After Five Years, It’s Time for a Change

Let’s start with the hard part: After five years with Passports with Purpose, I’m resigning from the Board of Directors. The “Why?” is a mix of public and private. There’s work I’m neglecting. My ridiculous music career is weirdly engaging and takes a lot of time. That partially written nonfiction manuscript on my hard drive [...]

Best Odds on High Value Prizes

We know. You want to know where the crazy steals are. We’ve published the overall best odds, now here’s another top ten. These are the prizes that would set you back some bank if you headed out to buy them at full retail cost. But you get a shot at this stuff for a mere [...]

Good Odds on Great Stuff for Ten Bucks.

We’re just over halfway through our fundraiser — and not quite halfway to our fundraising goals. Folks keep asking this: Where’s that best odds list? I’ve been waiting for that best odds list. Well, you got it. Go mess with the math, why don’t you, and prove us wrong on these excellent prizes that are [...]

Thank you!

As we enter the last five days of the fundraiser, you have helped raised over $35,000! That’s huge! We believe we can make our $100,000 goal with your help. We know you’ve been hard at work getting the word out, encouraging others to donate and we want to take a moment to say THANK YOU. [...]

Clean Water Transforms Lives

The following is a guest post from 2012 beneficiary Water.org. Nicole Wickenhauser is a Senior Development Manager with the organization. It’s about a two-hour plane flight from Miami to the capital of Haiti, Port-Au-Prince. In both cities, people wake up with the same needs: a drink of water, a trip to the toilet. How they meet [...]

Fueled by Cupcakes, Funded by YOU

The Passports with Purpose founders crew genuinely enjoys a good cupcake. Our work — bringing together travel bloggers, travel companies, and sponsors, is fueled by cake and frosting, caffeine and friendship. We convert all those calories, with your help, into some pretty amazing results: A school in Cambodia, a village in India, libraries in Zambia. Towards [...]

Seattle to Zambia: Our Journey to Chilileka Basic School Library

One of Passports with Purpose’s goals each fundraiser is to visit the completed project – whether it is the village in India or the school in Cambodia – and to witness the impact the project has to the local community. This May, Debbie Dubrow, Beth Whitman and Michelle Duffy returned from a whirlwind trip to [...]

Join us (Virtually) in Zambia

In a few short weeks, three of the four Passports with Purpose founders (Beth Whitman, Michelle Duffy, and Deborah Dubrow will depart for Zambia to attend a ribbon cutting ceremony at one of the two libraries you helped build. We’re excited and, as you might imagine, emotional about this opportunity. We are also very grateful to [...]

Participate in Passports with Purpose 2012

We’re hard at work at Passports with Purpose central getting ready for our 2012 fundraiser! If you haven’t participated in the past and would like to hear about this year’s effort, please sign up here. We’ll let you know when and how to participate, but we won’t spam you or share your email address. We [...]

Passports With Purpose 2011 Wrap Up

Thank you so much for your participation in Passports with Purpose this year. We were blown away by your tremendous support for this effort. We raised a grand total of $89,819.00 for Room to Read. That’s $9819 over our initial goal of 80k, and with matching gifts, the total is sure to grow more. Construction [...]

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