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Gifts for Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2012 – Part 2

October 20th, 2012 · Breast Cancer, Uncategorized

Here are some more great gift and shopping ideas for Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2012:

6. We’ve talked about A Lot to Say before. They are an eco-conscious, toxin-free lifestyle line that also has a philanthropic partnership with Stand Up To Cancer. Amazingly, their products are manufactured completely using recycled plastic bottles. I had a chance to try out one of their t-shirts, and the cloth is amazingly smooth, soft and sturdy. A large portion of proceeds from their products, including the stylish pink totebag you see to your right, will support this amazing cause. Mothers, sisters, daughters, wives and friends can all fall victim to breast cancer. It’s that natural strength that women have that carries them through this, and the same courage we must carry to honor them. Whether we are surviving or remembering, let’s celebrate these powerful women with a few chic-pink items this Breast Cancer Awareness month!

7. Your passion for football can help save more lives. Ticketmaster has teamed up with the NFL and the American Cancer Society to support National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the NFL’s “A Crucial Catch” campaign. And you can help by supporting your team! Ticketmaster and the NFL are contributing* 10 cents to the Society for each NFL resale ticket sold on NFL Ticket Exchange from October 1 – 31. Be a fan for life in more ways than one. Go to games knowing you’re helping women get access to annual screenings, crucial lifesaving prevention info, and improved treatment options. To learn more or make a donation directly, go to NFL.com/pink.

8. If you’ve never heard of Poppin, boy are you in for a treat. It’s a new kind of office supply company that features incredibly cool pens, tape dispensers, staplers, and every other office supply product you can think of. How could these things be “cool”? Take a look for yourself on Poppin.Com. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Poppin will proudly donate 10% of October’s Pink product sales – including the Tickled Pink Bundle – to Young Survival Coalition (YSC). YSC is the premier global organization dedicated to helping young women diagnosed with breast cancer. YSC offers resources, connections and outreach so women feel supported, empowered and hopeful. Awareness can mean survival – and pink is the link.

9. 1-800-Flowers has a great collection called the Pink Ribbon Collection in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 10% of proceeds of selected products will go to the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund. There’s a beautiful bouquet in a ceramic pitcher, chocolate covered Oreos (!), chocolate covered graham crackers, and a huge gift basket, so there’s something for everyone. I should say that after looking carefully at all the products in the rest of the collection, it appears that only four of the products (the ones on the top) donate a portion to breast cancer research, so the other products below those top four seem to just be pink products that don’t have any percentage donated to charity. Keep that in mind when deciding what products to buy from them. One of 1-800-Flowers’s sister companies, Cheryl’s, is also having a breast cancer-related promotion where you can purchase from their Pink Frosted Cookie collections and get 15% off during Breast Cancer Awareness Month (valid until 10/31/2012) when you use promo code BCA15

10. The great office supply store Zuma, which already donates a portion of all proceeds to charity, has a cool promotion this month for pink ribbon Uni-ball Gel pens (the color of the pen is pink, but the ink is black). With your $50 order you’ll get Free Pink Ribbon Uni-ball Gel Pens. Purchase item number SAN1745148 and use code SANOCT10. It’s a $5.20 retail value, and some of the proceeds goes to help City of Hope. but hurry, it’s only available until 10/31/12.

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Gifts for Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2012 – Part 1

October 17th, 2012 · Breast Cancer

Since this site started, for the last few years during the month of October I’ve traditionally posted throughout October on new products and promotions that help breast cancer awareness. Breast Cancer awareness, after all, is the charity that really got charity gifting and cause-related marketing booming in the first place.

This year I’ve been a little busy, but I didn’t want the month to end without a synopsis of some of the best deals and promotions I’ve seen this year for Breast Cancer Awareness month.

1. Organic Bouquet is donating 15% of the purchase price of select flowers and gifts to support charities that lead the fight against breast cancer during this month, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Aside from Organic Bouquet’s contribution to National Breast Cancer Awareness Month related charities, their various charitable bouquets support women throughout the year by helping various charities that provide brighter and happier futures for women. Organic Bouquet employs over 60% females on their Certified Sustainable Farms in Ecuador and Colombia, providing zero-interest loans, childcare, healthcare, education, environmental protection and more to local workers. Additionally, the brand supports over 55 charities, including the BreastCancer.org, the Breast Cancer Fund, and the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, year round through their Flowers for Good program.

2. Brilliance New York has released a Limited Edition 1″ flat iron, clipless curling iron and haircare products, all the color pink to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 10% of the proceeds of the PINK Hair Collection will be donated to the Susan G Komen Foundation. If you’ve been shopping for professional salon-style irons, these are both stylish and functional. They use the latest technology in the market to straighten, curl, smooth, and tame, and the flat irons were voted Flat Iron of the year. Be pretty in pink with Brilliance New York–it’s a beautiful way to support breast cancer and to take care of your hair.

3. Sparkling ICE is a fantastic brand of mountain spring water infused with refreshing fruit flavors, ranging from coconut pineapple to orange mango to pomegranate berry. As part of the Sparkling ICE mission to “Imagine a World Without Breast Cancer,” each year during the month of October, Sparkling ICE donates $.01 per bottle of its Pink Grapefruit flavor to help find a cure for Breast Cancer. Sparkling ICE works closely with each community to give proceeds directly back to the area where the product was purchased. Sparkling ICE, a beverage of Talking Rain Company, is also a Susan G. Komen Puget Sound Affiliate Promise Partner, the highest tier of recognition awarded to corporations, foundations, and 3^rd party fundraising organizations or events that provide exceptional financial or in-kind resources throughout the year to the Komen Puget Sound Affiliate.

4. If you’ve seen a recent photo of Britney Spears sporting some pretty pink hair extensions, these are thanks to SHE by SO.CAP.USA, the world’s leading provider of all-natural hair extensions. For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, they’re hosting their national Pink Hair For Hope campaign during BOTH September and October, to raise funds in the hopes of finding a cure for breast cancer. Participating salons across the country who donate $10 or more to Pink Hair For Hope, will receive a 100% natural, pink SHE by SO.CAP.USA hair extension, where 100% of net proceeds from campaign go to the American Cancer Society. To date, the Pink Hair For Hope campaign has brought together more than 375 salons across the United States and successfully raised over $2 million dollars.

5. From October 18 to October 21, Saks Fifth Avenue will be having a charity shopping weekend. At Saks locations throughout the country for these four days, Saks 5th Avenue stores, Saks Off 5th Stores, and Saks.com will donate 2% of sales, up to $500,000, to local and national women’s cancer charities. And 100% of the beautiful Elle Tahari T-Shirt you see to the right will be donated to Entertainment Industry Foundation’s Women’s Cancer Research Fund, benefiting more than 50 charitable programs dedicated to finding new detection methods, better treatments and eventual cures for women’s cancers.

As a bonus if you’ll be shopping at Saks that weekend, here’s a Friends and Family coupon to give you an additional 20% off your purchase during those days!

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Why a Wedding in a Botanical Garden is a Great Idea

October 14th, 2012 · Uncategorized

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I had the pleasure to tying the knot last week, on October 7. I’m a lifelong resident of the New York area, and my fiance’s been here since her childhood, so we definitely wanted a wedding in New York. I came up with typical ideas that a clueless groom-to-be might come up with. I first thought of the top of the Empire State Building, before a whole lot of people told me how cheesy that idea is. Plus, it turns out that they only hold weddings once a year on Valentine’s Day, that only a few people can attend, and that they whole a bunch of weddings at once. None of that worked for us.

Then I thought of getting married on the home plate of Yankee Stadium. You can imagine how my fiancee reacted to that idea.

That’s when my sister suggested the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Now, I’m a huge, huge fan of Botanical Gardens. I’d been a member of the Queens Botanical Garden for several years, which as many botanical gardens around the country give “reciprocal admission” to other gardens. Using my Queens Botanical Garden membership, I’ve been able to go to several amazingly beautiful gold coast mansions on Long Island (think The Great Gatsby), as well as the wonderful Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix when I went on business trips there a few years ago. Funny, but the free admissions I get to botanical gardens around the country more than pay for the price I pay each year for membership. And each botanical garden around the country really reflects the flavor of the local area.

We thought of getting married in the Queens Botanical Garden first, which has a cute wedding garden (think a Thomas Kinkade painting). But that garden seats under 60 people, not nearly enough for us. The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx was another possibility (we’ve been to the Orchid Show and the wonderful Holiday Train Show there), but as far as weddings go, it was a bit too large and expansive for us.

I’ve already written a gushing review on Yelp about the caterer / organizer for our wedding in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, but in this post I wanted to give some kudos to the garden itself. In order to save a little money, we decided to have a wedding in October. I joked with people that this was perfect timing–perfect in the sense that it was perfectly positioned AFTER the summer roses had faded and BEFORE the fall colors. I was hoping and hoping that the fall leaves would turn earlier this year, but alas, it’s still green as of this writing.

However, I was pleasantly surprised when I got to the garden early on the morning of our wedding and got to spend some time alone in the garden. All over I saw amazing colors.

The wedding itself was amazing as well. At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the caterer does all the receptions (and many of the ceremonies, including ours) in the magnificent Palm House in the middle of the garden. Here’s a picture from one of our guests.

I’ve been to a lot of weddings in my life, but there was just something special about this one, and it wasn’t just because it was mine 🙂 It was wonderful to see our guests not only enjoying our wedding, but afterwards being able to go out and enjoy the beautiful gardens with their families. From their Facebook posts, I could see they fell in love with it. It felt good to bring awareness to these families who would be back and would tell their friends about it.

From my perspective, I knew I had to pay thousands and thousands of dollars for my wedding, and so there’s a certain satisfaction in knowing that a big chunk of my payment for this wedding went to help the BBG rather than just line the pockets of some gargantuan wedding mill or reception hall. They do a wonderful job of maintaining the garden year-round and providing residents of the New York area with very beautiful, relaxing, and even educational displays of nature.

One very, very cool thing about the Brooklyn Botanic Garden itself is that they have a gift shop that is second to none. Along with the usual trinkets and tchotchkes, they also have a variety of books on horticulture written by their own experts, as well as meaningful and sustainable gifts that further their mission.

I owe a lot of thanks to the BBG and their excellent on-site caterer for providing a wonderful wedding for my now-wife and I and our 150 guests. If you’re planning a wedding, be sure to put your local botanical garden on your list to see what kind of wedding packages they offer. If you’re lucky enough to have a garden like the BBG, you’ll not only help a great cause, you’ll also give your guests the wedding of a lifetime.

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Building Up From the Ashes–Literally. A Unique Art Auction Featuring Ash from the Colorado Wildfires

October 6th, 2012 · Disaster Relief

This past summer was one of the most devastating wildfire seasons in Colorado history. It cost six lives and destroyed over 600 homes. It also took over 5,000 firefighters to contain, many of them from volunteer fire companies that were pushed to their brink.

Back in August, The Art to Ashes Project was formed by artist Lori Joseph and photographer Tim O’Hara as a fundraising idea to benefit the Poudre Canyon Volunteer Fire Protection District. The idea was ingenious. Take charcoal that was left in the wake of the devastating wildfires, and send them to artists around the country to create art out of them, whether in the form of sketches, sculptures, paintings, or however else the artists found to express themselves.

Hundreds of artists answered the call, and charcoal was sent to them. Starting from tomorrow (October 7) and lasting for a week, the works of art will be up for auction at Bidding for Good.

Ashes to Art project to benefit Poudre Canyon firefighters

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Bill O'Reilly and John Stewart Debate on Saturday October 6, 2012

October 5th, 2012 · Uncategorized

I’m one of those strange people who’s a fan of both Bill O’Reilly and John Stewart. Liberals tend to brand Bill O’Reilly as a demagogue. Conservatives tend to brand Stewart as a socialist. The irony is, 99% of the people who attack either man are people who’ve never seen more than five minutes of who they’re attacking. And the truth is, both men certainly sit on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but I find that both are fair. The one thing both have in common is that they hate hypocrisy and unfairness, and are not shy about calling them out where they see them.

I think I appreciate both the O’Reilly Factor and The Daily Show because I share something in common with both Bill and John–I’m from New York. Stewart’s studios are not too far from my office in Manhattan, and O’Reilly hails from a city not too far from where I live in Long Island. What I love about New Yorkers (real New Yorkers, not spoiled college kids who move in and then proclaim Manhattan as “their city”) is that they speak their mind, they’ll even shout at you, but at the end of the day they’ll give you the shirt off their back if they need it. I think both Stewart and O’Reilly fall under that category.

On Saturday, October 6, you’ll be able to view a debate between both men, John Stewart representing a more progressive mindset, and Bill O’Reilly representing a more traditional one. There are sure to be some jabs, some great humor, and if the viewers are open-minded enough, something to learn from both sides.

Both men are doing something interesting, and dare I say something brilliant. Instead of broadcasting the event on Comedy Central or Fox News Channel, they’re streaming it online for $4.95. One half of the net profits will go to charitable causes supported by O’Reilly and Stewart. When you consider the enormous audiences of both men, that money is going to help an awful lot of people.

The debate will take place live on Saturday night, and people who pay the $4.95 will be able to access the show by streaming later on. Since the proceeds go to charity, viewers are being discouraged from passing the video around.

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Join some Olympic Swimming Greats in Helping Water For People

October 2nd, 2012 · Uncategorized

Olympic swimmers Ryan Lochte and Conor Dwyer thrilled us with their amazing performances at the 2012 London Olympics. They’ve lent their time and fame to support a wonderful charity called Water for People. Here’s a PSA they just released.

Okay, their performance reading cue cards is not as strong (sorry guys :P), but their cause is. Water for Peopleworks around the world in 10 countries (Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, India, Hondusas, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador) to help provide clean drinking water to these areas. They don’t just give handouts–they help build the infrastructure to provide sanitary, easily accessible water.

Women in these counties (who usually bear the load, literally, of trying to find clean water for their families) may want for hours and hours just to find clean water. These efforts are changing lives of women and saving lives of their families.

Donate at least $24 on Crowdrise.com before October 15, and you can win some cool signed schwag from Lochte and Dwyer, from water bottles, to Team USA swimming caps, to Speedo swimsuits.

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Patriotic Christmas Ornaments

September 29th, 2012 · Conservation

It’s not too early to start thinking about trimming the Christmas tree (okay, maybe it is, but I’m thinking about it anyway).

This year, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation is selling a unique ornament and bookmark to celebrate the Statue of Liberty. Both pieces of art are handcrafted AND made in the USA by American artisans.

Gateway to America 2012 is the 10th in a series of collectable Statue of Liberty Christmas ornaments. The background is finished in 24 carat gold with brilliant red, white, and blue epoxy ink. The image of the Statue of Liberty itself is copper plated–using actual copper preserved from the Centennial Restoration of the Statue of Liberty over time. It’s available for $30.

The Lady Liberty Bookmark features of etching of the Statue of Liberty over an American flag. It’s a great stocking stuffer, priced at $15.

Both of these will make great gifts for a new immigrant, a child you’d like to teach about how the United States welcomes immigrants from around the world, or any patriotic friend or family member in your life. It’s also a great way to celebrate the re-opening of the Statue of Liberty, set to re-open on October 26.

To order, visit the Foundation’s website www.ellisisland.org or call (212) 561-4588 weekdays from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm ET.

Statue of Liberty interior to re-open next month

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Patchwork Road's Meaningful Marketplace – Unique Gifts That Help Charity

September 26th, 2012 · Children's Charities, Developing Areas, Domestic Violence, Education, Poverty, Veterans and Military

Here’s a fantastic new shopping site that you should definitely check out. It’s called PatchworkRoad.Com, and it just launched yesterday.

There are certainly a lot of marketplaces out there that donate a portion of proceeds to charity. But right away this one feels very different. Instead of dumping you into a huge morass of affiliate links, Patchwork Road very carefully selects what products they offer. The products are high quality, unique, and in most cases are produced by merchants who themselves are entrepreneurs. While the presidential candidates endlessly debate who will help small businesses more, it’s sites like Patchwork Road that remind me that the real power to help small businesses (and ultimately this country’s economy) is by finding and buying great products.

The products are constantly changing, but already at launch I see some fantastic product ideas that can really make your life easier. There’s a clever diaper bag organizer by sugarSNAP that’ll let busy moms organize their diaper bags like a rolodex. There’s an ingenious iPad protector from Grip Sense that protects your iPad screen against drops, both by helping you get a good grip on it, as well as cushioning the blow should it fall out of your hands. And there are beautiful pieces of hand-made jewelry from 31 Bits Designs that not only help the charity of your choice, but also help the women of impoverished areas of Uganda who make them.

The products are all unique to Patchwork Road in one way or another; in some cases it’s a product specially designed for sale on their site, and in others the merchant has decided to pre-release it to Patchwork Road visitors prior to releasing it to the public. Many of the items are made-to-order. If you see something you like, grab it quick, as it’ll only be on the site a short time (the on-sale time will be listed by the product name).

What’s very cool is that at least 10% of every product’s price (in many cases more) will be donated to a cause that you choose. There are already over 30 causes and growing that you can support, ranking from helping the poor and homeless to helping victimes of domestic abuse and human trafficking, to helping the elderly. The biggest challenge will be choosing just one charity to support.

Patchwork Road was founded by two entrepreneurs in southern California. It would have been easy for these guys to create a startup that maximized profit for themselves, but they decided to give back, not just to the charities they’re helping, but also to the entrepreneurs who are creating unique and high quality products.

Here’s a great infographic about how Patchwork Road works, and what makes it unique versus other deal-of-the-day sites or charity marketplaces:

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Filipino T-Shirt to Help Flooding in Manila and the Phillipines

September 23rd, 2012 · Disaster Relief

While most of us in the United States were focused on Hurricane Isaac here on the Western Hemisphere, there was a deadly typhoon, Typhoon Haikui, that was pummeling Asia. While Isaac didn’t come close to the devastation many predicted, the opposite is true of what Haikui did to the Philippines. Over 90% of Manila was affected by flooding, with some areas submerged under 10 feet of water. Over 8,000 homes were destroyed with another 6,700 damaged.

We’ve talked about Threadless before–it’s a community-based design company with over 2 milion community members. One of the members from the Philippines reached out to the community and asked that a shirt be created to help recovery efforts in the Philippines.

Threadless released the following shirt design, called Bayanihan, a Filipino word that represents a community coming together as a family to help the greater good:

The design is a green design on a black shirt, designed by Filipino artists Feane and DiMarucot. It features flowers, plants, and animals local to the Philippines. Here’s a description from the artists:

In the design, the Philippine eagle represents dignity, the tamaraw represents strength, the dwarf pygmy goby represents humility, and the sampaguita flower represents goodwill. Below these roll the waves that represent the bodies of water that suffuse and surround our tropical archipelago. Above is a luminous night sky, unobscured by air pollution. The entire design references our national flag– a triangle with a star at each point, and a circle that symbolizes both the life-giving sun and our nation’s status as the Pearl of the Orient.

Threadless will be donation 100% of the net proceeds from sales of the $19.50 shirt to Architecture for Humanity’s Philippines Floods Response Program, with a goal of raising at least $100,000 for a disaster resiliency and reconstruction program as well as providing skills and training to local communities to help them be prepared for future flooding.

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My Ride for the Guided Dog Foundation and America's VetDogs 2012

September 20th, 2012 · Disability

Well, as I said I’d do a few posts ago, this past Sunday I had the very great pleasure of driving out to Smithtown, New York on Long Island with my fiance Lisa and her brother Jack. That’s where the headquarters of the Guide Dog Foundation and America’s VetDogs is. If you know what a guide dog is, you know what this foundation is. They breed and raise dogs from the time they’re puppies to eventually serve humans in need, choosing from breeds with the most aptitude for such work, including Labrador Retrievers and Golden Retrievers. The dogs grow up to serve as eyes for the blind, hands and feet for the disabled, and much needed companionship for wounded veterans.

The Foundation maintains an eight-acre training campus in Long Island that includes a state-of-the-art kennel, a puppy nursery, residence for students who are being trained on how to bond with their dogs, and even an obstacle course and a Japanese garden. Dating back to 1946, it’s one of the oldest guide dog centers in the United States, and the first in the United States to be certified by the International Guide Dog Federation and Assistance Dogs International.

The occasion was the 23rd Annual Second Sight Bike-a-Thon. This is an annual bike ride the Foundation holds to raise money for the Guide Dog Foundation and America’s VetDogs. They have rides for all ages and skill levels, from a 5-mile bike ride all the way to a 65-mile bike ride. We decided to go with the 20 mile bike ride.

It could not possibly have been a more beautiful autumn day. The sun was out, the skies were a beautiful clear blue. We’d planned to ride the 30-mile ride, but we arrived too late and had to wait for the 20-mile ride to start instead.

As we lined up our bikes at the starting line, something caught the corner of my eye.

PUPPIES!

I ran over to pet the puppies, usually something reserved for the end of the ride. The Foundation set aside a pen just for the riders to come and greet.

There were three little guys there. The staff member there told me that they were all Labradors from the same litter, two yellow labs and one black lab. They’d just been born eight weeks ago, but they were bouncing and running and chewing everything in site like a good puppy should. The three of them were moving so fast I had a hard time focusing my camera on them.

I finally got this little guy’s attention.

The staff member explained to me that these little puppies were destined to become guide dogs, service dogs, or companion dogs to wounded veterans. As they grow older and go through training, they each develop different aptitudes that become suitable for different types of service.

I admit I had a hard time concentrating on what she was saying, as the puppies kept scampering around like a whirling dervish.

Finally, I had to leave the puppies and go back to start the ride. As I was walking out, I saw this fellow sitting by the entrance looking kind of bored. Perhaps he was reminiscing about the days when he got all the attention as a puppy.

You’re not supposed to put guide dogs (it interferes with their training), but I shouted out a “g’boy!” to him, and he seemed to appreciate it.

The ride took us through some of the most beautiful parts of Long Island, some parts I never knew existed. For example, we got to ride to a rest area at one of the very northern tips of Long Island, where we could see Connecticut in the distance.

Here’s what it looked like on the iPhone map:

The volunteers for the bike ride could not have been more amazing. The rest stops were well stocked, with volunteers feverishly working in the background to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for us, a very welcome sight after riding through 10 miles of really, really, really steep hills.

Our ride took us through some of the most beautiful areas of Suffolk County, past rolling hills and beautiful views of the ocean and suburban neighborhoods and huge mansions. Here was a neat little sight–a family feeding ducks in a pond–a site that’s becoming rarer and rarer these days.

And finally, here are Lisa and her brother coming down the home stretch of a surprisingly challenging 20-mile ride.

The volunteers prepared the riders a ton of great food at the finish too.

While we were eating we saw a lot of trainers with their dogs, probably to help acclimate the dogs to situations with lots of people, kids, scrap food on the ground, and general excitement. Some dogs were doing well, others not so well. The dogs in training had to wear bright yellow vests. Even without the vests you could tell the new dogs from veteran dogs–the new dogs were the ones sniffing every plate of food left on the ground (promptly corrected by their handlers), while the seasoned ones didn’t let anything faze them.

We were fortunate enough to meet a fellow by the name of “Muzzle”. Muzzle had a blue vest, which was the guide dog equivalent of a four-star general outfit.

Muzzle is what the Foundation calls an Ambassador Dog. He’s the one who goes to schools to help teach kids about the Foundation’s mission and purposes. He’s also a stud–literally. He’s fathered many litters of dogs who have gone on to become great guide dogs, service dogs, and companion dogs. He’s also the one dog that you can pet, which I did happily (like the professional he is, he gave a nice big smile to the camera as I was talking to his handler).

I couldn’t let the day end without going to see the puppies once again. By now they were plumb tuckered out, likely the result of scores and scores of bike riders stopping by to see them throughout the day.

He wasn’t the only one tuckered out…

(sorry Lisa :))

All in all, it was a wonderful event put on by the Guide Dog Foundation and America’s VetDogs. Once again, they opened their doors and showed what a wonderful organization they are. They change people’s lives by raising dogs that can help them, and looking at the dog’s faces you can tell that the dogs are the happiest they can be as well.

If you love to ride bikes and can make it to the New York area, I’d definitely recommend you keep an eye out on the Guide Dog Foundation’s Web site next year to sign up for the 2013 ride.

Another way you can support the Foundation is by buying gifts from their Web site for the dog lover in your life. A great gift for a dog owner is America’s VetDogs Treats, which you can read about on the VetDogs site. These are treats that any dog will love that are good for him or her too.

My thanks to the Guide Dog Foundation and all its volunteers for a great ride. I look forward to coming back next year! 🙂

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Gifts for Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2012 – Part 2

October 20th, 2012 · Breast Cancer, Uncategorized