March 4, 2009
How did you help to Create Good today?
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Pura Vida is constantly humbled and honored by all that our customers do to Create Good in their everyday lives. We would like to give you the opportunity to share how you, a friend, or loved one Create Good and we will give you a free bag of coffee for the effort.
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Daily we will select one person at random to be our Create Good Featured Poster of the Day. If you are selected we will send you a free bag of your choice of our small batch roasted coffee. Plus, we will feature your post on our Facebook group and through our Twitter page.
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So go ahead and tell us how you helped to Create Good today…Just leave a comment below. Don’t forget to give us your name! We will announce the winner at 10am for the previous day via Twitter and Facebook and will contact you directly about your coffee PRIZE.
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“I create good by knowing my new batch of Colombian beans will help to make a difference. It puts another purpose to the daily cup. Looking forward to grinding . . . the beans.” – Paul Z.
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Comment by Sam — March 6, 2009 @ 11:49 am
“I’ve been doing small charity work every month since I was 16. I raised over 1,000 toys for kids in December and 5 grand for a homeless shelter in November. Just little things that are helping to make a difference.” – Adam Jackson
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Comment by Sam — March 9, 2009 @ 9:31 am
I heart creating good!! Right now I’m creating a message video for my High School teacher from 12 years ago!! I’m sending out messages, searching for people and collecting things and videos to add to the final project…..
Why am I doing this for her….. Because she is sitting in a rehabilitation center in Arizona not here in Oregon where she lives, She just endured a radial surgery where she had a giant cancerous tumor removed for her back as well as 11 vertebrae where the tumor was entangled. She went into it have very few months to live or have the surgery and be paralyzed. It looks like now she will beat all odds!!! she is on a long, rough road to recovery and learning to walk again, but she is a strong and courageous woman.
She is worthy, She is a child of God! She is not only precious to him but to many many people of this community and former students!! From what I hear she is already touching the lives of the people she comes in contact with down there, which doesn’t come as a surprise to me at all!!!
I’m just trying to deliver to her a little piece of home and lots and lots of love!!!
Comment by GreaterWorks — March 9, 2009 @ 7:03 pm
I regularly make my self available to those seeking employment to discuss job search strategies, re-branding themselves in a time of career transition, and at the time of offer of employment to evaluate an offer vs. countering. I frequently coach new hiring managers on the realistic expectations of conducting a job search and finding the ideal candidate and various ways of looking at candidates. These services are pro bono at a time when I am unemployed and seeking work myself.
I do this because I believe in the “pay it forward” model of life and business.
Comment by tahoesf — March 10, 2009 @ 10:54 am
Tomorrow I’m volunteering with the Greater Chicago Food Depository. I’ll be at a food pantry interviewing those who use its services. The results are included in a national hunger study through Feeding America that will hopefully help increase funding for services like this.
I heart creating good too!
Comment by Mary H — March 10, 2009 @ 11:49 am
A few friends and I started gathering artist and musicians to create a venue where art is shown and music is made. We love bringing the timid artist in to show their work for the very first time. It is a gathering place where people are encouraged to share their creative talents. We call it Vox, for voice. Each show benefits an organization such as Kiva, our local womens shelter, The Mustard Seed school for homeless children and many, many more. We just recently recieved our non-profit status. We also have a small cafe in the building where we just started serving Pura Vida Coffee. Pura Vida is all about the same values that we share here at Vox Sacramento. We’re glad we found you!
Comment by ckruschel — March 10, 2009 @ 6:45 pm
This past week over spring break, 19 other students and I from the University of Pittsburgh traveled to the NAOMI house (Native American Outreach Mission Inc.) in Joseph City, Arizona. The NAOMI house serves as an orphanage for abused or at risk children. It was a wonderful week, but so extremely heartbreaking to hear about how these beautiful, wonderful children could be hurt the way they have been. But due to God’s grace they were removed from those terrible situations. We all poured ourselves into these children and into work that is not able to be done with 13 children running around to be taken care of.
I as well heart Create Good, but even more heart furthering the Kingdom of God. So thank YOU for all the good you do. -Rachel Kruk
Comment by rkruk07 — March 15, 2009 @ 12:28 pm
I hope and pray that I have created good today, and this month, by working with my church through our Angel Food project. Through it, we are able to provide low-cost food to the people of South Mobile, Alabama who need help stretching their grocery budget. By this and many other ways, we are trying to show the people in our neighborhood God’s love, mercy and grace in a tangible way by helping to meet a very basic human need.
Comment by DougJ — March 17, 2009 @ 9:31 am
Comment by Sam — March 17, 2009 @ 9:41 am
9. Create good? I distribute green coffee to other homeroasters, intentionally seeking out the best of the Fairtrade, organic, shade grown coffees.
Royal has a wonderful one in stock, here are the notes: http://ow.ly/199e. Yesterday, I drove over and picked up a 60-kilo bag (photos here: http://ow.ly/199y) and this weekend, it will be on FedEx trucks, shipped to fellow homeroasters throughout the US at cost.
I collect $.15 premium and all the proceeds go to http://coffeekids.org. Fairtrade, quality coffee, organically and shade grown with a tip of the hat to Coffee Kids. It doesn’t get any better.
DB
Comment by DavidBorton — March 19, 2009 @ 11:22 am
I work for a large company. I feel very fortunate to enjoy all sorts of snacks, meals, and beverages that the company provides for various meetings. However, we seem to always be producing so much waste. Get 100 people in a room for a few hours, and everyone drinks at least 1 can of soda or bottle of water, probably an average of 1.5… it adds up to a lot of aluminum and plastic! Previously, it all went in the trash with the leftover food and other disposables.
I Create Good by helping my company be a better corporate citizen, ecologically speaking. A team of colleagues and I siphon a good percentage of our “waste” into appropriate recycling solutions. Again, I am fortunate to work somewhere that does have vast resources, and I feel it’s important to respond in a proportional way that maximizes our participation in environmentally responsible practices.
Comment by russell.duren — March 22, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
I’m working to engage more people in volunteering by combining endurance (like running, biking, triathlons) and other activities with volunteer projects. http://eventfulvolunteers.blogspot.com/ and volunteering to help Volunteer Connection in Boulder, CO to get more people involved in their “I Volunteer! Day” April 25, 2009 by setting up a Facebook page for Volunteer Connection of Boulder County. It’d be great to get a Pura Vida coffee label for volunteers – Volunteer Elixir or Volunteer Perk or Volunteer Infusion…
Comment by JeanM — March 26, 2009 @ 5:58 pm
How I created good today and every day is logging in at http://www.therainforestsite.com/clickToGive/home.faces – then clicking on the button. Everyday I do this helps give to the saving of endangered species. I then click on the buttons for the other tabs to feed the hungry, help educate the poor, and help fight cancer.
In addition to this, when I have money (am currently unemployed), would often purchase from this site, which further helped. Your site and fair trade coffee and organic coffee are sites I purchased from in the past, and hopefully if I can get another job, will again.
It may be a small thing, but I click on those tabs, & buttons, on the site, each and every day. Little things can add up and help in big ways.
Comment by jeanannd — March 30, 2009 @ 12:52 am
today i created good by volunteering to be the administrative assistant for a local service group: Missoula Random Acts of Kindness.
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/missoularak/)
we won’t change the world but we can help out in one little corner of it by volunteering our professional, semi-professional and ordinary skill sets to make sure people have access to the help and services they need. we also do work to help the local and surrounding communities become involved in more environmentally sound approaches to daily life.
Comment by sunflower.girl — March 31, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
I volunteered with World Relief today to welcome and mentor newcomers to the USA
Comment by drinkmorecoffee — March 31, 2009 @ 5:46 pm
I posted the story of Pura Vida on my blog: http://www.businessthatcares.blogspot.com
My purpose is to use stories of innovative ways business does philanthropy to inspire others to do the same. I also met with my local Chamber of Commerce to talk about ways we can generate more interest in the local business community supporting local causes.
Points off for me-I first posted you guys as Pure Vida, but thankfully I corrected it.
I love reading all the other posts of the great things people are doing.
Comment by Lalia — April 1, 2009 @ 4:50 pm
I believe in creating good wherever you can. So even though I can’t go to Africa to feed children, I sponsor a child to be fed. And when I go shopping, I clip those coupons and pass up “want” items so I can vote with my dollars and purchase organic and fair trade items as much as possible. I teach my little girls to recycle and I pass along my Pura Vida coffee obsession to anyone willing to listen! The little things add up!
Comment by kimball8198 — April 20, 2009 @ 5:31 pm