Squidoo Activists for Charity

Squidoo Champions 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 Squidoo Activists grew out of the Squidoo SuperHero Challenge brainstorm of Squidoo's Non-profit Organizer, Anne Reidy. Anne has moved on, but the Activist remain and continue to raise funds for charity.

Many of the original members were invited to participate as Squidoo Activists because of our participation in the SuperHero Challenge.

The primary goal of the Squidoo Activists is to do even more for charities using Squidoo. The Squidoo Activists for Charity will be doing even more to make it easier for lensmasters to make lenses that donate to charity.

Be an Activist and Change the World.

Definition of a Squidoo Activist

SQUIDOO ACTIVIST

To be an Activist is...

To care.
To want to do more.
To use Squidoo to make it happen.
Squidoo Activist will lead the charge to turn the charity world upside down using Squidoo.

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Activists' Activities

1. Held Contests and Challenges for Charities.
2. Created resources to help others raise funds for charity.
3. Raised 1,000's of Dollars for Charities.
4. Found and encouraged new Squidoo Charities.
5. Tested ways of raising funds for charity.
6. Helped give away $80,000.

The $80,000 Squidoo Charity Giveaway

The $80,000 Squidoo Charity Giveaway

UPDATE: WE'VE GOT $30,000 MORE TO GIVE AWAY IN DECEMBER! Go vote here. Squidoo gave away $80,000 to charity in October 2008. Yes, all $80,000 of it. In just a few days, thanks to you. The 5 charities that got the most votes, and therefore the most...

The Squidoo Charity Answer Deck

A resource developed by your Squidoo Activists for Charity.

The Squidoo Charity Answer Deck

The Squidoo Charity Answer Deck contains hand-selected useful lenses for people interested in promoting or raising funds for charity. Inspired by the Squidoo Answer Deck, the Squidoo Charity Answer Deck was created by Squidoo Activists to be a hub f...

Resources to Help You be a Squidoo Activists

A collection of resources created to help lensmasters become Champions for Charity.

Over 50 Ways You Can "Change The World" Using Squidoo!: I bet you didn't know that building a lens could change the world...well I'm here to tell you that it can!
6 Ways to Help a Charity: Squidoo make it easy for lensmasters to support a variety of charities, simply by making a lens or a webpage. All it takes is a little bit of your time and you can make a lens that will support your favorite charity...forever.
The Squidoo Charity Answer Deck: The Squidoo Charity Answer Deck contains hand-selected useful lenses for people interested in promoting or raising funds for charity. Inspired by the Squidoo Answer Deck, the Squidoo Charity Answer Deck was created by Squidoo Activists to be a hub for lensmasters wanting to work with Charities on Squidoo.
Make, Manage & Promote a Squidoo Charity Group: Creating a Group on Squidoo is another way to help raise funds and promote your favorite charity. A Squidoo Group is a great way to organize and feature lenses made by your supporters and help spread the message of your charity.
What is the Squidoo Charity Fund?: The Squidoo Charity Fund is a general charity fund on Squidoo. The fund was developed for those lensmasters who want to donate their royalties to charity but are unable to decide which one.The Squidoo Charity Fund is the default payment setting on all new lenses.
How to Become a Squidoo NonProfit Charity: Squidoo was founded by Seth Godin for one purpose, to raise a hundred million dollars for charity. To do this Squidoo would like to help NonProfits raise money, drive traffic to your website and spread your story about your charity.
Who are Squidoo's Charities and NonProfit Partners?: Squidoo.com currently supports more than 90 nonprofit organizations, from the country's most popular causes right down to tiny local animal shelters. This lens focuses on all of the Squidoo Charities and NonProfit Partners.
How to Use the Donations Module: Squidoo's Donations module now makes it even easier for lens readers to donate to charity.With the Donations module readers that want to support the charity can click the Donate button and give a little directly to the charity.
How to make a quality lens in 20 minutes or less.: Being a great lensmaster is way easier than it looks, unlike riding a unicycle or juggling badgers, or juggling unicycling badgers while unicycling on a juggling badger.
Promoting Your Lens Outside Of Squidoo: One of the most often asked questions in the Squidu Forums is, 'How do I get traffic to my lens?'The most obvious way to generate traffic to your lens is to make sure that it is search engine friendly. But that is a topic that deserves its own lens.
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.)

More Charity Activisty Lenses

6 Ways to Help a Charity

Squidoo make it easy for lensmasters to support a variety of charities, simply by making a lens or a webpage. All it takes is a little bit of your time and you can make a lens that will support your favorite charity...forever. Using the concept of M...

How to Use the Donations Module

Squidoo's Donations module now makes it even easier for lens readers to donate to charity. With the Donations module readers that want to support the charity can click the Donate button and give a little directly to the charity. Remember a dollar h...

Who are Squidoo's Charities and NonProfit Partners?

Squidoo.com currently supports more than 90 nonprofit organizations, from the country's most popular causes right down to tiny local animal shelters. This lens focuses on all of the Squidoo Charities and NonProfit Partners. Squidoo Lensmasters can c...

How to Become a Squidoo Charity

Squidoo was founded by Seth Godin for one purpose, to raise a hundred million dollars for charity. To do this Squidoo would like to help NonProfits raise money, drive traffic to your website and spread your story about your charity. According to Set...

What is the Squidoo Charity Fund?

The Squidoo Charity Fund is a general charity fund on Squidoo. The fund was developed for those lensmasters who want to donate their royalties to charity but are unable to decide which one. The Squidoo Charity Fund is the default payment setting on...

Follow the Squidoo Activists for Charity
in the Squidu Forum.

Squidoo Activists in the Squidu Forum

November Challenges - A Month of Thanks, A Month of Hope: The Announcement about the November Challenges in the Squidu Lensmaster Lounge.
What are You Thankful for This November?: A place in in the Squidu Lensmaster Lounge for lensmasters to post what they are grateful for this month.
Calling All Non-Profit Hunger Supporters: A call to lensmasters to create lenses for the challenges in the Lensmaster Lounge.

Benefits of Being a Squid Activist

As a Squid Activist, you get a few goodies and benefits, including:

An official badge.
Access to Basecamp (the ability to all chat with each other, share success stories, so we are a stronger team).
Easier entree to The SquidTeam for questions.
The opportunity to submit great stories on the Charity Cheerleader Blog and for The SquidBlog.
The chance to suggest your favorite charities so they can be hooked up as partner charities.
Last but not least, oversight of the Squidoo Charity Fund.
Squidoo Activits help decide where we donate the thousands of dollars we earn every month.

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Squidoo Activists

Squidoo Activists are True SuperStars

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Champions for Charity

Using Squidoo to host traditional fundraisers virtually.

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A Squidoo Activist

Cares. Wants to Do More.
Uses Squidoo to Make it Happen.

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Squidoo Activists

Making the world a better place,
one lens at a time.

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Are You Interested in Becoming an Activist?

We're in the process of figuring out how to invite new activists to the group.

It may be a bit like becoming a Giant Squid, only you have make fewer lenses (ones that focus on charities) and demonstrate an interest and a passion for charity work.

Keep watching this lens, the Cheerleaders for Charity Blog and the forums, we'll keep you posted.

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Squidoo Activists Add Your Squidoo Charity Lenses

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Best Tres Leches Coconut Macaroons

Macaroons are good. Coconut Macaroons are better. more...2 points

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SquidAid - Using the Internet to Aid Survivors of Disasters

In the spirit of LiveAid, BandAid, FarmAid and Tsu more...1 point

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Squidoo Fire Aid - Using the Internet to Aid California Fire Survivors

All Squidoo lensmasters are encouraged to create a more...1 point

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The Wild Animal Sanctuary

Saving One Animal May Not Change The WorldBut Sure more...1 point

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Longhopes Donkey Rescue

Saving and rehabilitating companion donkeys from s more...1 point

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How To Raise Money For Charity

Raising money to support your favorite cause is a more...1 point

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Saving The Dancing Bears Of India

Here, I'll share with you the tragic story of the more...1 point

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Kartick Satyanarayan - Champion of India's Dancing Bears

Co-founder and Director of Wildlife S.O.S.Although more...1 point

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Scratch Baking For A Bavarian Breakfast

We Bavarians have two breakfasts.The first one hap more...1 point

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Healthy Bake Sales Options

Trying to figure out healthy recipes for the bake more...1 point

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Healthy School Fundraisers

Being a health-conscious and eco-conscious parent more...1 point

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Cari Clement- SUPER HERO!

Cari Clement is the Director of Fashion and Design more...1 point

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Jaarsma Bakery- Delicious Dutch Letters and Much More!

When I went to Central College in Pella, Iowa back more...1 point

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The Wicked Tinkers

I first heard the Wicked Tinkers at the 2001 Calav more...1 point

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Lemonade stand: Turning lemons into dollars for charity

Lemonade stands are a fun and easy way for kids to more...1 point

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Gifts for Soldiers

Sending gift packages to soldiers (GIs as I'm used more...1 point

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Favorite Squidoo SuperHero Project Lenses

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Squidoo SuperHero Project

The goal of the Squidoo SuperHero Project is to cr more...0 points

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The SuperHero Project Winning Lenses

Ninety lenses were created by lensmasters for the more...0 points

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Donations Given With Love - Gifts Donated With Wisdom

When sharing it is not your age or income that are more...0 points

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Bible Based Giving

Lets take a moment and make simple the tangled wor more...0 points

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Use College Donations (and more) To Shape a Better Future.

You see the need, you know change must come if col more...0 points

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Congo Squares - A Tate Family Tradition

In 1954, the Tate family lived in Pendleton, SC. I more...0 points

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Children's Art

Kids Art is my favorite. They create their masterp more...0 points

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Homemade Dog Treats

What better way to show your dog how much you love more...0 points

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My Very Special Spinach Dish

I know what some of you are thinking'What's so ver more...0 points

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Promote Your Bake Sale

Promote before you bake! Learn how to make your ba more...0 points

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Chef Keem And The "Knife-Slinging Panhandlers"

It's a chef's band and the band members are all ch more...0 points

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Mission to Morocco Zazzle Gallery

I have created the Mission to Morocco gallery on Z more...0 points

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Clean for a Cause

Are you obsessed with exotically scented soaps lik more...0 points

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Candles for a Cause

Do you love candles as much as I do? Do you want t more...0 points

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Charity Quiz Lens

Inspired by playing along in bdkz's lensmaster qui more...0 points

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Mission to Morocco Fundraiser

Recently, while researching opportunities for volu more...0 points

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U2: Ireland's Best Export

Formed in 1978 in Dublin, Ireland, U2 released the more...0 points

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Communicating with Cats

A page dedicated to communicating with funky felin more...0 points

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Geeta Seshamani - Savior of India's Animals

Founder of Friendicoes, SECA (Society for Eradicat more...0 points

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The Spirit Bear aka Kermode Bear aka Ghost Bear

Yes, there is another white bear. It's not a polar more...0 points

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SquidActivists October Challenge for Animals

A contest to help raise money for small animal res more...0 points

Roles of the Squidoo Activist

As an Activist you are to be the team leader for the weekly contests as well as mentors for those up-and-coming activists. As an activist your most important roles are to reach:

Go in.

Go out.

Go up.

Encourage. Engage. Educate.

Make a Lens for Charity

Making a contribution to the Squidoo Charity Fund is simple. All it just takes is just a little bit of time. To get started:

Please be sure that you submit a quality lens and no "adult" rated lenses. We are trying to generate funds for a good cause.

Squidoo Charity Lenses

Over 50 Ways You Can "Change The World" Using Squidoo!

I bet you didn't know that building a lens could change the world...well I'm here to tell you that it can! Think about it...if every Lensmaster on Squidoo created 1 lens per month and donated the funds to Charity that would add up to a heck of a lot...

Squidoo Charity Fund Featured Lens

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...

Unleashing the Idea Virus in the Amazon Spotlight

Unleashing the Ideavirus

by: Seth Godin

Amazon Price: $11.20 (as of 07/05/2009)

Squidoo is an example of an Idea Virus, a viable commercial concept set loose among those who are most likely to catch it, become infected and pass it on to others who might do the same.

According to Seth, "The future belongs to marketers who establish a foundation and process where interested people can market to each other. Ignite consumer networks and then get out of the way and let them talk."

Books on Charity and Altruism on Amazon

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The Health Benefits of Altruism - How Giving Back is Good For You

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More Books on Altruism in the Amazon Spotlight

We Make a Life by What We Give (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies)

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Add Your Favorite Charity - Our Charity Wish List

This is a list of charities that we'd like Squidoo to consider adding to the list of featured charities.

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American Red Cross

The American Red Cross helps prepare communities f more...3 points

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We Can Solve It

The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for C more...2 points

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The Alliance for a Healthier Generation

Childhood obesity, obesity, school health programs more...2 points

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Reach Out and Read: Home

Reach Out and Read is a national, non-profit organ more...2 points

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Boundless Playgrounds

Nonprofit organization which works with communitie more...2 points

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Big Cat Rescue

Big Cat Rescue is the world's largest big cat resc more...2 points

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Amnesty International | Working to Protect Human Rights

Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of p more...1 point

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The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

NHPCO is dedicated to promoting and maintaining qu more...1 point

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Sierra Club

The Home Page for the Sierra Club: America's oldes more...1 point

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Polar Bears International - Polar Bear Conservation Through Research and Education

Tons of educational polar bear information and res more...1 point

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First Book

The mission of First Book, a nonprofit organizatio more...0 points

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Noah's Bark Pet Rescue

Organization committed to finding permanent and ha more...0 points

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Another Chance Pet Rescue - Home Page

Another Chance Pet Rescue, Inc. is a registered 50 more...0 points

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Bedouins International: Refocusing the Heart of Media

Bedouins International was created as a means of u more...0 points

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Hats For Homeless | There, but for the Grace of God, go I.

I crochet hats for homeless people. Twice each win more...0 points

Squidoo Activist Current and Preceeding Projects

A Month of Thanks - A Month of Hope
SquidActivists October Challenge for Animals
My Good Deed Charity Challenge for 9/11
Virtual Concert Series Week
Virtual Concert Series Group
Squidoo Activist's Bake Sale Headquarters
The Squidoo Activist Group
Squidoo Activist Swag on Cafe Press - Buttons
Charity Giants Headquarters
Squidoo Activist Swag on Cafe Press - Sticker, Magnets
SuperHero Project
SquidAid and Squidoo Fire Aid

A Month of Thanks - A Month of Hope

Challenges for the Month of November.

A Month of Hope Challenge

Welcome to A Month of Hope! This lens has been created to highlight the great work of A Day of Hope, a nonprofit program that delivers baskets of food and turkeys to needy families for Thanksgiving. A Month of Hope's goal is to bring attention to A...

A Month of Thanks Challenge

A Month of Thanks gives lensmasters a chance to be thankful, raise awareness about hunger and make lenses to benefit hunger related Squidoo Charities. The challenge is being done to help us realize that even in the midst of everything that is going...

SquidActivists October Challenge for Animals

Charity Challenge for the Month of October

SquidActivists October Challenge for Animals

A contest to help raise money for small animal rescue charities. Love animals? Then this contest is for you. To enter, simply create a new lens or change an existing lens to donate a percentage of the royalties to one of the animal rescues listed bel...

My Good Deed Charity Challenge for 9/11

My Good Deed - Change the World

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...

Virtual Concert Series Week

Virtual Concert Week on Squidoo

The Squidoo Activists are raising money again. The Virtual Concert Series on Squidoo is the second fundraising event for charity sponsored by the Squidoo Activists. In this week-long event, lensmasters are encourage to create a Virtual Concert lens...

Virtual Concert Series Group

Squidoo Virtual Concert Series Headquarters

The Group for Squidoo Virtual Concert Series was created to feature Virtual Concert lenses made by Squidoo Activists and others to benefit charities. All of the lenses in this group support Squidoo Charity Fund or other Squidoo charities. Lenses that...

Host a Virtual Bake Sale

The first project for the Squidoo Activists is to host a Virtual Back Sale.

Squidoo Activist's Bake Sale Headquarters

Create a lens for our Virtual Bake Sale and donate the profits from your lens to the Squidoo Charity of your choice!

The Squidoo Activist Group

A group for highlighting lenses made by the Squidoo Activists.

The Squidoo Activist Group Headquarters

The Squidoo Activist Group is to highlight lenses made by Squidoo Activists. The Squidoo Activists are a group of Squidoo lensmasters whose focus is on charity. We are the Squidoo Champions for Charity leading the charge to turn the charity world upsi...