Are you ready to help the Orphanage ?

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  Make a general donation to Families Saving Orphans by credit card to sponsor a specific project or child.
• Donate through the mail by check.
• Donate stock. Email us to discuss it.
• Sponsor a child.
• Set aside an amount each month and donate with your debit or credit card.
• Participate in "7 Days of Nothing" and donate the money you save.
• Become a "Saving Sponsor" by donating $1,000 to the Families Saving Orphans project and have your adoption or orphan story featured on our website. Click here for more details.
• Sacrifice one or more things in your life and donate what you save to help an orphan. Even one dollar can make a difference in the life of an orphan. Examples of things you might sacrifice: cable T.V. subscription, soda addiction, cigarettes, Starbucks coffee, fast food meals, full price movies (go to the dollar theater instead) dessert, manicure/pedicure.
• Ask for donations from others. Send a letter to family members and friends and let them know you are trying to raise funds to help orphans. Ask them each for $10 or more if they can. Set a goal to get 10 donations.
• Donate airline miles to Families for Orphans to help defray travel costs for our project managers as they travel to arrange medical care or help for orphans. Email us to set it up.
• Go in person to local businesses and ask them to donate to Families for Orphans.
• Arrange with Wal-Mart to set up a table where you can tell people about Families for Orphans and ask for donations.
• Organize a pancake breakfast or a spaghetti dinner with the proceeds going to an orphan project. Ask businesses, friends and family to donate the supplies. Raffle or auction off donated items during the dinner, and encourage attendees to bring along items they can donate. Think about the people you know and what they could offer you. Do you have family who own a timeshare or condo or cabin? If so, auction off a weekend! Do you have a dentist in the family? Auction off a free exam and cleaning! Can you or a friend sew or quilt? Raffle off a custom quilt or blanket!
• Sell unwanted household items on eBay and donate the proceeds.
• Have a yard sale. Get friends and family members to donate items for you to sell, especially big items like serviceable furniture. Advertise well, listing specific high-demand items in your newspaper ad.
• Use a credit card that gives you cash back on purchases and donate the cash back to help an orphan.
• Organize a "Hoops for Orphans" event where children get sponsors to donate a specific amount for every basket they make at a special event you organize.
• Organize a golf tournament with the proceeds going to help orphans.
• Request that your birthday gifts be donated to help orphans.
• During the holiday season request that those who traditionally give you gifts donate to help orphans instead.
• Instead of sending a gift to someone, donate the amount of the gift you would have given to help an orphan and inform them of the donation being made in their name.
• Organize a "Service Auction for Orphans" where family members and friends donate a service to be auctioned off with proceeds going to help orphans.
• Share your orphan story. If you have had a positive experience with adoption or helping orphans, share your story with others.
• Conduct a Families for Orphans drive in your neighborhood by sending a personal letter to 10-20 friends and neighbors asking for a donation to help orphans.
• Dollars for Orphans. For one month ask everyone you come in contact with for $1 to help an orphan. Explain that most orphans live on less than $1 each day.
• Hold a birthday party for an orphan and invite your friends to come and each bring $10 to donate to help an orphan who has probably never had a birthday party.
• Consider adopting a child.
• Hold an "Orphan Awareness Night" in your home and show the Families for Orphans DVD and request donations.
• Sign up for the free Memberships and encourage others to do so too. Send out the link to the sign-up page to everyone in your email address book.
• Send out an email to everyone in your email address book inviting them to come to familiessavingorphans.org to sponsor a child or an orphan project.
• Consider contacting our partners at our site to purchase a charitable annuity.
• Put Families for Orphans as a recipient in your will.
• Ask someone else to put Families for Orphans in their will.
• Contact local businesses and invite them to match your donation.
• Challenge family members to match your personal donation.
• Hold a Families Saving Orphans barbecue and donate the proceeds.
• Organize a "Walkathon for Orphans."
• Do an "eBay Scavenger Hunt" and ask neighbors and friends to donate items from a list you create of items that could be easily sold on eBay. Then auction them off on eBay.
• Encourage your school to conduct a "Dollars for Orphans" project where each child is invited to bring in $1 to help an orphan. We can match up a school with a specific orphanage or project.
• Organize friends and family to do a "Car Wash for Orphans."
• Ask your pastor if you can pass around a "Dollars for Orphans" collection plate to your congregation to gather donations.
• Ask your church to sponsor an orphan or project.
• Cancel your newspaper service and use those funds to sponsor an orphan.
• Ask your dentist, doctor, orthodontist, chiropractor or anyone you regularly pay to receive services from to see if they will donate a portion of your payment to help an orphan.
• Email your friends and families the link to  so they will be motivated to help orphans as well.
• Take up a collection from co-workers ($10 each) to donate to Families for Orphans.
• Put a link to familiessavingorphans.org on your business, family, or personal website and invite people to learn about the needs or orphans.
• Start a blog and tell people about Families for Orphans and send them to our Web site.
• Contact families that you know who have adopted or who are considering adoption and send them to familiessavingorphans.org, and invite them to share their stories with us or to become a "Saving Family" and have their story featured on our Web site.
• Dedicate a percentage of the profits of your business each month to Families for Orphans and advertise your support of this project.
• Send out a flier to your neighbors, friends, and family offering a paid service informing them that the proceeds will go to help orphans. Ideas for services you could offer: babysitting, housecleaning, baked goods or yard work.