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Clean Water for 3000 people!

Clean Water for 3000 people!

One Day’s Wages is excited to highlight one of its first Partner Companies, a joint partnership with sparkhouse and ReNew: The Green VBS, to make a difference in the fight against extreme global poverty. Read more below about their goal to raise and donate $60,000 for...

Creative Compassion

Creative Compassion

We have been so encouraged and inspired by the support shown by the One Day’s Wages community for our Haiti Relief and Rebuild efforts. Many individuals and groups have come up with some creative and exciting ways to fundraise for Haiti. Here are some examples:...

Effectiveness in Disaster Relief

Effectiveness in Disaster Relief

Each time a disaster strikes around the world, you likely read about it online or watch it on the news, and then wonder what you can do to help.  Maybe you aren’t sure how to respond, or you wonder if your efforts will even make a real difference. Maybe these...

Haiti Relief and Rebuild Fund

Haiti Relief and Rebuild Fund

On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the country of Haiti, just 10 miles from the country's capital, Port-au-Prince. There have been at least 13 aftershocks with magnitudes above 5.0, according to the USGS. At least one major hospital was...

National Slavery and Human Trafficking

National Slavery and Human Trafficking

President Barack Obama proclaimed January 2010 as the National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. In the opening paragraph of his press release, President Obama states: The United States was founded on the principle that all people are born with an...

A Young Girl Donates Her Savings

A Young Girl Donates Her Savings

While ODW's humble offices are in Seattle, our vision is to grow into a global and grassroots community. And while we're still technically less than three months old, it's been encouraging to see support growing from various sources: Various folks have...

Project #1 Funded | BMWEC [Burma]

Project #1 Funded | BMWEC [Burma]

One Day's Wages is pleased to announce our first grant recipient: Burmese Migrant Workers Education Committee (BMWEC). Let us first briefly introduce BMWEC and the incredible work they do to enable education for (currently) 6221+ students. From their...

ODW Merchandise Store is Open!

ODW Merchandise Store is Open!

Many of you have been clamoring, emailing, rioting, hollering, and asking about the availability of the One Day's Wages' shirt that was first seen publicly in the New York Times article couple weeks ago.Bam! You asked for it...and we delivered. Our ODW shop,...

Jessica Joins the Movement

Jessica Joins the Movement

We recently "tweeted" a casting call for someone interested in being featured in an upcoming video to demonstrate how EASY it is to donate and join the movement of One Day's Wages. The catch? The person had to actually donate their one day's wages on film....

World AIDS Day: Turning Grief into Action

World AIDS Day: Turning Grief into Action

If you’re anything like us, you’ve seen the red ribbons every 1st of December, for quite awhile. World AIDS Day. You’ve heard the statistics, seen the commercials urging support for AIDS orphans in Africa. Maybe you’ve even donated to one of those organizations, or...

A Movement is Growing…

A Movement is Growing…

One Day's Wages recently turned one month old! It's been quite an exciting month. In addition to some great support from other organizations, great press in the media, we're excited to also share that we hit a big mark this week in surpassing 500...

ODW in the New York Times

ODW in the New York Times

One Day's Wages is in today's New York Times in an article entitled: New Fame for the Everyday Donor. Needless to say, the entire ODW team is excited about the great support and press coverage we've received recently including an article in the Seattle...

           

 

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