Posts Tagged ‘blogathon’

• Blogathon: No Money to Donate?

  Date: 2009.07.26 | Category: News, blogathon | Response: 0

  I know many people who want to help a charitable cause but don’t want to donate money; however, there are many other things to donate. One way to help your favorite non-profit can be to donate your time. Many charitable organizations rely greatly on volunteers to sustain themself. Some organizations are built mostly out of volunteers. At the Developmental Disabilities Association, we also greatly benefit from our volunteers. We also benefit from and sustain ourselves through the donation of your un-needed clothes, housewares, and unused goods. We do free pickups in the Lower Mainland of clothes and housewares and we also have many donation bins across BC that you can donate your clothes to. By donating your clothes, you not only help fund essential programs for the developmentally disabled, but also help create global marketplace through the resale of your items at lower costs to those in need. In the past year, we’ve recycled over 7 million lbs of potential landfill material by reselling your unused goods. Help the developmentally disabled, help create global marketplace, and help our environment; 3 in one by donating your goods to the DDA.

• Blogathon: Myths of Autism

  Date: 2009.07.26 | Category: News, blogathon | Response: 0

  I recently found another excellent blog on autism and the myths associated with autism. This blog is the Autism Change blog. Below is an entry from one of their blogs that I found particular interesting. See this link for the full entry.

  There are so many autism myths floating around out there that debunking them often seems a constant aspect of advocating about autism. (And look out, too, for those autism cults.)

  One myth that always rankles me is that autistic children don’t change and that they can’t; that a child will always be a two-year-old inside even when he is six feet tall. It is the case that it’s often not easy for my son to deal with a new situation or a change in circumstances

  
  

• Blogathon: Off-topic Midnight Status Update

  Date: 2009.07.25 | Category: blogathon | Response: 0

  Personally, I feel rather disgusting sitting on the same spot for so long staring at my computer for so long. I also feel a little bit lethargic and could definitely use some exercise. That aside, it’s great knowing that there are plenty of other bloggers out there pitching in, and plenty of other bloggers in Vancouver participating for Blogathon, with plenty of them in the same room as me at Workspace in Gastown. I’ve included a list of the bloggers with links to their blog below (list taken from Raul).

• Raul Pacheco
• Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604
• Duane Storey
• Tiny Bites (team effort)
• 604 Foodtography
• Shane Gibson
• Barbara Doduk
• Mehnaz Thawer
• Fraser Valley Pulse
• WorldwideWaterCooler
• Developmental Disabilities Association
• Justin Yang
• Liberation BC
• Bluefur
• Shane’s World
• Think Referrals
• Brady V
• Langley Politics
• Beth Snow
• Karen Fung
• April Smith
• Ganga Narayanan
• Matthew Naylor
• Aidan
• Iris Dias
• Mitch Baldwin

Each blogger above is very passionate about the cause they’re supporting. Check out their blogs and make sure to send some support their way! It’s 12:00am now, which means there’s 6 hours left to Blogathon with another 12 posts to come. Thank you everybody for reading our blogs. I’ll get back on topic after this one status update blog.

• Blogathon: Client Poetry

  Date: 2009.07.25 | Category: blogathon | Response: 0

  As promised, here’s some amazing poetry done by clients of the Developmental Disabilities Association that was used in an older edition of our Star newsletter:

  GIRL
  You like sweet peach,
  He in sleep
  I love a girl.
  Honey music gorgeous
  Heart jumped.
  –Willie Amero
  SPACE MOON
  Red Mars rocky ground
  And rovers
  Thousands of stars twickle
  Shooting showers
  Earth Atmosphere like bright
  globe
  Light years away
  –Kelly Sutherland

  GIRL
  You like sweet peach,
  He in sleep
  I love a girl.
  Honey music gorgeous
  Heart jumped.

  –Willie Amero

  SPACE MOON
  Red Mars rocky ground
  And rovers
  Thousands of stars twinkle
  Shooting showers
  Earth Atmosphere like bright
  globe
  Light years away

  –Kelly Sutherland

• Blogathon: Status Update

  Date: 2009.07.25 | Category: Community, Fundraising, News, blogathon | Response: 0

  I honestly admit that after reading so many blog posts and writing 4 hours worth of blogs I’m a little bit short on blogging ideas. Because of that, I will be featuring more client writing in coming posts. I promise I’ll have some more interesting relevant blog posts up before midnight!

  That aside, best of luck to everybody else doing Blogathon right now. Currently, there are 153 charities being sponsored by Blogathon with over $37,000 raised! The Developmental Disabilities Association is so far, one of the top fundraisers with almost $400 raised. I’m currently at Blogathon sitting beside Karen Hamilton, the owner of Tinybites blog and consulting, who is leading the fundraising efforts with close to $2000 raised through her blog! Amazing!