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Passports with Purpose: Cambodia School Opening Ceremony

This is a photo from the Opening Ceremony of the Passports School, in Preah Vihear Cambodia. Funds to build this school were raised through Passports with Purpose in 2009. Standing in front of 100+ kids, most of whom came from homes with no running water, many of whom are lucky to have survived early childhood, Read the Rest…

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For $10 You Could Win A Luxury Hotel Stay

This week I’m focusing on my favorite prizes in Passports with Purpose 2010. To enter, go to the Donate page, and for each $10 you donate, you get an entry into a free prize drawing for a prize of your choice. All the money raised (less Paypal’s fees) goes directly to LAFTI. Your donations will Read the Rest…

For $10 You Could Win A Gift Certificate Worth Hundreds Of Dollars

This week I’m focusing on my favorite prizes in Passports with Purpose 2010. To enter, go to the Donate page, and for each $10 you donate, you get an entry into a free prize drawing for a prize of your choice. All the money raised (less Paypal’s fees) goes directly to LAFTI. Your donations will Read the Rest…

For $10 You Could Win A Favorite Tech Toy

This week I’m focusing on my favorite prizes in Passports with Purpose 2010. To enter, go to the Donate page, and for each $10 you donate, you get an entry into a free prize drawing for a prize of your choice. All the money raised (less Paypal’s fees) goes directly to LAFTI. Your donations will Read the Rest…

Eat Chocolate And Support Passports With Purpose 2010

Yours truly, outside the Fenoglio chocolate shop in Bariloche, Argentina. Passports with Purpose 2010 started earlier this week and my friend Lauren, who owns Chocolopolis, a specialty chocolate shop in Seattle, has kindly donated a chocolate-tasting event as a prize. There’s more to chocolate than a plain bar of Hershey’s or Cadbury’s would lead you Read the Rest…

Chocolopolis Supports Passports with Purpose 2010

It’s time for Passports with Purpose 2010 and today I have the pleasure of participating in the kick-off of this year’s fund-raising activities and introducing you to my friend Lauren, owner of Chocolopolis.com and two speciality Chocolate shops in the Seattle area. First, let’s do a little review of Passports with Purpose. This will be Read the Rest…

Thank You For Supporting Passports With Purpose

Look at the smile on that face. This is the image I’ll be keeping in mind as I process the fact that Passports with Purpose 2009 has been a tremendous success and that because of this effort, some child may one day smile just like this. At a desk, in a school, learning to read Read the Rest…

Final Push For Passports With Purpose

Photo Friday is usually a fun, easy blog post for me. Sometimes I write about the photos I post, sometimes I just indulgently post cute photos of my boys when they were younger.

Win a Night at the Fairmont Olympic and Support Passports With Purpose Reach Our Revised Fundraising Goal

Today was an exciting day. The first email I read this morning was from my friend Debbie telling me that we’d exceeded the Passports with Purpose fundraising goal. We had raised enough money to actually build a school in rural Cambodia. I remember when Debbie, Pam, Beth and I got together in early November last Read the Rest…

thanks for supporting Passport With Purpose

Thank you, thank you, thank you! To all the people who supported this first annual Passports With Purpose. From the people who donated the prizes to the people who wrote about PwP on their blogs to the people who bought the tickets, please accept our sincere thanks. We raised $7,420, far and away exceeding the Read the Rest…

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