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As I donated another small amount today, I had an interesting thought. What is the right amount to donate? I recently donated to the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research. Personally, I believe it is a better group to donate to; however, I fully support the 1 Second Film and other art projects. I also plan on donating more to the 1SF before the project is complete.

So, my question to anyone who may read this is how do YOU decide how much to donate and who to give it to? There are many "worthy" charities working to find cures for countless diseases. There are other causes, such as this, that I also feel are worthy. There are websites I frequent that run exclusively on donations. Unfortunately, I cannot give everything I have to each of them. What do you do? How do you do it? Most importantly, why do you do it?

Hey everyone,

Our non-profit, The Collaboration Foundation, is one of 8 finalists in this months Ideablob contest!

We received enough votes to make it into the finals, now the votes get reset to zero, and we have one week to get the most votes. If we do, we will receive $10,000 to help build the Collaboration Foundation. This would be absolutely amazing, and make a huge difference in our ability to finish this film faster. Best of all, they give the winning idea the award via a GIANT Check! How great would that be???

Yesterday we had a meeting for the Collaboration Foundation's LA Board of Directors.

The meeting was at GOOD Magazine's HQ; Ben Goldhirsh and Stephen Nemeth were in attendance, as well as Juli Crockett, our newly minted Secretary/Treasurer, and my cinematrographer friend Marcin, who was filming for our doc.

This felt like a really big meeting as there was a lot to discuss; the Road to Oprah update, fiscal and project status reports, the new web development, and overall project goals/focus.

Tonight I'm headed to a Drupal meetup for LA developers. I'm exploring options for deploying the next generation of our site. Looking for reliable developers to get bids.

The whole tech scene is changing so fast. Today I read that Facebook might be going Open Source to keep up with Open Social. I'm not sure what all this will mean in the long term. 

As our site moves more toward a social-platform in anticipation of the needs of the Collaboration Foundation, we have been looking to Drupal to give us an open and affordable way to provide many common social features. Drupal has always been one or two steps behind in terms of meeting these needs, although it has been getting better- hence one of the motivations for upgrading our site to a newer version of Drupal. 

Welcome to The 1 Second Kid Blog~ The purpose of the 1 Second Kid is to teach kids how to use diffrent forms of artistic expression to express thier emotions. Who do we need? We need parents, mentors, teachers and anyone eles that works with kids to join. How you can help? Start a 1 Second Kid group in your area, school or study group. What does a 1 Second Kid group do? A 1 Second Kid group has kids use a form of artistic expression to tell the story of thier most important moment and how they felt during that moment. What forms of artistic expression are allowed? ALL!! Dance, poetry, painting, sculpting, drawing, photography, song writing, singing, playing an instrument, making a video, writing a script, short story writting, and on and on.