Charity Giants? What's This?

Charity Giants is a group for Giant Squids to give back. In June 2008 alone, Squidoo donated over $8,000 to charities. We think that's pretty impressive. And, we think we can do better. So here's a brand new platform for Giant Squids to show off their charity lenses.

How Do I Get In?

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What Do I Write About?

These Lenses Are All About Giving Back

Scott Bakula ?

No one can utter those two little words the way Scott Bakula can:  "Oh Boy!"  I can still picture the look on his face too.  I'm talking about him in "Quantum Leap" which was where I first saw him.  Then he sho...

Simone's Plain & Simple

I first met Simone Delaty, a native of France, in 1986, when she had recently purchased a small farm in Wellman, Iowa. She owned a small apartment house across the street from where I lived in Iowa City.  She was in the process of restoring...

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale helped to mold the fields of nursing and public health. She earned the nickname "The Lady With the Lamp" for her tireless nursing care delivered to British soldiers during the Crimean War (1853–1856). Although most...

Clara Barton

When it comes to having heroes - Clara Barton is the type of person I like to think about.  All that she was able to accomplish is amazing enough, but that she was able to accomplish it as a woman in the era she lived, well, that is spectacular....

The Galapagos Islands

This lens was inspired by a blog entry from Seth Godin called The Galapagos Post Office which is a must read. Trust me it's worth it. The second inspiration for this post is my high school AP Biology teacher whose dream it was to go to The...

Squid's Choice Awards

The Squid's Choice Awards originated on Squidoo's Top Ten list but has become so popular that it needed it's own lens. Each month will have a theme and Squids will have the opportunity to nominate and vote for their favorite lenses within that them...

The House That The Echelon Built

30 Seconds to Mars and Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity united for a one-of-a-king build on June 30, 2008 for the A Brush With Kindness program. The band raised $10,000 by auctioning off 6 slots for fans to work on the build alongside the band memb...

Giant Squids - Class of 2008

We are G-I-A-N-T!! No, that isn't a commentary on our pants size. (Although, collectively, we probably have a pretty big waist.) We're part of the Giant Squids, a super duper special covert elite group of Squids with razor-sharpened beaks and six-bl...

A Beautiful Lie - 30 Seconds to Mars' Efforts to Help Save Our Planet

A tribute to 30 Seconds to Mars' efforts to help save our planet from Global Warming with their music video, A Beautiful Lie & the supporting website abeautifullie.org. The video was shot in the extremely challenging environment of Greenland and is...

Not Just Another Green Living Guide

Perhaps you are tired of hearing about how we need to live a greener life. Global warming isn't really going to happen is it? Well most scientists believe that climate change really is happening. Today. Now. No waiting around to see if we can get aw...

Squidoo Activists for Charity

Squidoo Activists were developed with purpose of the Activists is a group that focuses on charity. Over the summer of 2008 the Activists hosted many different charity challenges and created resources to help others raise funds for charity. The Squid...

The Last Beatles Concert EVER

On January 30, 1969, The Beatles gave their final live performance on the rooftop of the Apple Records building at 3 Savile Row, London. I was born in the Sixties during the height of Beatlemania. My parents played Beatles records all day long (and...

The "Ten"-tacles Of Squidoo

I found Squidoo in February 2007, and quickly learned to use its vast potential to promote my own projects and favorite charities online (and raise some money for them, too.) Now that I am a full fledged Squid Activist and Squidoo Evangelist, I want...

Charity Doesn't Have To Be Serious:

Death Can Be Funny

Although Dying isn't funny at all, Death can be!  This lens is a tribute to one of my favorite characters, The Grim Reaper, and to all of the funny portrayals of death's darkest angel.  This lens contains links to help y...

Border Collies

I got my first Border Collie, Teddy (short for Theodore Edward Bear- Ted E. Bear) in 1974, when I was nine years old. I was always more of a cat person, but Teddy's personality and intelligence quickly won me over, and I called my parents t...

New Year's Eve: The Coolest Birthday Ever

Babies born on January 1 seem to be the ones lavished with prizes, but I guess my mom couldn't wait. Despite missing out on a month's supply of free diapers, my parents were pretty excited to have an instant family during their first year of marriage...

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

On July 15th, Joss Whedon (the creator of Buffy, Angel and Firefly) released his latest project: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. This was the first ever superhero musical, featuring an evil villain, his arch-nemesis, a pretty girl, with some sweet ba...

The misterius*stranger Loves Giving Back!

misterius-stranger - Day Eight

Culture? Yup, we gonna have some of that too! Even if it kills me. Well, I kinda had to since this trip was .... well, what it has been! Us Kanadians, were a Krazy bunch I tell ya! And I think I have got him into a wee bit too much twouble, so cult...

misterius*stranger - Day Six

Hmmm I'm feeling a little trouble in the air, you know, those "bad vibes" and I think I might be right! This sure turned out to be quite an eventful day! Adventures, Mr. Rick looking suspicious, police at the door, keep reading, you don't want to m...

misterius*stranger - Day Four

Oh Oh, it's housework day! I wonder exactly how helpful m*s will be? It can't be that bad, can it? Well, he does seem to wanna help! I think it must be cause he wants to make up for all the food he is eating! OK, let's get at 'er!

misterius*stranger - Day Two

Day Two, January 11, 2007, didn't start out too well, m*s had a bit of, shall we say, jet lag? Or maybe too much religion first thing in the morning? Not make sense? It won't take long to understand this! Read on..... LOL

misterius*stranger - Day One

m*s arrives in Canada! What a nice surprise. January 10, 2007, was a cold and dreary day and when I opened this box, what a surprise! Out popped misterius*stranger, aka m*s. This is gonna be good! LOL

In The Kitchen For Charity

Scratch Baking For A Bavarian Breakfast

We Bavarians have two breakfasts. The first one happens when we get up, around 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning: coffee and pastry. The second breakfast is much more important - and much more "Bavarian", too: a pint of "Weissbier" (wheat beer), 2 or mor...

Best Tres Leches Coconut Macaroons

Macaroons are good. Coconut Macaroons are better. Tres Leches Coconut Macaroons are the best! I will demonstrate how to make one of the most delicious pastries in the world:Chef Keem's Chocolate-dipped Tres Leches Coconut Macaroons. Just in case yo...

The Squidoo Charity Bake Sale

Welcome to the Virtual Squidoo Bake Sale where eating cake never felt so right..so come on in buy something sweet and help make a difference. If your a baker or caker get yourself a kitchen treat and someone in need. These are happy calories not guil...

Charity Lenses For Your Safety

Winter Driving Safety

I've lived in the Midwest nearly all my life.  In fact, even though I lived in Arizona for a year, I've managed to never miss a winter here.  That means I have been driving in winter weather conditions for a long time (no, I'm not going to...

Flameless Candles: The Safest Candle Ever

Flameless candles are just as beautiful and create the same ambiance in a room as those that burn but with flameless candles there is no worry of fire, melted wax, or burns.  Some of the new flameless candles are even infused with aroma. A f...

The Best Fire-Retardant Plants Ever

As an electronic graphics operator working on live news in the Los Angeles market for more than a decade, I can tell you that the most heartbreaking events to cover are brush fires. Yet, on occasion there are miraculous accounts o...

Charity Minded Giant Squids

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Have Fun Travelling And Help Others At The Same Time

The Best Travel Business Ever

When I was researching home based businesses, many were easy to dismiss right away. Eventually I narrowed my choices down to a handful of acceptable businesses and started doing research. Having been burned in the past by empty promises and overzealo...

The Best Travel Deals Ever

We work with many travel suppliers to bring you the very best travel packages available. Deals & Steals, our weekly newsletter, features five of the hottest travel specials, but last-minute packages and bargains are always available around the clock....

No One Pays Less for Travel Than a Travel Agent

The travel industry is changing rapidly. It used to be if you were planning a vacation or making a flight reservation, you'd call your travel agent. That all changed with the introduction of the Internet and online travel companies like Expedia and T...

These Lenses Are Meant To Help You And Help A Charity

Amnesty International: campaigning for human rights

Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all. This lens gives information on human rights and recent Amnesty campaigns.

The Foundation For A Better Life

The mission of The Foundation for a Better Life, through various media efforts, is to encourage adherence to a set of quality values through personal accountability and by raising the level of expectations of performance of all individuals regardless...

The Random Acts Of Kindness Foundation

The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation inspires people to practice kindness and to “pass it on” to others. We provide free educational and community ideas, guidance, and other resources to kindness participants through our website at www....

The Giant Squid Community Showcase

The Giant Squid Community Showcase blog features the best lenses made by Squidoo's Giant Squids along with tips, lens ideas and useful information for the entire Squidoo community of lensmasters. This lens is the home of the Choose Your Favorite Gia...

Easy Steps To Improve Your Health

 How much more could you get done if you had more energy? What aspects of your life would improve: your family relationships, your career, your love life? Scam artists make millions every year trying to sell the "Magic Bullet"...

Squid Angels Make Lenses, Help Others

Diary of a Retired Squid Angel

In March, Squidoo HQ announced the selection of a new group of Squid Angels. I was editing a bunch of lenses one day and upon refreshing a page, the lovely yellow Angel badge popped up on my title bar. That's how I learned of my Angel status. It wasn...

Ten Tips for a Bless-Worthy Squidoo Lens

Being a Squid Angel was a responsibility I took very seriously. I discovered some wonderful lenses and lensmasters, a most desirable job perk. The Squid Angels constantly scan the Top 100 lenses in Squidoo's 33 main categories (that's 3,300 lenses ri...

SuperHeroes For Charity

Marianne Williamson - Superhero, Spiritual Activist

Marianne Williamson is a best-selling author, lecturer, a Spiritual Activist and the Founder of the Peace Alliance, a citizen action organization representing a growing constituency for peace. For spearheading the Campaign for a Department of Peace...

Bono (Paul David Hewson)

For charming, bulling and morally blackmailed the leaders of the world's richest countries into forgiving $40 billion in debt owed by the poorest, Bono was named Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 2005. For his ability to make people listen and...

Anne Frank -- A TRUE Superhero

It is incomprehensible to imagine what Anne Frank endured in her young and short life nor is it possible to comprehend the terror that her family experienced. To me Anne Frank is without a doubt a true superhero of immeasurable proportions.

My Teachers Who Mentored Me :: Mr. Duval, Ms. Hartford, Mrs. LeMasters, Ms. Bickimer -- My Superheroes

Do you know that in the United States, each state determines the requirements for getting a license to teach in public schools? And, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there are 1.4 million elementary school teachers, 600,000 middle school...

The SuperHero Project Winning Lenses

Ninety lenses were created by lensmasters for the Superhero Project. The organizers reviewed the eligible lenses* and now it is time to announce the winning lenses, the winning lensmasters and the winning charities of the SuperHero Project for Charit...

Squidoo SuperHero Project

The goal of the Squidoo SuperHero Project is to create 5 lenses for charity about heroes who have inspired you, mentored you, changed the way you see the world, or just made you smile. The SuperHero Project is the brainchild of Anne Reidy, Non-Profi...

Sadako Sasaki

Sadako Sasaki was only two years old when the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. At the age of 11, she was diagnosed with Leukemia, or the "Atomic Bomb Disease." Her courage in the face of her cancer and determination to fold 1,000 paper crane...

Helen Keller -- A TRUE Superhero

I don't know about you, but Helen Keller faced some incredible obstacles in her young life. Not only did she overcome these obstacles, but she went on to become an accomplished, unique, and inspiring individual. How do I know Helen Keller? Well, like...

Julia Nagy -- My Grandmother, Namesake and Superhero

Thinking about the 'superheroes' in my life, the very first person that comes to mind is my grandmother! First of all, my grandmother was my namesake -- I was named in honor of my grandmother! And, I can't think of a day that goes by that I do NOT th...

My Hubby John- Super Hero!

He very kindly returned a pair of underwear I'd left in the washer, and asked me to have breakfast with him the next day. He told me later it was love at first site. Four years, 10,000 miles and 3 marriage proposals later, we were married on Hallowe...

Mattie Stepanek

Mattie Stepanek wanted to be known as a poet, peacemaker and philosopher who played. Even though he had a rare form of muscular dystrophy, dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy, Mattie was able to accomplish a lot in his short life. He was not limited...

Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono is perhaps best known as being the widow of Beatle legend, John Lennon, with whom she became synonymous with the expression "Give Peace a Chance." She has gone on after John's untimely death in 1980 to become one of the major Peace Activists...

Amy Jaffe Barzach

Amy Jaffe Barzach is the founder of Boundless Playgrounds, an organization created to develop barrier-free, developmentally advantageous playgrounds. After the death of her son Jonathan from a rare condition, Amy found a way to cope with the grief o...

Favorite Squidoo SuperHero Project Lenses

The Favorite SuperHero Lenses are the lenses created for the SuperHero Project, submitted to the SuperHero group and voted for by visitors and lensmasters to the Squidoo SuperHero Project lens. There were so many great Superhero lenses submitted to...

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Planet Gumbo

Welcome to Planet Gumbo--A Super Cool Place to Live! Bill "Sauceboss" Wharton created the 501c3 Non-Profit Foundation, Planet Gumbo, in January 2003, in order to form a group of "Planeteers" who want to provide hope and sustenance...

Squidoo Charity Fund - Donate Your Squidoo Lens Royalties

The Squidoo Charity Fund was developed for lensmasters who want to donate their royalties to charity, but cannot make a decision where to send them. This is the default payment setting on all new lenses. A different charity (or charities) is chosen...