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Sharing your ultimate summer experience can be good for you, good for Squidoo, AND good for charity. Today LotusPetalYoga benefits charity with her lens on The Ultimate Manta Ray Experience, a virtual documentary of Hanifaru Bay manta rays and the scuba diving experience.
This lens benefits Wild Animal Sanctuary, which provides a safe haven for [...]

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All it takes is a simple sweet treat to help charity. JenOfChicago has shared her summer classic Frozen Grapes so kids of all ages can enjoy this healthy, simple, and surprisingly rewarding fruit.
This lens benefits Grameen Foundation, a nonprofit organization that uses microfinance and innovative technology to fight global poverty and bring opportunities to [...]

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Amazing things happen when a community rallies together to support their neediest members. Today’s Sunshine Award goes to Pastiche for her lens on an ultimate home makeover that took place near her in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Berks County Pennsylvania tells the story of a young widow and her daughter [...]

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Today’s Sunshine Award benefits a NEW charity partner on Squidoo. As lensmaster Christene says, “Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger is the oldest continual pledge walk in the United States.” That’s a huge achievement for a local charity! Learn how Christene has participated in The Walk for Hunger and how your donation, small or [...]

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Today’s Sunshine Award is simple and useful. For those of you who love matching your lens CSS with your themes, GreekGeek has your step-by-step instructions for creating a matched set. Squidoo Themes & Color Codes will show you how to match each of our themes without turning your white socks pink.
This lens benefits Inner City [...]

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Sometimes, the unexpected turns out to be the best thing ever. In today’s Sunshine Award lens, LoKackl shares why Chainsaw is the Luckiest.Tortoiseshell-Cat.Ever. Abandoned, ill, and not initially entirely welcome, Chainsaw’s entry into our lensmaster’s home soon warmed the hearts of the family and gave companionship even to the family dog.
This lens benefits ASPCA, [...]

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“Follow the yellow brick road” was the key phrase of The Wizard of Oz’s theme song, and lensmaster grannysage has taken the story to a new level with her beautiful story of the life of Frank Baum and the creation of one of our favorite novels and movie. Once you’ve read Following the Yellow Brick [...]

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For today’s Sunshine Award we’re taking a trip to the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Indonesia. Lensmaster Vanidiana has taken us through a virtual tour of the gardens with the journal of her visit, along with her husband and daughter. Learn what makes this garden unique – besides the thousands of species of plants [...]

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Hurricanes are always cause for concern but tropical storms can be just as devastating. Add media attention over a volcano and you have quite the recipe for disaster. Our own athomemomblog learned this in 2010 when Tropical Storm Agatha hit the already poor country of Guatemala.
This lens benefits Global Giving, which is helping volunteers reach [...]

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Today’s unique Sunshine Award winning lens is coming to you as a contest. The ECOlunchbox Blue Water Bento Competition (say that five times fast) is encouraging you to take part in a healthy, fun, contest to benefit Mother Nature and happy tummies in lunchrooms everywhere. Enslavedbyfaeries has posted the rules and the gauntlet [...]

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