Nice to hear that your child are OK now.

Charity is a nice thing you have included here. I would like to win so that I can take the chance of paying forward to a charity.

Stumbled.

My 6yo daughters best friend Greg was diagnosed with ALL Luekemia when he was 4. It was horrible news for him and his family that this cute little red-headed smiling boy was so sick. Thankfully they were able to treat it and 2 years later he is in remission.
But to make matters worse 4 months after Greg was diagnosed his Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer that had metastised into a brain tumor. And again thankfully it has all been treated and he is also in remission.
But with Greg being a child and living with a life threatening disease he qualifies for Make-A-Wish. They have decided to go to DisneyWorld. But Make-A-Wish relies on generous donations from everyone that is willing and able to help. These “wishes” are very expensive and I would be thrilled to be able to donate the $500 top prize to Make-A-Wish in Gregs name.
Thank you for a wonderful giveaway and may your daughters continue to thrive after such a very horrible time in all of your lives.

when ipods first came out I won one from a contest my son was 7. I didn’t think he would want an ipod. I wasn’t into that at that time. So I sold it on ebay. BIG!!!Mistake. Now thats all I hear .Why did you sell it. He’s now 13 and i wish I would of never done that. Regrets of a mom.

I volunteer for the boys and girls clubs nd care about children.

The charity that I would give to is the Relay for Life. I am personally selling Photo-A-Day Calendars to donate the entire amount I get from each of them to that charity. $500 would be great to go to that charity.

I would like to win since I want to give my winnings to the charity I love — I know it will be a “perfect” Christmas gift for them. Well, I would definitely give the Cash Prize to Bantay Bata — Philippines, a child welfare program of ABS-CBN Foundation that not only rescues and rehabilitates sick and abused children, but also provides shelter, therapy and quality home care for rescued children until they can be reunited with their families or referred to proper child-caring agencies. Bantay Bata is the most widely supported cause in the Philippines for Filipinos around the world. I know with this huge money, I know a lot of kids will benefit and will be happy! (:

Btw, I blogged your contest at my blog. I am spreading the good news to everyone! LOL. Here’s the url: http://i-heart-contest.com/2008/12/21/blog-contest-pay-it-forward

Advance Merry Christmas! This contest is really great! More power! (:

Came across this from charitymojo.com, it’s a very wonderful thing you are doing. Best of luck to you all.

hi ive heard your contest from a blogger friend.
since the prize will go to our chosen charity( if ill win) i think this is the great opportunity that i can be able to help a group. its the HAPPY HOMES foundation in Maramag Bukidnon Philippines. it is a psychiatric clinic and rehabilitation center. it is run by nuns and some religious group. every Christmas my parents will visit them together with their group. (The Charismatic Group. ) it is a guilty pleasure to help . and in return seeing them really happy because youve helped them. seeing their brilliant smiles is a very-heart-tearing momentum.i chose this charity because. i love to help them. i want to make them happy. as a student i couldn’t really help them on my own. because i don’t have a cash. this contest really a great opportunity for me to really look after to. i want to win seriously. and Godbless you all!

Hi Lee,Glad to know that your beautiful daughters come back healthy.

Why the prize should deserve for me? I want to sponsor children via World Vision org. With $500, I could sponsor up to 14.2 children for one month($35 each). Of course we can’t find 0.2 child. I willing to come out my own pocket money to round up to 15 children.

Recession shouldn’t stop me to donate for charity. I hope to win the prize and help someone really needed.

Paid It Forward too. Spread the good news. Later, I’ll publish a post in my blog too.

–blog for dream–

my blog post about this contest here http://ahtim.com/win-600-ipod-nano-8gb-and-ipod-shuffle/

I got 6 entries.

–blog for dream–

I like to have money donate to World Vision, child sponsorship -building a better world for the children. Children is our future.

blog the contest at http://iluvcontest.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-contest-pay-it-forward.html

Paid it Forward

Since it’s the girls who are selecting the potential winners, I am going to bribe them.

Hey princesses, wanna see your names in beautiful Arabic calligraphy? I mean in a beautiful script that looks like a drawing? Well, just ask! [Mention this contest so that I take your request first, for free!]

Now why I deserve to win, is that because I like sharing too, my blog being the proof; although I don’t always have enough time.

I’d like to thank you. People like you, who are willing to take a little time and money and give to charity make this world more comfortable to live in.

I too give to charity, but currently cannot give much. I quite my computers career (10+ years) in order to go back to school. We are not almost broke and still have till September before teachers start working. I’ll have my degree in June and hope to work over the summer. I still do volunteer work, when I can and donate stuff we no longer need to various charities.

An Ipod would be cool to have, but the real prize would be in knowing that I was the one that convinced you where to send the money. There are so many needy charities out there but I think I would choose (http://www.preventchildabuse.org/) Prevent Child Abuse America.

I’m not sure if I am the most deserving but I thought I should share with you some of my experiences with giving:

I was 16 and had just gotten my first job working the summer as part of a youth group beautifying the city. My group was at the community center and we were working on replanting new flowers. Every day in the morning an old, feeble, hunched-back lady would come riding in on her bike. She would make her rounds picking through the trash for cans which she carefully put into the plastic bags on her bike handles. She never minded the fact that some of the kids snickered at her whenever she came by.
After watching her a few days an idea came into my head. And when I finally cashed my first paycheck I executed my idea.
I was nervous and excited all in one that morning at work. Nervous because I was painstakingly shy. When the old lady came by that morning I muster up some guts and walked up to her. I managed a feeble hello and told her “This is for you,” as I handed her a $5 bill.
Seriously it was only $5, but you would have thought I handed her a million dollars the way she lit up.
She thanked me profusely. And pulled out a recent article to share with me. It was from the local adult school newspaper. The article was a complete story of how she was picked as one of the students of the year. Her history of growing up in Vietnam in the and her immigration to America and ultimately her success at the adult school.
I will never forget the old lady’s smile or the way she lit up. It is ultimately what fueled me to continue giving and sharing.

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A Funny Story on Sharing:

My youngest brother is also very giving. When he was little (I think 5 or 6) someone gave him a $1 bill. He ran up to me and tore the bill and gave me one half. He proudly said, “Now we both have 50 cents.”

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One last thing to share. This is one of my all time favorite article- especially since it’s from one of the local towns near me. The article was printed last year shortly after Christmas:

http://www.dailyrepublic.com/archive_story.php?a=70453

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Happy Holidays!

blogged it here: http://contest-love.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-contest-pay-it-forward.html

like the others, i do not know if i’m that deserving to win. but i’m very sure that all our charities are all deserving to be chosen.

if i win the contest, i want to the charity prize to be split into halves. the first half will go to Philippine National Red Cross while the other half to GMA Kapuso Foundation.

Why Philippine National Red Cross?
I’m a nursing student in FEU and a member of the RCYC (Red Cross Youth Council) organization. Our org is one of the many PNRC (Philippine National Red Cross) volunteers. Unfortunately, I’m not part of any volunteer work in the org for we (me and my friends) have chosen to be on the Public Relations department rather than field work.

Leaving my membership aside, PNRC really helped us particularly in the incident wherein my grandmother needed 5 bags of blood for her operation. PNRC has a blood bank and in this blood bank you can trade any blood type for the matching blood type that you need. If PNRC does not offer that kind of service, I wonder where will we get the matching blood types of my grandmother. Yes, in the family unfortunately we’re a family of anemics. Only a healthy person is eligible to donate.

To sum it all up, I have chosen PNRC because I am a member of a youth council under it and as thanks for helping us then.

Why GMA Kapuso Foundation?
GMA Kapuso Foundation is a foundation owned by one of the leading networks in the Philippines, GMA Network. Most of the works of GMA Kapuso Foundation are being aired in the news program 24-Oras of GMA Network. I’ve watched some of it and I’m pretty happy with what they’ve done for they are really reaching out in the remote places in the Philippines. Though they’re already affiliated with big names, sponsors and donors, I still want to reach out with them simply because they seem to be true to what they’re doing. That what they does is to reach out and help and not simply to gain publicity.

gawd… i’m in tears while i’m writing this.

Came upon this nicely crafted thought turned into action, with the help of money that you are sharing with those that need it and deserve it, while I was searching for how to network my blog. I finally had the courage to share things I had kept secret from a few people who have probably known me the longest and, might have thought, the best.

Things have been tough the past few years but I have survived and will survive, “the best of times and the worst of times…” which is my current facebook status. I will never forget dropping out of University of Penn and then leaving one semester unfinished because of my grandmother’s death…yet, I will take these as lessons learned because without living, you don’t learn. Hold tight to your dreams is the message I want to live and breathe, to make it come alive so I can say to others sincerely and strongly…Never Ever Give Up.

This is a poem that I wrote on December 18th…and it applies to me, my life and what I am fighting for or aim for…however you want to describe it. My charity will most likely be the ProgressiveU website blogging commonplace that has helped me make my time blogging invaluable and priceless.

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What I Want
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I can not be human

I can not live the way they lived

I can not love secretly

I can not be me

I can not breathe freely

I can not speak passionately

I can not hate on hate

I can not call it as I see it

I can not tell it as it is

I can not be remembered

I can not be loved

I can not be missed

I can not be innocent

I can not be an un-corrupted version of me

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I want to be a compassionate human, as ones passed, in present memory

I want to live like they lived on, in hearts eternally

I want to fly freely and reach heights, not unheard of

I want to love openly unconciously, breathe unthinkingly

I want to let the heart race to unhealthy speeds, courting death lovingly

I want to mouth words to freely honor memories of loved, and shame living dead

I want to hate hate, without trying to forget love drives out hate

I want to preach others to love, unconditionally

I want to teach kids being purple is to live, beautifully

I want to open doors that are locked, since centuries

I want to enjoy me jaded and to share it, guilt-free

I want to curse at those that hatefully curse, loudly

I want to live happily as this me, that is contradictory

I want to see all that is for me to see, as a human

I want those that love me to kiss me, worry-free

I want the ones who miss me to send love to me, not cheaply

I want those that I remember to remember to hug me, warmly

By asmaw – December 18th, 2008

We have a small charity that helps the poor kids in the southern Philippines. Many live in poverty and do not have enough to eat. This impacts their education as it’s hard to learn when you’re hungry. As a teacher, this changed my outlook on life and I decided to help these kids by creating a nonprofit organization.

This year we could only help one family with food. I believe it made a big difference in their lives for the Christmas season. When I was there last summer, I tried to help by teaching science lessons as they have never had a science lab before. I also bought some lights for the family so the kids could study after dark. If we win this contest, 100% of the money will go directly to the students for food and some to their school to make sure they have lunch and books to help them learn their lesson and continue with their education.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Kevin Smith
spcshelter.org

Thank you for the wonderful idea of helping a worthy cause!

I would like to nominate Tucson’s Community Diaper Bank – the first Diaper Bank in the world, dedicated to providing diapers to babies, and incontinence supplies to older folks.

Because diapers are expensive, and federal / state programs to help the poor do not cover diapers (Food Stamps, Medicare, etc.), many individuals go without diapers, or have a baby stay in the same diaper for days at a time.

Moms cannot leave a baby at daycare without disposable diapers (required by most daycares) so many moms who can’t afford diapers cannot work. Older folks who can’t afford “diapers” don’t leave their homes for months at a time.

The diaper bank not only provides diapers, it raises awareness of these issues, and is working to make our community a place that will hopefully some day not need a diaper bank – a place where everyone has the basic things they need to live.

I appreciate your considering this very worthy cause!

Hildy Gottlieb
Co-Founder
Community Diaper Bank of Southern Arizona
http://www.DiaperBank.org

This is my blog post:
http://allblogcontest.blogspot.com/2009/01/win-money-for-your-charity-few-goodies.html

This is my first time I doing a charity like (doing a blog post to win)this and it could be something different for me.

If I win this, you can give the money to any charity that you and your daughter want.

I’d like to win for the Foundation that I’ve been working with for 4 years. Mostly for the less fortunate elementary student, for the books and for the milk feeding.. If I would win, it would be a great help for them..and the Ipod is just so great..

http://wannabesupermommy.blogspot.com/2009/01/pay-it-forward-blog-contest.html

Count me in. I’m paying it forward…

I used to teach young children out of town as far as Bataan for our college CWTS classes in UP. This opened my mind to the real world out there – no food, no education, no comfort. Having experienced sincere satisfaction every time I teach there, I thought it would be nice if there could be a better way to help aside from those that only we, students, can offer.

There, I’m not familiar with any charities, but I’d have that those money go to a charity opting for education of the our less fortunate countrymen.

Paid it forward.

Hi, this is Nicola from Italy.

Precisely from Matera, where Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” and Catherine Hardwicke’s “The Nativity Story” were shot.

Well, we live very far from each other, but Someone up there has made possible to read your blog.
The Emotional Network is stronger than every Internet connection.
Your story has something incredible.
If I win, I will choose a charity which helps poor people.Nowadays there is a lot of people which does not reach the third week with their wage.

I will be very glad to hear your voice and the one of your childrend recorded on the iPod and see a picture of you. I will do the same thing for you.
If you want, I can send you a funny photo of me via mail.
Will I be charged of “corruption” of the judges??? 🙂
Hugs and kisses, Nicola