Card Reply

Hi Dani,
We found your card in the store today, (May 27)! How interesting. I did go to your web site to learn more, but the "click here" spot does not work. At any rate it is easy to decide what to do with your gift. We have a lady in the store that pays for groceries for people, buys street people lunches and gives where everyone else does not. Why this is a small token, the message to me without seeing your project is giving and love.

May God bless you richly in His plan.
Brooks

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Africa Bridge

Hi Danielle,

This is a great idea – I think you’re doing something with a lot of potential for an impactful message. Africa Bridge works in very poor communities in SW Tanzania, a very rural area without a great deal of economic viability or help from the outside community. Two dollars means quite a lot here – it represents how little they live on per day (less than one dollar) and also represents a difference between having food for the week or not. For two dollars, one orphan can attend school for one month (she needs $25 a year to pay for books, a uniform, and shoes – without them there is no school). The children we work with – the most vulnerable children and orphans – all want education more than anything else. For them, it is their ticket to a chance at reaching adulthood and earning living. So, I would say for us that what $2 means is a child’s chance to go to school for an entire month.

I’ll try to think of some other things.

Sandra

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Sandra Clark

Development Coordinator

(503)699-6162

www.africabridge.org

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Marion-Polk Food Share

Dani,

Great project! Good for you! I hope you consider entering your short films in our hunger film competition and festival, RUNNING ON EMPTY. I’m attaching information.

Here’s something to ponder: 91% of every dollar donated to Marion-Polk Food Share goes toward feeding the hungry. $10 will fill an emergency food box with enough food to feed a family of four for three to five days (about 50 pounds of food.) If you do the math, $2.00 will provide 10 pounds of food!

We wish you great success in this endeavor and hope to see an entry from you for RUNNING ON EMPTY! Keep us posted on your progress.

Best wishes,

Kat Daniel

Community Partnerships

Marion-Polk Food Share

(503) 581-3855 ext. 311

“Imagine…no hunger.”

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Volunteer Mobile, Inc.

Hi Danielle,

I think you're doing a great thing by launching this civic engagement
project in your hometown. Two dollars can go a long way in the non
profit sector. Here are a few things our agency can buy with two
dollars:

Countless seeds for a community garden to nourish our neighbors
and homeless

Lunch at the local homeless shelter

A used book at local used book store to give to bored kids in
shelters during hurricane season

Several hygiene items at the dollar store (toothbrush, soap,
toothpaste) for a wellness kit.

A few canned goods for the Bay Area Food Bank


Hope this helps.
Keep up the good work and best of luck with your campaign.

Kind regards,
Kate Johnson
Associate Executive Director
Volunteer Mobile, Inc.
1050 Government St. Suite 201
Mobile, AL 36604
251.433.4456
www.volunteermobile.org

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Open Arms

Thanks for your interest in Open Arms. We'd just done a little pricing exercise recently, so pulling these numbers was a snap! I'd be happy to make adjustments as necessary - if you have other ideas that would be more interesting to you... Choose the ones from the list below that you think are best.

$2 pays for 5 pounds of carrots.
$2 pays for apples for 12 clients
$2 pays for supplies for 4 turkey & cheese sandwiches
$2 pays for 14 oranges - an important source of vitamin C for our clients.
$2 pays for the containers for 10 clients' entrees.
$2 more than covers the cost of groceries for each client entree we prepare.

We're happy to help! Thanks, again, for helping us tell the story of Open Arms of Minnesota. We appreciate it.
Kent

Kent Linder
Open Arms of Minnesota
1414 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-872-1152
www.openarmsmn.org

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Women Identity Purpose

Hi Danielle,

Your project is interesting, it really made me "dig deep" and think, What would our organization do with two dollars? In this day and time two dollars does not have a lot of monteray value, however, sharing it with someone who is needy has a large emotional value attachment.

Two dollars could provide smiles to two small children's face by buying them McDonald's fries, or give a single working mother a chance to grab a sandwich from Wendy's dollar menu as she is "broke" waiting for her next paycheck to have a little extra funds; or even purchasing a few can goods from Aldi's for a meal.

I believe sharing with someone who is in need has a great value, whether it is $2 or $100, it is definitely the thought and caring behind the tangible which makes the difference.

CJ

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Ethel's Tree Of Life, Inc.

Hi, Dani

Thank you for contacting Ethel's Tree of Life (ETL). I'm glad you are doing this project. Two dollars would turn into 12.5 pounds of food for an ETL family if we used it at the food bank, or, would provide for a hamburger and a beverage for a hungry youth who just needs to sit and talk with someone they are comfortable with for a while. It would also provide for 27 miles worth of gas to pick up a youth who doesn't have transportation to one of our activities. Two dollars could buy a kitchen strainer or bowls at Goodwill for a youth who has just achieved independent living and needs items for a kitchen. Two dollars could buy a clean pair of underwear for a homeless youth. Two dollars makes a difference, Dani. Thank you for putting those envelopes out there.

Linda Higgins

Executive Director

Ethel's Tree of Life, Inc.

http://www.hubpages.com/hub/ethelstreeoflife

www.ethelstree.org

www.globalgiving.com/2868

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Children Internationally Abducted NYC

With two dollars we could buy a 14 oz. box of cereal at the supermarket that would be able to feed ten children.

Sincerely,
Barbara Mezo, Director
Children Internationally Abducted NYC

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Village United Methodist Church

Hi Dani

At first I was going to put the money in the tip jar down at the 63rd Street Car Wash, because those guys are out in triple digit temperatures this week to shine up other people's vehicles. But on second thought, it occurred to me that some of them would not welcome an old lady coming by to take their picture with a camera. So I changed the project.

Near my home there is a large neighborhood known as The Village, where many elderly and disabled people live as well as young families buying first homes. It's wonderfully diverse, but declining due to the inability of many to afford home repairs. There are several churches in the Village that do a great job of ministry, some delivering mobile meals to the homebound, others maintaining emergency nursery and pantry supplies, etc. My home church, the Village United Methodist Church, has a long tradition of serving supper on Wednesday evenings to all who come for dinner --no charge, no donation basket, no money requested or even accepted. Supper is served from 5 pm to 6:30, after which there is a short service for people who want to stay for it, though this is not suggested or even announced at dinner. Many church members come to dinner on Wednesday, especially our elderly, for companionship as well as a meal, but so do many neighbors who have no association with the church at all. There is a donation spot just outside the sanctuary in another part of the building. Wednesday night dinners are funded for the Village community entirely by anonymous donations in the "campfire" basket. I have attached two photos here so you can see the donation basket with your two dollars, plus two more sent separately -- the early arrivals for tonight's supper, and the two ladies who are serving tonight's menu of ham, sweet potatoes, rolls, and cookies, lemonade, tea, coffee, and water. I hope you are pleased with the way your project dollars were used for a "good neighbor" supper program.
Love, Sandy

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Peru 109

Hola Dani,

Thanks for getting in touch with us with your question and also for sharing with us about your project. I am looking forward to reading more about the various outcomes this summer!

Our organization is Peru 109, and we lead volunteer programs in three different cities in Peru: Chimbote, Trujillo, and San Sebastian (Cusco). Two dollars equals approximately six soles (the Peruvian currency), and here are some examples of what that might help with:

* photocopies for 60 children of a story, drawing, or writing/math practice at one of our partner schools
* ingredients for baking a batch of oatmeal cookies (our volunteers work with people with disabilities and survivors of domestic violence to help them sell baked goods and earn profits)
* round trip bus fare to downtown Cusco for 5 women who are looking for employment
* 6 hours of internet use for our volunteers to research information to teach English, children's activities, support women survivors of domestic violence
* glue and popsicle sticks for 30 children to complete a creative building project
* 6 printed photos for families who have never seen a photograph of themselves


Please let us know if you have any additional question!
Sincerely,
Anne Olivo


anne@peru109.org
Co-Founder and Co-Director
Peru 109 LLC
http://www.peru109.org
PO Box 274
Groton, VT 05046
(888)PERU-109

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Food and School Supplies in Honduras

Hi Dani, I hope all is well. I will use the $2 to add to funds I collect for children in Honduras (where I do a study abroad trip each year). The funds I collect are used for the purchase of the most basic food supplies and sometimes for school supplies. So thanks! JoAnn



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JoAnn Phillion
Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, BRNG 4144
100 N. University Street
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2098
Email: phillion@purdue.edu
URL: http://www.edci.purdue.edu/phillion/

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There Is A Guy By the Interstate

Dani,
Finally!!! We used the $2.00 to buy a homeless 2 tacos from taco bell. (you know the people you see standing by the interstate).

Brooke

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Kids Food Basket

Dani~

This is the email I sent to some of my co-workers. Your $2 turned into $10. Which is the donation I'm sending to them today. I will include a note about your website too. This is a non-profit feeding hungry kids in my area. Sorry it took so long to get around to it. I didn't forget. :)

Lisa


Ladies,

A friend of mine from high school has started a project... It's very catchy.. I wanted to share about it and ask for help. The premise of the project is The Power of 2. What can $2 really do? When you think about it, at first it doesn't seem like a lot of money... but it really is.

She mailed us all envelopes with $2, and asked us to do something with the $2 let her know what it was we decided to do. Did we buy a coffee, by a card and mail it to a friend we haven't talked to in a while, save it, etc. The only stipulation is you can only spend $2. Not $2 and tax.. $2.

With the $2 she sent me I'm going to donate it to Kids Food Basket (www.kidsfoodbasket.org) which provides sack dinners to kids locally (in Grand Rapids, MI) that would otherwise have no dinner. Their website says that they can purchase food items at the rate of 1 pound for 15 cents... That means that the seed money she sent me will buy 13 pounds of food!! I'm going to add my own $2 to this totalling $4...and we are off!!

Wanna see how many pounds of food we can purchase for this organization? Would you like to join me in adding $2? I would gladly put your $2 with mine.

What can YOU do with $2?

http://www.twodollarproject.blogspot.com/ (for more information on this project)

Thanks!

Lisa

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