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Fundraising Idea 5 – 30 Good Deed Challenge

Fundraising Idea 5 – 30 Good Deed Challenge

Jul 10, 2014 | Charity, Good Deed, Ramadan

Fundraising idea 5: 30 Good Deed Challenge

With the emphasis on doing good, especially in this month, how about this fundraising idea?

My two took this on last year and Alhamd managed to raise more than ÂŁ1000. They wrote about their good deeds on a blog:

www.husaynzainab.blogspot.co.uk/

Some of their deeds included writing thank you notes for the park volunteers, giving small gift packs to the elders of the community, donating to a good bank and bringing water to people.

Am sure you can think of many more good deeds to do! 

 

Good Deed Series – 8. Pay It Forward and make good deeds VIRAL!

Jun 10, 2013 | Good Deed

Last but not least, I thought this would be the perfect way to say farewell to Rajab and bring on the month of Shaabaan!

Remember in the first video posted, it showed how when good is done to us we tend to pass it on? So for example, if someone gives us way on the road, we tend to be more lenient on another driver trying to get in…

However, even just SEEING someone doing good to another can also have that effect! I’m sure many of you have seen the video that shows this so nicely but if you haven’t, here is the link:

Imagine if we did this INTENTIONALLY though…anyone watched the movie Pay It Forward? If you haven’t, I highly recommend it! Here is a clip from the movie that sums it up beautifully:

 

If everyone (and their children) makes a conscious effort to Pay It Forward, can you imagine the effect it would have? Good deeds would go viral!

Inshallah with one small good deed at a time, may we do our little bit to change the world 🙂

Good Deed Series – 7. Inspiration

Good Deed Series – 7. Inspiration

Jun 7, 2013 | Good Deed

There are some amazing websites out there which are chock-ful of what other people have done to spread goodness in the world. If you like them on facebook, you will get daily tid-bits and ideas in your feed as well!

Here they are:

www.helpothers.org – This was one of the first websites I came across and I love it!

www.lifevestinside.com – I found this when I was looking up the famous video (posted on the first day of this series) on how Kindness has a boomerang effect on us.

www.facebook.com/iDeedGoodMagazine – Their website is under construction at the mo but IDeedGood is very active on facebook. They recently organised an amazing event here in London called the Grateful Wall!

www.randomactsofkindness.org – This is one I came across when researching for this series – again, this has stories, videos and ideas.

Happy reading!

Good Deed Series – 6. Anonymous Acts of Kindness – Do it only for Allah!

Good Deed Series – 6. Anonymous Acts of Kindness – Do it only for Allah!

Jun 6, 2013 | Good Deed

“If you disclose (acts of) charity, it is well, but if you hide them and make them reach those (really) in need, that is best for you: It will remove from you some of your evil deed…” (2:271)

It is better if we hide it when we do good to others – that way we know for sure our intention is pure and only for Allah. This rhyme is a great one to emphasise that!

Anonymous acts of kindness are a great way of doing this – leaving a post-it with a message of wishing them a good day on someone’s parked car window, paying towards the next person’s order when queuing for a coffee or simply smiling at anyone you pass on the road are all examples of how we can do good to people we don’t know and who don’t know us!

There is a great anecdote about Gandhi: While boarding a moving train one day, one of Gandhi’s shoes slipped off and fell upon the track. As he was unable to retrieve it, Gandhi – to the astonishment of his fellow travelers – calmly removed his other shoe and threw it down the track to where the first had landed. “The poor man who finds the shoe lying on the track,” Gandhi explained, “will now have a pair he can use.”

Some time ago, my kids and I found these smile balls in a pound shop (think they came in a pack of 6) and we bought a few. We then bought some chocolate and had a lot of fun leaving a chocolate and a smile ball with shopkeepers to give to the next customer, handing them out to random strangers and generally just enjoying thinking up ideas of what to do with them!

How about making a good deed jar at home and encouraging the family to fill it up – but in secret? Check out this idea: https://www.buzzideazz.com/idea-5-a-good-deed-jar/