{"id":1932,"date":"2009-12-13T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/support-passports-with-purpose-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:48:20","slug":"support-passports-with-purpose-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/world-travel\/support-passports-with-purpose-2009.php","title":{"rendered":"Support Passports with Purpose 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/72b39_kids-in-cambodia.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kids playing in Cambodia\" title=\"Kids playing in Cambodia\" width=\"590\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><div>Kids playing in Cambodia. Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travellerspoint.com\/member_profile.cfm?user=Daver141\">Dave Rubin<\/a>.<\/div><\/div><p>Passports with Purpose is back for another year, this time with the goal of raising $13,000 to build a school in rural Cambodia, through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambodiaschools.com\/\">American Assistance for Cambodia<\/a>. <\/p><p>Passports with Purpose, for those of you who haven&rsquo;t heard of it, is an annual fundraiser organized by four travel bloggers: Debbie Dubrow of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliciousbaby.com\">DeliciousBaby<\/a>, Pam Mandel of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\">Nerd&rsquo;s Eye View<\/a>, Michelle Duffy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wandermom.com\">WanderMom<\/a> and Beth Whitman of <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlustandlipstick.com\/about-beth\/blog\/\">Wanderlust and Lipstick<\/a>. It works as a raffle, with travel bloggers sponsoring a prize which donors can nominate as their preferred prize. <\/p><p>Last year, the Passports with Purpose fundraiser raised $7,420 for Heifer International. With this year&rsquo;s goal set at $13,000, the stakes have been raised. <\/p><h3>Our Prize: $250 Accommodation Voucher<\/h3><p>Last year, TravelBlogs missed the boat on sponsoring a prize for the fundraiser, but we&rsquo;re doing our bit this year. We&rsquo;re contributing a $250 accommodation voucher for use on Travellerspoint&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travellerspoint.com\/budget-accommodation-en.html\">budget accommodation<\/a> area.<\/p><p>Here&rsquo;s what you need to know: <\/p><ul><li>The Travellerspoint accommodation voucher will be delivered digitally to the lucky winner and is valid for use any time before January 1, 2011. <\/li><li>All donations go directly to American Assistance for Cambodia, which will be using the funds to build a school in Cambodia. They are a 501 (c)(3) charity. <\/li><li>Each raffle ticket costs $10. You can buy multiple tickets and nominate different prizes, or nominate the same prize more than once to increase your chances. <\/li><li>See all the Passports with Purpose rules <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passportswithpurpose.com\/rules.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><p>For more information, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passportswithpurpose.com\/\">Passports with Purpose<\/a> website. <\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/travelblogs?a=T27PUuXPrFU:1o-IaXc0iZA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/72b39_travelblogs?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/travelblogs?a=T27PUuXPrFU:1o-IaXc0iZA:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/72b39_travelblogs?i=T27PUuXPrFU:1o-IaXc0iZA:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/travelblogs?a=T27PUuXPrFU:1o-IaXc0iZA:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/72b39_travelblogs?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/travelblogs?a=T27PUuXPrFU:1o-IaXc0iZA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/72b39_travelblogs?i=T27PUuXPrFU:1o-IaXc0iZA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/travelblogs?a=T27PUuXPrFU:1o-IaXc0iZA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/16d59_travelblogs?i=T27PUuXPrFU:1o-IaXc0iZA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/travelblogs?a=T27PUuXPrFU:1o-IaXc0iZA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/16d59_travelblogs?i=T27PUuXPrFU:1o-IaXc0iZA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/travelblogs?a=T27PUuXPrFU:1o-IaXc0iZA:bcOpcFrp8Mo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/16d59_travelblogs?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/16d59_T27PUuXPrFU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids playing in Cambodia. Photo by Dave Rubin.Passports with Purpose is back for another year, this time with the goal of raising $13,000 to build a school in rural Cambodia, through American Assistance for Cambodia. Passports with Purpose, for those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/world-travel\/support-passports-with-purpose-2009.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-travel"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}