Welcome potential do-gooders!

Hi everyone,

Welcome to Giving Back is Easy!

My goal is to make helping others as easy as possible so that you can begin today to make a difference in someone else's life.  Giving back has benefits that extend far beyond the physical act of giving--there is something unique about how it affects your heart and mind.   With no time already in our own lives, how are we ever supposed to make time to help others? We're all very busy, but there really are easy, quick ways to pitch in.  My goal with Giving Back is Easy is to compile lots of opportunities right here in the Hartford area (and for my New York City friends too and anyone else that I can) that are easy, fast, and, most of all, rewarding.  

So, please read on, comment, write to me, let me know of opportunities that I may have missed, ask questions, and let me help you to help others.

For my first post, I'd like to share a really, really easy thing that you can do to help out this week!  This great opportunity is with Foodshare's Turkey and a Twenty Program.  All you have to do is get a turkey from any grocery store of any size and bring it to the West Hartford Town Hall this coming Thursday, November 18, 2010 and drop it off.  Foodshare can use this turkey to help out low income families in the greater Hartford area who might not have the means to have a Thanksgiving celebration on their own.  Then when you donate a $20 bill to Foodshare when you drop off the turkey, you can help Foodshare to help these low income families for the rest of the year!  

Can't make it to the West Hartford Town Hall this Thursday?  Here are many other places that you can drop off a turkey on several different dates in our local area.

Too expensive to get a turkey and drop a $20 on your own?  Why not chip in with a group of friends?  That's what I'm doing!

How easy is that?

xo Jessica