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The Month of Thanks Challenge was held over the month of November to give lensmasters a chance to be thankful, raise awareness about hunger and make lenses to benefit hunger related Squidoo Charities.

The challenge is being done to help us realize that even in the midst of everything that is going on, we still have a lot to be thankful. The month of November, the month of Thanksgiving is a good time to stop, take a moment and give thanks.

About the Challenge

We had a lot of great lenses submitted for a Month of Thanks and the five hunger related charities, over 60 lenses.

25 – Action Against Hunger
7 – Food for Everyone Foundation
15 – Heifer International
7 – Oxfam America
7 – Planet Gumbo

Topics ranged from serious, like the winning lenses for a Month of Thanks Feed The Hungry from pmolinero, to heart-felt like  Giving Thanks and Giving Back from Starving Artist (from Angelina) and even to “The Worst Lens Ever Made” (from Mortira).

The Winning Lenses

1. Feed The Hungry from pmolinero
2. Partnership For Safety from Big Jim
3. Action Against Hunger from Comfortdoc

Pmolinero plans to “donate $0.05 for every comment left on the Feed the Hungry lens from now until Thanksgiving, 27th of November 2008.”

Still Time to be Thankful

Even though the winning lenses have been announced, there is still time left in November to be thankful. You can Share What You are Thankful for in this Month on the lens or post why you are thankful in the Month of Thanks thread in the Squidu forums.

I am very thankful and grateful to all who participated in the Month of Thanks Challenge.

Imagine you are a child and your parent is deployed in the military.

Now imagine you get a package from that parent with your very own dog tag,

“With Love from Mom or Dad.”

This is the Mission of Dog Tags for Kids, to help provide something that links the child to the parent overseas.

Dog Tags for Kids supply for FREE specially engraved Dog Tags to service members that can be sent home to their children and link their deployed parents.

You can donate directly to this organization on the Dog Tags for Kids Link Children with Their Deployed Parents lens.

I recently donated to Dog Tags for Kids after I made the lens (to test out Squidoo’s new Donations Module,) and received the following message with my confirmation note:

For every $25 donation, we send 50 Dog Tags for Kids to troops in most harms way.

If you think about it, that is 150 smiles or more! One from the soldier in some horrid place and one from the child who receives this gift from so far away and one or more from the family members who see the smile on that child’s face as he holds this gift of love.

Our project is in serious jeopardy of having to be discontinued due to lack of resources so your donation came at a wonderful time.

Thank you again for helping us to continue to deliver these Dog Tags for Kids.

Send Smiles from the Troops to their Kids

For $5.00 you can send two Dog Tags, less the price of two specialty coffees.

I can’t imagine how hard it is for the children of those who have been deployed.

Dog Tags for Kids supplies a special link between the parent serving and the child left behind.

Where else does 100% of Your Donation Deliver a Smile?

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P.S. The Dog Tags for Kids (the other lens) was Lens of the Day on September 15, 2008. This is a great way to help spread the news.

Today the Superhero lens Amy Jaffe Barzach was named Lens of the Day. I am very honored to have the first winning lens from the Superhero Challenge.

The lens focuses on her efforts in creating Boundless Playgrounds. It was my 11th Superhero lens, submitted at the 11th hour for the Superhero Challenge.

Boundless Playgrounds is the first national nonprofit dedicated to helping communities create extraordinary barrier-free playgrounds where children, with and without disabilities, can develop essential skills for life as they learn together through play.

With this honor comes the added recognition of being the first of five winners of the Superheroes challenge for charity.

Even better, as one of the winners of the Superhero challenge $500 will be donated from Squidoo to help the next playground be built.