Blogging for a Cause

I was in a Hotel & Lodging Meeting this past month when we were reviewing our financial standings. With the number of hotels in the area we have MORE then enough in the bank for our purposes. The question then became "what do we do with all this extra money?"

Not a phrase any of us were use to thinking about and definitely not a bad problem to have. We knew as a group that we wanted to donate it but the question was to where? Within just a few minutes we had a list a mile long of options - everyone had their own causes. This got me thinking.

I talked to Jonathan about it and we decided we could use our blog. With most any fundraising organization their primary goal is to raise awareness of their cause, educate people about it, and then of course raise money.

Between the two of us, we had our own list of organizations and foundations we wanted to be able to support. Financially, for two people, its almost impossible. But we have this great tool here to help us.

Each month we will feature a different organization/foundation/charity. We'll provide links with the information to educate you on it and on up coming fundraising events you may want to participate in.

So far, we have enough on our list to get us through the next year but I'm sure there are more out there. If you have any recommendations you would either like to learn more about OR would like us to inform others of, please e-mail them to us at Niki.Parris@Hilton.com.