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Pay it Forward

 

Pay It Forward is a book written by Catherine Ryan Hyde, but it's also an idea. It's an action plan within a work of fiction. But does it have to be fiction? We're hoping not. In fact, since the book was released in January of 2000, a real-life social movement has emerged, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. What began as a work of fiction has already become much more.

Pay it Forward on the web 

Ineteresting stuff about Pay it Forward

Haro Online - Pay It Forward
Haro reviews the movie.
Pay It Forward
Official site with book excerpt, message board, links, and video, as well as DVD data.
All-Reviews.com- Pay it Forward
Collection of reviews.
Metacritic.com
Links to reviews on other sites.
Yahoo! Movies: Pay it Forward
Cast, movie data, and review.

SAVE THE DATE & Get a Free Hope Button 

Treat yourself and a friend to a couple of free Hope buttons from Buttons of Hope

To me Hope is not a passive word. Hope is action

Maybe this says it best...

"be the change you wish to see in the world"...ghandi



CLICK HERE for your free Hope buttons and if you plan to do the charity fundraising walk in 2008 let me know I will SAVE THE DATE for you & send you a reminder in plenty of time for you to make your custom photo buttons!

Make your own custom photo button to wear in honor of a loved one @ BUTTONS of HOPE. 

To the world it may be just a photo button, but to one person that photo button may be the world!To the world it may be just a photo button, but to one person that photo button may be the world!

Try something new this year! Show them WHO you're walking for. Honor a loved one or support a friend by wearing a custom photo button with their picture before and during your 2008 fundraising walk or event.

Make your custom button today at Buttons of Hope


  1. No Minimum - make one custom photo button if you like

  2. Upload a photo and add custom curved text

  3. $1 from each photo button donated to the Charity of your Choice

Energize your fundraising...Motivate your team... and Inspire yourself! Put a face on your cause today!

So what do I know? Michael Gibbons' Behind the Button blog 

Inspired stories about the people behind the photo buttons we make & some thoughts on fundraising & charities from the founder of Buttons of Hope

Make a button and share your hero story and I will write all about it in Behind the Button!...and I will send you a cookie...seriously!

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About.com's Joanne Fritz on Nonprofit & Charitable Orgs. 

Awesome source for info, ideas and links to the non profit world.

From Joanne, "The nonprofit world is unique, complex, and fascinating. I'll help you keep up, stay informed, and develop your skills as you work in the field or develop your own organization."

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"A year ago Mike Gibbons had never done any fund-raising. Now he hopes
to change the world" Regan White in "Message in a Button", Charlotte Weekly November 2006.

Upon reading that I was at first taken aback -- not exactly the kind of thing you want to lead with especially if your stated goal is to "change the face of fundraising". But as I thought about it IT IS PRECISELY what I want people to know and now I open all of my fundraising seminars with that line.

Fundraising is not easy nor is it as hard as you might think. I am proof of that and I am out to help ordinary people do extraordinary things -- the task is not easy but the answer is inside of each of us!

I kinda wish Regan had use this opening line instead.. 

"Here's to the crazy ones...because the people who are crazy enough to THINK they can change the world, are the ones who do."

Maybe the combination of the two sums it up -- I have been lucky enough to find a group of remarkable people, my cycling team MojoRiding and together we have become somewhat of a fund raising phenomenon (often in spite of ourselves I might add!) --we raised over $110,000 in 2007 for cancer and multiple sclerosis causes.

So how did we do it? We personalized our cause, we told a story, many stories! And then we took it a step further we made it tangible -- many of us made photo buttons of our loved ones to wear while fundraising -- can't fully explain it but there is just something powerful about these little buttons  --I have seen it make a difference and in some cases all the difference!

I hope you will take a look around (grab a cup of coffee) at what I am building here on Squidoo. I have tried to make unique, useful and updated lenses on active charity events. If you like the lenses then please visit my blog Behind the Button and of course my website Buttons of Hope -- where you too can go on make a custom photo button to wear in YOUR charity event 

The title of the full quote above is THINK DIFFERENT. Regan was right I am out to Change the World by helping people to not only think different but to be different -- it will change you and together we will be the change we wish to see...I hope one button at a time!

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