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It's Project for Awesome time, and this year we decided to support War Child! Please click the link to watch our video and vote for our charity. Feel free to send us an ask when you've voted, so we can put you on our List of Amazing People Who Have Earned Our Eternal Gratitude.

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HTML + CSS

Hey guys, We're currently looking for a programmer with HTML and CSS skills who's willing to help us during the month of November! If you're interested send us an email at [email protected]

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Collab between 500MoA and the German + Dutch&Belgian HPA Chapters

Hello everyone, it’s been a while since we updated but don’t you guys worry. We are in fact not dead not sleeping ;)

More so, we’ve been in touch with a few nerdfighters and none other that the dutchandbelgianhpa AND hpagermany to organise a joint event!

We don’t have much information yet, but we can tell you it’s gonna be one hell of an awesome gathering!

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Kiva: the story continues!

Lords and/or ladies, Our first round of Kiva loans has ended, and we are the proud owners of our money again, after it’s helped people with less opportunity than us to fulfill some of their wishes. After much duly deliberate debating, we finally settled on what to do with the monies, which became, of course, moar Kiva loans! Before we all get to bathe in the glory that is Kiva and its microloan possiblities, we want to take a minute and thank you and everyone you coerced, conquered, commanded, or otherwise convinced to donate their hard-earned dough to help us fight Worldsuck. We truly are grateful. We redistributed our Kiva money among no less than thirteen different Kiva loans, helping people realize (parts of) their dreams. All from the kindness of your hearts. You can check out the full list of our loans here: http://www.kiva.org/lender/500moa. So thanks again, guys, for helping us spread the Awesome to companies like Tujijenge Tanzania Ltd (yes, that’s their actual name :) ) We wish these people the very best, and we wish you all to remain awesome.

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Dearest sleep-crazed P4A followers (and others), THE P4A IS HAPPENING WAAAAAAAAH!! For those not in the know yet, we explained what P4A entails in yesterday's Facebook post, where we also casually mentioned our own P4A video. Now we're here to talk about the Dutch and Belgian HPA Chapter! They made a video as well, and they filmed it in Antwerp, and it's about the HPA and peanut butter faces, and it's totally awesome, and you should watch it!

Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QthDJd8QxOo

Consider giving them a like or a comment, or even a donation while the P4A is happening. Thanks a lot, you can go back to browsing YouTube now :) Het wapen dat we hebben is liefde!

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Tab For A Cause is doing a thing, and you should join in on the doing of it!

Dearest dames and dudes,

If you’ve passed by this page since last time we posted, you already know about (and possibly installed) tabforacause and its browser extension for charity. If you don’t, that’s okay. You can scroll down to the previous post and go check it out, or go here. We’ll wait.

Done? Good. Thanks, by the way.

Now, TFaC is taking part in something called #GivingTuesday. What is this, you ask? Well, some very nice Americans decided we needed a day for giving back. They already have a day for being thankful (you know which one that is), and they thought giving back should be part of the process.

So, these people teamed up with the United Nations Foundation (and others) to create Giving Tuesday, which is December 3rd. That’s this Tuesday!

In honour of the initiative, TFaC is donating $0.10 for EVERY new user who joins before Tuesday. And, they’re donating to Taiphoon Haiyan Disaster Relief through Actions Against Hunger in the Philippines! We all know those people really need our help, and TFaC is on the case.

They hope to gather 5000 new Tabbers by then, and they’re at just under 1200 as of this writing.

500MoA kindly asks you guys to help them out, and install the extension. It costs you nothing, and you automatically give back to several charities through ad revenue TFaC makes. Plus, if you install it before Tuesday, they will donate to Haiyan Disaster Relief on your behalf! That makes NOW one of the greatest times to help out.

Please consider this great charity, and the #GivingTuesday initiative. Support if if you want, and get the word out wherever you can!

We could all give back a little at the start of the season where we all receive so much from our loved ones.

Thank you kindly, and as always, don’t forget to be awesome!

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Dearest inhabitants of Nerdfighteria,

As you know, 500MoA is not just about funsies with friends. We also truly believe in charitable giving, and try to promote this as often as possible.

In this regard, we are going to update our social media a tad more often, and shine the spotlights on different charities. They may all take on different forms, and they may rally behind different causes, but in their heart thay all want one thing: to help. As do we. And who knows, maybe some of you will find some spare change next to the kindness in your heart and help out where you can. That would be awesome.

Now for the charitable organisation du jour: Tab For A Cause

TFaC is a completely free browser extension (Firefox and Chrome only, but hey, who still uses IE?) which donates to charity every time you open a new tab! Great, right?

How it works: when you open a new tab, you will first land on a page displaying a photo, Twitter feed, and latest news about a charity. The page will also have banner ads, and the money TFaC makes from those ads are 100% redirected to the charity. It’s a genius way of using banner ads for the good fo the people.

And you know what’s best? The Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck is one of the charities involved!

So, should you be so inclined, go to their website, install the extension, and start giving right away!

Thank you all, and, as always, DFTBA!

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End total for Battle4Awesome!!

Dearest everyone,

Now that the last donations for the Battle for Awesome have reached us, we’ve been able to tally up a total. Through the combined efforts of everyone who participated in or gathered support for the causes, we were able to gather up €792,2!

At the end of the Battle, one team was ahead by 0.5 points. Nobody really deemed this a victory, so we took the Nerdfighter approach and decided we were all winners. This mean that half of the donated money goes to both charities!

Water.org received €396.1 from us, and both the Belgian and Dutch chapters of the Make-A-Wish Foundation gained €198.05.

The 500 Miles of Awesome team wishes both those charities all the best in their efforts to decrease worldsuck, and would like to sincerely thank everyone who participated in asking their friends and family to support us.

We hope to continue to be able to do good for this world, and to have your support and engagement in doing so. Thanks again, and, as always, don’t forget to be awesome.