Below are last week’s Tweets for CharityFocus. Spread the good!
- Last Week’s Twitter Links [more]
- DailyGood: Inmates Take Yoga to Reduce Jail Sentence [more]
- Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, on roots and details of how the festivals’ gift economy works: [more]
- Reality is broken. Jane McGonigal thinks game designers have to fix it: [more]
- Letter from UCSL Church: “CF’s extraordinary acts of generosity don’t go unnoticed in our community.” With it, a tithe of $3197.21. Wow!
- Birju shares Gandhi’s take on exercise, from his autobiography: [more] Time to go for a run!
- Millions bathe at the Ganges, during the Kumbh Mela: [more] ‘Tis perhaps the world’s largest self-organizing event.
- RT @tonicnews A $1 million stimulus program that gives free BlackBerries to smokers. What’s next? iPhones for alcoholics? [more]
- DailyGood: Birds Do It. Bats Do It. [more]
- Jo and crew just finished the music video for (Black Eyed Peas) Apl’s title track, You Can Dream: [more]
- Trailer of an upcoming movie of a local hero, Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers in 60s — Most Dangerous Man: [more]
- “The world will be saved by the Western woman.” –Dalai Lama, at the 2009 Peace Summit in VanCouver
- Avg. American eat 140 lbs of sugar per year! Great article on the fundamentals of Diabetes and how to avoid it: [more]
- DailyGood: The Zero Rupee Note [more]
- RT @Help0thers: Random Acts of Kindness Week - want to do something kind but can’t think of what to do? You’re in luck! [more]
- Obese people cluster together in social networks. So do smokers, alcoholics, divorcees and altriusts. [more]
- One of the most powerful #KarmaTube videos yet. Moments by Will Hoffman: [more]
- Met an amazing sculptor, ex-army captain who was first in My Lai who is sure that “Ultimately, it’s love.” Gale Wagner: [more]
- The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren’t the problem; they’re the solution: [more]
- Oprah interviews 83 year old Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh: [more]
- DailyGood: A Gym Powered By Sweat [more]
- Does winning the lottery make you happy? [more]
- Madhu & Meghna, on India Today cover-story: [more] “It all started with a gift” & now it’s a film-for-social-change revolution!
- RT @Help0thers: A 51-year-old embraced the Valentine’s Day spirit , giving 7,777 hugs in 24 hours for a new world record: [more]
- According to a new survey, Silicon Valley & San Francisco are amongst America’s happiest big metro-regions: [more]
- DailyGood: No Laptops Allowed At This Cafe [more]
- The Rules of Generosity: why do people give more generously to earthquake victims than to prevent deaths from poverty? [more]
- From the makers of Inconvenient Truth, comes the upcoming Countdown to Zero: [more]
- HelpOthers: A Treasured Gift For A Young Couple [more]
- DailyGood: 5 Ways to Start a Kindness Revolution at Work [more]
- RT @Help0thers: Looking for a daily dose of inspiration to share your kindness with others? Welcome to Kindness Daily [more]
- A CEO celebrates his 81st birthday by gifting his entire $20 million natural food company to his employees: [more]
- “You know what? Money is just an illusion,” Ben Bernanke opened at the Senate. Hilarious(!) spoof on The Onion: [more]
- RT @trishnashah What makes couples happy? What makes marriages last? Turns out, it’s all about the small acts of love: [more]
- DailyGood: Fastest Growing Minor at Cal [more]
- RT @docuguy Lee Schneider features CharityFocus on HuffingtonPost: [more] Thanks, Lee!
- In a pay-it-forward social network of “collaborative capitalists,” participants start by asking, “How can I help you?” [more]
- 100 most influential books of our time: [more] BBC notes that most people have only read 6 of them!
- I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. –Mother Teresa
- HelpOthers: Turning Kindness Into A Habit [more]
- DailyGood: Canada’s Bravery Awards [more]
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