There was lots of GTGM work for me at my job today.

• Today I updated copy on this Gift That Gives More™, which we launched Monday: Help Cyclone Victims in Burma. I feel good that we're able to get some aid to people who need it in the aftermath of this horrible disaster.
  

Sounds like the government there is being horrendous, not letting aid in... if this doesn't provide impetus for an uprising, I don't know what will. I've heard rumblings of neighboring nations forcing the junta to accept aid. What a world.

• I also launched two new Gifts That Give More™: Pay for Teacher Training in Zambia and Send an AIDS Orphan to School in Zambia.

• Worked on content for the "Help Fund Research" side tab on The Breast Cancer Site (pending some help from tech). The page points to our Endowed Fund for Breast Cancer Research at Mayo Clinic Gift That Gives More™.

We've established a fund for a research position at Mayo Clinic, and contributions are matched up to first $250,000 -- sadly, though, we've only funded 10% or so of it so far. So if breast cancer research is your thing, consider slinging a few bucks in that direction.

Personally, my heartstrings are more tugged by stuff to do with kids, like the Dolls for Refugee Children (for $20, buy dolls for two little kids living in a refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border), Feed a Haitian Student for a Year (for only $50 -- very timely in light of the massive increase in food prices recently, especially on islands like Haiti).

I also like preventative-medicine ones, such as Bednets for Africa and Haiti ($20 funds six large, insecticide-treated bednets to combat malaria), and the Protect Africans from River Blindness ($20 funds pills for fifty people, killing any parasitic Onchocerca volvulus worms in their systems).

I just asked my millionaire, idealistic boss, Tim, what his favorite is, and he unhesitatingly said that it was High-Efficiency Stoves for Darfur Refugees. It's a stove that he would take camping and he says he usually tosses one into his shopping cart when he's shopping on our site. :-)