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$205 Giveaway – Community and Charity 10% Monthly Blog Income Give Back # 1 – October 2011
This past weekend, I did some “soul searching” about what this blog means to me and where I see it growing and evolving in the future.
To make a long story short, I decided that since I have a day-job (I’m a chemical engineering PhD graduate student who does Alzheimer’s disease research if you didn’t know) and do not depend on income from blogging as my sole-source of making a living, any income made from this blog would have more significance to me at a personal life values level if I knew that a portion were being given back to the following places:
- 1) The readers – Obviously, without you here to read my articles and interact with my ideas, there would be no blog in the first place (let alone blog income). As such, it is only fitting that you receive a portion of any blog income.
- 2) Charitable organizations – If you’ve read my blog before, you know that I’m a big believer in donating a portion of my money to charity. Each year, I donate between 5-10% of my income to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society as part of the Bike for MS fundraiser that I do. Beyond the good that is done by donating your money, getting used to contributing to charity is also a good practice to emulate the actions of affluent individuals (T. Harv Eker discusses this in his book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind).
- After each calendar month passes, I’ll tally up my net blog income and determine what Dollar value correlates to 10%.
- I’ll post the giveaway (similar to this post you’re reading now), and you’ll have 3 weeks to enter.
- Once the giveaway is over, a grand prize winner will be announced, and that winner will then select what charity they’d like to have 5% of my blog income sent to. Pretty cool idea, right?! I’m excited just thinking about it! I hope you are too.
- $205 total blog income to give away – $105 to My Personal Finance Journey readers and $100 to the charity selected by the giveaway grand prize winner.
- $105 in prizes available to two readers is broken down in the following way –
- 1) Grand Prize = $75 Amazon Gift Card or $75 cash via PayPal (since I just found out that international readers cannot buy much on Amazon).
- 2) 2nd place prize = $30 Amazon Gift Card or $30 cash via PayPal.
- This month’s giveaway is also to celebrate the launch of the monthly free My Personal Finance Journey Intelligent Financiers Newsletter. The purpose of the newsletter will be to give out exclusive personal finance, intelligent investing, and frugal living tips beyond what’s shown on the main site and conduct newsletter-subscriber only giveaways.
How to Enter the Giveaway – Deadline to Enter is Midnight, October 31st, 2011
I decided to give the new RaffleCopter giveaway management tool a try to handle sign-up facilitation for this giveaway, so simply go through the steps listed in the widget below to enter the running for the prizes. Since this month marks the launch of the new My Personal Finance Journey Newsletter, I’d like to get as many people signed up as possible, so spread the word!Â
There is no limit to the amount of points you can earn. If you refer 10 subscribers – your name will have accumulated 50 points! You can also retweet the giveaway once per day. In the event of a tie, I will be using a random number generator to select the winner.
Important instructions: After you complete an entry method, make sure to click and fill out the “I Did This” button in the widget so that I have a record of your points.
Remember, the deadline for entries will end at midnight on October 31st, 2011 (3 weeks from today). Good luck to you all! Please contact me if you have any questions. After the deadline for entries passes, the winners will be contacted via email.
***Photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/newsbiepix/3832702141/sizes/o/in/photostream/
About the Author Jacob A Irwin
Hi folks! My name is Jacob. I am the owner and operator of My Personal Finance Journey. I started this blog in January of 2010 and have enjoyed the journey ever since. Since finishing up graduate school in Virginia in 2014, I have been working in biopharmaceutical development in Colorado. You can read more about me and this site here​. Please contact me if you have any questions!
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Good evening everyone! As the rafflecopter widget above mentions, this giveaway is now closed.
Corey @ 20's Finances is the GRAND PRIZE WINNER ($75 prize) and Talex / T. Alexander is the runner-up 2nd place prize ($30 prize) winner. I'll be emailing the winners shortly and also posting a giveaway wrap up article in the next few days!
The charity I'll be donating to on behalf of Corey @ 20's Finances (the one he selected in the first page of comments on this post) is Greenpeace. You can read all about it by clicking here – http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/
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donate to red cross
What a great Idea. My charity would be the LDS Church Charities where they covenant to use 100% of the money donated for charitable work, the administrative expenses are paid through other sources of funds.
I would like to share my winnings with the International Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity.
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The Humane Society is the charity is choose.
The charity I would choose is Action for Health Kids.
The American Cancer Society is my favorite charity. I raise money for them every summer through a charity bike ride.
I would choose to give it to our church charity fund
I would have to pick the Sierra Club for my charity of choice.
Thanks for offering this out!
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I would chose the Civil War Preservation Trust – in honor of my husband. This trust buys developed land and restores it to the state it was during the civil war, to preserve that history for us and our descendents.
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My favorite charity is the Make a Wish Foundation. Kids and pets are my favorite charites but kids win out for favorite. 🙂 Katharina angelsandmusic[at]gmail[dot]com
i guess i would say red cross although i think a local food bank would be equally deserving
Local food pantry.
Police Activities League of Temecula and Murrieta.
I choose World Vision
thanks
Canadian Breast Cancer Society
I choose the Animal Welfare Institute http://www.awionline.org/
I would want to donate to our church's Feed 5000 campaign for Christmas.
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I would pick my local United Way chapter.
Subscribed to the newsletter, subscribed via email, completed the site feedback questionnaire, liked on Facebook, liked the blog post, and reviewed the site on Alexa. I really hope I win, I could use it!! *crosses fingers*
The charity I would like you to donate to if I win is Charity Water where they provide clean water to people in third world countries that don't have adequate access to clean water.
My favorite charity is Stevens Swan Humane Society, our local animal shelter located in Utica, NY. I have adopted 2 animals there myself, so as a “FurMommy” I would like to give back to the other animals who aren't as lucky to find a home.
My favorite charity is the World Wildlife Fund!
I love this idea! I'm tweeting & posting it to my blog, in addition to already being a follower/subscriber of yours.
I'd love the charity % to go to the Ronald McDonald House as I have a close friend whose family benefited greatly when her niece required open heart surgery at the age of 3! Such an inspiring organization and I now know that the $$ donated there really does go to the families and children that need it most.
I'm so impressed with your charity. I tweeted etc., but would like to resign from the contest. You're doing a great thing!!!!
I hope I win!!
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As a librarian-in-training, I’d choose First Book @ firstbook.org
What a fabulous idea! Can't wait to hear which charity is selected for this round!
This is a great idea! I'm not sure what charity I would give it to yet, but there are lots of deserving ones out there. Kudos to you for doing this!
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My favorite charity is FeedingAmerica.org.
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Glacier's Edge Council, BSA
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I think this is great. I do a giveaway every Friday and I love the way you will be donating to charity too. I would choose Yasminah's Gift of Hope as my charity.
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I would have to choose the Calvary Outreach here where we live. They serve food for the homeless and really help out.
I also choose the Nature Conservancy
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Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Research! Thanks for doing this — what a wonderful idea!
What an awesome idea! I hope to do the same when I actually start making money on my blog. You are such an inspiration!!!
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I subscribed via email too… Would love to make a donation to the local food pantry, as they help so many people.
How very generous of you! I like the idea of Susan G. Komen for breast cancer awareness month too.
What a great site! I would choose RAINN as the charity.
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What a cool giveaway. I would choose the Nature Conservancy if I win.
I would choose the Humane Society!
Great Giveaway!
Great give away! I'll choose Mercy Corp. if I win. 😉
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Thank you for giving back! I would choose the Nature Conservancy as my charity.
Since October is breast cancer awareness month, I think Susan G. Komen would be a great charity to contribute to.
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This is an excellent idea both in terms of the charitableness and the likely readership expansion. I'll be following this closely.
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Thanks Jacob, great idea for a promotion. Just Tweeted!
I think this is a wonderful idea, Jacob. My favorite charity is OASIS For Children – an orphanage in Haiti, that provides shelter, education, and medical care to children without a family: http://www.oasisforchildren.org/
I serve as the treasurer for OASIS (I hope that doesn't disqualify them).
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Not at all KNS! That just makes it easier to get the money to the organization if you win! haha
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Wicked idea Jacob. Inspirational in fact. Best of luck with the giveaway. I gave it some tweet love.
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Thanks for helping out Miss T! Will be sure to keep the Yakezie thread updated with how the giveaway progresses!
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Ahh, so many good charities to support. I'm going to pick American Red Cross, since they help out people who are very incapable of helping themselves in a time of crisis typically. http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html
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The Red Cross is a very good one! Thanks for entering Kellen!
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Great idea, Jacob, on a number of levels. Great to meet you yesterday at Cville She-Blogs (and doesn't look like you need much help coming up with strategies to drive traffic to your blog)!
Great meeting you too! I'm not sure about that though..My site always can use tweaking!
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Cool concept, jacob. i like doing something similar and offering 100% of donations for services (when I do PR events) to a charity of choice 🙂
That's a great thing to do Dolly! Thanks for reading!
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What a cool idea Jacob! Kudos to you.
Glad you enjoyed Kath! Be up the great work on your site as well.
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I don't have a favorite charity, but I chose the first one that came to mind: Greenpeace. 🙂
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Thanks for entering 20sfinances. I've never heard of that charity actually. I'll have to check it out. I guess one of the great things about this giveaway is that it will expose me to some new charitable organizations out there! I'm excited.
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I don't want to enter, I just want to say that this idea is BRILLIANT!! I absolutely love it, and think you are amazing for doing this. You're 100% right that our blogs are around because of our readers, and I think this is a wonderful way to give back. Keep rockin' it bro.
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Thanks for your support J. Money!
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Right now I think my favorite charity would be the Idaho Foodbank
Looks like a great cause Alex! I'm heading over to their website now to check it out.
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