Charity Miles - Donate Without Opening Your Wallet

Charity Miles

 

You put in the miles and earn money for a charity.

 

How it works:

Get the free Charity Miles app for your iPhone or an Android.

 

Turn on the app whenever you go out for a run, walk, or bike.

You turn it on and pick your charity from the list.

 

Sometimes I forget to turn it on before I start to run or bike, but I am getting better at remembering. Sometimes I remember in the middle of my run.

Sometimes I accidentally turn it off when I put it in my run pack. But I figure any miles I get in are better than no miles.

 

And this is why.

For every mile I bike I earn 10 cents towards the charity I pick and for every mile I walk or run I earn 25 cent a mile.

Charity miles has an initial $1 million sponsorship pool.

I haven't quite figured out who all the sponsors are.

I was urged to sign up for Charity Miles by SunRype. SunRype is my new ActiveAmbassador sponsor.

 

When I get done running or biking, I press a few buttons and Charity Miles tells miles me how far I have gone.

For this month, if I had remembered to turn on the app every time I ran or biked, I would have raised $40 for a charity.

 

I mostly pick Wounded Warrior Project for my charity.

 

 But one day I picked the Nature Conservancy because it was World Water Day.

 

Here's a list of all the charities you could be running and biking for:

      * Achilles International
* ASPCA
* Autism Speaks
... * DoSomething.org
* Every Mother Counts
* Feeding America
* Girl Up
* Habitat for Humanity
* Ironman Foundation
* Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
* Nothing But Nets
* Partnership For a Healthier America
* Pencils of Promise
* Shot@Life
* Stand Up to Cancer
* The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
* The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
* The Nature Conservancy
* The World Food Programme
* Wounded Warrior Project

	I am sure you can find one charity from the above list to walk, or run or bike for.   And if you really want to donate you can double dip like I do. I set my app on my phone for Charity Miles and I also record all my workouts to Plus3Network. Plus3Network has different charities, but they, too, have sponsors that donate money based on how many miles you log in. If you missed that blog you can read about Plus3Network here: http://train-n-tri.blogspot.com/2012/09/new-socks-for-me-for-your-charity.html     So help out a charity today by getting up and moving! It will be good for you and the charity!!!   

 

 

  
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