Guest Post: Tranquility Bay in Belize

Tranquility Bay hammocks

The prizes in Passports with Purpose always sound fabulous but do they live up to the hype? Julie Schwietert Collazo has penned a guest post about her stay at Tranquility Bay in Belize. Julie was the beneficiary of the accommodation prize donated by the resort in the 2009 Passports with Purpose, which raised money to build [...]

Best prizes in 2010 Passports with Purpose raffle

PWP2t

It’s been another super-awesome year for Passports with Purpose! We set ourselves a goal of raising $50,000 for LAFTI to build a village in India for people from the Dalit (“Untouchable”) caste. We’ve raised $52,000 so far! That is thanks to the collective efforts of the founders, participating bloggers, sponsors and everyone who has bought [...]

A zeppelin flight over San Francisco

Ferry Building

Airship Ventures is giving away a flight for two aboard its zeppelin Eureka, as part of its sponsorship with Passports with Purpose. For your chance to win, buy a $10 raffle ticket at passportswithpurpose.com/donate before midnight (US West Coast time) on December 13. The funds will be used to construct a village in India for [...]

An insider’s guide to the Fairmont Olympic and Seattle

Fairmont Olympic

The historic Fairmont Olympic in Seattle has donated an overnight stay in its executive suite as a prize in this year’s Passports with Purpose. Read all about the hotel and the prize in my previous post – or head directly over to the Passports with Purpose donation page for your chance to win. Raffle tickets [...]

Passports with Purpose: Fairmont Olympic in Seattle

Fairmont Olympic interior

The Fairmont Olympic in Seattle is a corporate hero to those of us involved in Passports with Purpose. Our travel blogging fundraiser has only been running for three years and Fairmont has been with us every step of the way. This is their third year to sponsor a prize and this year I am the [...]

Passports with Purpose: Fly with Airship Ventures

Airship Ventures

Since moving here last year, I have been seduced by the beauty of San Francisco and the California coast. The sweeping red arches of the Golden Gate Bridge never fail to move me and I fell in love with the sparkling waters and wild cliffs of the coast on my Highway 1 road trip last [...]

Passports with Purpose 2010: We’re building a village in India!

PassportsSchoolSign

I am proud to be part of Passports with Purpose once again. I really am! That might sound like a platitude but it’s not. See this? This is the school we built in Cambodia last year. That’s right. Through the efforts of travel bloggers the generosity of readers and sponsors, we raised $30,000 and now [...]

Passports with Purpose: Win a holiday to Tranquility Bay in Belize

Win a holiday to Tranquility Bay to one of Belize’s Caribbean islands and help build a school in Cambodia. I’m delighted to bring you news of another fantastic raffle prize for the Passports with Purpose fundraiser. This time it’s an accommodation package for beautiful Tranquility Bay in Belize and involves a personal favourite of mine [...]

Passports with Purpose: Win a Caribbean holiday to Coconut Bay

Enter to win a Caribbean holiday and help build a school in rural Cambodia. I am thrilled to announce my participation in the travel blogging fundraiser Passports with Purpose. The lovely folks at Coconut Bay Beach Resort and Spa in Saint Lucia in the Caribbean have agreed to sponsor a prize. And what a fantastic [...]

Travel blog awards and community

Travel blogging comes of age – the Bloggies are the icing on an incredible year. What a difference a year makes! This time last year I was bemoaning the fact that there were no travel blogs in the finals of the 2008 Bloggies compared with 11 food blogs. I suggested that travel bloggers needed to [...]

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