If there’s one thing we know about our GoodBookey charity partners, it’s that they’re resilient in the face of crisis. Even in normal times, they are on the front lines taking care of our most vulnerable and underserved, including children, the elderly, those with chronic and life-threatening diseases, disabled veterans, and many more. Continue reading
You’ve probably seen the hashtag #GivingTuesday pop up on your timeline but may not know exactly what it means. Let’s talk a little more about the history of Giving Tuesday and all that it stands for. Continue reading
“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.”
– Minot J. Savage Continue reading
When we last checked in with Far Away Friends, it was a young non-profit with impressive success to show for its two years in operation. Workers with the organization had already gone a long way in promoting its core mission: to empower rural communities and end generational poverty through education and opportunity. They had opened up their first school, Global Leaders Day & Boarding Primary School in the rural Ugandan community of Namasale, and had 100 children per term already. So what has Far Away Friends been up to since then? A more pertinent question might be, what has it not been up to. Continue reading
Did you know that April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM)? This annual campaign strives to raise public awareness of sexual violence and how it can be prevented. The statistics are startling, to say the least: In the U.S., one in three women and one in six men experience sexual violence in their lifetime. It’s an epidemic that affects every single community regardless of gender, socioeconomic status, or race. Continue reading
Friday, March 22, is World Water Day, an annual day of awareness designated by the United Nations. The UN has several aggressive sustainable development goals, and one of them is to bring clean drinking water to everyone in the world by 2030, leaving no one behind. Continue reading
173 men. 173 mustaches. $308,000 raised for charity.
How do mustaches translate into doing good? It all started with a pair of friends, Dave Hogan and Aaron Breed, who shared the same two passions: mustaches and helping the children of Richmond, Virginia. Continue reading
The ACS, founded 105 years ago by ten doctors and five laypeople in New York City, has perhaps had the biggest impact on cancer research and the advance of treatments of any single entity except the US government. Continue reading
The GoodBookey team is excited to welcome our latest charity partner, Dusty Trails, to the family. Dusty Trails is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on rescuing senior Labrador Retrievers and providing a loving home for them to live healthily and happily. Make sure to give them some love the next time you place a bet on GoodBookey – $50 will feed one of their pups for a whole month! Continue reading for the whole story on Georgia Evans and how Dusty Trails became her life calling as told by Brian Castle. Continue reading
This week, Goodbookey’s spotlight is shining on Well Constructed!
Well Constructed aims to enable community development by providing clean drinking water to as many people as possible. They partner with local communities and contractors to build wells and establish well maintenance programs in the Upper East Region of Ghana.
Google’s Nathan Rogers was attending Santa Clara University when he began working on a project aimed at creating an affordable, safe, sustainable, and scalable building design for people in rural regions of Ghana. While in Ghana he met Rashed who was building a tourism business and partnering with international organizations to build wells in his community. In 2015, with the help of many generous friends, Well Constructed was founded.
Rogers and Anaba have worked to bring down the cost of each well to $3,000, a 25 percent reduction in cost, from what was already a much lower price than many similar sized nonprofits are paying. Since the two men are self-sustained economically, every dollar that’s raised directly funds the construction of new wells. Active since 2015, 17 wells have been built and over 13,000 people now have access to clean water.
Because every donation makes an impact!
We are so happy to support such a meaningful, impactful cause! Make sure you place your next GoodBookey bet for Well Constructed.
