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Team Eva’s Farm for Heifer International

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Last year as a family we decided to give a donation to Heifer International. This is a charity that we believe strongly in and so we saved $10 a month for a year to give a substantial donation. Last year we donated enough for some chickens and a pig to a family that needed one. This year we were able to donate near enough to purchase a llama. But this year we decided to start up a team so that YOU could help stock Eva’s Farm.

While I was at Blog World and New Media Expo I met up with a group from Heifer International. They told me about how I could put together a team through Heifer so that a group of people could pull together to raise funds for this great charity. It was then that the idea of Team Eva’s Farm became a spark in my brain. It took me a while but I finally got the team up and running.

Okay, so more about Heifer International. Heifer’s mission statement is

Heifer’s Mission to End Hunger

Heifer envisions…
A world of communities living together in peace and equitably sharing the resources of a healthy planet.

Heifer’s mission is…
To work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth.

Heifer’s strategy is…
To “pass on the gift.” As people share their animals’ offspring with others – along with their knowledge, resources, and skills – an expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that reaches around the globe.

Heifer’s History
This simple idea of giving families a source of food rather than short-term relief caught on and has continued for over 60 years. Today, millions of families in 128 countries have been given the gifts of self-reliance and hope.

I believe in helping people to sustain their lives through work. That is why we have put our time and money towards this charity. By putting away $10 a month we’ve thought about Heifer every month for the past year.

Won’t you join us as part of Team Eva’s Farm? Just click the button on the top of the right sidebar.

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Reward Yourself with Sunshine Rewards

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The other day I put a call out for people to help me raise $400 for my friend Maureen. Maureen was put through credit card hell because of a mistake on the part of the Marriott Renaissance Orlando. I put up $100 from a review that I will be doing for the Eye-Fi memory card through SocialSpark but I also asked for help and offered reviews of blogs for $50. The call was immediately answered by Tricia Meyer of Sunshine Rewards.

I took a look at Sunshine Rewards to find out what it is all about. Sunshine Rewards is a loyalty program dedicated to paying you back for reading emails, visiting websites, and shopping on the Internet. Let’s just say I am impressed at what Tricia has created here. I don’t think I would have any clue where to start to set up a program of this nature that helps people earn and also saves them money. I also noticed that Tricia doesn’t advertise Sunshine Rewards very much. I asked her about it and she told me this.

“What I like people to understand most is that we are a coupon and cash back site that is run by a family and takes care of each customer individually. You can see from our forum, videoblog, facebook page, etc. that our members know us personally and know that we are going to do everything that we can do take care of them. We don’t do much advertising because our best members are the ones that are referred to us by other happy members.”

That is a very nice model for customer service. I think that is why Tricia was drawn to help out Maureen. I can tell from Tricia’s personal blog as well as through the work on Sunshine Rewards that Tricia and her family care about helping people find great deals online.

Can you also think of any other rewards program that has meetups like going to Ohana’s at Walt Disney World? Check this out.

I’ve also checked into the Forum on Sunshine Rewards and it is hoppin’. With a large community of people at Sunshine Rewards and so many big name advertisers and shopping options Tricia is certainly doing something right. A lesson that Marriott could have learned from. Thank you so very much Tricia.

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