Since December I’ve been busy with an amazing group of women, creating a product, planning an event, and bringing about support for the Epilepsy Foundation. The Twitter community in Columbus is amazing and in late 2010, a bunch of us decided that we wanted to make a calendar and ultimately sell them and donate our proceeds to an organization. One of our beautiful #calendargirls is epileptic and we decided to bring about awareness for epilepsy. Since then we’ve created our calendar, launched our event, and are still accepting donations! You can visit our website here and either buy a calendar (it ships to you) or donate an amount. I feel honored to be a part of this and I see the #calendargirls doing many more great things in 2011.

My husband started 614forHaiti after the devastating earthquake hit Haiti on January 12, 2010. An excerpt from the website (designed by Scott Baker):

614forHAITI is a group of renegades across Columbus, Ohio who are ready and willing to instigate love for Haiti. This grassroots effort is fueled by individuals working to stir up funds, awareness and compassion in relief efforts following earthquakes of January 2010.

We sponsor a boy named Osley in Haiti and Compassion called us last week to inform us that he and his family have survived the earthquakes. Their home experienced some damage. Overall it’s been great finding ways to support the efforts around Columbus. We attended and participated in a silent auction at Surly Girl Saloon, initiated a tent drive last week, and helped spread the word about other local fundraisers. I think we’ve learned how difficult it is to keep momentum and awareness about specific issues when there are so many others to become involved in. I’m so thankful that we all have our own interests, passions, and talents.

To donate, visit aHomeinHaiti.org. They are raising money and collecting tents for those in Haiti. The rainy season is now and they need shelter.