A proposal at Omidyar Network for grants that I was following did not get chosen. The proposal is about the #2 killer world wide and that's water-borne diarrheal illnesses, mostly kids die but millions upon millions suffer. This problem is not so hard to solve. Anyway the proposal was good enough that matching funds will be provided for donation in December. I don't have money. So my efforts are trying to spread the meme of making paper party hats for fund raising. I made a blog hatsforhealth.blogspot.com/

These hats are simple to make and people often have paper out around the holidays anyway. I'd love for people to help by making hats to donate to the proposal at Omidyar. But making hats can be a project for raising money for anything. The more people are making hats the more the idea will spread. There's a Flickr pool to post pictures of the hats www.flickr.com/groups/21381949@N00/

One of the great advantages is that the materials to make these hats don't cost too much and they are simple enough for kids to make. So it's a holiday activity for kids trying to raise money for charitable gifts. The hats can be "sold" in anticipation of New Year's parties and other holiday gatherings.

Don't be mad at me. But any suggestions or links to the blog to help spread the idea would be appreciated.