GOOD Idea: Celebrate Your Birthday With Cake, Friends…And Service
Subscribe to the Blog RSS FeedThink about your last several birthday celebrations. Have they all been very different from one another? Perhaps you've spent one abroad, or another with close friends. Odds are, they somehow included a cake, a celebration, and an end. Fun, but a bit same-old, same-old.
What if your birthday were different this year? What if the significance of being another year wiser impacted others in a fresh way?
Our friends at GOOD have introduced a new feature, in partnership with the Critically Acclaimed blog, called GOOD Idea. As part of this excellent initiative, the GOOD blog has a post up about the BirthDay of Service, a brilliant means of doing the best for yourself and your community. Here's the idea:
My good friend and colleague introduced me to a new concept that I will be implementing into every future birthday celebration: the BirthDay of Service project. As part of the 30th birthday festivities, my friend invited a large group to participate in a service project in order to give back to the greater community. This year’s project: planting trees around Miami with TREEmendous Miami. I am encouraged by my friend’s fantastic decision to impact the world, and excited to follow suit next February, starting my own annual BirthDay of Service. About this year’s BirthDay of Service project site: “TREEmendous Miami consists of a dedicated group of people who like to plant trees so that we can make Miami-Dade a greener, cooler, healthier and more enjoyable environment in which to live. Our environment is our number one concern. Our mission statement describes us as volunteers united to build community pride by planting, protecting and preserving trees in Miami-Dade County.”
