The Original 52: List of All the FIRST 52 Weeks at a Glance
THANK YOU for joining me on my journey!
Click on the links in the far right column to see the associated article.
| Week | Organization | Description of Activity | Link to Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Marathon Week 1 | Living Water: El Salvador | Building a clean water well for a village with no access to clean water | Living_Water_International_El-Salvador_2017 |
| Pre-Marathon Week 2 | Hungry Helpers Jersey City (St. Lucy's Shelter) | Feeding homeless men and women, visiting with them, cleaning up | Hungry_Helpers |
| Pre-Marathon Week 3 | EarthKeepers at Watchung Reservation | Trail cleaning and maintenance | EarthKeepers_Watchung_Mt |
| Week 1 | The Valerie Fund | Setting up for 5k and event to raise money for research to fight children's blood disorders. | Valerie_Fund |
| Week 2 | Morris County Interfaith Food Pantry | Helping at a client-choice food pantry | MCIFP |
| Week 3 | Homeless Solutions: Birthday Buddies | Throwing birthday party for children living in homeless shelter | Homeless_Solutions_Bday_Buddies |
| Week 4 | Habitat For Humanity | Building Homes in Morristown | Habitat_For_Humanity |
| Week 5 | Imagine - Center for Coping with Loss | Program to support children who have lost loved ones. Educational tour and group activities | IMAGINE |
| Week 6 | Friends of Cape May National Wildlife Refuge | Tour, education and research | CapeMayWildlife |
| Week 7 | Care One | BINGO with residents of long-term care facility. | CareOneBingo |
| Week 8 | Carbonfund.org | Reducing my carbon footprint | Carbonfund_org |
| Week 9 | Habitat for Humanity | Building homes with co-workers | Habitat_For_Humanity2 |
| Week 10 | NEDA (National Eating Disorder Association) | Walking for Awareness | NEDA-Walk |
| Week 11 | Only Make-Believe, Washington DC | Creating costumes for shows to entertain and involve children in hospitals | OnlyMakeBelieve |
| Week 12 | Caitlin's Smiles | Making cards and gift bags for hospitalized, critically ill children | CaitlinsSmiles |
| Week 13 | NY Blood Center | Giving blood | NY_BloodCenter |
| Week 14 | Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund | Collecting and sending donated goods to Puerto Rico | HurricaneHarvey |
| Week 15 | Virtual Racing | On-line racing for charities | Virtual_5Ks |
| Week 16 | Southern Appalachian Labor School | Working with disaffected youth | SALS_WestVA |
| Week 17 | The Covenant House NYC | Saving Homeless Young Adults | The Covenant House NYC |
| Week 18 | Random Acts of Kindness Foundation | Becoming a RAKTIVIST! | Random Acts of Kindness Foundation |
| Week 19 | Avon 39 Breast Cancer Walk | Walking 39 miles to raise funds and awareness | Avon39 |
| Week 20 | Market Street Mission | Tour/education - men's drug recovery and homeless shelter | MarketStreetMission |
| Week 21 | Adopt-a-Soldier | Adopting deployed soldier for 6 months - sending letters and packages | Adopt_a_Soldier |
| Week 22 | Table-to-Table | Day on the truck with this food rescue program program (collecting and dropping off) | Table_to_Table |
| Week 23 | Liquid Church's Love Week | Painting the Parsippany, NJ community Center | LoveWeek |
| Week 24 | Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida | Sorting and packing food donations | 2ndHarvest |
| Week 25 | St. Peter's Orphanage | Thanksgiving Dinner for a cause... | CharityThksGivingDinner |
| Week 26 | Salvation Army's Angel Tree Program | Gift buying for child in need (with my grandson) | AngelTag |
| Week 27 | Feed My Starving Children | Packing 1 Million meals for the hungry | FeedMyStarvingChildren |
| Week 28 | Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee | Reconciliation through coffee farming | Land_of_a_Thousand_Hills_Coffee |
| Week 29 | Team Walker | Working the Holiday Party for inner city youth | TeamWalker |
| Week 30 | Menlo Park Veteran's Home | Visiting and entertaining veterans | MenloPark |
| Week 31 | First Night Morris | Running Lego activity at community New Year's Eve celebration | FirstNight |
| Week 32 | DoSomething.org | Mirror Messages - creating positive messages on sticky notes and leaving them on public mirrors | MirrorMessages |
| Week 33 | SpreadKindness.org | Creating a ripple of kindness.... | SpreadKindness.Org |
| Week 34 | CMTC Blue Warming Station | Setting up and helping run night at a homeless shelter | CMTC |
| Week 35 | Family Intervention Services | Painting ceramic dish in support of abused and neglected children (Paint and Sip event) | FIS |
| Week 36 | Lakeland Area Special Olympics | Painting signs (crafting) to support Special Olympic athletes | LakelandSO |
| Week 37 | Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research | 500 mile Virtual Race to Jupiter to fight Parkinson's | Journey_to_Jupiter |
| Week 38 | Special Olympics Polar Bear Plunge | Jumping into frozen ocean to raise awareness and funds | PolarBearPlunge |
| Week 39 | Our Hearts of Hope | Painting ceramic hearts and writing notes of support to first responders | OurHeartsOfHope |
| Week 40 | Free Yezidi Foundation | Supporting Yezidi refugee women and children who escaped ISIS | Free_Yezidi |
| Week 41 | Kindness.Org | Leaving books "in the wild" for others to find | Kindness_org |
| Week 42 | Family-to-Family | Supplementing food costs for a needy family for a year | FamilyToFamily |
| Week 43 | Joan's Joy | Supporting victim and family rights in cases of sexually abused and murdered children | Joans_Joy |
| Week 44 | Morris County Interfaith Food Pantry | A look back at the last year | |
| Week 45 | Wild Baby Rescue | Feeding squirrels and saving injured wild animals | Wild_Baby_Rescue |
| Week 46 | NJ Coalition Against Human Trafficking | Fighting Human Trafficking while Protecting and Helping the Victims | Human_Trafficking |
| Week 47 | Helping Children Build a Better Tomorrow | Charitable Activities at Take Your Child To Work Day | Help Children Build Better Tomorrow |
| Week 48 | The Arctic Eider Society | Building Local Resilience Towards Climate Change | Arctic Eider Society |
| Week 49 | Living Water International | Building a clean Water Well in El Salvador with my co-workers | Living_Water_International_El-Salvador |
| Week 50 | Fundraising for Make-A-Wish | Jogging a 10k for Make-A-Wish | Make_A_Wish |
| Week 51 | Mane Stream | Equine Therapy - Volunteering at the Farm | Mane_Stream_Equine_Therapy |
| Week 52 | Global Volunteers - Blackfeet Indian Reservation | Volunteering on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana | Blackfeet Reservation |
Hundreds of coalition forces servicemen and women met aboard Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, for a September 11 memorial service. During the service, Maj. Gen. John A. Toolan, commanding general of Regional Command Southwest and II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) gave a speech reflecting on not only the lives lost 10-years before, but also on the heroes who have fought for the freedoms America stands for.
mooo…
President of Achilchilco
