$1 to Make-A-Wish

30/365

The Make-A-Wish Foundation

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Donate here
or
by mail

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$1 to Special Olympics

29/365

Special Olympics

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Donate here ($5 minimum)
or
1133 19th St NW
Washington DC, 20036
Mail in donation form
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$1 to Big Brother Big Sisters

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Big Brother Big Sisters

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Donate here
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$1 to Unicef

27/365

Unicef

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Donate here
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$1 to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Why CFF?
It aims to find a cure for cystic fibrosis, which is an inherited chronic disease affecting 70,000 worldwide. Predicted survival age is mid-30s.

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Donate Here

or

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation 

6931 Arlington Road, 2nd floor
Bethesda, Maryland 20814

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$1 to Hearts and Hooves

25/365
Many people know that I have an affinity for miniature horses. Hearts & Hooves is an organization that mixes the mini horses and charity work.


Why Hearts & Hooves?
Provides therapeutic interactions with horses for people in places such as hospice, elder care communities, hospitals, and special schools. 

 

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Donate Here
or
Hearts & Hooves
608 W. 12th St.
Austin, TX 78701
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$1 to Charity Water

24/365
Charity: Water

Why Charity: Water?

• Brings clean, drinkable water to developing nations.
• 100% of public donations go to water projects.
• "Just $20 can give one person clean water for 20 years"
• Clean water alone can reduce water-related deaths 21%.
• Water projects

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Donate Here
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$1 to Habitat for Humanity

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Habitat for Humanity

Why Habitat for Humanity?

• Millions of people worldwide are homeless.
• Has built 350,000 houses worldwide, providing shelter for over 1.75 million people.
• Home recipients contribute both work time and money toward their new shelter.
• Volunteer opportunities

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Donate Here

or

Habitat for Humanity International
270 Peachtree Street NW
Suite 1300
Atlanta, GA 30303 USA

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$1 to Wounded Warrior Project

22/365
Tonight is an event hosted by Benefits with Friends to benefit a great cause, the Wounded Warrior Project. 


Why Wounded Warrior Project?

• Mission is to raise awareness for, help, and create programs and services for injured service members.
• Hosts several programs for service members and their families ranging from employment assistance to sports programs. 
• Provides backpack kits to injured service members while they are in the hospital.

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Donate Here
or

by mail

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$1 to Soles for Souls

21/365
For any fellow shoe lovers out there, Soles for Souls is a great cause that will take your used shoes and distribute them to those in need.






Why Soles for Souls?

• Distributes a new pair every 7 seconds.
• 300 million children worldwide so not have shoes.
• Shoes are important because they help prevent spread of disease. Also, in some countries children cannot attend school without shoes.
• Find a location to donate here. They accept any new or gently worn shoes: athletic, running, dress, sandals, pumps, heels, work boots, cleats, dance, flip flops.

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Donate Here
or
Soles4Souls, Inc.
319 Martingale Drive
Old Hickory, TN  37138
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$1 to High School

20/365

Today's donation goes to my high school! Feel free to donate you your high school, or any education institution you think is in need. 

$1 to Full Belly Project

Universal Nut Sheller

19/365

I recently found out about the Full Belly Project in a book and really found the niche organization interesting.

Why Full Belly Project?

• Mission: design and distribute income-generating agricultural devices to improve life in rural communities. 
• Notable projects:
• The Universal Nut Sheller (UNS):  hand-powered device made of concrete and simple metal parts that can shell 125 pounds of peanuts (or other crops) per hour. Costs $50-75 to make in a developing country, depending on the price of local materials, and can serve the needs of a village of 5,000 people.  

  Pedal-Powered Agricultural Center (PPAC):  A pedal-powered device that is connected to the Universal Nut Sheller, thus increasing the machine’s output.  Also separates the nuts from the shells, saving labor.

  Electric Powered Agricultural Center (EPAC):  Useful for operations in need of shelling large amounts of nuts on a daily basis. The first has been used by Meds and Food for Kids in Haiti. Meds and Food makes a peanut butter based Ready To Use Therapeutic Food called Medika Mamba to treat children with severe malnutrition. The EPAC has enabled them to quadruple their capacity.

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*it looks like there is a note that their donation page has been disabled, so mail dollars to:

The Full Belly Project
PO Box 7874 Azalea Station
Wilmington, NC 28406
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$1 to Operation Smile

18/365
Operation Smile

Why Operation Smile?

• Provides much needed surgical services for children born with a severe cleft condition, who are often unable to eat, speak, socialize or smile.
• Have helped more than 150,000 children so far.
• Blog
• Donor Stories

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Donate Here
or

Operation Smile

6435 Tidewater Drive

Norfolk, VA 23509

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$1 to Prep for Prep

17/365
Prep for Prep

Why Prep?

• Develops leaders through access to superior education and opportunities by identifying NYC's most promising students of color and preparing them for placement at independent schools and boarding schools.

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Donate here
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$1 to Engineers without Borders

16/365
Engineers without Borders

Today, I am donating specifically to my college's EWB chapter, but you can donate to any chapter as well as to the organization in general.






Why EWB?

• Has 350+ projects in over 45 developing countries including water, renewable energy, sanitation, etc.
• Helps communities address their basic needs by partnering them directly with professional and student engineers.

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Donate here
or
Engineers Without Borders - USA
4665 Nautilus Court, Suite 300 
Boulder, CO, 80301
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$1 to Farm Aid

15/365
Farm Aid

Why Farm Aid?

• Mission is to keep family farmers on their land by promoting food from family farms, Good Food Movement, helping farmers thrive, and taking action to change the system.
• Annual concert with Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, etc.
• Find a farmers market here.

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Donate Here
or
501 Cambridge Street
Third Floor
Cambridge, MA 02141
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$1 to Trees, Water & People

14/365
Today's $1 goes to Trees, Water & People, specifically the Stoves for Haitians project.

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Donate here
or
Trees, Water & People
633 Remington Street
Fort Collins, CO 80524
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$1 to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

13/365
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society


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Donate here
or
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Donor Services
P.O. Box 4072
Pittsfield, MA 01202
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$1 to American Red Cross

12/365
I am donating to the American Red Cross in honor of the Haiti earthquake. Today is the 1 year anniversary of the tragedy.

Why American Red Cross?

• A 7.0 earthquake hit Port-Au-Prince on 1/12/10 causing massive devastation. The quake destroyed more than 4,000 buildings and caused 250,000 deaths.
• Read what they're doing for Haiti one year later.

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Donate Here
or
American Red Cross
PO Box 4002018
Des Moines, IA 50340-2018
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$1 to Accion USA

11/365
Keeping in the theme of "micro", today's $1 goes to Accion USA, the largest domestic microlending network.

Why Accion?

• Brings affordable microfinance solutions to small business owners in need.
• Give loans from $500-50,000, including loands for start-up businesses, credit builders loans, and credit development loans.
• $272 million+ lent since 1991.
• Success: business survival rate is 98% for established businesses, 89% of start-ups. Eaach loan recipient creates on average 2.4 new jobs that pay 24% more than minimum wage.
• Green Business Resources.
• More on US Microfinance.
  

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Donate here
or
ACCION USA
c/o Resource Development Department
56 Roland St.
Suite 300
Boston, MA  02129
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$1 to Give a Girl a Bike!

10/365
Give a Girl a Bike

Why Give a Girl a Bike?

• Provides 400 bicycles to girls in rural Maharashtra, India yearly so they can travel to their far away schools and thus become independent, successful, and be released from poverty and repression. 
• $50 buys 1 bike.

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Donate here
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$1 to JDRF

9/365
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International

Why JDRF?

• Mission: Find diabetes cure through the support of research. 
• Has awarded $1.5 billion+ to diabetes research
• "Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that strikes children and adults suddenly, and can be fatal. Until a cure is found, people with type 1 diabetes have to test their blood sugar and give themselves insulin injections multiple times or use a pump - each day, every day of their lives. And even with that intensive care, insulin is not a cure for diabetes, nor does it prevent its potential complications, which may include kidney failure, blindness, heart disease, stroke, and amputation. To help improve the lives of people with type 1 diabetes while working toward a cure, one of JDRF's research goals is to support research to develop products that can dramatically improve blood glucose control in people with type 1 diabetes so they can live healthier lives with less risk of developing disease-related complications."
• Ride to Cure Diabetes

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Donate here
or
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
26 Broadway, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10004
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$1 to Pantene Beautiful Lengths

8/365
I donated 9" of my hair to Pantene Beautiful Lengths last April. You can find information about hair donation here.


Why Beautiful Lengths?

• Encourages women and men to grow, cut, and donate their hair to make real hair wigs for women who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments.
• One wig takes 3-4 months and at least 6 ponytails. 
• Blog: http://beautifullengths.wordpress.com (my hair salon is featured in the Nov 30th entry!

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I couldn't find a place to donate online, but you can mail your dollar to:

Pantene Beautiful Lengths
Attn: 192-123
43 Butterfield Trail Suite A
El Paso, TX 79906

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$1 to No Impact Project

7/365
No Impact Project

**This week is No Impact Week.**









Why the No Impact Project?

• Mission: encourage choices that better lives and lower environmental impact through lifestyle change, community action, and participation in environmental politics.
• Started from Colin Beavan and his family's year-long experiment living a zero-waste lifestyle in NYC.
• Aims to engage people "who are not already tree-hugging, bicycle-riding, canvas-bag-toting, eco-warriors".
• Book: No Impact Man. Blog: http://noimpactman.typepad.com/

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Donate here
or
Sustainable Markets Foundation
Att: Jay R. Halfon
45 W 36th St, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10018
(In memo write “No Impact Project”)
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$1.10 to City Harvest

6/365
It is almost lunch time as I write this post and all I can think about is food, so I felt that it would be fitting to donate to City Harvest. (This cause was also suggested by a reader!)
I happened to notice on their site it says "91% of every dollar raised goes directly to our program work", so today's donation is 10 cents extra because I want to make sure a full $1 goes to the right place.







Why City Harvest?

• Mission: end hunger throughout NYC through food rescue and distribution, education, and other innovative solutions.
• Feeds 300,000 of the 1.5+ million needy New Yorkers weekly.
• Delivered 8.5 million lbs of food to those in need over the holiday season.
• Programs include emergency food, nutrition education, healthy neighborhoods, food and fitness, and advocacy.
• Food Council
• Has a 4 star Charity Navigator rating.

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Donate here
or
City Harvest
Attention: Donor Systems
575 8th Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10018
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$1 to CCFA

5/365

Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America

Why CCFA?

• Mission: cure Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis and improve the life of those affected.
• Team Challenge

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Donate here
or
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America
386 Park Avenue South
17th Floor
New York, NY 10016
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$1 to Education....

4/365 
So today's $1 went to education, but not directly. I decided to take a risk with the donation and put $1 toward a chance at the 355 million dollar NYS Lottery.


Since it is very doubtful that I will win (the odds are 1 in 175,711,536), I am assuming this will be a donation to education and not a profit, but when I looked up some of the lottery donation stats I was actually quite impressed.


Why the Lottery?

• Potential to win more money to donate!
• Lottery contributed $2.67 billion to help support education in New York State 2009-2010. 
• The New York Lottery is North America's largest and most profitable Lottery, earning over $39.3 billion in education support statewide since its founding over 40 years ago.
• Donation breakdown by county. 
• Lottery scholarship.
• It is fun.

$ "Donate" at your local lottery ticket seller $

The Giving Pledge

If you haven't already, check out the list of the billionaires who have pledged to give the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes and charitable organizations.

$1 to NY Cares

3/365

New York Cares



Why NY Cares?

• NYC's leading volunteer organization.
• Oranizes volunteer events such as tutoring, mock interviews, school revitalization, meal prep, and days of service around NYC.
• Yearly, more than 48,000 people volunteer to help 400,000 disadvantaged New Yokers
• Annual Coat Drive donates 70,000 coats.

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Donate here 
or

New York Cares
Attn: Development Office
214 W. 29th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
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$1 to D-Rev

2/365
Today, $1 is donated to D-Rev (Design Revolution): Design for the Other 90%

Rise Solar



Why D-Rev?

• Almost half the world's population, or 2.8 billion people, live on less than $2 a day. One in six people around the world, or about 1.1 billion, barely exist on less than $1 a day. (World Bank)
• Mission: improve health and income for those living on less than $2 daily by designing products that with significant, scalable, sustained impact.
• Each product to have have measurable impact on 1 million+ people. 
• Projects
• Where: India, Haiti, Nepal, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Botswana, Bangladesh and Iraq.

Check out the 2007 Design for the Other 90% Cooper Hewitt Exhibit.

“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.” -Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises

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Donate here 
or
D-Rev: Design for the Other 90%
631 Emerson Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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$1 on 1/1/11 to Room to Read

1/365


Happy New Year! It is the first day of 2011 and micromoco is ready to go....$1 down, 364 to go!

The first donation recipient is Room to Read. 

Why Room to Read?

• 4.1 million children benefitted so far: 1,129 schools, 10,000 libraries, 441 books published, 8 million books distributed, 10,042 girls' scholarships
• Seeks to transform the lives of children in developing countries by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education.
• 4 programs: Reading Room (establish libraries), School Room (build schools), Local Language Publishing (publish children's books by local writers in local language), Girl's Education (provide support so girls can complete secondary education)
• Where: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, Sri  Lanka, Vietnam, South Africa, and Zambia. 

There is a great book, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, that tells the story behind Room to Read.

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Donate here 
or
Room to Read
111 Sutter St., 16th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
United States
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