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This is another red day for all bloggers out there. Today, 27th, I will blog for the good cause. Before this I’ve received invitation from members of BlogCatalog to post for charity. And this is it. Lets join the movement together, all you need to do is just post something about abuse. And in the mean time:
- Spread the word among all the bloggers you know. Perhaps even give them a link to this Discussion.
- If you are a graphic’s designer, perhaps you can come up with some small badges announcing the event, that we can then place on our blogs. To share the badge, place it on this thread.
- List any organizations, on this thread, who are involved in putting an end to abuse.
If you want more info, please visit BlogCatalog.

And for my topic today, I’m going to talk about Elder Financial Abuse!

I’ve been searching through the net, and there are some important points that you will need to
know, to prevent elder financial abuse from happening. We need to raise the public awareness about this issue. Maybe you’re just at your 20s or 30s, like me, but we are humans. We will grow old and someday we might face this kind of problems as well.

Lets get started. First, elder financial abuse includes:
1. Taking money or property
2. Forging an elder person’s signature
3. Getting an older person to sign a deed, will, or power of attorney through deception, coercion, or undue influence
4. Using the older person’s property possessions without permission
5. Promising lifelong care in exchange for money or property and not following through on the promise
6. confidence crimes are the use of deception to gain victims’ confidence
7. Scams are fraudulent or deceptive acts
8. Fraud is the use of deception, trickery, false pretence, or dishonest acts or statements for financial gain
9. Telemarketing scams. Perpetrators call victims and use deception, scare tactics, or exaggerated claims to get them to send money. They may also make charges against vistims’ credit cards without authorization

You can read all the info here, in National Committee For The Prevention Of Elder Abuse.
By the way, if you’re facing these kind of problems, and you’re not sure whether it is considered as an abuse or not, you can visit here, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. From this site, you can learn how to recognize the signs of financial abuse. In case you’re not clear with what elder financial abuse means, you can visit Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

I believe that if you visit all the websites above, you definitely will know more about elder financial abuse. Let us together raise the public awareness about this issue and prevent it. Like the saying goes, ‘prevention is better than cure’. This is always true.
Happy Blogging.

Hi, today I’m not going to talk about money, I will blog for charity. Yesterday I received a message in BlogCatalog saying that the community is going to raise public awareness about organ donation and organ donation issues.

Now, this is a the great opportunity for us all to do something for charity. All you need is to post about organ donation. You can find the details and information here. This idea is great, asking every bloggers to blog for charity. It is a great marketing way, and all bloggers can do something for the community.

Below are some of the of the info that I took from BlogCatalog.

•Stop The Black Market!
Slate Magazine took a hard look at a growing problem around the world. Organ donation is so great, some poor people are being convinced to sell their organs on the black market. In Pakistan, 40 percent of the people in some villages are turning up with only one kidney. There is only one way to stop it and that is encouraging more people to become donors. See the article! http://slate.com/id/2164177/

•Success Story! Alex Pratt of Los Angeles suffered from kidney disease for over 20 years. It was a huge burden on his wife and two children until he received his first transplant in 1993. Unfortunately, it only lasted 9 years, so he had to wait another four years for a second transplant. He would have never gotten a second chance if not for http://www.MatchingDonors.com and a paired donation program at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

•Donors Needed! In Australia, more than 1,700 people are waiting for organ transplants. In Latin America, more than 50,000. In Europe and the United States, more than 95,000. In China, more than 2 million. In Africa, there isn’t enough organization to really know. Without an organ transplant, these people will die. There are many statistics and links to find a good story at Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation

•Campaign Promotion! You can blog about BlogCatalog’s effort to do good and how hundreds of bloggers are coming together on BlogCatalog to do good. If this campaign is successful, then we will continue to organize and inspire BlogCatalog Community Awareness Campaigns every other month.

It is a great opportunity to show that bloggers can come together to do good in the world, raising awareness and asking tough questions about causes and issues that do not always get the attention they deserve.

Here’s what the National Business Community Blog ran about us last time.

http://nbcb.blogspot.com/2007/05/blogcatalog-employs-social-media-for.html

We really hope you will join BlogCatalog and hundreds of bloggers around the world on Wednesday July 18th and blog to educate the world about organ donation.

And here are some statistics taken from WalletBooster.

Did you know that…..

• Almost 100,000 men, women and children currently need life-saving organ transplants.
• Every 12 minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list.
• An average of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant.
• In Australia, more than 1,700 people are waiting for organ transplants.
• In Latin America, more than 50,000.
• In Europe and the United States, more than 170,000.
• In China, more than 2 million.
• and last but not least, my loving country Malaysia : There are 15,500 people waiting for kidney transplants and more than 300 who urgently need liver transplants.
• and so many others countries which i couldn’t get the figures here ….. sorry!!!

It is good that you can blog for charity, I believe this kind of campaign will be very important in coming years, this is because the blog sphere is getting more and more common. Almost everyone that have a computer knows about blogging. Therefore you see, blogs are very powerful if you use them right, and if you implement the right marketing ideas, you definitely can make money with your blogs.