The words below barely scratch the surface of how people are contributing to the world; their words hardly describe the passion I have seen as people talk about what they believe in passionately.
There are hundreds who have given gifts without sharing what they are doing, so this list is certainly not complete. Thank you to so many of you who have made anonymous contributions.
There are more contributors and comments listed on-line at www.firstgiving.com/carolschillios site. So if you notice your name and action has not been listed and you wish it to be added to our public list here, please email me directly so we may add it to our growing list. (c.schillios@verizon.net)
I am humbled by the many things people are contributing to make a difference in their world.
| First Name | Last Name | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Steve | Locante | |
| Machelle | Allman | |
| Damian | Amrhein | |
| Andrew | Bowen | |
| Fiona | Bowen | |
| Rachel | Bowen | |
| Carolyn | Cox | |
| Wendy | Enden | |
| Anabel | Hovig | |
| Carisa | Meisner Smit | |
| Margaret | Mullin | |
| Jeff | Ridenour | |
| Shanna | Ridenour | |
| Laura | West | |
| Grace | Carlson-Jones | |
| Jacobs | Merri Lee | |
| Carolyn | Collier | |
| Ruth | Shimondle | |
| Lucy | Buhler | |
| Carol | Collier | |
| Marilyn | Parker | |
| Ruth | Shimondle | |
| Julia | Kim | |
| Mikala | Kim | |
| Susan | Damon | |
| Susan | Danib | |
| Anne | Wharton | |
| Sue | Jones | |
| Gary | Haakinson | Running the city of Edmonds |
| Ian | Weston | Not making a lot of trash. |
| Joyce | Cain | |
| Lieselotte | Schmidt | |
| Jana | Spellman | |
| Nancy | Adler Jones | Explore teaching in Spanish to Bolivia Women to lose weight for health |
| Roger | Dalziell | Recruiting exchange members. |
| sally | Grace | volunteering |
| Sarah | Hahn | |
| Jim | Hanscon | Giving joy to others through sharing Porsche |
| Michael | Wagner | Working w/ KIVA |
| Kristin | Heusinkveld | Forgiving people and reading the Bible |
| Carol | Kohl | Volunteer |
| Denise | Heekin | my art |
| Anne & Kurt | Kutay | Building wells in Africa/ www.wildland.com |
| Laura | Tressel | |
| Almut | White | physician |
| Linda | Ferguson | In school to become a pastor! |
| Kizzie | Jones | Spiritual director in retirement home. |
| Thom | Wert | chaplain nursing home |
| Sally | Grace | working on a novel of paradigm shift |
| Edie | Sri | supporting school fees to local orphanage in Bandung |
| Jacqueline | Bristol | |
| Larry & grandkids | Nordby | |
| Joyce | Makes Larry the happiest man in the world. | |
| Judi | Guxdrom | Knowing you & your mom! |
| Karen | Bacon | sharing heading and universal wisdom |
| Sara | Bruestle | |
| Love M. | Call | I love someone unconditinally |
| Sue Ann | Call | helping at risk youth to become more successful |
| Sharon | Culbertson | Recycle and yard waste |
| Dunn lumber | ||
| Charlene | Iverson | I care for my 92 year old father in my home |
| Martha | Oreppo | teaching music |
| Janet | Price | Volunteering at a wildlife rehab center (www.turneridgewildlifecenter.com) for orphan wildlife. |
| Pam | Tubbs | |
| Michelle | Unger | painting for my own pleasure |
| Deb | Anderson | |
| Jan | Bush | |
| Jan | Bush | Friend of Carols & made the world a better place |
| Allen | Charbonneau | |
| Erica | Dorland | volunteer |
| Taylor, Truly, Maile | Dorland | recycle |
| Rev. Chuck | Elven | tending/ helping some poor "motel" seniors |
| Adrienne | Finell | |
| Caitlin | Firunash | |
| Pam | Gilbert | |
| Kea | Hawkins | Walking instead of driving |
| Kala | Heckin | working ain shoreline community college to raise awareness about social justice |
| John | Kim | |
| Julia | Kim | |
| Mikala | Kim | |
| Sue | Klemm | Donate to "living water" wells/build houses Tanzania (donate) |
| Diane | McEachron | |
| Sandra | Miner | |
| Lana and Gary | Ojendyk | |
| Mandy | Ojendyk | starting BGI in Spetember |
| Jane | Pendergrass | I teach seven year old with tolerance and compassion |
| Jahe | Purcell | Support! |
| David | Ramey | working at Like Choices and helping people to find roll potential |
| Danny & Tej | Rock | work in education and medicine kindness to strangers and an open mind |
| Bud | Searle | looking for a job |
| MK | Sneeringer | Create Backyard wildlife habitat |
| Campbell | Valle | I work to build a sense of call to responsibility in 7th grade students |
| Michzel | Wagner | working with kiva |
| nellie | Wedler | Supporting Carols passion |
| Allie | Wirtala | Supporting Carols passion |
| Ginnie | Wirtala | Supporting Carols passion |
| Maryellen | Young | |
| Rora, Amy Sue | ||
| Eric | Brotman | Raising funds for children with special needs |
| Mauri | Culley | Microlending |
| Miranda | Culley | |
| Karen | Dyck | |
| Risa | Gallier | |
| Alana | Giesen | Being friendly and keeping the peace |
| Alana | Glesen | |
| Denise | Heekin | Working with the net of light to help heal our planet |
| Jerry | Kessinger | Slowing down to become aware and respectful and responsive to those that appear before me every single day |
| LD | Helping, empowering, healing | |
| Dawn | Marx | Buying your beautiful items! |
| Mauri | Moore | Microlending |
| Janet | Morck | |
| Karen | Oyck | |
| Dee | Piepho | Plant restoration state of WA. Conservation at moon w/ international students |
| Charles & Elaine | Terry | |
| Jr | Thompson | |
| Tiedeman Family | Run charity basketball game | |
| Bill & Jan | Vance | |
| Chris & Lori | Vines | |
| Anita | Walker | Donating clothes to children! |
| Anita | Walker | Donating clothes to children! |
| Cathy | Willcock | Walking ever night to get in shape |
| Linda | Zahnou | St. Vincent De Paul |
| Caring for two elderly neighbors | ||
| Caring for two elderly neighbors | ||
| Madeleine | Barrow | |
| Catha | Caspian | Shepards purse xmas boxes for kids in Africa |
| Trina | Hopkins | serving others |
| Rachel | Jacobson | |
| Joan | Jolly | Solving seeds of hope |
| Aggie | Lvov | Brought russia cold soup |
| Kari | Fordice | Our org. works to build up ingenious leaders in Africa and around the world. |
| Jack | Gallagher | |
| Carole | Gerber | |
| Sally | Hyde | support rabour village |
| Annie | Kohl | Helping Tibetan refugees |
| Bob | Mandel | Being kind to beggars |
| Leslie | Serling | being as green as possible! |
| Susan | Blalock | Saving the rose house, helping to cure neurofibromatosis in Native Americans |
| Donna | Eggen | community service locally international missions` |
| Eilgon | ||
| Laurie | Friedman-Adler | |
| Lynda | Hughes | |
| Jessica | Levinson | Being more conservative as far as taking shorter showers |
| Carolyn | Mawbey | made gift basket for sick friend today |
| Judy | Pennington | |
| Jim and Cindy | Roeter | Taking in foreign students, built shower for weak |
| Sue | Sorensen | |
| Marilynn | Ward | |
| Eileen | Let my son enter Peace Corps as a volunteer | |
| Donna | Clinton | |
| Donna | Clusta | |
| M | Darnim | Trying to smile and be kind to all (harder than I thought) |
| Brooke | Loughrin | Volunteering at Fabric of Life! |
| Sarah | Lovejorj | |
| John | Wardlaw | |
| John | Warlaw | |
| Katie | Wolff | I volunteer at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. You Go Girl! |
| Lisa | Browning | Reading books and giving them away, walking with Henry my new dog |
| Tonja | Gabryshak | Curate artwork to raise awareness on the true stories of need around the world and recognize organizations that are truly making a difference! |
| Sally | Grace | working on a novel approach to paradigm shift |
| Rhonda | Hanson | Rhonda would be interested in trade beads |
| Helen | Heckin | |
| Cecile | Hudson | Volunteer with therapy assisted living through delta society. |
| Beth | McGibbon | |
| MKG | ||
| Kathy | Swanson | Helping care for my grandchildren and daughter and son-in-law. |
| Nicole | Tiedeman Family | |
| Hanni | Campbell | Volunteer Tae-Kwon-Do instructor at Everett YMCA for 15 years and still there. Love volunteer work. |
| Richele | Drummond | |
| Michele | Duttera | |
| Mary | Gladhurt | |
| Will and Mary | Magnuson | Trying to be nice to others. |
| Mulle | We visited Zambia in July, 2008 H.I.V. hospital. | |
| A. | Podesta | Food Donations |
| Karen | Prater | sharing honestly |
| Hette | Rue | |
| Joe | Schopen | a rotarian for 19 years |
| Van Lieu Family | Stay home mom, focused on raising my 2 beautiful children | |
| Pery | Weborg | Thanks for all that you do |
| Brian | Ross Family | |
| Alderwood Terrace Rotarians | Their motto is "service above serf," just like you! | |
| Sheila | Belcher | I go with my doctor husband on a 10 day rural clinic to Haiti each February |
| Craig, Janice, Kendon, Brenen, Davis, Weston | Campbell | |
| Carin | Clampitt | Volunteering |
| Colin | Donnelly | working with homeless in sacramento. |
| Marlisa | Hollinger | Not enough! |
| Zara | Khan | |
| Paul | Lippert | www.talltunes.com, www.paullippert.com |
| Deb | Mardis | |
| B. | Miller | |
| Margaret | Olsen | I babysit regularly for my niece, who is a single mom. |
| Monica | Roberts | |
| Dave | Rossi | Clean-up after others. |
| Beth | Seacord | Organize an alternative giving far annually at church to support charitable and fair trade orgs. And offer people an alternative to holiday madness and malls. |
| Gayla | Shoemake | "P"-Patch, Edmonds United Methodist, Green Team & Poverty Conference Committee |
| Val | Stewart | Supporting environmental youth action corp in kenya, village volunteers |
| Sarah | Sweeney | |
| Mary Kay | Woolson | |
| Connie | Amunda | Helping people be healthier |
| Pheonix | Cloutier | Treat friends nicely |
| Priya | Cloutier | |
| Jay | Ericson | Annual medical excursion to Ecuador to treat people with leprosy. |
| Elise | Foot | Picking up pinecones to earn money ($0.5) for people who need food. |
| Kirsten | Foot | Teaching children about the conditions in the developing world. |
| Laura & Jonathan | Hess | J - Choose not to be a "consumer" anymore, L - Heal with my hands, bless others and send them good energy when I pass them on the street. |
| Michelle | Lorton | Ears and eyes and heart open for adding grace and joy to every day and to those around me. |
| Marcail | McDonald | Family supported and African soccer player |
| Julie | Punochar | |
| Raymond | Roppo | Turn to Jesus |
| Terri | Sander | Playing violin |
| Sarah | Stine | |
| Evan | Weston | Trying to be a good example at not doing bad things my friends tell me to do. |
| Jim | Weston | I am trying to love my neighbor as myself. |
| Suzanne | Weston | Sponsoring Fekadu in Ethiopia |
| Teri | Green | Payer quilts, support new entra casa home for women ex-offenders. |
| Pamela | Hadi | I make mid-wife packs for the village of Kodera in Africa for their little medical clinic. |
| Selma | Rosa | Helping homeless |
| Luke | Senald | |
| Joan | Aegerter | Caring for friends in need. |
| Lindsay | Aegerter | |
| Francesca | G | |
| Holly | Hedges | |
| Jessica | Jackson | |
| Judy | Kottemann | |
| Paul | Prozinski | Donate blood (60+ pints) and charitable contributions and volunteer |
| Colleen | Sullivan | |
| Lori | Voda | recycling |
| Robin | re-connecting with my family and loved ones after 4 years of being away for school | |
| Anonymous | ||
| Pam | B. | |
| Cynthia | Berglund | |
| Del | Fisher | I build lighthuose birdhouses to give birds a safe haven. |
| Marcia | Fisher | I do volunteer work. |
| Michelle | Hudson | Taking public transportation instead of driving. |
| Grace | Kewatae | |
| C | Laico | Taking care of my husband who is ill |
| Sherrie | Ringstad | |
| Kathy | Swanson | |
| Maya | Tawatao | |
| Helen | Trainer | |
| Athena, Kelly, Janet | Trying to do anything we can to conserve the environment. | |
| Louise | Paying it forward | |
| I gave a car to a momma so she could go to school w/o burder | ||
| Shirley | Capp | I am helping people in Kenya |
| Lucas and Diane | French | Volunteer in Northern Kenya |
| Marilyn | Nelson | Charged on card |
| Laurie | Anginli | Giving hope with famine & finances with inspiring dreams and goals |
| Charlie | Brister | |
| Cnady | Browning | I volenteer at the Edmonds food bank |
| Ruth | Cota | Keep my friend company |
| Susan | Henderson | |
| Norbert & Nancy | Hertl | |
| Donna | Leavitt | |
| Kathryn | McPike | I wish you well and the very best of luck |
| Jen | Mitchel | Yoga Studio philanthropy |
| Edeltraud | Salter | Smile "Smile." |
| Avriel | Varnell | Do whatever I can. |
| Gail | Save lost pool | |
| Mitchell | Save lost pool | |
| Stevn | Save lost pool | |
| Wayne | ||
| Jeanne | Amundsen | teach language to children w/language disorders |
| A | Evans | Good luck |
| Anabel | Hovis | |
| Emily Ann | Hovis | |
| Angelita | Rodriquez | |
| Hovis | Tor-Ceumer | |
| Nola | Unger | |
| Kris | Walla | |
| Parenting 4 children | ||
| Jazz | Tukivbow | Making it count with drums. Donating "my soul" |
| I give back by feeding hungry animals | ||
| Michelle | Makennacook | |
| Stadler | using 5k,10,k 1/2 marthons to rasie $ for charities | |
| Jan, Andrew,Gary, Leo | sending Andrew to East coat to share the love | |
| Jenny | Anttila | |
| Jeff | Eggebraaten | |
| Wendy | Enden | looking for work |
| Heather | Harris | |
| Louise | Harris | |
| Pat | Hedwall | 13 yr old boy in monglow and foundation in Thailand |
| Allicia | Keefe | Traveling Europe for 3 months |
| Michelle | Linville | Feeding homeless teens educate disable |
| John & Elizabeth | Sherris | |
| Janelle | Squires | |
| Scott, Amy, vier, Emmett | Turner | growing organic blueberries & having gleaning for the food bank |
| Laura | Teaching,Recycling,Not buying China | |
| Hannah & Bridget | Doble & Duffy | lemonaide stand to raise money for Fabric of Life |
| Krystal & Tyson | start small movement "Positive Steps Forward" & smiling at random people | |
| Ms. Gunnel T. | Clark | Long time pacifist and labor union supporter |
| Stephen | Ernst | riding my bike for errands around town |
| Fairbanks Family | volunteer work, stream restoration, MHS Leo Club | |
| Ricky & Sally | Grace | For Carol, with our heartfelt support & love for her courageous endevar to wake the world. |
| Michelle | Haas | Hopefully volunteer here |
| Randi | Harper | teaching art to kids w/special needs |
| Joan | Lawson | involved in United Nations Association work--Board |
| Camille | Perrine | |
| Glenda | Podesta | planning to foster doggies from the shelter |
| Verle | Sandbak | support my sisters school she built in Africa |
| Dawn, Erik, Christian | Sorensen | being the best Mom I can for my 5 yr old son, Christian. |
| Carol | Chess | visiting people in hospitals with my dog |
| Jerry | teaching my son to help and think about others in need | |
| Bill | Mix | |
| Carrie | Mix | |
| Katie | Mix | |
| Kent | Mix | |
| Joanna | Ramondetta | |
| Paul | Ramondetta | |
| Graham | Zimmerman | |
| Greer | Zimmerman | |
| Jane | Zimmerman | raising funds to Kagira Memorial Academcy computer Lab in Thira, Kenya |
| Jeff | Zimmerman | raising funds to Kagira Memorial Academcy computer Lab in Thira, Kenya |
| Christian | I help out at the food bank | |
| Jodi | I helped at a day camp | |
| Paprika | Helping students be successful | |
| Samantha | "Read to the naber" | |
| Bryan | Croeni | |
| Susa | Holt | My husband and I are in a masters program OSR (prg. Systems renewal) working with others to initiate change in our world! |
| Marti | Leviel | |
| Mark | Magers | 1. teaching my kids to be giving people 2. selling fair trade farmer owned chocolate |
| Bob and Nancy | Miller | recycle, compost, walk 90% of the time, volenteer for church and community |
| Elizabeth | Tubbs | |
| Eaton | ||
| Deborah | Lee | I serve at Seattle Unity as a chaplain and board member. I donate to Silent Unity prayer ministry and to two homeless shelters in Seattle monthly. I appreciate the Humane Society occassionaly and help the Red Cross when I can. I also like to donate blood when I can sit still long enough! I also have five grandchildren that I participate in life with hoping to help teach them to be good people in the world. |
| Jana | Vasko | |
| Allison | Lynch | Northwest Coalition Against Human Traffiking member |
| Marilyn | Thompson | supporting a hopeless child to rise above her castle by contributing $185 a year to pay for her private schooling in England, books and uniforms. This will help ensure these children of education, self supporting skills, and sure elimination of the oppression castle system that binds so many over |
| Cris | Blair | visiting a 94 year old shut-in |
| Ann | Brown | |
| Pat | Garrity | |
| Bob | Taylor | |
| Jennica | Bisbee | I try to be a gift to people, whether it be doing something helpful, or just saying hi to a stranger to brighten their day |
| Seth | Ceely | try to be as kind to everyone as possible and maintain a positive attitude |
| Roger | Gillaspy | Fed my needy family tonight |
| John | McClain | recycoe, eat and cook vegan as much as possible, look for sustainable products |
| Kerry | Tadique | I am raising two socially aware children! |
| Terry | Way | I volunteer at HWMC.ICU as an ICA liaison |
| Mertha | Wertz | visit nursing homes |
| Jennifer | recycling, being nice to all :) | |
| Katy | donate time to local hospital and a living kidney donor (non-designated) | |
| Rose Mary | Rankins | volunteer weekly at Food Lifeline |
| Adraine and Haley | Weber | volunteer--KMS building volley ball courts |
| Laura | Gillaspy | love to help people |
| Carole | Cannnon | |
| Adele L. | Daniels | Helping others learn to work to as a team to reach a final goal - that helps everyone! Halloween Party on Lots of love at the Root |
| Birgitte | Antonsen | Helping people discover "real" food |
| Jan | Rainier | |
| Coreen | Russell | Sponsoring newly recovering women in A.A. |
| Jadyn | Waram | donated money for chickens for family in Africa, instead of Christmas presents! |
| Tyler | Waram | Donated soccer balls to kids in Africa instead of getting a Christmas present |
| Stephanie | Neff | I have a wellness office in downtown - educating people about PREMP - alternative healing |
| Loretta | Saarinen | Food Bank, Voluntter |
| B. Wayne | Smith | |
| Craig | Anderson | |
| Lucy | Buhler | |
| Margaret | Byrne | |
| Carol | Collier | |
| Roger | Dalzell | Recruiting member for exchange service club |
| A. | Evans | Saw your info on komo t.v website, good luck. |
| Benedict | Grape | |
| Jim | Hanscom | Making people happy, daily connection with dog porsche |
| Thomas | Heinz | |
| Glenda | Henifin | Staying alive, helping grandchildren and caregiver for 90 year old mother. |
| Julie | Hertl | To make the world a better place, I volenteer with a local hospice program-- offering support and comanionship to individuals of end-of-life. In my daily job I work as a social worker supporting families of organ and tissue donors. I recycle and participate in community events and organizing. |
| Charlene | Iverson | Socks for the homeless of Seattle |
| Don & Rose | Lamey | Volunteer with handicap |
| Lyn | Lawner | |
| Joan | Longstaff | supports gotgutsgearup |
| Nicole | Marinez | teaching my children tolerance & compassion for all individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, education or socioeconomic status. |
| Stefan | Marmien | |
| Briell | Mitchell | One thing I will do is go on mission trips and I will donate money to organizations |
| Marilyn | Parker | |
| R. David | Ramey | Helping people to find full potential |
| Meg | Rankin | |
| Samantha | Saether | volunteer w/art and literacy groups & Toys for Tots |
| Ruth | Shimondle | |
| Jean | Sittaw | On edmonds community college foundation raising money for scholarships |
| Barb | St. Hilaire | I am a quilter--I will be back again to visit. I have just been to Africa--it was absolutely amazing. |
| Amanda | Stehwien | To make the world a better place, I take care of children and provide a loving and curturing environment where they can learn and grow. |
| Stray Threads Quilt Guild | ||
| Kathy | Thorsen | active in church & volunteer on projects all year long |
| Christian | VanHees | Uses Biodiesel |
| Donna | Viola | Donna teaches ESL and Tony teaches "at risk" kids to golf. |
| Alex | Voromin | Recycles |
| Deni | ||
| Jeremy | Helping people spontaneously even if not asked. | |
| John | Rose House | |
| Vickie | ||
| vegan, recycles, no bottled water, no plastic bags, compost, etc |
Hi, I'm Carol. I'm living in a tent on the roof until 1 million people each donate $1 to the Fabric of Life Foundation and share how they are making a difference in their world.
