Tonight as I do a last round, the following caught my eye in my Twitter account.

10 Great Philanthropists Who Are Kids

Now, actually there are 12 children and their stories, each with their own YouTube video for you to watch. But someone decided to say 10 (maybe because two of the stories are two young people teamed up). If you think kids don’t know or care, you’re sadly mistaken.

Making A Difference

o Abby Miller, age 12 (helping a friend with cancer)
o Olivia Bouler, age 11 (raised $200,000 for the National Audubon Society)
o Cameron Cohen, age 11 (see what he did after bone tumor surgery)
o Jordan Somer, Nebraska teen (events for females with physical/mental disabilities)
o Phoebe Russell, age 5 (raised $1,000 for the San Francisco Food Bank)
o Brittany and Robbie Berquist, ages 12 and 13 (paid an $8,000 phone bill for a soldier)
o Mackenzie Bearup, age 16 (donated over 50,000 books to treatment centers)
o Timothy Hwang and Minsoo Han, both 14 (5 cities, 800 volunteers, all students)
o Zach Bonner, age 11 (2,448 mile March Across America, $25,000 raised)
o Harry Mosley, age 9 (inoperable brain tumor, incredible story!)…

Incredible stories giving me more than a glimmer of hope for the future – hope most of us need desperately in today’s world!

Below is just one story, use the link above to hear the rest – you will not be sorry!

These are our world’s next leaders – whether they know it or not! If 12 kids can set out to save a piece of the world, don’t you find that awe-inspiring!?

Combine two or three events, especially during the “we’re suppose to be having fun, but I’m feeling a bit stressed out” holiday season, and you’ve got yourself a great way to have fun and forget about it all – at least for a while.

Recently, hundreds of thousands of fans attended the 2010 Hitmen versus Rebels hockey game. While they thoroughly enjoyed watching the sport itself, the really cool thing was more than 23,000 fans brought teddy bears with them – for charity!

Watch and see what 23 thousand teddy bears flying from the stands looks like! And remember, it was all in good fun and for a good cause

For more information about this event visit Yahoo’s sport page.

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Bidazzled. All opinions are 100% mine.

Bidazzled recently caught my attention for a number of reasons:

1. The premise of the web site was founded around The Ruch Foundation (a lung charity organization)

2. It’s a “penny auction” or “pay-per-bid” auction web site. These are always fun and you never know what’s coming up for bid – so keeping your eyes wide open is a must

3. Everybody wins! Even if you’re not the winner for the item you are bidding on, Bidazzeled still awards you up to 50 “bonus bids.” Their personal way of saying thank you for giving it a go – and of course encouragement to come back again and again to this auction fun zone.

They have also covered their bases since not everyone is a fan of bidding. So if an auction is not your style, but the item online is, then you can “purchase the auction item less the investment you had in the auction.”

What is truly odd, or unique, is that they, in turn, offer the winner of the auction the ability to sell it back to them! Yeah, I know it sounds odd, but they will buy it back for cash (PayPal or check); cash plus bids; or more bids.

You will also love the fact that a bid costs just $1 with a minimum purchase of just $25 per pack. And, just so you know, in Bidazzled’s first month online two people won Nintendo Wii’s. How much did it cost them? Just 5 free bids!

Honestly, as if that wasn’t enough, they also have a referral program so you can build up your bidding power like crazy just for spreading the word about this amazing – and truly strange (in a wonderful way) auction website!

During the past week, we’ve been super busy!

A great addition to our Whole Hog Blog family is the not-for-profit website and blog for ALS of Nevada. The entire state of Nevada coverage for ALS patients and their caregivers is provided by just three individuals (and an outstanding Board of Directors). Two people cover the state, with another fine individual up in the Reno area providing assistance to those in need suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease.

We’d like to ask you to please visit the site, comment on the blog, and help get their traffic and alexa rankings rolling.

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We’ve also added a blog to My Wizard Ads, an ezine advertising information blog. “Diane’s” first true business online after a several year stint as a publisher herself (weird talking about myself in the third, or would that be fourth (?) person). Day in and day out I field questions for not just the new but veteran internet marketer. Ezine advertising gives people the freedom to use other people’s lists as contact points to announce and promote the businesses and programs they join online.

Again, a visit to that new blog and your comments would be greatly appreciated, too.

Both of these new additions have do-follow linking, so your trip gains you that valued backlink in the process.

Enjoy!