Passports with Purpose Fundraising Raffle

We’re gearing up here for the holidays at IT (more on that coming very soon), so we jumped at the chance to participate in a great online effort to help support Heifer International. A network of travel blogs has banded together to raise money for the cause in the Passports With Purpose Fundraising Raffle. Bloggers Pam Mandel of Nerd’s Eye View, Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby, Beth Whitman of Wanderlust and Lipstick, and Michelle Duffy of WanderMom have been extremely busy putting it all together, and the entire travel blog community has come forward to offer prizes that you can win with the purchase of an online raffle ticket. And these are seriously some AMAZING PRIZES! So here’s how you can enter:

1. Check out the prizes and find the one you want. The list is here. Take note – there’s a code for each prize – scribble down the code for the prize you want to win.
2. Go to the Passports with Purpose First Giving page.

   For each 10 dollar donation you make, you’ll be entered into the raffle for the prize of your choice. Be sure to enter the prize code in the comments field on the form. And please, don’t hide your email. We won’t share it, but we do need to see it to tell you if you’ve won.

3. Tell all your friends. Lather, rinse, repeat.
4. Cross your fingers and wait. We’ll pull winners on the 30th of December.

Oh, and yes, you’ll get a receipt for you donation from First Giving and hey, if you work somewhere that does matching, please provide that information when you make your donation. It helps.

There’s more incredible stuff, from a three-night stay in Hawaii, luggage, gadgets that are good for travel, a fabulous selection of jackets and other clothes, lots of quality kid stuff, piles of great CDs, and we should note, a copy of the brand-new National Geographic Sacred Places of a Lifetime, edited, and signed, by our own editor in chief Keith Bellows.

For a ten dollar donation, some of it could be yours. Go get some. And give some. Here.