Day 364…just one more day after today’s blog post to come full circle with my year-long commitment. But this movement will continue on. This weekend an important new chapter will begin for the Year of Giving. Our first Kindness Investor will start blogging about her giving experience. I can’t wait for you to meet Melinda [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Day 364 – Roman S.
Posted in Food & Beverage, tagged $10, cold, Dupont Circle, immigrants, night, Starbucks on December 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Day 362 – Jen B.
Posted in Something for others, tagged $10, death, favorites, heros, love, Manassas, remembrance, sad, VA, war on December 29, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Today marks the first day of giving for our newest Kindness Investor from Seattle: Petra. I spoke to another future Kindness Investor earlier this week. His name is Michael B. from Connecticut and he will start his week of kindness investing on January 5th. Slowly I am getting people to join this movement; a [...]
Day 363 – Meg P.
Posted in Gave the money to someone else, tagged books, cafe, coffee, couple, DC, Dupont, rain, washington on December 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It was the Sunday before my Year of Giving Anniversary Celebration on December 14th and I was scrambling to get everything done that I needed to do. I had taken a break from my planning to meet up with a friend of mine who was visiting from Sao Paulo, Brazil. We went to Maggiano’s for [...]
Day 361 – Charmaine S.
Posted in Food & Beverage, Something for themself, tagged $10, Alcohol, danger, DC, disability, fear, mental illness, poor, Southeast, washington on December 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The Year of Giving made AOL’s Top 10 Good News Stories of 2010! Wow! I can’t believe it. Check the link above to read all ten amazing stories! I was over in Southwest picking up the autographed baseball that the Nats donated for the fundraising auction when I decided to find somebody in the neighborhood [...]
Day 360 – Tomas J.
Posted in Food & Beverage, tagged $10, baseball, DC, Dupont, mascots, nationals, presidents, sports, Thomas Jefferson, washington on December 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I couldn’t dream up some of the people that I come across. Today, I ran across Thomas Jefferson, one of the four Washington Nationals’ mascots! It was ironic, because the day before I had reached out to the National’s organization to ask for a donation item for the year-end celebration raffle. By the way, they came [...]
Day 359 – Pierre C.
Posted in Food & Beverage, tagged $10, cab, DC, family, favorite, haiti, immigrants, taxi, washington on December 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
After attending a luncheon fundraiser for Room to Read that featured journalists Cokie and Steve Roberts, I hailed a cab and headed over to my office at 24th and M Streets. I asked the cab driver how his day was and he responded, “Wonderful. Every day is beautiful!” I peered up at the name listed on [...]
Day 358 – James W.
Posted in Food & Beverage, tagged $10, Chinatown, cold, DC, homeless, homelessness, night, washington on December 25, 2010 | 5 Comments »
There was a lot of talk earlier this week of a white Christmas here in Pennsylvania, but so far no snow. I had a wonderful holiday with my father, brother and sister-in-law. I got some great presents and had fun making cookies and playing bridge. I am stuffed though. No more food for me until Spring. [...]
Day 356 – Alberto B.
Posted in Something for others, tagged $10, cold, DC, funny, night, nonprofits, washington on December 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s Christmas eve and I am in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. I spent most of the day in the kitchen cooking and baking. From a chocolate chess pie to cranberry chutney to marinated mushroom crescents…it was a food-centric day. I might have also started a new tradition of mojitos on Christmas Eve. They were crowd pleaser. By [...]
Day 355 – Daniel B.
Posted in Donation, tagged $10, DC, music, nonprofits, singing, video, volunteering, washington on December 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
How many times have you walked by the Salvation Army bell-ringer in your lifetime? Probably hundreds. How many times have you stopped to make a donation? Probably a fraction of those times if you are like most people. Have you ever stopped to speak to the bell-ringer? Well, I did and met Daniel. [...]
Day 354 – “Ilyas H.”
Posted in Donation, tagged $10, anonymous, DC, immigrants, international, washington on December 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Many people have told me how they were touched by what Alex from Day 109 did with his $10. He was the Georgetown student who took his new-found money to the supermarket and bought supplies to bake cookies with and then passed them out to people that he saw every day but didn’t really know. [...]
Day 353 – Adam J.
Posted in Alcohol, tagged $10, books, DC, generosity, nonprofits, random acts of kindness, story, video, washington on December 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Are you unemployed and want something inspiring to do for the next seven days? Well, I have a solution for you! Become a Kindness Investor and give $10 away every day to a new stranger for a week and then share your experiences here on the Year of Giving. I need someone to start tomorrow!!! [...]
Day 351 – Jim M.
Posted in Food & Beverage, tagged $10, DC, Dupont Circle, favorites, homeless, homelessness, night, video, washington on December 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
So many of the 365 people that I have met have touched my soul. They have made me think about things that I would have never had the perspective to ponder prior to taking this walk. Jim, a 52-year-old homeless resident of Washington, DC, invited me into his world for a while. Will you join [...]
Day 350 – Natalie J.
Posted in Gave the money to someone else, tagged $10, bikes, DC, Dupont, exercise, gym, jobs, night, washington on December 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I am constantly trying to find new places to give my $10 away. I was walking over to my gym the other day, a walk that I have made far too infrequently these days, when I realized that I had never given my money away there. It’s a little weird to go up to someone [...]
Day 349 – Margie K.
Posted in Gave the money to someone else, tagged $10, DC, gallery place, hockey, media, sports, verizon center, video, washington, working on December 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday evening was Day 365 of my Year of Giving. It was absolutely brilliant. It was so good to see so many past recipients of my $10 joined by blog followers, family and friends. I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect evening. If you want to get a taste of how the evening went, [...]
Day 347 – Stacie F.
Posted in Something for others, tagged $10, beer, brewery, children, coincidence, holidays, pa, Pottsville, travel on December 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow is the big day! I am sadly not going to be caught up with my blog posts by Tuesday, Day 365. At one point I thought I could do it, but I have to let that idea go. I am still looking for people who are out of work and would be willing to [...]
Day 346 – Kristen S.
Posted in Donation, tagged $10, babies, dad, family, holidays, Mechanicsburg, night, nonprofits, pa, streets, Thanksgiving on December 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Three more days… Today’s blog post is from Day 346 which was Thanksgiving. I was in Mechanicsburg with my father. Dad cooked a delicious turkey and I handled some of the sides. My favorite is the stuffing. In fact I made two stuffings. Dad prefers cornbread stuffing, but I’m more of a bread stuffing guy. [...]
Day 345 – Cliff W.
Posted in Gave the money to someone else, tagged $10, cafes, coffee, DC, delivery, Dupont, holidays, night, Starbucks, washington, working on December 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Just four more days. Wow…time flies when you are having fun (and scrambling to get everything ready for Tuesday’s celebration!) Lots of recipients and blog followers have RSVP’d for the event. It will surely be an interesting evening. Some donations are coming in for the raffle and auction, but still no primary sponsor. Hmmm….it looks [...]
Day 344 – Deb F.
Posted in Food & Beverage, tagged $10, coincidence, DC, Dupont, live, music, night, performances, singing, video, washington on December 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I never know where I am going to find my recipients. Today I found Deb at the Potbelly’s where she was playing guitar. It’s cool that Potbelly’s has musicians in there. It’s not a place that you would expect to hear some great local talent, but Deb is pretty awesome. I ordered their Uptown Salad [...]
Day 348 – Melvin S.
Posted in Food & Beverage, Something for others, tagged $10, central pennsylvania, dad, Hershey, hockey, pa, sports, stadiums, violence on December 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This post is a little out of order, but I will get caught up on the ones I skipped by this weekend. I am getting behind doing my day jobs, planning for the Year of Giving Celebration next Tuesday, giving my daily $10 away and planning the next year’s commitment! Trying to sleep now and [...]
Day 343 – Lorrie H.
Posted in Food & Beverage, tagged donations, homeless, homelessness, newspaper, smile, Street Sense on December 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Still no major sponsor for the Year of Giving Anniversary event. Have spoken to a few law firms, they have passed. Had two corporate companies analyzing it too, one passed the other one now has completely gone silent. Although I try not to be bitter, the sad reality is that these companies spend this on business [...]
Day 342 – Lisa P.
Posted in Food & Beverage, tagged $10, Chinatown, cold, DC, homeless, homelessness, night, washington, water on December 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I found Lisa wrapped in a sleeping bag nestled in an alcove in front of a Chinatown building near the intersection of 9th and E Streets. I walked about 20 feet past her and decided to go back and give her my $10. It was about 10:00pm and sun drenched streets had long been replaced [...]
Day 341 – Gayle N. & Andrew N.
Posted in Donation, tagged $10, Greenbelt, MD, musicals, night, nonprofits, performances, theatre, volunteering, waiter on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago I headed up to Greenbelt, Maryland to see a musical dinner theatre performance of The Sound of Music. It was held at the MAD Theater which is actually a special interest club at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center devoted to the theatrical arts and supported by the Goddard Employees Welfare Association. My [...]
Day 340 – Denyse P.
Posted in Something for themself, tagged $10, Capitol Hill, church, DC, jazz, music, video, washington on December 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am not a huge music fan. I don’t have libraries of music or walk around with earphones attached to my head, but I do enjoy live music. It’s a little like sports. I couldn’t care too much if I watch a game on television, but I really enjoy going to a game. The energy [...]
Day 339 – Matt
Posted in Gave the money to someone else, tagged $10, cafe, DC, giving, law, night, research, school, studies, washington on December 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m starting to think that this city has too many law students. Ok, I guess it makes sense since Washington is our government’s central nervous system. But Molly was applying to law schools, Sarah from yesterday was in her third year of law school and today’s recipient is currently applying to law schools. It was [...]
Day 338 – Sarah B.
Posted in Unknown, tagged $10, DC, Dupont, hair, law, legal, night, school, washington on December 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m 10 days away from the 365th recipient. It’s hard to believe. I have met so many amazing individuals through my daily giving as well as through the blog. Letters and comments have poured in day after day giving me telling me how my story has inspired them in some way and offering encouragement to [...]
Day 337 – Phiona K.
Posted in Food & Beverage, Gave the money to someone else, tagged $10, DC, Dupont Cirlce, economy, jobs, Metro, November, rain, statistics, unemployed, unemployment, washington on December 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
After being unemployed for 285 days, I have a special connection when I give my $10 to someone out of work. According to data released by the US Department of Labor yesterday, unemployment has risen to 9.8% from 9.6% where it had hovered since August. That represents 15.1 million people who can not find work. [...]
Day 336 – Antoine B.
Posted in Gave the money to someone else, Savings, tagged $10, children, football, fundraising, kids, night, Redskins, sponsorship, washington on December 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I just got home from work, kicked my shoes off and scanned around my messy apartment. This week has been crazy and I have kind of let things get out of control around here. Well, I have blocked off this weekend to get things done, so hopefully that includes getting things straightened up. Day 336 [...]
Day 335 – Paul
Posted in Food & Beverage, tagged $10, Adam's Morgan, bike, DC, messenger, music, night, video, washington on December 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Before I get to today’s recipient, I need your help to find two things. First, I need a couple of people who are out of work who would be willing to take the same challenge that I have done this year for a week or two. In other words to go out and give $10 [...]
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