How to Support🙌 Renewable Energy (and Why You😃 Really Should) ow.ly/hu0f30dLa93 by Sabrina Stierwalt✏ #ScientificAmerican📰

"Earlier this month came the news that China🇨🇳 plans to invest $361 billion💵 into renewable energy projects over the next three years. A few days later..."

(Renewable energy is no longer the future🚀, it is NOW!)

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One Acre Fund supplies smallholder farmers with financing and training to grow their way out of hunger and poverty. www.oneacrefund.org/ #oneacrefund @openheartsopenhands

Challenged Athletes Foundation @cafoundation offer grants to individuals with physical challenges to provide opportunity and support for an active lifestyle through fitness and competitive athletes.

Please check out the amazing work they are doing at: www.challengedathletes.org/

(Our strength lies in our ability to turn an obstacle into an opportunity.)

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www.worldvision.org/ partners with children, families, and their communities to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

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Project Healthy Children👧 (PHC) www.projecthealthychildren.com works with national governments and manufacturers to fortify staple foods🍎🌽🍇 with essential micronutrients, protecting populations🌎 from debilitating conditions caused by malnutrition.

(Children👲 in Bonteheuwel township in Cape Town, South Africa)

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amnestyusa.org/ Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights.

www.humanesociety.org/, The Humane Society is the nation's largest and most effective animal protection organization.

www.lls.org/ The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

www.caringbridge.org/ believes that in times of need, the greatest source of hope and healing is the love of family and friends.

ww5.komen.org/ Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation saves lives by meeting the most critical needs and investing in research to prevent and cure breast cancer.

www.ffa.org/home Future Farmers of America is an intracurricular student organization for those interested in agriculture and leadership.

www.unhcr.org/ The UN Refugee Agency has been protecting the rights and well-being of refugees all over the world.

ALSA.org builds hope and enhances quality of life while searching for new treatments for ALS #OpenHeartsOpenHands #ALS

www.unitedway.org/ The United Way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.

www.ashoka.org/en Ashoka works to see a world where the development of young changemakers and the practice of changemaking are the norm. @HeartsOpenHands

Challenged Athletes Foundation @cafoundation offer grants to individuals with physical challenges to provide opportunity and support for an active lifestyle through fitness and competitive athletes.

Please check out the amazing work they are doing at: www.challengedathletes.org/

(Our strength lies in our ability to turn an obstacle into an opportunity.)

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acumen.org/ Acumen raises charitable donations to invest in companies, leaders, and ideas that are changing the way the world tackles poverty.

Save the Children works to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children

acumen.org/ Acumen raises charitable donations to invest in companies, leaders, and ideas that are changing the way the world tackles poverty.

www.humanesociety.org/ is the nation's largest and most effective animal protection organization.

SafeKids.org, Safe Kids Worldwide is a global organization dedicated to preventing injuries in children, the number one killer of kids in the US.

CreativeCommons.org helps us legally share our knowledge and creativity to build a better world #OpenHeartsOpenHands #CreativeCommons

NationalMSSociety.org, National Multiple Sclerosis Society focuses on those affected by MS so that they can live their best lives and work to end MS forever.

"Project Healthy Children": www.thelifeyoucansave.org/…/Project-Healthy-Children works against malnutrition worldwide.

acumen.org/ Acumen raises charitable donations to invest in companies, leaders, and ideas that are changing the way the world tackles poverty.

GlobalGiving.org is the first and largest global crowdfunding community that connects nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country worldwide.

acumen.org/ Acumen raises charitable donations to invest in companies, leaders, and ideas that are changing the way the world tackles poverty.

www.csis.org/ Center For Strategic & International Studies is a research organization dedicated to providing strategic insights and policy solutions to help decision-makers chart a course toward a better world.

bigcatrescue.org/ Big Cat Rescue works to end the abuse of exotic cats by ending the private possession and trade through legislation and education.

Defenders.org allows us to help safeguard wildlife and the lands and climate they depend on to survive.

GarySiniseFoundation.org to honor the nation's defenders, veterans, first responders and their families

invisiblechildren.com/ We will not stop until all communities in the forgotten corners of our world have the safety they need and deserve.

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~ American author best known for his bestselling work, ‘Life’s Little Instruction Book’

Our lives are defined not by what we have, but by what we give to others. The most important part of giving is in realizing that life is not about us, it’s about using the days we have to make the lives better for those around us.

Often the tough question is not whether to give, it is how and what should be given? Wanting to give is key but it is only beneficial if we provide value to those who shall receive. Too often it seems that when we give, we guess at what other people want, rather than asking them what they need.

Charitable giving should be viewed through the looking glass of solid, business decision-making in relation to what product should be brought to market. The best companies are no longer guessing at the solution that their customers want. They realize that since the products they create are for their customers, they should be involving them in the ideation process.

If our main goal as a business is to solve a problem, and that problem we are attempting to solve is for the end consumer, why should we not co-create with them? It is when we feel that we have all the answers without doing the proper research, that we construct a product no one really needs. Instead, we need to engage our customers around a mission statement, around our bigger purpose, so that we can get to know them, and so that they can get to know us.

Once we have engaged them properly, we can begin to ask them what they want, and more importantly, what they need. Our customers should be just as much a part of the creation process as us; we can’t forget that they are the ones for whom we are inventing. When we co-create efficiently, we let our customers design the product, and then we just manufacture for them. We then are able to guarantee that what we bring to market is exactly what they wanted and exactly what they are willing to pay for.

The same mindset needs to hold true for how and what we give. We may look at people from afar and think we know what resources they need. We may think that we have all the answers, but in thinking this way, we are only serving ourselves. The essential part of giving is doing the proper research first so that we can better understand who these people are, and how they can best be helped.

When we take the time to get to know people, we have a better insight into how we can be of service to them, how we can provide value to their lives. It is then, and only then, that we have the data necessary to give the way they always wanted to be received. The greatest gift is showing love, and is attainable only when we understand how people want to be loved. People want to feel appreciated, and that doesn’t start with a tangible gift, that starts with taking time to love who they are, and who they want to be.

When we look at gifting like we do creating a product, we understand that it is the end user for whom we are trying to help. The focus needs to be diverged away from the ones who are giving and onto the ones who need that gift. The greatest joy of giving is only attainable when we concentrate on the goal of understanding people so that we can understand how we can be of help.

When you give is it because you see a need that others may have? Or do you take the time to ask them what resource can make the largest impact on their lives? What we give is undeniably important, but only if we have first taken the time to understand, only if we have first taken the time to love.

Let’s make sure that when we give it is not for our own accord, but it is for the betterment of humankind. When we take the time to love, we take the time to give unselfishly. Open hearts open hands. How open is yours?

(The first step in giving is to love.)

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Oceana.org is dedicated to protecting and restoring the world's oceans on a global scale.

www.heart.org/HEARTORG/, The American Heart Association is working to help kids, families and communities live hearth-healthy lives.

EDF.org , Environmental Defense Fund, forges solutions that let people and nature prosper. #OpenHeartsOpenHands #EDF

acumen.org/ Acumen raises charitable donations to invest in companies, leaders, and ideas that are changing the way the world tackles poverty.

www.one.org/us/ One is an international campaigning and advocacy organization taking action to end extreme poverty and disease.

"There is some good in this world and it's worth fighting for." - #JRRTolkien @CoBrandSocial @OpenHeartsOpenHands #FightforGood

If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down. @openheartsopenhands @imagingworldwide #FlyAbove #Drones #BirdsFly

Compassion.com is the world's leading authority in holistic child development through sponsorship #Compassion #OpenHeartsOpenHands

Life's most persistent and urgent question is--'what are you doing for others?' @feedingamerica @nrdc_org #LoveOneAnother @openheartsopenhands

Farm Aid works to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America www.farmaid.org

bestfriends.org/ works towards a better world through kindness to animals.

"There is no friend as loyal as a book." - #ErnestHemingway @RenewOurPlanet @OpenHeartsOpenHands

International Rescue Committee serves refugees and communities victimized by oppression and violent conflict worldwide. www.rescue.org