Charity Piggy Bank Update

Nothing makes the months fly by like putting $$ aside! Time to look back on April and see how much loose change made it into Daily Mitzvah’s charity piggy bank. In keeping with the blog’s theme, this is a small way to make a difference in a big world (even on a budget). Here are the last month’s totals:

• Proportional giving: $38.31
• Savings account interest: $1.37
  
• Found money: $0.00
• Rebates for BYO grocery bags: $.80
  
• Change jar: $0.00 (time to cash this in!)
  
• Balance forward: $115.07
• Anti-Malaria Bed Net: <$5.00>
• AIDS Walk NY: <$25.00>
  
• NEW TOTAL: $125.55

I decided to spend some of the piggy bank for two good causes. As I posted earlier, five bucks went to MyBednet.com’s campaign to get as many people as possible to contribute just one bednet in the fight against malaria. And I wanted to help sponsor blogger Proper of the Day for the New York City AIDS Walk. Even with these two small outlays, I’m on track for a nice donation or two by the end of the year. I’ll continue to post an update each month and keep a running total on the blog’s upper right column.

Today’s mitzvah: Consider creating a “charity piggy bank” to collect small sums for a year-end charitable contribution.

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