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Philanthropy Friday: Top 10 Most Engaging Philanthropy Posts of 2013

jennifer · December 27, 2013 · 10 Comments

Each Friday, the another jennifer blog shares stories of those who incorporate philanthropy into their everyday lives – personally and professionally – in a creative and unique way. If you have a story you’d like to share, please contact Jennifer. You can view past posts from the series here.

Since this is the last Philanthropy Friday of the year, I thought it would be fun to reflect on the top philanthropy-related posts on this blog in 2013. When I searched for the posts with the most comments, it wasn’t surprising that some of my good friends and most favorite nonprofits came up. If you missed a few of these, I hope you will go back and read. They are some of my favorite posts as well!

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Following are the top 10 most engaging philanthropy posts on anotherjennifer.com in 2013 (with #1 being the most engaging of all):

  1. Flush for Good: Celebrating World Toilet Day with Awareness and a Giveaway! Clean water for drinking and bathing is a very limited resource that we need to protect. I partnered with American Standard to celebrate World Toilet Day and gave away a $200 Lowe’s giftcard while American Standard donated 20 sanitary toilet pans to a community in need via BRAC USA and WaterAid.
  2. Saying Goodbye Saying goodbye to my first dog, Kona, was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. My October Giving Pledge donation was to the shelter from which we adopted him.
  3. Philanthropy Friday: Fresh Air: Open Your Heart and Your Home As my guest blogger for the day, Michelle from A Dish of Daily Life noted, “In the end, Fresh Air is so much more than a summer experience. If our Fresh Air child is ‘lucky’ for having this opportunity, then we are ‘lucky’ too.”
  4. Philanthropy Friday: Hello…Goodbye: Fostering Shelter Dogs Ilene from The Fierce Diva Guide to Life gives back through fostering dogs. “We are the bridge between the shelter and the permanent home for a dog, most of them narrowly escaping being euthanized at high kill facilities.”
  5. Philanthropy Friday: Harnessing the Power of Social Good Moms Founded by the amazing Jennifer James, Mom Bloggers for Social Good and the Global Team of 200 is an all volunteer effort, and its voices are being heard all around the world. (And I’m proud to be a member of both.)
  6. Wordless Wednesday: A Child’s Perspective Sometimes a photo is all you need to tell the story. This one is from View Finder, an organization created to help disadvantaged children discover self-expression, self-confidence and self-worth through photography. (You can read my post about View Finder on pplkind.com.)
  7. Philanthropy Friday: World Moms Blog World Moms Blog is a collaborative website that writes from over 20 countries on 6 continents about motherhood, culture, human rights and social good. Plus Jen Burden is pretty awesome.
  8. Philanthropy Friday: Empowered By You Empowered By You is a new luxury lingerie brand created by the Seven Bar Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aims to empower women throughout the globe via microfinance. This is also the first Philanthropy Friday post that made me blush.
  9. The Power of Dance I’d hate to live in a world where music, dance, art and creativity isn’t a regular part of my life. For my Giving Pledge in June, I tried to give a little back to this community.
  10. Philanthropy Friday: Feeding Our Kids 7 Day a Week Feeding America’s BackPack Program helps children get nutritious and easy-to-prepare food to keep them fed on the weekends. G and I have a great time volunteering for our local backpack program.

As a bonus, I wanted to share two of my best pieces from 2013 not on this website:

  • Five Simple Ways to Shop with a Conscience This Holiday – Published on GOOD.is
  • Reframing Philanthropy – Published on Medium

Thanks for being along for the ride in 2013!

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Comments

  1. Chris Carter says

    December 27, 2013 at 9:55 am

    I loved every single one of these!!! What a year…. well done, my friend. Well done. XO

    Reply
    • anotherjennifer says

      December 27, 2013 at 11:44 am

      Thanks so much for your support this year, Chris! I truly appreciate it. xo

      Reply
  2. Tamara says

    December 27, 2013 at 12:32 pm

    I loved most of these posts, and the ones I didn’t see? I can remedy that easily today. Ilene and I were talking about you and your wonderful blog the other day. I really wanted to sneak up to Maine for some moose, and some coffee with you. One day.

    Reply
    • anotherjennifer says

      December 27, 2013 at 12:39 pm

      Yes. One day soon I hope! We might have to travel north for some moose. Road trip!

      Reply
  3. Michelle says

    December 27, 2013 at 10:42 pm

    I’ve been mostly off the grid, but I had to come over when I saw your tweet! 🙂 I remember most of these and I especially loved Ilene’s…I have a soft spot for all shelter pets!

    Reply
    • anotherjennifer says

      December 28, 2013 at 3:18 pm

      Me too, Michelle. I’m so glad you were on my blog this year. It’s been nice getting to know you. I hope we can meet in 2014!

      Reply
  4. Ilene says

    December 30, 2013 at 7:33 am

    I remember reading all of these, Jen! You know how much I love your PF series! So long as you keep writing about these great ways to give back, I will keep reading and spreading the word any way I can. And thank you for featuring me. Honored.

    Reply
    • anotherjennifer says

      December 30, 2013 at 12:20 pm

      This comment makes me so happy! I was honored to have your post in my series, Ilene. You are the best. I can’t wait to feature your future endeavors! 🙂

      Reply
  5. Rachel Cotterill says

    January 4, 2014 at 4:20 pm

    I never knew there were so many people writing about philanthropy topics! Nice to meet you via LOBS 🙂

    Reply
    • anotherjennifer says

      January 5, 2014 at 2:59 pm

      I love writing about philanthropy! Thanks for stopping by, Rachel.

      Reply

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