The Change Through Giving ladies gathered recently (over cake of course) to celebrate our fourth birthday. Wow! It’s hard to believe that just four years ago, what started as an inspiration from Oprah and a few cookie-baking pals, has turned into an official 501c3 non-profit organization that has helped numerous organizations, families, individuals and furry friends. And now, we’re entering our fifth year and ready to accomplish so much more! Excited. Inspired. Grateful. Touched. Ambitious. Hopeful. These are just some of the words to explain how we feel.
We are committed to being organized with our plan this year. We do this with the simple goal in mind to share our Change Projects with our family, friends and facebook fans and encourage more people to help create change through giving. Oh, and that brings up a good point – just a reminder, when we say giving, we don’t always mean your pocketbook (although we certainly aren’t opposed to that, and now your donations are tax deductible…shameless plug). The “Giving” in our Change Through Giving name means so much more. It means giving of yourself; whether it be your creativity, your energy, enthusiasm or excitement. It can be giving a single can of food during our food drives or a single pencil for our back-to-school campaign. It can mean you help with our beach cleanup or you participate in our upcoming Change Through Challenge project. Or, it can simply mean you gave the energy to pass our messages along to your friends, or you took the time to suggest a charity for us to support. Whatever giving means to you, it can certainly be a very powerful force.
Let’s stay connected in 2012. We think you’ll find it’s a year to feel inspired, excited and very giving.
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We’re looking forward to another year of accomplishments, memories and fun. And then before we know it, it will be time again for another cake. This time with five candles.
