They had so many fantastic supporters that they completely dominated the board this month… they have over 70% of the votes! Great job spreading awareness for their cause MAKEGOODERS!
Thanks for supporting the youth in your community YESS and congratulations! The crowds have spoken! A financial contribution from the MakeGood community will be coming your way in the coming weeks.
ABOUT YESS
YESS Org provides emergency services for at-risk youth in Alberta as they identified a gap in available resources to those aged 16 to 18. During those critical teen years, there are no resources to help those in unfortunate circumstances to get assistance for housing, food, and safety.
THEIR MISSION
Giving youth at risk a chance
If you want to nominate a charity for February 2010 - please email me!
HONOURABLE MENTION
Room to Read - provides education (schools + libraries) to communities throughout the developing world (www.roomtoread.org)
Their Mission
They partner with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries, creating local language children’s literature, constructing schools, and providing education to girls. We seek to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education empowers people to improve socioeconomic conditions for their families, communities, countries and future generations. Through the opportunities that only education can provide, we strive to break the cycle of poverty, one child at a time.
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WE UPDATED OUR MAKEGOOD WEBSITE!!!
To celebrate the new year and in aims to inspire new companies to be socially responsible we are offering a promocode to our special BLOG READERS.
Our Annual Membership is $149.99, and RIGHT NOW (until March 31, 2010)… when you join…. $50 from your membership will go back to the HAITI relief fund.
“The 2010 Haitian earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake. Its epicentre was near Léogâne, approximately 25 km (16 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010,at a depth of 13 km (8.1 miles). The United States Geological Survey recorded a series of at least 33 aftershocks, 14 of which were between magnitudes 5.0 and 5.9. The International Red Cross estimated that about three million people were affected by the quake; the Haitian Interior Minister, Paul Antoine Bien-Aimé, anticipated on 15 January that the disaster would claim between 100,000 and 200,000 lives.”
Help Twitter to your networks to get the word out for these GREAT causes and spread some awareness for them!
Thanks for helping to make good.
Shortlisted charities:
International China Concern - provides housing, food, education and hope to abandoned and disabled children in China (www.chinaconcern.org)
Room to Read - provides education (schools + libraries) to communities throughout the developing world (www.roomtoread.org)
Youth Emergency Shelter Society - provides services and opportunities for at risk youth to become confident and self-reliant (www.yess.org)
Alberta Food Bank - provides support and leadership to food banks in Alberta; short term relief of food insecurity while working on long term solutions for hunger and poverty (www.afbna.ca)
Predators in Peril Project - awareness campaign for endangered shark and ray species (www.elasmodiver.com)
“Joel and Danny Nagtegaal have launched an innovative campaign that combines patriotism and philanthropy, encouraging Canadians to buy a goat for a needy African family for each Gold Medal we win in the Games
The charity is a spinoff of Goat Canucks Goat, which Joel started last spring to buy a goat for each playoff game the Canucks won….Their goal was 16 goats, but they wound up with 1,073.”
When disasters or conflicts occur, families are often forced to flee, leaving everything. Sometimes they live in camps for years. Once their land is safe again, CRWRC helps the family to return. Unfortunately, all too often the conflict or disaster that destroyed a family’s possessions also destroyed their livelihood. One of the most precious commodities can be livestock. Provide a goat to help a family resettle in their land; give them a head start in rebuilding their lives.
Services they provide youth with: 1) Shelter 2) Drop-in 3) Outreach (for more info click here)
The MakeGood Team salutes GPYESS for the fantastic work that they do for the youth in their community. Please help them raise more awareness by TWEETING out this blog and/or donate to their worthy cause.
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Food Alliance- supports safe and fair working conditions for farm and food facility worker, humane treatment of animals, protection of wildlife habitat, reduction of pesticides and conservation of energy (www.foodalliance.org)
The Detroit Area Diaper Bank - raises awareness and helps those who need diapers in their community eg: babies from low-income households, the elderly, people with disabilities (www.detroitareadiaperbank.org)
Remember MakeGood Members, by being a member and helping vote - you are helping to do GOOD and you will receive an auto-post every month to your Badge Profile. To check out or join MakeGood, please click HERE.
Vancouver, BC – December 29, 2009 – 6S Marketing is proud to announce their membership with MakeGood, the world’s leading community for good business – a growing network of companies committed to social responsibility and supporting charitable organizations.
As a member of MakeGood, 6S now displays the “MakeGood Badge” on their website as a symbol of their commitment to being a socially responsible company. The badge serves as a link to 6S’s dynamic and interactive profile that highlights the positive community contributions that are made throughout the year.
“Community involvement has always been an integral part of 6S’s company values, and through MakeGood, we can reach out to and help a diverse range of charities that are important to our staff,” says Chris Breikss, 6S Marketing Co-Founder and President.
Based on a keen understanding of the importance of giving back to the community, 6S recognizes that employees become engaged and committed when they work for a company that is aligned with their values. The company has a long history of community involvement and support. Management and employees are actively involved in various community groups and fundraisers including the North Shore Search & Rescue, Weekend to End Breast Cancer, Movember, Camp Goodtimes, imagine1day and Y.E.S! Vancouver.
Membership with MakeGood will help coordinate such involvement according to a structure and each month, 6S Marketing contributes to a cause that is determined by an open online community vote. To date, 6S has donated to the United Way of the Lower Mainland, Upwardly Global and STEPS CHARITY through MakeGood.
MakeGood provides a unique online marketing system that helps companies communicate social responsibility and core business through the MakeGood Badge, Profile and Platform.
About 6S Marketing – 6S Marketing Inc. is recognized as one of North America’s top internet marketing companies. They provide search engine and social media marketing services aimed at increasing profits through a targeted and effective online presence. 6S takes a cutting edge approach to internet marketing and since 2000, has been increasing revenues for hundreds of clients, including some of North America’s most respected brands.
6S is a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant, Authorized AdWords Company and a Google Website Optimizer Authorized Consultant and was recently named one of the Top 50 companies to work for in British Columbia, Canada. They operate out of the stylish Yaletown district in downtown Vancouver, Canada. For more information about 6S Marketing, visit www.6smarketing.com.
About MakeGood – MakeGood is a growing network of socially responsible companies who are committed to doing good. MakeGood provides a unique online marketing system that helps companies communicate their social responsibility and their core business through the MakeGood Badge, Profile &Platform.
For more information please contact:
Nicole Hall
Sara Pereira: Marketing & Communications
p: 604.568.9454 l m: 778.231.4284
e: nicole@sara-pereira.com
Help Twitter to your networks to get the word out for these GREAT causes and spread some awareness for them!
Here are the Charities to vote for this month:
Union Gospel Mission - offers hope to hungry, hurting and homeless men, women, youth and children in Metro Vancouver (www.ugm.ca)
Food Alliance- supports safe and fair working conditions for farm and food facility worker, humane treatment of animals, protection of wildlife habitat, reduction of pesticides and conservation of energy (www.foodalliance.org)
Grand Prairie Youth Emergency Shelter Society (Sunrise House) - provides a safe, temporary, confidential place to stay for youth ages 12-17 who have no other safe place to go (www.sunrisehouse.ca)
The Detroit Area Diaper Bank - raises awareness and helps those who need diapers in their community eg: babies from low-income households, the elderly, people with disabilities (www.detroitareadiaperbank.org)
Beauty Night - heals marginalized women and youth by teaching them tools to integrate into our communities. Beauty Night Society believes beauty is more than skin deep and has touched the lives of thousands (http://beautynight.org)
But there can only be one winner and that winner is………………
*drum roll*
STEPS CHARITY!!!!!
They received 44.5% of community votes! (Last week, they were only at 33%. See…every vote counts!)
Congratulations! The crowds have spoken! A financial contribution from the MakeGood community will be coming your way in the coming weeks.
ABOUT STEPS CHARITY
Steps Charity is a South African charity that provides funds, information and support for kids with clubfoot and other limb disorders.
“More doctors in South Africa need updated information on treatment, health department guidelines need changing and parents need easy access to the correct information. This is what Steps is planning to improve the future of our children. Children living in rural areas or in depressed socio-economic conditions are not getting adequate care or information.”
Smile Train -a very commendable charity focused on a single problem- to help those with cleft lip and palate.
Their mission:
-To provide free cleft surgery for millions of poor children in developing countries.
-To provide free cleft-related training for doctors and medical professionals.
If you want to see how you can help, please click HERE.
The Cara Program - a charity that assists motivated individuals affected by homelessness and poverty to transform their lives.
The results of their good work:
+ More than 2,500 individuals affected by homelessness and poverty placed into quality, permanent jobs since 1991.
+ Currently, 73% of students remain employed for one year or more.
+ The current average hourly wage for employed students is $10.88, more than $3.00 above the federal minimum wage.
+ Over 100+ Chicago area companies hire Cara students.
+ More than 500 graduates enrolled in The Cara Program’s matched savings initiative.
+ Over $200,000 paid out in matched savings.
+ Dozens of Cara graduates are now homeowners.
+ Hundreds of parents have reclaimed custody of their children.
To see how you can assist them further in their mission, please click HERE.
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Remember MakeGood Members, by being a member and helping vote - you are helping to do GOOD and you will receive an auto-post every month to your Badge Profile. To check out or join MakeGood, please click HERE.
We always hear about Breast Cancer awareness (especially in October) and MakeGood is glad that Prostate Cancer has caught up in terms of awareness and publicity. Which is great becuase males should be more aware of “down there” when it comes to health!
Stats show that 1 in 6 males will be affected by prostate cancer and 4,400 Canadian men will die this year from the disease.
What is Movember?
Movember is a charity event that happens in November where men grow their moustaches (lovingly called the ‘mo’) in support of prostate cancer. Family and friends support these men in the form of donations which will go to Prostate Cancer research.
Also, if you want MakeGood to support this cause this month- make sure to vote for them HERE!
To celebrate the new year and in aims to inspire new companies to be socially responsible we are offering a promocode to our special BLOG READERS.
