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Email me (OneStream@RichardDedor.com) and tell what you’ve done to help One Stream this month

We live in one world. Just one. Oftentimes it however it seems we live in many and can only affect the world nearest us. We live in our neighborhoods, then communities, then cities, then states, then nations, then our continent and then the world. But alas, it is one world we live in. What I do here in Kansas City affects what happens in San Fransisco and what happens in this country affects what happens in Bolivia and Turkey and Russia and Cuba and Pakistan… and on and on.

That’s what One Stream is about. It’s about you and your neighbor. Your human neighbor. It’s about the power you have as one person at this spot of the stream, taking a positive action today to change the life of someone down the stream who depends on the sustenance of the stream, just like you. We are one. What happens to you, happens to all.

During one of the President Kennedy’s most memorable speeches he said, “For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”

Now more than ever we have it within our capacity to change the world, one person at a time. You can change the world.

Jeffrey D. Sachs says : “Ending extreme poverty is the great opportunity of our time.” I think there is more opportunity for us than just ending extreme poverty. It can be the great opportunity for us to bring quality education to every corner of the Earth. It can be the great opportunity for us to bring healthy water to every unsafe stream in the world. It can be the great opportunity for us rebuild a new world. And it begins with us. Right here. In this moment.

For one month, September 15 – October 15, 2010, we’re running a fundraising campaign here are Finding Focus. It’s up to you! There are tons of ways for you to change the world. After all, we are all part of One Stream. I’ve created a team on Kiva, a micro-lending organization. In a nutshell, this non-profit collaborates with lending companies all around the globe to loan money to entrepreneurs in any country in the world. You get updates on their business and their family. I hope you’ll consider a $25 loan. The money goes to their business and so far I’ve personally helped a carpenter, a farmer, a person in the clothing business and others! The best part is you can get the money back after it’s repaid! At the end of the loan you can  choose you can re-loan that money out again!

This year, if you join my Kiva Team – One Stream during this month, I will match the donations up to $100. All you have to do is credit your loan to the group so I know you participated.

If you can’t do that, take some time over the next 30 days to volunteer or donate a smaller amount of money to a cause you care about.

Whatever you do – it makes a difference! Also, I want to know about it. I want to share with everyone how much of an impact we make. If you volunteer for five minutes or five hours, or donate any money over these 30 days, please email me OneStream@RichardDedor.com (You’ll be kept private – promise!) and when the month is over, I’ll let everyone know how much of an impact we made on our world.

It starts with you my friends. Come with me! We are all at this One Stream. Let’s change the world.

Join & Donate to our Kiva Team!

Email me (OneStream@RichardDedor.com) and tell what you’ve done to help One Stream this month