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<\/span>But this month I’m part of a campaign that will, hopefully, give me the chance to use my blog for good. It’s called 30 Bloggers, 30 Days, $30,000<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\nFor the month of September, I’m joining other bloggers like Tyler Stanton<\/a>, Tripp Crosby<\/a>, Bryan Allain<\/a>, Rachel Held Evans<\/a>, Susan Isaacs<\/a>, and Karen Spears Zacharias<\/a> in a campaign. <\/p>\n Our goal is to raise $30,000 for Charity:Water.<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 $30,000 <\/b>will provide clean water to 1500 people in Africa.<\/p>\n <\/b>\u2022 $30,000 <\/b>will provide clean water to 300 families in Africa.<\/p>\n <\/b>\u2022 $30,000 <\/b>will provide clean water to six entire communities in Africa.<\/p>\n ————-<\/p>\n Answers to potential questions:<\/i><\/p>\n Are you asking me to give $30,000? Because I already bought one of your books for $10 and I had to give up lunch for two days in order to do that.<\/b><\/p>\n Thank you for buying my book. I’m sorry you missed a couple of lunches. No, I’m not asking you to donate $30,000 unless you are spectacularly wealthy and you want to. If you’re not carrying that amount of cash, then I’ll be satisfied with a much smaller donation. I’m asking my readers to donate any amount during the month of September using this donation page<\/a>. <\/p>\n $20, for example, provides clean water to one person for 20 years. That’s four trips to Starbucks for you…or 20 years of water for them.<\/p>\n Why Charity:Water?<\/b><\/p>\n Because we like their organization a lot. Since private donors take care of all overhead, 100% of public donations (like anything raised by our campaign) go directly toward water projects. It’s hard to find that kind of efficiency in the NGO world. Charity:Water is an excellent, responsible, creative organization<\/a> and I’m personally a big fan. Read or watch founder Scott Harrison’s story of how he started it<\/a>.<\/p>\n Why a water project?<\/b><\/p>\n Because one in eight people on the planet have no access to clean drinking water. Because unsafe water and unhygienic living conditions cause 80% of the world’s diseases, especially among children. More than 42,000 people die every week from unsafe water and poor sanitation — and 9 out of 10 of those deaths are children under 5. And it’s something we can fix. When an impoverished village gets a well, everything changes. Better sanitation. More time for productive labor. More food. More time for kids to get educated. Less sickness. Fewer deaths.<\/p>\n Are you going to be blogging about water for the next 30 days? Because you’re already a one-trick pony with this doubt thing. So a new topic actually sounds great!<\/b><\/p>\n No, I won’t be mentioning it every day. Maybe once a week is all. And I’ll be tweeting<\/a> about it every so often. You’re out of luck, Mom.<\/p>\n What can I, your loyal reader, do to help?<\/b><\/p>\n Donate<\/a>. Blog about it. Tweet about it (hashtag: #30water<\/a>)<\/i>. Post it on Facebook. Send your friends to our 30\/30\/30K page<\/a>. Think about it every time you take a drink of water that’s not contaminated with amoebas and parasites.<\/p>\n You mentioned a few of the bloggers involved in this campaign, but it wasn’t all 30. So who else is doing it?<\/b><\/p>\n Here’s a list of everyone but me:<\/p>\n Bryan Allain<\/a> ————-<\/p>\n Thanks, everyone. I’m excited about this campaign and can’t wait to see what happens by the end of September. Spread the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blogging is good for me. It’s an excellent way to publicize my books. It’s a way to build and sustain a platform of loyal readers. It allows me to feel like I’m doing something worthwhile, like encouraging doubters or making people think about religion or fostering conversation between believers and non-believers. In my universe, blogging…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30-30-30k"],"yoast_head":"\n
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