Topic: charity

STFU Parents: When ‘It Takes A Village’ Includes Baby Fundraising On Facebook

STFU Parents: When 'It Takes A Village' Includes Baby Fundraising On Facebook

This is a new-ish trend, brought about by the success of Kickstarter and other fundraisers on sites like Go Fund Me or Indiegogo. Those sites have had their share of criticism when popular, but perhaps frivolous, campaigns raise well over $1 million when other, less flashy campaigns struggle to reach their limits and serve a more serious purpose (like, say, a campaign to raise funds for teachers to buy school supplies).

That said, nothing comes close to parents using these platforms to raise funds to help them have or adopt a baby. The concept has some moral implications that raise the question, “What about this feels so…wrong?” It’s one of those occasions that the definition of “overshare” is relatively broad, because charity can apply to so many things. More »

Mom Used Kickstarter And Her Son’s Bullying To Pay For Her Daughter’s Gaming Camp

Mom Used Kickstarter And Her Son's Bullying To Pay For Her Daughter's Gaming Camp

I have an 8-year-old daughter who has older brothers. My daughter likes gaming. Her older brothers encourage her and play with her, and my first issue with this whole thing is that if you have a young daughter who is being bullied in her own house and told by her big brothers that she is incapable of doing something because of her gender, as your mom it is YOUR job to shut that shit down, not take it to Kickstarter to raise money to send your daughter to gamer camp when you clearly don’t need the money. More »

Go Grab The Kleenex, No Really. Some Kids From Sandy Hook Recorded ‘Over The Rainbow’ At A Rock Star’s House

Go Grab The Kleenex, No Really. Some Kids From Sandy Hook Recorded 'Over The Rainbow' At A Rock Star's House

Children who were present inside the school when gunman Adam Lanza went on his mass shooting spree have recorded a cover of “Over The Rainbow” with proceeds to benefit Newtown Youth Academy, a local nonprofit, and to the United Way of Western Connecticut. The 20 kids, ages six through nine, were invited to Talking Head’s Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz‘s Connecticut home, where they recorded the track which will be sold on iTunes. More »

Krim Family Healing After Tragedy Where Nanny Murdered Children Shows Us How Strong Parents Are

Krim Family Healing After Tragedy Where Nanny Murdered Children Shows Us How Strong Parents Are

The crime was unthinkable for some many parents. The idea that you could entrust your children to be cared for by someone who would take their lives in such a brutal, horrific way. I’m not sure how any parents can move on after losing a child, much less children. I’m pretty positive it is the most difficult thing on earth.  Marina and Kevin Krim have taken to the Internet to talk about the healing that has taken place since their awful tragedy and how their surviving daughter Nessie is helping them heal. More »

Charity Offers Flooding Into Newtown After The Sandy Hook Shootings

Charity Offers Flooding Into Newtown After The Sandy Hook Shootings

When so many of us are still so sad after the Sandy Hook killings left 27 dead, it is so amazingly heart-warming to read about all of the good samaritans who are trying to help the community any way they can. People all over the world mourn for this community. When the world is getting ready to celebrate Christmas, we are one with the people who have their holidays cloaked in sadness because of all of the lives lost. More »

Sandy Hook, The Westboro Baptist Church, And How We Are All Anonymous

Sandy Hook, The Westboro Baptist Church, And How We Are All Anonymous

We need to know that in our darkest times, when things like Hurricane Sandy happen, when Sandy Hook happens, when it seems there is no light or hope and that there is nothing good left in the world, that there is. It just goes without a face, and it goes with no membership fees, and it goes a lot of the time with no recognition. You can’t join Anonymous. But all of us are Anonymous. More »

Click for more posts