Ang Peregrino Recommends 80: Project 100

Project 100
URL: http://​www​.whatispro​jec​t100​.com/​i​n​d​e​x​.​php

When I went to Jakarta the other week, I had $100 in my pocket which I con­verted to around Rp9,500,000 to tide me over my trip. I spent some of it in buy­ing a Jakarta sim, but the rest of the time, my cousin Glenn, who is an expat in Indone­sia, took care of prac­ti­cally every­thing. My boss, Danny, also used his credit card for some other expenses. So at the end of the trip, my $100 sur­vived Indone­sia almost intact.

If you have $100, what would you do with the money?

This is the con­cept behind Project 100.

Project 100 is a pro­gram designed to pro­mote the pos­i­tive aspects of giv­ing in our local com­mu­ni­ties. The pro­gram is giv­ing away 100 dol­lars to 100 peo­ple over 100 days in an effort to encour­age peo­ple to give back to oth­ers in their local community.

Co-op Ser­vices Credit Union is the cre­ator of Project 100, which was designed to help local com­mu­ni­ties by encour­ag­ing their res­i­dents to focus on giv­ing back. The credit union knew that giv­ing away money alone wouldn’t be enough. They needed to cre­ate a spark that would con­tinue to spread. There­fore, they enlisted the aid of ran­dom peo­ple all over town by giv­ing them $100 dol­lar bills and encour­ag­ing them to con­tinue the effort of giv­ing back.

100 Peo­ple. 100 Days. 100 Dol­lars.

Over the next few months, Co-op Ser­vices Credit Union and Project 100 will be vis­it­ing 100 ran­dom peo­ple all over town and giv­ing each of them a sin­gle $100 dol­lar bill. What’s the catch? There isn’t one. Recip­i­ents can do what­ever they wish with their money.

All Project 100 asks is that they think about what they can do to make the com­mu­nity a bet­ter place – whether it’s vol­un­teer­ing for a com­mu­nity event or help­ing out a neigh­bor in need. The act itself doesn’t mat­ter. It’s the idea that any sim­ple act of giv­ing can spark a change for the better.

Read some of the shar­ings here.

What would you do with 100 Dollars?

It’s some­thing to think about. If you’ve signed up on the site, you could be next! As you decide, a good ques­tion to ask your­self is, what could you be doing for your com­mu­nity? It can be as sim­ple as pass­ing out water at a marathon, help­ing to clean up a pub­lic park or donat­ing to char­ity. Remem­ber, the act itself doesn’t mat­ter, just that you do some­thing. Your act alone can cre­ate a spark for change.