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TGIFYGDF…Thank Goodness It’s Feed Your Good Dog Friday!

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WAYS TO FEED YOUR GOOD DOG THIS WEEKEND

The Queen of Hearts Foundation’s Cardio Kids’ program is back at the Green Market at Piedmont Park, and invites you and your kids to “a day for Awareness and Heart Health Education dedicated to Children. The Cardio Kids is all about an ECO Play Day to share fun outside. Games and activities to get their hearts pumping and to share information as to why it is so very important for them.”

The Cardio Kids’ tent is set up as a drop by in a market setting at Piedmont Park in Atlanta. Activities on the hour.

Cardio Kids Logo

Destination: Atlanta, GA – Queen of Hearts Foundation’s Cardio Kids tent at the Green Market.

Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009

Time: 9:00am – 1:00pm

Location: Piedmont Park’s Green Market

Address: 1071 Piedmont Ave NE

Atlanta, GA 30309

If you are looking of ways to make a difference this weekend (or any other day in the future for that matter) and affect the lives of others in a positive way, check out the following:

This Saturday, October 24th is World Polio Day. Find out what is happening in your community by contacting your local Rotary Club and make a donation to the End Polio Now Campaign., posted by Mary McManus on DarynKagan.com (link no longer available), and

the new All for Good website.

All for Good lets you browse activities and find events based on your location or interests. It is the “Craigslist for Service”.All for Good makes finding a good deed project in your community easy as pie. Check out volunteer activities and events on All for Good’s website.

And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!
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Monday Motivational Quote

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It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world. ~ Ernest Fitzgerald

And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!
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TGIFYGDF…Thank Goodness It’s Feed Your Good Dog Friday!

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AARP’s CREATE THE GOOD.ORG MAKES FINDING VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN YOUR COMMUNITY THAT FITS YOU AS EASY AS ENTERING YOUR ZIPCODE!

Simply delete the zipcode in the widget below, add yours and hit the enter key, and you’re own your way to creating the good in your community!

Create The Good.org is where good people get connected to opportunities to create good, in whatever way works for them. Nothing could be more simple:

5 minutes? 5 hours? Find good that needs doing that fits you and your community.
Every day, you can find new opportunities to do service in your community that fit your life and interests, and that will connect you to like-minded goodnicks. Only have 5 minutes? Follow Create the Good on Twitter for a daily feed of ideas.

Simple, fun ideas for how to create good.
Find how-to-videos and guides at Create the Good.org to help you create the good in your own way and on your own time. Reform Your Health, Operation Energy Save, Women’s Giving Initiative, or Rx Snapshot – it’s all here. And if it’s not, suggest a topic of your own and Create the Good.org offers to try and make it happen.

Making good even better.
Do you need volunteers? Post your opportunities and they will be seen by one of the largest and most skilled group of volunteers out there. Want to get your organization more involved? Create your own search widget for your site – it is easy (promise) and one of the best ways to spread around the good.

And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!
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TGIFYGDF…Thank Goodness It’s Feed Your Good Dog Friday!

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FEED YOUR GOOD DOG, AND HELP PRESERVE YOUR STATE’S PARKS, BY WALKING, RUNNING, HIKING, BIKING, OR PICNICKING AT ONE OF THEM OVER THE WEEKEND

Legislators around the country have been required to trim state funding for State Parks. State Parks need help from their communities now more than ever. “Friends” organizations are working hard to advocate for our State Parks and are creating ways to get us involved in helping to preserve these sites. For example, Friends of Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites sponsors Save My State Parks and invites Georgians to help ensure these sites will be available for generations to come. They want you involved because closure of sites or certain parts thereof is still a very real possibility.

Kids showing support for Georgia State Parks

To make it easy for you to be involved, Friends of Georgia State Parks, in partnership with Verizon Wireless will be sponsoring a state-wide day of service. The Georgia State Parks has set aside Saturday, September 26 for My State Parks Day on which admission to all state parks and historic sites will be free! And, you can get involved by showing up, showing your support and getting your hands dirty! Most sites will have a volunteer service project available to anyone who wants to help.

Park visitors walking headwaters at Mississippi headquarters Itasca State Park

So, help ensure future access to your State’s parks and clear your head, improve your energy, and just all around feel better, by getting outdoors and visiting one of your State’s park this weekend.

And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!
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“DOING GOOD” IS ALIVE AND WELL DESPITE REPORTED WANE IN VOLUNTEERISM

The results of some surveys indicate that we are experiencing a decline in civic engagement. The good news is that despite this decline we are helping in other ways. Especially true for Americans 45 years and older, who are making a shift from their work within organizational structure to helping others in their own neighborhoods by coming up with their own creative ideas and implementing them.

A New York Times article entitled, Volunteering Waning in Recession, Report Says, written by Stephanie Strom and published August 26, 2009, refers to an example of such creativity and work in Peter Norback, of Miles, Tuscon, AZ.

Mr. Norback, a self-employed computer consultant, saw hunger in his neighborhood. In January, after hearing President Obama’s call for community service, Mr. Norback started the One Can A Week Food Donation Program.

He shared his passion with his neighbors as he began talking to them about his idea and soliciting and collecting food from them. He felt if every neighborhood did what he was doing, hunger would go away.

All of the food Mr. Norback collects goes to the Community Food Bank, where the demand for food was up 40% and, as a result, the amount of food available to families had to be cut in half. Mr. Norback’s One Can A Week program is successfully helping to fill the need of the Community Food Bank. The first week Mr. Norback raised 78 pounds of food and, this past week, week 33, Mr. Norback’s One Can A Week program netted 340 pounds.

You can read more about One Can A Week at Mr. Norback’s blog, and if so inspired you can read his how-to-guide there and learn how to start such a program in your own neighborhood.

According to his Second Week Update post, Mr. Norback learned two things in the first two weeks: People like the simple but useful commitment to community service and if he is consistent in his weekly pick ups, the donations will be consistent.

Feed Your Good Dog encourages you to be of service, whether you volunteer within an organizational structure such as a non-profit or come up with your own creative way of helping your neighbors.

And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!

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