Attention MicroGivers! Today and tomorrow, July 15^th and 16^th, MicroGiving will be looking for volunteers in the Cedar Rapids area. The volunteers will be asked to work 3-4 hour shifts from 9am – 6pm on both days. The volunteer’s will be in charge of registering those in need of financial aid at the MicroGiving site. The goal is to link individual families in need with donors willing to give. Most residents are without internet access, so MicroGiving will be bringing computers to them! MicroGiving has decided to match up to $25,000 in donations made towards Cedar Rapids Relief through MicroGiving.com. So whatever you donate, it will actually be doubled! Please do what you can to spread the word about these efforts, the more volunteers and donators, the more people we can help. A Facebook group has been created to keep everyone updated on MicroGiving’s relief efforts. Everybody please stay updated and do what you can to help this cause.

Take a look at MG’s Flickr page so you can better grasp the hardships these people are dealing with.

We are proud to announce that MicroGiving now has pages on most of the major social networking sites. We encourage everyone to become a friend or fan of these pages to help spread the word about our wonderful community. Remember the more awareness we create the more significant change we can make.

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Thanks,

The MicroGiving Team

Tuesday, June 3 @ 6PM ET- News 12 at 6 ran a great story about a MicroGiving member, Becky Raymond and her quest to independence and mobility.

BEECH ISLAND—A Beech Island woman who can’t walk on her own anymore didn’t take her disability lying down. In fact, she found a new way to get around, a scooter.

It’s called www.microgiving.com. You can give a little to help out someone in need. And in Becky Raymond’s case, she’d still be a shut-in if she hadn’t found it.

For Becky, walking is a challenge that most can’t relate to.

“I have osteoarthritis. The pain happened in one knee, the other knee, and then the hip. I fall a lot. Trip over things.” she said.

Crutches used to be able to get her around, but after some recent falls she needed something else.

“It came to a point where I needed to do something.” she said.

What she came up with is a scooter that can get her where she needs to be. But getting it wasn’t easy.

You see, many scooters cost around a thousand dollars. For someone on disability, that’s money that isn’t easy to come by.

So Becky dug deep to find a way and what she found was a website called www.microgiving.com.

“You put in a request saying what you need.” she said.

After some verification, your request is posted and people can make donations to help your cause.

The idea is everyone can make a small donation to help you get something you really need. All those small donations added up quickly for Becky.

“I had most within a week. Within 2 weeks I had all I needed.” she said.

Every cent from complete strangers who just wanted to help.

“It put me to tears cause people care and cared enough to donated a bunch every day,” she said.

It’s a way for people like Becky who’ve lost so much, to get what they need on their own and regain some independence.

“I had to do this that I had the power to do on my own.” she said.

A DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR MATCHING DONATION CAMPAIGN

For a limited period of time, every dollar donation made to a recipient through www.microgiving.com will be multiplied by two as a way to build both awareness of this unique website and to help increase support for those individuals and families who find themselves in financial difficulties, particularly during this time of economic uncertainty when many people find themselves working harder yet still falling further behind.

As the people of a new generation, we inherit an imperfect world and it falls upon us now to use our creativity, our hope and our vision of a better future to help others in our communities, our countries and together we can change the world.

The “Power of Two” is all about helping our online donors experience the truly wonderful feeling of affecting the lives of others in a positive and substantial way” ~Stated the MicroGiving founder, John Ferber.

Join now & your donation will provide twice the charity & twice the impact!

Micro Giving is giving to the heart of the cause; the first charitable site dedicated to direct online person-to-person giving from the heart to those in need. Micro Giving is completely transparent for both donors and recipients alike and all gifts, large or small, are welcome.