What if your favorite charity earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause? Well, now it can!

GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up!

GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting your favorite cause.

Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter your favorite charity as the charity you want to support. And, be sure to spread the word!

We have just around 200 starfish in. In order to get every staff member and student, we need 600 or so more people to perform a charitable act or acknowledge a charitable act they've already done in this school year. More volunteer opportunties will be posted here soon. 

End Childhood Hunger by Texting
Today Share Our Strength and AT&T launch Operation No Kid Hungry, a national campaign to help end childhood hunger by text messaging donations to Share Our Strength and holding food drives across the country.

Operation No Kid Hungry
Operation No Kid Hungry offers three ways to help end childhood hunger in America:

• Text “SHARE” to 20222 to make a $5 donation to Share Our Strength. You can do this up to five times by March 1. AT&T will match those donations up to $100,000.
• Hold a food drive to help replenish the depleted supplies. January 19, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, is a national day of service and a great day to launch your drive. Visit Strength.org to find a food bank or pantry in your area and a list of the most needed foods.
• Spread the word about Operation No Kid Hungry through Twitter, Facebook, blogs, email – whatever you choose.

Project Bread's 41st Walk for Hunger will take place on Sunday, May 3rd, 2009.

In 2008, over 40,000 generous supporters braved rainy weather to take part in Project Bread’s 40th Walk for Hunger. Walkers of all ages from a spectrum of economic circumstances participated in this event dedicated to feeding hungry people. They raised an estimated $3.8 million for emergency programs across Massachusetts.

Still time to drop of books for tomorrow afternoon's book swap.  Ask a SIPS member or Ms. Allen for details.

The 3rd Annual Book Swap is just around the corner. Please remember to drop off any gently-worn books to the guidance office and then join us on Tuesday, January 13th to check out what books you might like to take home with you. More details in the Dec 4 Thursday packet.  Updated details will be added next Thursday.