giving for accountability. There is a two month pay cycle, so the receipt won’t show until I have been paid, and the money given.
**NOTE: Some organizations only take whole dollar amounts. In this case, the donation will be rounded up to the next dollar.**
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December 2011
St. Jude’s in memory of Dax. (daxlocke.com/)
Earned: $155.18
Total earnings – Receipt of giving
Musician Matthew West wrote a song (video here) about Dax Locke, who died of acute myeloid leukemia at age Here is a video with Dax’s Story and how a whole city gave him one last Christmas. The parents are trying to raise enough money to run St. Jude’s Hospital for one day: $1.6 million. Our kids really wanted to help out Dax’s family and help St. Jude’s so this month we raised money in his honor.
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November 2011
Local food pantry
Earned: $64.94
Total earnings – Receipt of giving
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October 2011
Relay For Life
Earned: $21.92
Total earnings – Receipt of giving
From their About page:
Relay For Life is a life-changing event that gives everyone in communities across the globe a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease.
At Relay, teams of people camp out at a local high school, park, or fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Because cancer never sleeps, Relays are overnight events up to 24 hours in length. Relayers do not have to walk all night, but each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times during the event.
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September 2011
International Justice Mission
Earned: $46.45
Total earnings – Receipt of giving
From their About page:
International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that brings rescue to victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to secure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to ensure that public justice systems – police, courts and laws – effectively protect the poor.
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August 2011
Earned: $31.84.
Total Earnings – Receipt of giving
The proceeds from everything you buy from their store feeds hungry people around the world. A $25 watch feeds 122 people!
From their Mission page:
Hello Somebody is a non-profit brand that exists to impact and change the world through love, passion and creativity. Our purpose is simple: feed the hungry around the globe.
To change the world, you must first start by changing individual lives. To empower a hopeless human, you must first begin by filling his or her stomach.
Hello Somebody’s first action to end hunger provided 50,000 meals to homeless and desperate Haitians. In our inaugural year, Hello Somebody provided food for over one million starving people.
Join us in our fight to save lives and change lives. Listen to the call of the hopeless and the hungry. Will you help us answer it? Hello Somebody…are you out there?
***** A note about the receipt. The online donation would not go through for me, so I called in the donation, thus the odd receipt. *****
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July 2011
Earned: $35.98
Total earning — Receipt of giving
From their About page:
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June 2011
Earned: $61.21
Total earnings – Receipt of giving
From their About page:
The Hand of Help Ministry was founded by Dumitru Duduman in 1986 in a small apartment in Fullerton California. Brother Duduman was a Romanian pastor who worked many years with Brother Andrew’s ministry smuggling bibles into Romania and Russia before being exiled to America. Brother Duduman and his family, out of obedience to the Lord, eventually returned to their homeland and with the help of American supporters have raised up an effective ministry which continues the work to care for God’s people in Romania. Here are some of the outreach programs sponsored by Hand of Help Ministry:
- The Hand of Help Orphanage
- Outreach To The Surrounding Community
- Outreach To The Local Churches
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May 2011
Earned: $50.94
Total earnings — Receipt of giving
$1 = One year of clean water for an African!!
From their About page:
Our Mission: Blood:Water Mission is a grassroots organization that empowers communities to work together against the HIV/AIDS and water crises in Africa.
Our Core Purpose: To build community through creative social action.
Our Core Values:
- Community
- Responsibility
- Integrity
- Dignity
- Teachability
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April 2011
Earned: $32.42
Total earnings —- Receipt of giving
From their About page:
The Voice of the Martyrs is a non-profit, inter-denominational Christian organization dedicated to assisting the persecuted church worldwide. VOM was founded in 1967 by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who was imprisoned 14 years in Communist Romania for his faith in Christ. His wife, Sabina, was imprisoned for three years. In the 1960s, Richard, Sabina, and their son, Mihai, were ransomed out of Romania and came to the United States. Through their travels, the Wurmbrands spread the message of the atrocities that Christians face in restricted nations, while establishing a network of offices dedicated to assisting the persecuted church. The Voice of the Martyrs continues in this mission around the world today through the following main purposes:
Our ministry is based on Hebrews 13:3:
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
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March 2011
Earned: $36.76
Total earnings —- Receipt of giving
From their About Us page:
Who We Are Our ministry is about changing lives—both for this life and for eternity. We are committed as a family of believers to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with lost men, women and children throughout Asia who have still not heard His precious name. We are also fully dedicated to improving the lives of impoverished souls through everything from our Compassion Services to Bridge of Hope and literacy programs to medical care. Together, we can be a part of what God is powerfully doing in the lives He has called us to reach.
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