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FROM Catherine Ryan Hyde (author of Pay it Forward)

One of our Board Members, Bob Littell, made a 'last minute' entry to American Express, their "Member Project", to benefit some worthy cause which one of their members is promoting. In this case the worthy cause would be the Pay It Forward Foundation. As you know, we make 'mini-grants' to school age kids who come up with projects which are consistent with the Pay It Forward concept.

Bob dashed something off concerning the project he's been doing at Whiteford Elementary School, in a low-income neighborhood in South Atlanta, teaching 3rd graders his concept of NetWeaving (a Golden Form of networking) and Pay It Forward. To his surprise, he got an email this morning that it had been accepted.

The contest closes out on Monday, September 1, 2008, we thought we would send a request out to our supporters and fans of Pay It Forward and see if you might be willing just to forward this message on to anyone in your network to see if we can get this project into the TOP 25. It's a long shot but it's worth a try, especially with the way pay it forward supporters can come together.

Step 1 - Go to www.americanexpress.com and you will see an icon up in the upper right-hand corner which says "Members Project".

Step 2 - Click on this icon and then in the 'key word' search block, type 'netweaving' and that will pull up Bob's project - "Change the World - NetWeaving and Pay It Forward".

Step 3 - Vote to support it or even write something nice about the concepts or some great NetWeaving and/or Pay It Forward story, especially one that might involve children.