Welcome to 2013!
This year I will celebrate my 50th birthday. Since June of last year I've been thinking about what I wanted to do to mark this milestone and after trying on and discarding many ideas, I've decided to do this: my 50th birthday mitzvah project.
I'm devoting 50 weeks of this year to this project. I'll be emailing, blogging, and tweeting to publicize the charities that have changed my life and yours.
Please consider my request that you donate $50 (or whatever amount is comfortable for you) in honor of my 50th birthday to the charity of your choice.
This blog includes this post about 18 non-profit organizations that have touched my life in the past 50 years. If you decide to donate to one of these, I thank you - and please let me know!
If you choose one of your own, then I'd love to know why you've chosen it. How has it touched your life? You can add a comment (below) or write a guest post (email me) so others can learn more about your charity of choice. Don't forget to include a link to the organization's website.
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[*Mitzvah is a Hebrew word that, in this case, means a good deed. It has become a tradition for boys and girls who are celebrating their Bar or Bat Mitzvah to take on a project in which they do some sort of charitable deed. Sometimes the project involves community service, sometimes it's a fundraising effot, sometimes the project is a way for them to publicize a good cause or educate others. This "mitzvah project" is a little bit of all three.]
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