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A Real Pioneer of Peace and an Update on The Thanks”giving” Cup Campaign

01 Saturday Feb 2014

Posted by Barbara Scoville, LCSW in Pioneers of Peace, Resilience, The Power to Do, The Thanks"giving" Cup Campaign

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altruism, Charity, Compassion, Costco, Kindness, Red cup, School meals, The Thanks"giving" Cup Campaign, The World Food Program

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ATTENTION Thanks  “giving” Cup Campaigners!!!!!

Diane Geddes writes…

“Barbara, I’m Dianne Young’s sister and we met in Costco back in November. I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to get you this information. I wanted to thank you for letting me know about Coins 4 Kids. We did it here at work and raised over $4,000.00. Thanks to you we provided 16,000 lunches. Talk about the power of ONE!! Thank you for making a difference in our lives and so many children’s.”

Way to go Dana Simmons Geddes!!! You are a Pioneer of Peace!!! Thank you so much for letting us know what can be done when we walk, not just talk. 16,000 lunches for school children in the most impoverished regions of the world; that’s just amazing!

Diane is referring to The World Food Program’s School Meal program. If you haven’t heard about this United Nation’s based charity, click on the link and check it out for yourself…or read EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!! The Answer to The Red Cup Post and Why You Should Care and The Thanks “giving” Cup Campaign

To those of you who will be participating in this year’s campaign…let’s start thinking now about how we can maximize our efforts. I would like to start the 2014 campaign on Sept 1… If you have any ideas I would love to hear them 🙂

Every Mom Should be Able to Feed Her Baby

Every Mom Should be Able to Feed Her Baby

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Today’s the Day Thanks “giving” Cup Campaign Participants!

28 Thursday Nov 2013

Posted by Barbara Scoville, LCSW in Pioneers of Peace, Resilience

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Barbara Scoville, CoinStar, Folliott Sandford Pierpoint, Gratitude, Margaret Mead, Thanksgiving, The Thanks"giving" Cup Campaign, The World Food Program, World Food Program, World Food Programme

993722_10200814480512054_573014598_nGreetings Everyone and Happy Thanksgiving!

I know today you are being bombarded with Black Friday specials and ads designed to lure you into spending your hard earned money on the trappings of the holiday season.

The last thing I want to do is be another voice through social media suggesting how you spend your dollars… but for those of you who have participated in The Thanks”giving” Cup Campaign, the day is finally here 🙂 🙂

Hopefully by now you have figured out how to convert your coins into dollars so that you can make your donation to The World Food Program. I am looking forward to making mine sometime during today’s celebration of gratitude.

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If you haven’t, don’t worry; count your coins today and celebrate your good work.

Tomorrow call your bank and ask if they will let you use their coin counting machine for free. Other options are to count your coins and put them into the paper rolls the bank provides, or use a CoinStar machine which is available in most large grocery stores. The CoinStar machine will keep a percentage of your money (the last time I checked it was 8.9%) for their services.

Of course this charitable challenge is private, which means you are under no obligation to share what you have donated…BUT…it would be fun to see how many meals our combined effort will provide. If you have technical difficulty commenting on my blog you can go to my Facebook page, Barbara Scoville, LCSW and record the number of meals you have provided. Also, it would be fun to see your full cups on Instagram #thanksgivingcupcampaign

School Meals: $1.00= 4 meals

Emergency Biscuits: $1.00= 10 high energy biscuits

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

This morning while writing this post, I watched the sun rise over the Wasatch Mountains through my office window. I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the beauty of the earth. I am reminded of an old hymn Folliott S. Pierpoint wrote:

For the beauty of the earth,
For the glory of the skies;
For the love which from our birth,
Over and around us lies;
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This, our hymn of grateful praise.

For the wonder of each hour,
Of the day and of the night;
Hill and vale and tree and flow'r,
Sun and moon, and stars of light;
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This, our hymn of grateful praise.For the joy of ear and eye,
For the heart and mind's delight;
For the mystic harmony,
Linking sense to sound and sight;
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This, our hymn of grateful praise.For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child;
Friends on Earth and friends above,
For all gentle thoughts and mild;
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This, our hymn of grateful praise.

Happy Thanksgiving and may you find your cup full 🙂

Barbara (The Blog Whisperer)

Every Mom Should be Able to Feed Her Baby

Every Mom Should be Able to Feed Her Baby

P.S. Instructions for those donating today

1. Go to The World Food Program’s Website at http://www.wfp.org

2. Click on the red donate button in the upper right corner

3. You will be taken to a screen that requires you to type in your country of origin.

4. After entering your country of origin you will be taken to the screen asking you what program you want to donate to. Click on the program of your choice. While I am devoted to school meals, this Thanksgiving I will be donating to the Philippines because of the dire need.

5. Follow the payment instructions.

6. Take at minimum, a few minutes (not seconds) to reflect on compassion and gratitude, and know you are a pioneer of peace. Thank you.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

 

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Self Discovery the Michelangelo Way: The Game (Round 18)

22 Friday Nov 2013

Posted by Barbara Scoville, LCSW in Resilience, Self Discovery the Michelangelo Way: A Game, Uncategorized

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authentic self, chocolate milkshake, green smoothie, Identity, Michelangelo, Seld Discovery the Michelangelo Way, Self awareness, Self discovery, Self-esteem, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, The Thanks"giving" Cup Campaign

images“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.”Michelangelo

For most of us the answer to the question, “Who am I?” is work in progress. There are times when we are certain who we are, what we like, and what we want; and other times when it seems we have no idea at all.

It has been said that identity isn’t just about what you have done, but what you would like to experience.

Playing “Self Discovery the Michelangelo Way” is a fun game designed to help you discover who you really are. You will be given a series of choices and asked which option resonates most with you.  Some will seem easy . . . black and white, while others will require careful contemplation.

Play the game each week and over time watch how your identity takes form; like Michelangelo chipping away at a block of marble, only to reveal what he already knew was inside.

Included in the game is a polling box in which you can cast your vote and see how your answer compares with others.

Game Rules:

1. Think about each option and decide which one you identify with the most.

2. You may feel like you can identify with both, but choose the one you lean towards.

3. Feel free to think about the options in any way you like: literally, symbolically, metaphorically, preferentially, etc.

4. Claim your identity by voting in the polling box at the bottom of the page, and just for the fun of it see what others are saying.

5. Check in each week to answer the latest question that will reveal your identity.

6. Keep a written record of your responses and watch a description of yourself unfold.

Option: Play this game with your friend or partner. See how well you know each other and build your relationship by sharing aspects of your personality.

Ready to play?

Self Discovery the Michelangelo Way

Self Discovery the Michelangelo Way

This weeks’ question (Round 18)

Are you a chocolate milkshake or a green smoothie?

Thanksgiving is right around the corner. How are you coming on the Thanks”giving” Cup Campaign?

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The Thanks “giving” Cup Campaign

13 Sunday Oct 2013

Posted by Barbara Scoville, LCSW in Pioneers of Peace, Resilience, The Power to Do

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Charitable Giving, Charity, Hunger, loose change, Malnutrition, spare change, Stunted growth syndrome, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, The School Feeding Program, The Thanks"giving" Cup Campaign, United Nation, World Food Programme, World Hunger

This is the reason. It's called stunted growth syndrome and it is irreversible. Can you imagine your child having a brain like the one on the right because you didn't have enough food to feed him or her?

This is the reason. It’s called stunted growth syndrome and it is irreversible. Can you imagine your child having a brain like the one on the right because you didn’t have enough food to feed him or her?

Join me and many others in fighting world hunger this Thanksgiving by saving your spare change between now and Thanksgiving Day and donating it to The School Feeding Program, which is a division of the United Nation‘s World Food Program

Begin by choosing a meaningful cup and start emptying your jingling pockets and bulging wallets into it.

Search under your couch cushions for all of the spare change you can find and send your little children on a quest to find every lost coin hiding in your home and car.

Dig out your old purses and rescue the loose change that is waiting patiently at the bottom to be used for a wise purpose.

The change I found at the bottom of all of my purses. Translation: 23 school meals

The change I found at the bottom of all of my purses. Translation: 23 school meals

What might be clutter to you, could be a meal for a starving child.

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Participating Cups

On Thanksgiving Day add up your change, go to http://www.wfp.org and press the red cup donation button in the top right hand corner of the screen.

This will pull up the donation page. Be sure to click on the school feeding program button.

Last night I made a $10.00 donation to see how it works. I am happy to report it was as easy as pie 🙂 And my $10.00 donation will provide 40 school meals!

That is the best bang for any buck I have ever spent! On top of that I got an oxytocin rush that just keeps coming every time I think about how happy I am that I donated $10.00 instead of spending it at McDonald’s.

The School Feeding Program feeds over 20 million children each day, which is only a fraction of the vast need. Each nutritionally balanced meal is only 25 cents. That means when you spent $20.00 on sushi you could have fed 80 children. Shocking huh!

Hunger Facts

1.    870 million people do not have enough food to eat

2.    98% of the worlds undernourished people live in developing countries

3.    Asia and the Pacific have the highest number of hungry comprising 578 million people, followed by Sub-Saharan Africa with 239 million people, and then Latin America and the Caribbean with 53 million people

4.    Malnutrition is the key factor contributing to one-third of all global deaths (2.6 million per year)

5.    Every 10 seconds, a child dies from hunger related diseases

images6.  There is enough food in the world today for everyone to have the nourishment necessary for a healthy and productive life

PIONEERS OF PEACE WALK NOT JUST TALK

Walk with me. Please

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Spread the word that we can make a difference this Thanksgiving; a holiday in which we celebrate abundance and gratitude. How can we not share?

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Educate yourself by spending just 20 minutes watching the Ted Talk below 

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