Thank you so much for supporting “Donate your 100th post”! I really appreciate your support in my attempt to help out charities!!!! I’ve posted this link on our facebook page to help support the idea! And I hope that Ohio Basset Rescue receives more traffic with your help!

Cheers to Unleashing Flying Monkeys! ;)
Jennifer

To other readers: Food pantries are always in dire need of supplies, i.e. food, and it doesn’t have to be non-perishables either. I always assumed I’d have to donate the food I wouldn’t feed my own kid – canned food loaded with sodium or boxed dinners packed with preservatives – but my sister told me the food pantry near her house accepts fresh produce, dairy products, and other perishables.

We all see a ton of public service ads about starving kids, but many of us don’t realize those kids live right down the street from us or go to the local school. It’s heartbreaking to realize the only time kids from impoverished families get to eat is when they have their school lunch. This is America–no kid should ever go hungry. Why not pick up two of a few different items, bag ‘em up separately, and drop the bag off at your local food drive on the way home? You’ve just delivered a meal to someone who would’ve gone hungry otherwise and it only cost you $10 or less to help.

This spring, my daughter and I are going to donate food on a monthly basis to our local food bank. We’re also going to donate our time to a local nonprofit organization. We just can’t decide which one to select; we’re torn between animals, kids and the environment. We’d like to volunteer three hours on Fridays since right now that’s our designated field trip day. She agreed it’d feel much better to donate our time to a good cause than going to the zoo for eight hours.

No man is an island.