American Girl is doing amazing work with their new Shine On Now campaign and we are so very proud to be an AG official parent partner! My eldest daughter is in LOVE with American Girl, we bought her very first Bitty Twins last year and they have yet to leave her side.
f you aren’t familiar with the Shine On Now campaign click here to read our previous posts. From July 13-July 31st, girls are invited and encouraged to visit www.shineonnow.com, everyday and donate free stars to go towards this effort. American Girl will then take those stars and convert them into clothes, books, dolls and money – all of which is to be donated to the following five organizations:
- Kids in Distressed Situations
- Save the Children
- National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions
- National Wildlife Federation
The goal is to collect one million stars by July 31, 2010. It’s easy, quick and free! Head on over to Shine On Now to donate yours and make a difference in a child’s life.
In addition to this campaign, American Girl has launched a brand- new virtual campus,Innerstar UniversityTM which is a fun, safe online world where girls learn to be their best through a variety of games, quizzes, and other enriching activities that help boost their confidence and strength. Access to the new virtual world comes with each 18-inch My American GirI™ doll, which will be available July 13th through American Girl.
WIN IT!
In celebration of this fabulous campaign, American Girl is offering (1) Child Mode reader a chance to win their very own My American Girl™!
HOW TO ENTER: We want to hear how your family makes a difference in your local community. Either through community service, volunteering, etc. If you are planning on making a difference in the near future with your children, we also want to hear about it! Big or small, every little bit counts!
At the end of the contest (Saturday July 24), one winner will be chosen and they will receive a My American GirI™ doll to keep, or to donate to someone in need.
For EXTRA entries (each one counts as 1 extra entry):
- Head on over to Shine On Now and leave a comment telling us how many free stars you donated (it’s super easy, quick and free!)
- Follow @childmode on Twitter and tweet the following: “I just entered to win a My American Girl Doll from @childmode for #ShineOnNow check it out! http://ow.ly/1qI7B9 #giveaway”
- Follow @agshineonnow on Twitter
- If you “like” us on Facebook you will receive an additional entry
- Mention this giveaway on your blog or website
- Subscribe to our FREE newsletter
- Submit to any social network (StumbleUpon, Digg, Kirtsy, etc) – Click on the “Share This” at the bottom left of this post
Please make sure you leave an additional comment/comments if you do any of the above, in order for the entries to count. Contest ends Saturday July 24th at 12:00 a.m. A winner will be picked on Saturday July 24th and will be announced on this page.
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Congratulations to our winner Cathy M!
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I’m heavily involved in our Women’s Ministry at church. I participate in the Prayer Shawl Ministry (we donate our completed shawls to the local hospice community, they in turn give the shawls to current patients and families that have lost love ones), Faith Community Day (our church hosts a community day with free children activities) and the whole family pitches in to help with the Thanksgiving Baskets (providing entire Thanksgiving feasts to families in need).
I give school supplies to the refugees in my community.
We volunteer at the animal shelter and the food bank. ($, time and products)
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I am a nurse at a nursing home. My children and I go to the home on my weekends off to spend time with the people whose family’s do not visit them. I am fortunate enough to know which residents need someone to visit because i see them on a daily basis. My children love going to the nursing home and talking with the elderly and they also enjoy it because they get to see what I do for a living!
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We help with the local food drives and doante items (or collect items) to donate to the local battered womans shelter
Donated 27 stars so far today (will have to do more later )
I am actively invovled in my oldest son’s elementary school PTA. I am currently on the Board as a Director and also the publicity chair for their annual auction. I also volunteer at my church by leading/organizing the mom’s group.
My daughter is amazing. When I was diagnosed with cancer, my 9 year old wanted to do something special for other kids whose parents were going through treatments. She started a toy drive in the community and dropped them off at the local cancer center. She is currently involved in hockey, dance, cheer and girl scouts.
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We donate food clothes and all kinds of stuff to the local food bank, childrens homes and such. Also during the last ice storm we took our chain saw and went around and help to clean up the down trees in the older peoples yards since they couldnt do it them selves
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We donate through our state employee charitable giving campaign.
my son with aspergers syn. and i have read to kid 2 hours 4 days a week for 7 weeks tand his summer and collected enough books to give 61 children 2 to 3 books each what a lot of work and no sleeping in but lots of fun
My 8 yr old daughter volunteers to teach and model social skills to children with autism, because her big brother has autism. She is incredibly patient and understanding, and finds ways to reach the kids through songs, games, and just sitting quietly beside them. She volunteers with autism sibling support groups and shares her feelings about having a brother with autism who cannnot communicate nor care for himself. She is an amazing open, loving and giving child who would probably choose to share or donate this doll if she won! Thank you for an opportunity to honor and recognize her contributions to making the world a better place for children with disabilities.
We donated 100 stars today.
When my kids were younger, I was an assistant Boy Scout Leader; was a Girl Scout Leader as well as Cookie Manager for our district (you couldn’t see my dining room there were so many cases of cookies….wasn’t good for the waist though as we had ordered extra with hopes of selling more, temptation was always there…I bought way too many cookies that year:) I also volunteered where ever needed for both my childrens’ school classrooms….for a number of years in the not too distant past, I was a volunteer at our Church Hall…..in high school, I volunteered at Church, was a tutor in high school to fellow students….
We use coupons to buy food for cheap/free and donate it to the food shelter. My daughters love getting everything ready!
My family is involved in our childrens schools , our church, our community group, and our emergency services group. My husband and I are on most of the commitees but our children are always going to activies with us and get involved by helping and voicing their opinions. This afternoon our family spent the day helping to set up new playground equipment at our local park. It was truly a family effort and our kids understood how much they were helping others!
My daughter has donated her 100 stars everyday since 7/13 she is so proud and tells us after she is done “Whew I just donated $100 to charity!” It is really funny.
My granddaughter volunteers all the time.She is involved with the Girl Scouts so they go the Homeless Shelter and help serve up the food.She also goes at Christmas time and helps wrap presents for the kids at Toys for Tots.She does all this and she is only 9 years old!
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I am just happy i have a home a shelter water family. If I had million dollars I would want to spend it on the homeless and not on me. Everytime I see a homeless person I would love to give them money or water or food. One time I got inout and a person was there and i was deeply hungry but you have to give up your food and water for people who cant get any. I would always give stuff to children who need it. I love doing cancer walks and stuff. I love to help people. This is 100 percent true.
what my grade class does is we go into the younger grades and help the younger kids learn to read each week we read them a story and the read us a story if they get stuck on a word or cant stay one of the words we help them and by the end of the year they are the best at reading its such a great thing – griffin blanchard CANADA
My daughter and her girl scout troop donated school supplies and american girl doll stuff 2 haiti
Two years ago in art class I had an idea that I wanted to help out animals, so I made an animal rights petition for people to sign, 1 thing led to another and me and 3 other friends ended up doing a donation/fundraiser for Kent Animal Shelter and we ended up raising over $300 dollars in actual money, and over $2000 dollars worth of blankets/food/toys/etc. It was a big sucess (sp) and when we delivered it we had over 30 big bags of stuff, and we got to see all the animals we were helping out. It was so much fun and it felt so good to give. If you go on the website for kent animal shelter theres a pic of four girls (im the blond one).
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