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It’s not all that often that a book comes along which agrees with everything you believe to the point that you wonder if you secretly wrote it yourself. For me, Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is definitely one of them.

As you may know, we are always looking for ways to give when we don’t have any spare cash (although we’ve been a little slack lately).
One of our biggest ideas was to find a way that we could put together the $2,600 needed for us to sponsor a new well for a village in Africa through World Vision.
Named Websites for Wells, our fundraiser was that we donated $15 to the fund for every new web hosting plan we sold through NewBlogHosting.com
I am very happy to say that we have now …

Those of you who have read this blog before will probably know that it is about my family’s efforts to raise money for needy people/causes.
We realized earlier this year that there is a lot of need in this world, real need, urgent, life threatening need and yet we live in a society where we are blessed beyond measure and yet many of us spend so much, either by choice or simply because of the high cost of living, we have very little we can give.
We have spent this year trying …

We’ve set ourselves a Challenge this Christmas, one which will alter our lives and hopefully improve the lives of others. Read the article to learn what the Challenge is.

Back in March, our family were racking our brains trying to come up with ways to save/raise money to hopefully enable us to buy a well for a village in Africa.
We came up with the idea of Websites For Wells:
For every new website hosting plan bought from our business (NewBlogHosting.com) before June 30th 2010, we would donate $15 toward the well project.
June 30th came and went and we noticed three startling facts:

The world had not collapsed around us
We had not dissolved into bankruptcy
We had more money in our ‘well’ fund than …