ApplaUSe For A Cause

End of Year and Donations

Because December 31st is the end of the year, the next few days of 2009 are a great time for Americans to donate to their favorite charities and receive a tax deduction by April 2010 or so.

There are some great charity links among the Applause4acause Hall of Fame or you can choose one or more of your favorites.

Do you have any ideas or recommendations for the ApplaUSe For A Cause blog for next year? Would you like to do a guest post to write about a favorite charity?

"Sweet" Facebook Game Benefits St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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If you are a Facebook user, you can help St. Jude to take care of some children with cancer and other diseases. The hospital welcomes them no matter what the family's income may be.All it takes is to play a game where you run a virtual candy shop and give free candy to friends who also play the game. Of course, you are encouraged to use real money to buy virtual candy and help St. Jude, but there's no obligation. The app is called Willy's Sweet Shop ,

and it is a sweet way to make a difference!

P.S. There is a similar facebook app that also raises funds for St. Jude, called O Christmas Tree

Local Charity Founder Is A 2009 CNN Hero

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

Clay Aiken

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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

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As I mentioned in a previous entry in my other blog, Ccol4him's Claymania; Jordan Thomas is a young man from Chattanooga who lost his legs in a boating accident and began forming the Jordan Thomas Foundation in his hospital bed. The foundation helps children who need prostheses and aren't able to afford them and the therapy that they need. If you visit the foundation site, you can find out about 3 of the children that the foundation has helped. One was featured on the CNN special on Thanksgiving Night.

You can also see the video and article at CNN;

CNN Heroes-Jordan Thomas Video

CNN Heroes - Special Reports from CNN.com

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