Make a Lens, Support the Troops, Raise Funds for Operation Helmet
Operation Helmet currently provides needed helmet upgrade kits free of charge to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as to those ordered to deploy in the near future. These pad inserts are saving the lives of soldiers everyday.
You can get involved with the Project Help Lensraiser on Squidoo by making a lens, joining squidoo groups and blogging about Project Help to spread the word.
Note for Bloggers: When referring to Project Help in Blog entries, please tag the entry with Squidoo Project Help or Project Help on Squidoo, or Project Help Lensraiser so we can pick up the post in an RSS feed.
Table of Contents for Project Help Lensraiser
- More about Project Help on Squidoo
- Meet Our Project Help for Operation Helmet Organizers
- About Operation Helmet
- Make a Lens to Support Project Help on Squidoo
- Project Help on Squidoo - A Lensraiser for Operation Helmet
- Possible Graphics to Use
- Dr. Bob Meaders on Operation Helmet on YouTube
- Tin Hats to Composite Helmets: A Collector's Guide in the Amazon Spotlight
- The Operation Helmet Lens on Squidoo
- Helmet Pads Needed
- Support Project Help on Squidoo
- Lenses Made for Project Help
- Project Help on Squidoo
- A Featured Lens on the Squidoo Charity Fund
- Cher and Dr. Meaders Interviewed about Operation Helmet on YouTube
- We Support Operation Helmet
- Operation Helmet Website
- Support Operation Helmet
- Watch a Presentation about Operation Helmet
- Ways to Get Involved with Operation Helmet
- Donate to Operation Helmet
- Refiting a Helmet with New Pads
- The Latest News about Operation Helmet
- Donate a Helmet Upgrade
- Blog Posts on Operation Helmet
- Refitted Helmet
- Books about Helmets Available on Amazon
- Featured Lenses Supporting Project Help
- Blog Posts on Squidoo's Project Help
- Featured Lenses Supporting Project Help
- We the People - Support the Troops Group
- Reader Feedback on Project Help
Project Help
Reminder...
Make a Lens (or two) for help Project Help on Squidoo.
Help Protect Our Troops by raising funds for Operation Helmet.
More about Project Help on Squidoo
The main purpose of Project Help is to raise money for Operation Helmet.By leveraging the concept of microdonations and the ability for lensmasters to create lenses to benefit a charity, for free Squidoo can help raise funds to support this cause.
Creating a lens can take 30-45 minutes, less if your experienced. (More if you are meticulous like I am)
Think about it if 500 people made 1 lens that generated $1.00 per month that would equal $500 per month or $6,000 per year.
That's a lot of money!
About Operation Helmet
OPERATION HELMET is a 100% volunteer, non-partisan, charitable organization headquartered in Montgomery, Texas (near Houston) with volunteer operations around the country.Operation Helmet provides helmet upgrade kits free of charge to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as to those ordered to deploy in the near future.
These helmet upgrades do three primary things:
- 1. Protection - Shock-absorbing pads keep the helmet from slapping the skull when hit with blast forces, fragments, or being tumbled along the ground or inside a vehicle. This decreases the chance of brain injury from IED's, bombs, RPG's, vehicle accidents, falls, etc.
2. Comfort - If it is comfortable, it will stay on troop's head longer and more often.
3. Stability - Keeps the helmet firmly on the head and out of the eyes.
RPG - Rocket Propelled Grenade Launcher
Make a Lens to Support Project Help on Squidoo
- 1. Make a lens on something related to the Operation Helmet, the Troops, or something else you care about.
Start by clicking the "Make a Lens" button on this page.
2. Be sure that you select Operation Helmet as the beneficiary for the lens under "Payment Options."3. Add a Text Module to spread the word about Project Help on Squidoo. See the next module below.
4. Publish your lens.
5. Add your lens to the link plexo below.
6. Add your lens to the We the People - Support the Troops Group.
7. Blog about it.
Project Help on Squidoo - A Lensraiser for Operation Helmet
Help Protect Our Heroes
This lens was created as part of the Project Help Lensraiser for Operation Helmet.Operation Helmet saves lives by providing a padding insert for helmets. Theses pads are saving the lives of soldiers everyday.
Project Help on Squidoo is a lensraiser for Operation Helmet.
Simply by Making a lens on Squidoo you can contribute to Operation Helmet.
Images: Squid in Helmet. © Kirsti A. Dyer. Some Rights Reserved.
Possible Graphics to Use
Dr. Bob Meaders on Operation Helmet on YouTube
Tin Hats to Composite Helmets: A Collector's Guide in the Amazon Spotlight
Tin Hats to Composite Helmets: A Collector's Guide
Amazon Price: $23.07 (as of 01/02/2010)
A Collector's Guide brings together in a single volume the primary protective helmets of the world's military forces from 1915 to modern times. It traces the development of the helmet from the Great War French 'Adrian' through to the current American ACH composite helmet.
With around 700 images of a vast range of helmets, this is an essential work for collectors and historians alike.
Currently available for preorder.
The Operation Helmet Lens on Squidoo
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Operation Helmet Saves Soldiers' Lives
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The troops were sent into the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with helmets designed to protect against bullets but not against blast forces from IED's and other new types of combat dangers. Without the necessary replacement pads, our soldiers are exposed...
Helmet Pads Needed
Support Project Help on Squidoo
We are looking for lensmasters to make lenses for Project Help to raise funds for Operation Helmet.
Project Help
Help Protect Our Heroes
Lenses Made for Project Help
These are a list of lenses made that support Operation Helmet and Project Help.
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Operation Helmet
The troops were sent into the Iraq and Afghanistan more...2 points
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My Good Deed - Change the World
How will you remember 9/11? Pledge your good deed more...2 points
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The Gratitude Campaign - Thanking Those Who Are Serving & Others
The Gratitude Campaign is a way for people to say more...2 points
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The Arlington Ladies
For more than 35 years, the Arlington Ladies volun more...2 points
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I'll Be Home for Christmas - A Wish of Hope and Peace for the Holidays
The classic song, "I'll Be Home for Christmas more...2 points
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We the People - Support the Troops Headquarters
We the People - Support the Troops Group was creat more...2 points
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Project Help Lensraiser on Squidoo
Simply by making a lens on Squidoo, you can be hel more...2 points
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USS New York and September 11
What sets the USS New York apart? Its construction more...2 points
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Over 50 Ways You Can "Change The World" Using Squidoo!
I bet you didn't know that building a lens could c more...2 points
Project Help on Squidoo
A Featured Lens on the Squidoo Charity Fund
Learn more about how charities can be benefited by making lenses on Squidoo.-
Squidoo Charity Fund - Donate Your Squidoo Lens Royalties
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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...
Cher and Dr. Meaders Interviewed about Operation Helmet on YouTube
We Support Operation Helmet
Operation Helmet Website
Operation Helmet provides helmet upgrade kits free of charge to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as to those ordered to deploy in the near future.
- Operation Helmet
- The main website for Operation Helmet.
Support Operation Helmet
The life you save may save another!
Watch a Presentation about Operation Helmet
Ways to Get Involved with Operation Helmet
For more information you can visit the Operation Helmet website.
- Send a donation.
- Organize a fund raiser through your work, church, synagogue, school, lodge, meeting house, professional organization, or other apolitical and nonpartisan group.
- Write your elected officials - it may not have an immediate impact, but eventually they will listen. The Operation Helmet Website offers several options.
- Write to the senior leaders of the military.
Donate to Operation Helmet
They will cease operations when we are no longer needed and transfer any residual funds to charities helping our wounded troops and their families.
- Contribute to Operation Helmet
- Information for making a donation to Operation Helmet.
Refiting a Helmet with New Pads
The Latest News about Operation Helmet
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byDonate a Helmet Upgrade
Blog Posts on Operation Helmet
- Wa Police to embark on "operation helmet buying" | General News ...
- Wa Police to embark on "operation helmet buying". By myjoyonline - Myjoyonline.com. General News | 1 day ago. Text Only | Print | Email | Save | Alerts. Read; More. Have Your Say (0). WHY DID U BEHAVE LIKE A PROSTITUDE? ...
- 'Operation Helmet' to Benefit from Charitable Gala on Championship ...
- Head injuries are the leading cause of death in combat zones, and Operation Helmet is an all-volunteer organization that provides troops with free protective helmet upgrade kits. To date, almost 50000 helmet upgrade kits have been sent ...
- HorsesAss.Org » Blog Archive » America's only native criminal class
- I was unable to find any record of whether he donated $100 to Operation Helmet, like I did, to buy a combat helmet for a U.S. soldier in Iraq that a government run by Republicans was too cheap to provide to our troops because giving tax ...
- Kyle Busch supports Operation Helmet at Nikki Beach
- Nikki Beach hosted fundraiser for Operation Helmet, which included guest NASCAR's Kyle Busch. Head injuries are the leading cause of death in combat zones, and Operation Helmet is an all-volunteer organization that provides troops with ...
Refitted Helmet
Books about Helmets Available on Amazon
Featured Lenses Supporting Project Help
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USS New York and September 11
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What sets the USS New York apart? Its construction incorporates 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the ruins of the World Trade Center which fell on September 11, 2001, the victim of terrorist attack. The steel was melted down and poured into a mold to...
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Remember September Mail Art Project
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This Creative, Commemorative Mail Art Project was developed by Gail Ellspermann in 2002 as a way for people to remember those who had died on September 11, 2001. Through the use of art, participants are encouraged to express their feelings and refl...
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My Good Deed - Change the World
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How will you remember 9/11? Pledge your good deed for 9/11 in memory of those lost September 11, 2001 and turn 9/11 into a national day of service and compassion. My Good Deed is a non-profit public benefit corporation that was founded in 2002 to hon...
Blog Posts on Squidoo's Project Help
- Socks for Homeless Kids
- Hillsboro OR 97123 503-693-2832. Share And Enjoy: [del.icio.us] [Digg] [Facebook] [Google] [LinkedIn] [MySpace] [Reddit] [Squidoo] [StumbleUpon] [Technorati] [Twitter] [Windows Live] [Yahoo!] [Email] More ». Powered by Bookmarkify?
- I Started a New Knitting Project. HELP!!
- I am a registered nurse working 3-4 12 hour sifts a week, and I am an online business woman, and I squidoo. So when do I have any time, especially free time. Well, if you have read my blog at all, you know that I love knitting, ...
- project help for gold canyon and apache junction students
- project help is an apache junction/gold canyon arizona community based program supported by community donations of food, money, clothing, and household goods. individuals, businesses, community groups, and community organizations all ...
- micro-enterprise development and squidoo
- there is a side to this, and to squidoo, that is far more important than is usually discussed, and that is small business, micro-enterprise, development of bricks and mortar, mom and pop hometown businesses. ...
Featured Lenses Supporting Project Help
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I'll Be Home for Christmas - Coping with the Holidays
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The classic song, "I'll Be Home for Christmas," is a song about longing to be home with the ones that you love. Listening to this beautiful melody and lyrics is one way of being home for a bit even when you're far apart...if only in your dr...
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The Gratitude Campaign - Thanking Those Who Are Serving & Others
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The Gratitude Campaign is a way for people to say "thank you" quickly and easily to those who serve without even having to approach them. With a simple hand gesture in sign language, you can easily convey your "thanks" to those who...
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The Arlington Ladies
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For more than 35 years, the Arlington Ladies volunteers have represented veterans of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard at every funeral at Arlington National Cemetery. Currently 195 Arlington Ladies, volunteer time to pay tribute to nation's...
We the People - Support the Troops Group
The We the People - Support the Troops Group benefits Operation Helmet and Soldiers' Angels.-
We the People - Support the Troops Headquarters
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We the People - Support the Troops Group was created to show our support for those who are serving in the Armed Forces. We are also supporting the families of the Troops who serve the United States. We support the troops by making lenses that benefit...
Reader Feedback on Project Help
Feedback....thoughts....suggestions....comments
What do you think about Project Hope?
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- Pastiche Pastiche Mar 19, 2009 @ 9:40 am
- I built a lens about a TBI survivor and actor who's also a historical military reenactor. The Alan Wilbar, Poet lens donates all royalties to Operation Helmet. This is a wonderful Squidoo project - head injuries of all types can and must be prevented.
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- XXandXY XXandXY Jan 23, 2009 @ 2:32 pm
- Kirsti I can see why you're a giant! I didn't know about Operation Helmet but I'll gladly add my military themed lens to such a good cause.I'm off to start adding some relevant info to my lens as soon as I've finished typ....
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- JJNW JJNW Oct 4, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
- Hi! Congrats on being awarded Generous Giant among the Squid Giants! Bravo and well deserved!!
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- stargazer00 stargazer00 Aug 6, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
- Thanks for this great lens. I've made a lens to support this great cause. I encourage other lensmasters to do the same.
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- chefkeem chefkeem Aug 5, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
- Oh, Kirsti - this is a wonderful page with all the information one might need to truly support our troops. Thank you for your huge contribution to this urgent cause.
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