{"id":1275,"date":"2014-02-01T17:28:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T06:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2014-02-01T17:29:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T06:29:06","slug":"bill-melinda-on-why-we-give-giving-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"Bill &#038; Melinda on Why We Give &#8211; Giving Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>DonorsChoose.org<\/li>\n<li>Heifer.org<\/li>\n<li>Save the Children<\/li>\n<li>World Vision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/community.givingtuesday.org\/page\/billandmelinda#b11g14t20w13<\/p>\n<h2>Why We Give<\/h2>\n<p>By Bill &amp; Melinda Gates<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for taking a break from your holiday shopping to take a look at #GivingTuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has their own reasons for giving back. For us, it\u2019s simply about making the world a more fair and equitable place. We know we were very lucky to grow up where we did, when we did. We believe everyone deserves the chance to live a healthy, productive life. Those are the values we learned from our families, and they\u2019re why we started our foundation.<\/p>\n<p>In our work, we come across a lot of great organizations doing inspiring work in the U.S. and around the world. In fact, as we talked about #GivingTuesday, the hardest question we faced was, \u201cWhich groups should we highlight?\u201d After a lot of discussion about all the great choices out there, we picked four.<\/p>\n<p>When our children have a little extra money saved up and want to make a donation, they often turn to Heifer International and World Vision. Through Heifer, you can donate an animal to a community in need\u2014a gift that can benefit the recipients for years afterward. Through World Vision and Save the Children, you can change a child\u2019s life by helping provide food, health care, education and more. And DonorsChoose.org lets you help teachers meet their classrooms\u2019 needs, enabling projects that might not happen otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever you support, and however much you give, thank you for participating in #GivingTuesday. It\u2019s a great way to help create the better world we all want. We wish you a happy holiday season.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/community.givingtuesday.org\/C\/Images\/signature.png\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donors Choose.org\" src=\"http:\/\/community.givingtuesday.org\/C\/Images\/DonorsChoose.jpg\" \/><strong>DonorsChoose.org<\/strong>\u00a0is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on the DonorsChoose site, and visitors can give any amount to the project that is most inspiring.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=327794&amp;utm_source=givingtuesday&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=melindagates&amp;rf=givingtuesday\" target=\"_blank\">View More<\/a><\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heifer\" src=\"http:\/\/community.givingtuesday.org\/C\/Images\/Heifer.jpg\" \/><strong>Heifer International<\/strong>\u00a0empowers families to turn hunger and poverty into hope and prosperity by helping bring sustainable agriculture and commerce to areas that need it most. The animals provide partners with both food and reliable income, as agricultural products such as milk, eggs, and honey can be traded or sold at market.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heifer.org\/campaign\/giving-tuesday.html?msource=WOGTK13GT0001\" target=\"_blank\">View More<\/a><\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Save the Children\" src=\"http:\/\/community.givingtuesday.org\/C\/Images\/Save_the_Children.jpg\" \/><strong>Save the Children<\/strong>\u00a0gives kids in the United States and around the world what every child deserves\u2014a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm, especially when disaster strikes. When disaster strikes, Save the Children advocates and achieves lasting change for millions of children. They save children&#8217;s lives.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org\/GivingTuesday\" target=\"_blank\">View More<\/a><\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"World Vision\" src=\"http:\/\/community.givingtuesday.org\/C\/Images\/World_Vision.jpg\" \/><strong>World Vision<\/strong>\u00a0is dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision works on every level to achieve the goal of child well-being\u2014from international activism to checking in on children face-to-face.<a href=\"http:\/\/donate.worldvision.org\/OA_HTML\/xxwv2ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?go=catalog&amp;xxwvCampaign=108929186&amp;prod=xRFgQ_LYAbwfqKDyUHVTm9pQ:S&amp;prod_pses=ZG722AAB1D554ADEBA88A936C52679008F50D2CC9C01063928A9AEE815BD57EF8D9278542BD1518A1BFBB618AE2C7E3E6E98E312221ECEA9AC\" target=\"_blank\">View More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DonorsChoose.org Heifer.org Save the Children World Vision &nbsp; http:\/\/community.givingtuesday.org\/page\/billandmelinda#b11g14t20w13 Why We Give By Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Thanks for taking a break from your holiday shopping to take a look at #GivingTuesday. Everyone has their own reasons for giving back. For us, it\u2019s simply about making the world a more fair and equitable place. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill &#038; Melinda on Why We Give &#8211; Giving Tuesday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-file-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}