Paying It Forward Christmas 2014

Is Paying  It Forward on your Christmas List this year?  

Well, here are just a few ways you can check it off!

• Volunteer at your local Homeless Shelter. 
• Serve a hot meal to a neighbor or a stranger.
• Visit/Volunteer at  a Nursing Home and/or Children's home.
• Your Local Shelter Is In Need Year Round!
• Foster, Rescue or Adopt a Pet from your Local Shelter.Shelters are Always looking for donations in the form of money, blankets, cleaning supplies, food, toys. 
• Volunteer to hold and play with kittens and pups and/or walk a dog.
• Donate food and/or money to your local food pantry (both human and animals)  

• Hold the door open for someone

• Let someone go ahead of you in line!

• If you ride the public bus, pay the fare for the person behind you (You can also do this at your favorite fast food hang out,  coffee shop, grocers, etc.)

• Read to the elderly, to children, to the blind, to the home bound!

PET FOOD BANK:

Donate Food for Needy families with pets.

Find one in your Area!  Here in Louisville you can donate to No Kill Louisville:

http://www.nokill-louisville.com/petfoodbank.htm
If there isn't an animal food bank  in your area,  then start one!


Daily Clicks:

Right or wrong, you win! Click on an answer, and we'll provide 10 pieces of kibble to Animal Shelters to help feed their hungry dogs and cats. Play Free Kibble  Trivia every day - the more you play, the more kibble for the  cats & dogs!

http://www.freekibble.com/


CLICK To Give

theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/

thehungersite.greatergood.com/


www.care2.com/click-to-donate/


Cross-Post, Tweet and/or post on your other online social networks!

See a pet in need on Face Book?  Then pay it forward by cross-posting, tweeting and/or adding to your other online social networks.  They DO work when it comes to helping others in need!


The Toys For Tots Foundation
www.toysfortots.org

Feed The Children
www.feedthechildren.org/

The American Red Cross
www.redcross.org/Donate
 

These are only a few suggestions on how you can Pay It Forward this Christmas.  Keep it going all throughout the year!

From My Family To Yours ...


MERRY CHRISTMAS!

SAVE BEES—FIGHT NEW THREATS

Despite massive bee die-offs, toxic bee-killing pesticides continue to be approved—putting bees and our food system in dire jeopardy.

To help us fight in court to save bees and the natural world, Board members of Earth Justice have offered to match your support $1-for-$1—up to $784,000—now through July 15.

Donate now and your gift will go twice as far.

Sign up to receive notices from Earth Justice Today!  

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Despite alarming declines in bee populations, toxic bee-killing pesticides continue to be approved—as recently as June 13—putting bees, our natural heritage, and our food system in dire jeopardy.

Earthjustice is ramping up our work to save bees and stop these dangerous pesticides, but we need your help now more than ever to see these and other fights through.

To help with critical battles like this, 17 members of our Board of Trustees have offered to match your support $1-for-$1—up to $784,000— through July 15.

Give now and your support will go twice as far.

Nearly one-third of our crops—including many vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds—depend on bees for pollination. But despite the vital role bees play, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and Environmental Protection Agency continue to approve pesticides that are linked to a bee die-off of historic proportions.

Just recently—on June 13—the Department of Pesticide Regulation approved the expanded use of two pesticides (Valent U.S.A. Corporation’s “Venom Insecticide” and Mitsui Chemical Agro’s “Dinotefuran 20SG”) that are contributing to bee colony collapse disorder...without analyzing environmental impacts or available alternatives.

And the EPA recently approved the use of another pesticide, sulfoxaflor, that is highly toxic to bees...and is now considering expanding the number of crops it can be sprayed on to include corn, alfalfa, and oats, to name just a few.

We’re fighting back, but we need your help!

Make an emergency gift today and your donation will be matched $1-for-$1.

Last year, one-third of our honeybee colonies died or disappeared. The massive die-off of these vital pollinators threatens to unravel agricultural production across the country.

We can’t afford to let short-term, private profits destroy our natural world. Help us ensure that new highly-toxic pesticides do not become the final straw for bees.

Your contribution matched $1-for-$1 today, will be put to use immediately to:

•	Save bees—already struggling to survive—from Dow AgroScience’s new pesticide sulfoxaflor, which has been shown to be highly toxic to bees
•	Fight the expanded use of toxic bee-killing pesticides like sufloxaflor
•	Stop the approval of new bee-killing pesticides without analyzing environmental impacts or available alternatives
•	Prevent the next generation of GMO crops from gaining approval—and leading to much greater use of even more dangerous pesticides
•	And take on other critical fights to protect the natural world

Help us save bees and fight for our natural world and your gift will be matched $1-for-$1 thanks to the generosity of our Board of Trustees.

Thank you for all that you do!!

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