Category Archives: Causes

Earthquake in Haiti: One Month Later

Today I’m posting a roundup of links related to the Haiti earthquake.  Many bloggers and activists are now focusing on the country will rebuild.  It may not be front and center news anymore, but these efforts will go on for many years to come.  Bloggers can play a big role in helping keep awareness up.
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Helping Children in Haiti Through International Childcare

Last weekend I visited with long time International Child Care board member Ellen Palmer when we were both attending a weekend retreat.  She gave a short presentation to the group about ICC, Grace Children’s Hospital and the aftermath of the earthquake.
Ellen was actually there with a mission team from Dallas and happened to be in [...]

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Blog Posts About Haiti Relief from BloggersUnite

BloggersUnite is a periodic event where bloggers all write on one cause based topic.  Today’s topic is relief for the earthquake ravaged country of Haiti.  Bloggers who write on this topic can submit their post to the BloggersUnite website and get a link to their post included in the list.
Here are the two posts that [...]

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Grace Children’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince Survived Quake

While other hospitals in Haiti were devastated, thankfully Grace Childrens Hospital still stands.
This latest report from the field:
We continue to asses the structrual damage that the hospital suffered, and in the next few days will be opening the hospital grounds to serve as a triage and treatment center in conjunction with other aid groups.
I emailed [...]

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Getting information out fast with your blog

On Tuesday I wrote on the benefits of cause blogging, as part 3 in the Introduction to Cause Blogging Series. The first benefit is the ability to share information quickly.  So how about an example?
The Health Care for America blog is advocating its position on the healthcare debate.  With the news on this issue changing [...]

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Earth Day 2009 in Video

Online videos are really big this Earth Day.  Here are some bloggers and environmental groups who have created some great videos…
Greenpeace has an inspring video, Inspiring Action on Earth Day.
The EPA has had many home produced videos submitted to it’s Earth Day Video Project.
Here’s the Earthday Video Mashup from CTN Green.
Practical tips for saving money [...]

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