SELF Women Doing Good Awards and a L’Oreal Paris Gift Bag Giveaway!

Sep 25, 2010 | Score!

Tuesday earlier this week the Women Doing Good Awards commenced at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.  The third annual event hosted by SELF Magazine honored 4 women deserving of recognition for their charity work and their tireless efforts to make the world a better place.  The recipients, as chosen by SELF reader vote, were:

Lisa Scarpinato and her husband co-founded Kitchen on the Street, a non-profit in Phoenix which sends more than 300 needy kids home from school on Fridays with Bags of Hope- backpacks filled with enough food for them until Monday. After learning that kids in her community were going hungry on the weekends, she decided to do something. “It broke my heart that kids at our local school were starving,” she said, “I wanted to be a good neighbor.”

JJ Ramberg thought with all the money that search engines were making, there must be a way to donate some to good causes. Her good heart and motivation led her to start GoodSearch.com with her brother, Ken. The site donates one cent to a charity (there are over 90,000 non-profits to choose from) each time you browse the web. They also launched a sister-site GoodShop to connect online-shoppers to vendors like Target who will donate up to 30 percent of each purchase to a listed cause. Since 2005, GoodSearch has raised $34,000 for the ASPCA and $14,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

When she was just 15, Haley Kilpatrick of Atlanta started Girl Talk, a mentoring program that pairs high school and middle school girls. Her hope is that young girls won’t go through the teasing and cyberbullying that she did as an adolescent. “Girls have to come together and talk so each one can realize it’s not just her having a rough time. I wish I’d known that,” she says. Nine years later, more than 32,000 girls in 39 states have joined Girl Talk.

A stunning and talented young actress, Minka Kelly distinguishes herself with powerful performances and a natural ease on both the small and big screens. Minka is best known as ‘Lyla Garrity’ on NBC’s critically acclaimed series Friday Night Lights and currently can be seen starring on NBC’s Parenthood. In 2008, Minka lost her 51-year-old mother, Maureen, to colon cancer. Determined to join the fight against cancer, Minka became an ambassador for Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a non-profit organization founded by a group of media, entertainment and philanthropic leaders whose lives have been affected by cancer.

Hoda Kotb of the Today Show emceed the event and was also honored for her charity outreach in the fight against breast cancer.  The award recipients also received $10,000 from SELF’s editor-in-chief Lucy Danziger and Vice President & Publisher Laura McEwen.

Other celebs in attendance included Laura McEwen, Lucy Danziger, Maria Menounos, and Kamie Crawford, Miss Teen USA.

The event was presented by L’Oréal Paris, and included amazing gift bags filled to the brim with fabulous L’Oreal products.

So this brings us to our giveaway!  To spread goodwill and the spirit of the Women Doing Good Awards, SELF Magazine has generously offered that same gift bag to one lucky Chic Steals reader!

ARV = $100 (!!)

1. Required: Follow Chic Steals.  (In Blogger, Google Reader, Bloglovin, etc. – just once somewhere is sufficient!)
Then, Leave a Comment on this post below telling me which charity from the post above captured your heart.  Did Girl Talk seem like the best idea ever?  Do you use GoodSearch.com? Or would you donate your money to breast cancer research? Let me know in your co
mment!

2. Optional: For another entry, tweet this giveaway and leave a linkback to your tweet in ANOTHER COMMENT.  If you don’t leave it in a separate comment, I won’t count it – so keep it separate!

3. Optional: For another entry, blog about this giveaway and leave a linkback to your blog post in ANOTHER COMMENT.  If you don’t leave it in a separate comment, I won’t count it – so keep it separate!

4. Optional: For another entry, post about this giveaway on your Facebook page and leave a linkback to your post in ANOTHER COMMENT.  If you don’t leave it in a separate comment, I won’t count it – so keep it separate!

Max: 4 entries per person allowed.

xoxox
Carly

FTC Disclosure: I have not received any compensation for this post.  The gift bag will be sent to the winner of the giveaway directly from Conde Nast and the SELF Magazine team.  See my disclosure policy here.