Give Back to Your Community With $100 Cash Giveaway

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It is time for the fourth annual 12 Weeks of Giving series!  I cannot believe how quickly time speeds by.  There are only weeks left in this calendar year and with the holiday season approaching the giving spirit is in the air.

12 Weeks of Giving

I am honored to have Brandy from Happily Blended joining me this year for the 12 week challenge.  Instead of only giving gifts at Christmas we take this time to show how you can give back to your community over a 12 week period no matter how big or small your gesture is.  What is truly important is the thought and effort to make a difference!

Throughout the 12 Weeks of Giving series we plan to get our family involved.  I believe it is important to teach my children that giving is more important than receiving.  Plus what better way to bond with my family than to work together to help others?

I hope you join along with us throughout the rest of 2014 and share your photos and progress online by using hashtag #12WeeksGiving.  Whether you send a handwritten letter to a distant friend to brighten their day, volunteer your time serving at the local shelter or donate money to a cause close to your heart – we want to hear about it!  Share photos with us on Instagram, tweet with us on Twitter, connect with us on Facebook and join the conversation in the comments.

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To kick off the first week of the 12 Weeks of Giving series we are giving back to our readers!  To help you bless someone in your community we are giving away $100 cash to one lucky reader.  Entry is simple, tell us how you would use the $100 to give back to your community in the comments below and follow the steps on the Rafflecopter form to enter.

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If you were given $100 how would you use it to bless someone else?

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  1. I will use it to help out my Thanksgiving Food Bank this year. They are in dire need of Turkeys for the needy!

    1. That’s a great way to give back! I love it. Our family was blessed one year with a Thanksgiving meal when my daughter was in the hospital having brain surgery. I’ll never forget what that meant to us.

  2. If I won the $100 cash prize I would give back in my community by supporting our local school by buying supplies for the classrooms.

  3. I would donate the $100 cash prize to my local fire dept. They could use it to buy water to keep stocked on the fire trucks and squads. Or use it to buy toys to keep store on the fire trucks and squads to hand out to the young children on fire or squad runs.

  4. A local radio station has an adopt a family program for Christmas. We would adopt a family and help them out for Christmas

  5. I would buy my son’s school some much needed supplies. They are trying to start afterschool programs and need materials.

  6. I would donate it to my daughters teacher so she could buy supplies. People don’t realize how much money our teachers spend out of pocket to stock their classrooms.

  7. I would buy some food to donate it to the food drive at my kids schools and use the rest to shop at our normal local businesses.

  8. Well…whether I win or not, I give back once a week by going downtown to minister and feed the homeless. If I did win, it’d help me to bring a few more things.

    Thanks for the chance.

  9. I give back to the community every year as I donate to the food bank, sponsor the locate Relay for Life and sponsor 1-2 kids during Christmas for the Giving Tree.

  10. I could use this to buy Christmas gifts for our annual toys for tots type drive that we hold in our little town. Some families really really DO need the help. We have a lot of working poor here.

  11. I would help with the Animal Shelter here, as I recently rescued my dog and became very aware of the needs for blankets, dog food, cat food, and just vet care for heartworms and the like.

  12. I would donate a portion of it to my friend’s gofundme account. She recently had a baby and the baby was in the NICU for a few weeks and they have a huge amount of medical bills.

  13. It is almost time for the holiday drives—we will be collecting food, warm clothing and blankets, and toys. Our small community has many members who are elderly and many families with small children and babies. Many are struggling.

  14. I would be able to buy gifts for all of the residents of an Elderly Apartment Complex in our small southern town!

  15. I would donate to the Women’s shelter here. I usually donate food to the needy in my county as often as possible and I’d like to start giving back to the shelter now as well. They usually ask for clothing and sometimes food which I would be more than happy to provide this holiday season.

  16. I’d love to spend it all on Samaritan’s Purse Shoebox ministry. It may not be my immediate community but it’s still a need and a community across seas.

  17. I had wanted to donate thanksgiving meals at the homeless shelter but I didn’t have any money to do it with.

  18. In my country we are going through some extremely rought times, I would like to buy crafting materials and make jewelry and other little presents with a couple of friends of mine, to be given as Christmas presents (a luxury for most people right now), or to be donated to a bazaar for a good cause.

  19. There is a local veterinarian that saves animals from the shelter – she could save 9+ animals with this amount of money. They deserve a second chance

  20. I would assemble little kits for homeless people… toothbrush, toothpaste, socks, hairbrush, $5 giftcard to a fast food place, etc

  21. Re:OMG, I would buy much needed grocery. Wow, $100 is fab. & splendid. 2 fingers snap. It is tight, fly & off the chain. Thank you for the awesomeness, the contest, and generosity. Dear Santa: I’ve been nice. My X-Mas wish this year is to win this contest. Starving artist here desperately needs the cash to shop and eat again.

  22. i would donate it to an orphanage near our home, so that those kiddos’ Christmas would be bright and full of happiness 🙂

  23. I would donate sports items to my community. The teens in our village have been wanting to have a volleyball or basketball.

  24. I’d use it to purchase toys for Toys for Tots, so children of the community who could get toys. Thanks.
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  25. If I won, I would buy and donate food to our local shelter, The Hospitality House for their holiday meals. 🙂

  26. I am having activities all year long with orpahns from the local orphanage. They are bright kids and I will get them some presents 😉

  27. I’m a volunteer teacher for Burmese migrant students in Thailand – money is always tight in the schools here, so $100 would go a long way! Some of my older students are currently preparing for the upcoming GED test, so I would definitely use the money to help cover their transportation fees to the testing site in Bangkok and use the rest for basic school supplies!

  28. If I were to win $100, I would pick out some nice toys for the Toys for Tots program and give whatever is left to the local animal shelter (because cats and dogs deserve a good Christmas too!)

  29. we donate every yr saving thru the year and buying toys for our local toys for tots chapter my dad did this as a marine and we continue to thank you for your generosity

  30. I did. I donated a plushie coin purse from my shop for a bid. the money goes to henry allen foundation 🙂

  31. I’d buy a microwave oven for the nursing home my father is in because too many residents are being served cold food.

  32. I would either donate it to my church for use in the shoe box ministry or give it to a needy family in town.

  33. there are so many things i could do! i think i would probably donate the money to local charities! there are some hospices and animal shelters who could really use it. i volunteer at a animal shelter and know how hard it is! every little thing helps the dogs and other animals life 🙂

  34. I would use it to buy reading books for the local kids. I teach English and many local children have never had a book in their home.

  35. I would spend it all at The Mission, a local homeless shelter that sells second hand items to generate income to keep the shelter running.

  36. I would take my neighbor who is a single mom and recently lost her job to the grocery store using this money.

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  37. I would donate to a local domestic abuse shelter. They always need things but especially, sadly, always at holiday times.

  38. I would put it into my non profit which teaches people how to grow food from home and lead a more sustainable life.

  39. with this price, i would like to buy a book for the poor children in my area, so they can learn how to read and write.

  40. My friends and I decided to get angel tree kids instead of buying each other Christmas gifts, I would use this card for that!

  41. I help people in my community quite often. I help with food, pets, yard work and computer repair. It’s nice to help and they truly appreciate it. I would just keep doing what I’m doing but my budget would be bigger.

  42. I know a family who needs a Christmas this year. I plan to have gifts delivered anonymously, along with some food.

  43. I would use part of the money to buy some toys to donate to the Miami Children’s Hospital. I would also use part of the money to buy towels and other items to donate to Cats Exclusive Inc which is a non-profit clinic and adoption center that has helped my cats.

  44. I would donate to the backpack program at my son’s school. Every Friday, they send kids from less-fortunate families home with enough food to get through the weekend. It’s such a great program.

  45. I am one of the co-chairs for my local Relay for Life and I would donate it to the “closet” that provides women going through chemo with makeup and wigs.

  46. My family helps at the family homeless shelter every Thanksgiving and we buy gifts for the kids at Christmas.

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