Jul 242011
 

At  AllyKatzz Tween Summit 2010, in New York,  I held a Pucker Face contest to raise awareness for LemonAID Warriors and to give out information about my favorite charity Blood:Water Mission.  Hundreds lined up to suck a lemon and get a crazy picture taken of their silliest pucker face.  Check out these wacky photos and vote for your favorite!

This year, Allykatzz is giving me a booth again at the International Year of Youth Culmination Ceremony. It takes place August 11th at the United Nations in New York!  I want to invite you LemonAID Warrirors to join me there for a day of inspirational fun.  If you can make it, download your application here http://www.allykatzz.com/page/summit/
Come and find me at my LemonAID Warrior booth!

Jul 242011
 

At  AllyKatzz Tween Summit 2010, in New York,  I held a Pucker Face contest to raise awareness for LemonAID Warriors and to give out information about my favorite charity Blood:Water Mission.  Hundreds lined up to suck a lemon and get a crazy picture taken of their silliest pucker face.  Check out these wacky photos and vote for your favorite!

This year, Allykatzz is giving me a booth again at the International Year of Youth Culmination Ceremony. It takes place August 11th at the United Nations in New York!  I want to invite you LemonAID Warrirors to join me there for a day of inspirational fun.  If you can make it, download your application here http://www.allykatzz.com/page/summit/
Come and find me at my LemonAID Warrior booth!

Jul 242011
 

Quick! What’s the first fundraiser you ever had? Most of you said “a lemonade stand,” right? We are LemonAID Warriors not because we just sell lemonade, but because our fundraisers are as simple as your first lemonade stand. Small ideas are no small deal when we join together to make big things happen.

 

I started this blog because because I love to fund raise. I do it a lot because I can’t sit around and do nothing when someone needs my help. I learned that kids my age are very easy to motivate! We hear about a disaster, or people who need help and we immediately want to jump into action and raise some money. We have creative ideas and tons of energy, but we could a little help getting organized. We need a place to go to get a game plan. Figure out how to get it done right.  Usually we end up having to ask our parents and teachers to help. And, honestly, that kind of takes the excitement out of it. We feel more powerful and work harder, when we take control. On our own. Our own way. LemonAID Warrior website brings young fundraisers together to show everyone how powerful our generation can be.

Jul 242011
 

Oh yeah?! Watch this video and you’ll take that back! 



The amazing staff at Blood:Water Mission screened this video at their Well:Done Celebration in Nashville on May 10th. They reached their goal to build 1000 wells in Africa and they had an amazing concert to celebrate. I was invited to talk on stage about LemonAID Warrior’s work. Jars of Clay, the founders, performed with  HansonDerek Webb Sandra McCracken, and Eric Wainaina to raise over $100,000.00.

 

But the real stars of the show were the leaders from Africa who came all this way to let us know that our work matters. Michele from Rwanda told me that they are filled with joy that we care about them, even though they are strangers who live half a world away. He wanted me to say THANK YOU to all the lemonaid warriors!

LemonAID Warriors was started to spread the word that kids have the power to change the world on our own, our own way. Thank you, Blood:Water Missions, for helping me spread that message to my generation by supporting us and making us feel our work is important.