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| User: | 10percentclub (6022698) |
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| Name: | The 10% Club | ||
| About: | A little girl was walking along the seashore after high tide, tossing starfish back into the water. She passed a man, who said: "What are you doing? You do realize that it is impossible to save all those starfish don't you?" She leaned down and picked up a starfish lying at their feet and tossed it back into the waves. "I saved that one," she said. Two years ago I decided to try an experiment in awareness and empathy. I made a vow to consistently donate 10% of my income to help end suffering in this world. Every time I got a paycheck, or sold an artwork, I would move the decimal point over and donate that much (10%) towards a project I believed in. The internet made it easy. Feeling 'rich' enough to donate Something is step one in this process, and it gets easier not harder...because it has nothing to do with how we usually categorize ourselves. It's about becoming more aware of all we DO have and our place in the world. If you are somehow reading this on a computer somewhere, most likely you are 'phenomenally' rich in comparison to a vast population of humanity. One, you have somehow learned to read... and two, you have access to a computer and the internet. That is to say nothing about all the other things in your life that made it possible for you to be here now...the things we take for granted...like clean water, a roof over our heads, access to education and information, opportunities in general.I feel the 10% vow has changed my life in miraculous ways. It is something that must be understood from the inside and this is why I hope to encourage others to try it and see for themselves. "Micro philanthropy affords each of us the opportunity to contribute to whatever need evokes within us a sense of compassion, and as a scalable phenomenon helps us to participate globally in celebrations and appreciations which can be a contagion of love, or an epidemic of health. Creating an infrastructure which allows a massive amount of small scale interaction can have an explosively powerful effect. A means of supporting micro philanthropy on a global scale could be one of the most powerful uses of Internet technology."- Tom Munnecke on Towards a Model of Micro Philanthropy This journal is for posting stories and links to projects and charities that inspire you. I will share my own inspirations and experiences as I explore what the 10%vow means to me...and I invite others to join me in this experiment, Take the vow, and feel the changes in yourself. It is my dream to connect 1000 10%ers through the internet. Avalokiteshvara requested "If I need to benefit all the sentient beings until samsara ends, may I have one thousand arms, and one thousand eyes. May these one thousand arms manifest as a thousand universal monarchs, and the one thousand eyes manifest as a thousand Buddhas". Buddha Amitabha granted him his wish with one thousand arms and one thousand eyes, each eye in the palm of each hand. You are part of that wish.  Be the Change you want to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi Reliefweb.org Reuters International News CharityNavigator.org Peace Corps Volunteer Projects BridgesAcrossBorders.org Book Aid International Doctors Without Borders Noah's Ark World Wildlife Foundation Women for Women International Children International Christian Children's Fund Unicef Farm Sanctuary International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Modest Needs Plenty.org YoungHeroes.org.sz Kageno.org Aura's House AllForYouth.org Galilee School AfricanWellFund.org SmileTrain.org make a post related to one that you believe in and support and I'll add it to the list.:) ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} avad | ||
| Interests: | 44: 10% club, avalokisteshvara, avalokitesvara, avatars, awareness, better world, bodhichitta, bodhisattvas, buckminster fuller, buddhism, building libraries, building schools, charity, chenresig, chenrezig, christianity, cooperation, developing countries, doctors without borders, donations, dreams, education, empathy, entanglement, fair trade, hinduism, jesus, jewish mysticism, kabbalah, micro philanthropy, networks, peace corps, philanthropy, qabalah, saving the world, sustainable development, symbiosis, the bigger picture, the tipping point, the world game, tithing, voluntary cooperation, world hunger, world religions | ||
| Maintainers: | 1: avad | ||
| Moderators: | 1: avad | ||
| Members: | 54: antipodes, asiimwe_ivan, avad, casswalker, clouded_vision, cotn_cndy_hamer, darkfader, dulani, evilcapitalist, eyeclectic, haunted_lady, hetaira9, heyguantanamo, itchyfairyqueen, jacqueline1776, juliecaldwell, ladycatherina, ladyfelicity, lets_tryagain, librisia, likeasuicide, lovebri, mickcub, midnightmelody, mythomaniak, mzungumkali, nigdy_doskonali, ohanamd, onekell, peacetroy77, penelope111, penguinfire, purejuice, purely_crazy, purplicious, rachelmichellek, rluke, rokkitz, rosylavie, sariska, savage_boy, sibyllam, sokrlvr3, spicada, spookyaction, tedernst, terrencechan, thisclose, topazandrose, unluckymonkey, vitriolicviolin, wishness | ||
| 41: antipodes, avad, casswalker, clouded_vision, dr_sponge, dulani, exoterica, eyeclectic, haunted_lady, heyguantanamo, itchyfairyqueen, kylark, ladycatherina, lets_tryagain, librisia, likeasuicide, mickcub, midnightmelody, mirabehn, mzungumkali, nigdy_doskonali, ohanamd, onekell, peacetroy77, penguinfire, penngwyn, purely_crazy, quillman, rachelmichellek, rluke, rokkitz, rosylavie, sariska, softweek, spicada, spookyaction, tedernst, topazandrose, unluckymonkey, vitriolicviolin, wishness | |||
| Account type: | Basic Account | ||
