Not every person has Warren Buffett’s 37 Billion Dollars to donate to a good cause that warms the heart. However most of us have a buck to donate (which is considerably less than that fancy coffee you get every morning) to make a difference. Experience has taught me that big things are possible by joining together and organizing small individual efforts. I wholeheartedly believe that a bunch of little things can come together to make a huge difference.

Thus…..I am happy to announce that I have started a new blog called Dollar Philanthropy. It is an effort to harness the power of the blogosphere to create a network individuals who will donate a single dollar each week to a reputable nonprofit organization. Combined, each of our individual dollars can make a huge difference to a local nonprofit that is seeking to serve a need and improve the community around them.

I am challenging “Dollar Philanthropy” readers to commit to giving $52 a year ($1 per week) for this project. If you want to give more that $1, please feel free. With this in mind, please set us up on your favorite RSS aggregator so you don’t miss a post.

My plan is to research and highlight one nonprofit per week. I will give you all the contact information, important links and information about what they do. Admittedly, here at the beginning a number of the nonprofits will be based in Georgia (where I live) because I already know about them. I promise to expand to other states as I begin to get a feel for what this entails.

While I know it will be slow starting out, I hope that by January 2007, Dollar Philanthropy will be generating $1500 to $2000 for each nonprofit highlighted.
As Toby Bloomberg has often told me and written:

Bloggers are the Nicest People

With that in mind, I would hope that the folks that have me on their feeds or who are just dropping by would take a moment and spread the word. Oh…. yea…. send your buck too.

Disclosure: Dollar Philanthropy is a personal endeavor to draw attention to good causes and nonprofits that are making a difference. I do not receive any money for this. I reserve the right to publish content ads on the site to help offset the costs associated with this blog. After the costs have been covered, any excess from the ad revenue will be donated to the nonprofit of my choice.

In an effort to keep Dollar Philanthropy as a credible and reliable resource for finding a worthy nonprofit to which to donate, I will not allow organizations to pay or otherwise compensate me for being highlighted on this blog.

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