How Can We COW Together?

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What's Your Cow (Cow=Change Our World)

A few months ago a friend asked me to look at a website by an artist who painted a beautiful picture and donated all of the profits to charity. While on the phone with him I had an accidental find of a site called Cows for Kenya. Kenya is deep in poverty. But...a simple gift of a $300.00 cow can change the life of a family or maybe a little village. I was amazed that my small $300.00 could change someone's world. The recepient of the cow would now have milk for his family and others and some to sell or trade to make more money. Since that day I have been thinking of small ways to help those in need get out of poverty. I will highlight those who are changing the world in big in small ways with both big and small ideas. So my question to you is...What's Your Cow? One Cow can change the world.

Why C-O-W? What Does It Mean?

COW is about all of us

When it comes to changing the world it takes alot of people with great ideas, great resources, great compassion and great follow through. It takes more than just dreaming it takes action. Even a little bit of action goes a long way.

COW stands for Change Our World because this is OUR world. It belongs to all of us. This is not My world or it would be: CMW, it is not your world or it would be CYW, it is not even THE world or it would be CTW. None of that works right or fast enough. We need things that work right and work fast enough to offer a solution to the challenges that our world faces.

COW is about OUR world, Our unified effort to make this an amazing place. Like a cow, you can enjoy it's resources (milk cheese, cheesecake!) without killing the supplier. We can enjoy the resources of OUR world without killing it.

COW is about US. If someone in the world is lonely or starving it's OUR challenge to make our world better for each other.

COW=Change Our World.

I take my COW hat off to those who are already doing it. I just wanted to be a part, I thought about it for a long time and now I'm doing it. I encourage you to do it too!

Let's COW=Change our World together.

Do you Think you Can COW? (Change Our World?)

I think you can join amazing people who are COWing every day.

There are many ways to COW (Change Our World) to make life better for those living near and far. I have started a top 10 list on great ways to COW but...my goal is to have a top 50. I'll give my ideas and you can add your own.

Let's all COW together. COW to stop sickness, poverty, lonliness and more. If you are already COWing please write and let the rest of us know what you are doing. Who knows maybe you can find some new COWers for your important cause!

I'm looking forward to meeting you soon!

1. Look around and see what's needed right where you are.

2. Use what you have to make a difference. Do you know a family that could us a little help buying groceries once in a while.

3. Send your gently used clothing to Dress for Success.com. This organization provides professional attire to women starting over after a difficult time.

4. Buy gas for a struggling friend. Seems small but with the cost of gas, I'm sure someone in need would appreciate it.

5. Build a really cool squidoo lense and have money donated to charity!

6. Volunteer to host a storytime at a local shelter.

7. Check out TheHungerSite.com--see what you can do.

8. Visit Globalgiving.com and help provide job training for poor women in Brazil.

9. Host a wine tasting, sell tickets and buy a cow for Kenya.

10. Design an amazing squidoo lense! (Oh year I said it already but it's worth repeating.

Go ahead tell us what you are doing to COW. I really want to know.

PS: If you like this site don't forget to rate it and join our COW group that's coming soon.

Why Not IM for a Good Cause

Sierra Club
Want to help keep our world clean, beautiful and healthy? Do you Like to IM wiht your friends? The Sierra Club has partnered with Microsoft to help raise funds for the organization when you IM your friends. It's simple and it's free. Take a look at the program and then get started COWing when you IM! How easy is that?

Do You Have Any Spare Books Hangin' Around?

Donate to Books For Africa

I love libraries. Every community should have one filled to the brim with books for the young and old. However, there are many communities in Africa that are desperate for books to read. If you have gently used books that you no longer need consider donating them to the Books for Africa Library Project. It won't cost much to ship them to the collection location, yet your donation is worth a million dollars to someone in need.

If you would like to send new books. Take a look at our children's books about cows. They are sure to bring a smile to any childs face and heart. This way you can help fight hunger (donation from your purchase of the book) and build a library (when you send the book to the Africa Library Project) at the same time.
Books for Africa Project
Donate your gently used books to Books for Africa project

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You've heard of micro loans. Now how about becoming a microgiver?
Modest Needs
www.Modestneeds.org

Compassion is a Lifestyle Not an Event

Everyday we have a chance to COW.

In order for the change to really happen we have to live lives of compassion. It's not just attending an event that will help someone else do the COWing. It's living a lifestyle that will COW.

I stopped by the Hunger Site to find out about what they are up to. I found that if you go to the Hungersite everyday and click on the yellow button, the organization gets money to help fund their programs. Now how easy is that. One click a day? For free!

So I'm asking you today...will you drop by the Hungersite.com and click on the yellow box? Thanks!

The Hungersite is helping to change our world by feeding the poor.

From the site:

Hunger: Do You Know The Facts?
"It is estimated that one billion people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition. That's roughly 100 times as many as those who actually die from these causes each year.

About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty years ago. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five."

Trickle Up

Trickle Up Helps Poor People Out of Poverty

It's late and I'm just about to end the day. I took a look around the web doing my search for COWs and I find www.trickleup.com a great organization that's changing the world.

Thank you for visiting COW

I hope that you are inspired to COW by finding something amazing to do!

We can all change our world in large and small ways. Let us know what you think about COW!

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    poutine Apr 28, 2009 @ 7:02 am | delete
    Close How Can We COW Together? has been added to your lensroll on the following lenses:

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    poutine Apr 28, 2009 @ 7:01 am | delete
    What a positive lens.

    Yes, we can COW if we put our efforts together.
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    TwoBrightHeads Aug 8, 2008 @ 9:05 am | delete
    Agree. COW is all about us. We change first. Thank you so much.

    big bright head
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    michaelgibbons Jun 10, 2007 @ 8:17 pm | delete
    Jordan great lens this is what squidoo is all about innovation, creativity and cause! Welcome to my hopepond group --jump in and start a ripple!

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