Personal Fundraiser Policies

Personal Fundraiser Policies

Fundraisers should accurately and honestly describe what the funds will be used for. Please give enough information in your fundraiser description so that Facebook and other users can clearly understand how you'll be using the money.

Personal fundraisers should be created for the types of causes in following guidelines:

1. Community Projects and Groups. Examples include costs for improvement projects, volunteer activities and club activities.
2. Crisis Relief. Examples include costs for public crises and natural disasters.
3. Education. Examples include costs for tuition, books and classroom supplies.
4. Faith. Examples include costs for missions, community events and resources.
5. Family. Examples include childcare costs, costs for adoption and help for relatives.
6. Hobbies. Examples include costs for crafting equipment and supplies that support hobby or skill development.
7. Medical. Examples include costs for medical procedures, treatments and injuries.
8. Memorial and Loss. Examples include costs for funerals, living costs after losing a loved one.
9. Personal Emergency. Examples include costs for a house fire, theft or a car accident.
10. Pets and Animals. Examples include costs for veterinary bills, rescue and protection efforts.
11. Sports and Competitions. Examples include costs for sports equipment, pageants and travel expenses.
12. Travel. Examples include costs for school trips and emergency travel.
13. Volunteering. Examples include costs for service equipment and supplies and travel expenses.

We won't approve fundraisers that do any of the following, even if they fall into one of the categories listed above. Make sure that your fundraiser doesn't:

1. Raise funds for a nonprofit organization, charity or religious organization. Instead, please create a fundraiser that directly benefits the organization.
2. Violate the Facebook Community Standards or Personal Fundraiser Terms of Service. All Community Standards and Legal Terms apply to fundraisers.
3. Use the personal fundraising features to attempt to raise funds for activities, individuals or entities that are located in a country or region that is subject to comprehensive United States (US) sanctions law or otherwise violate applicable US or non-US trade sanctions laws.
4. Offer, auction or sell a product/item or service of significant value in exchange for a donation. You may give handmade items or items of nominal value (examples: a handmade card or meal).
5. Provide individuals a chance to win an item through a raffle or lottery in exchange for a donation or for sharing, commenting, or otherwise interacting with a fundraiser to raise funds for the purpose of gambling, regardless of locality or legality, including but not limited to lottery tickets, sports betting, or online or offline gambling.
6. Benefit a political campaign, Political Action Committee (PAC), or otherwise benefit a candidate for office or an individual currently holding political office.
7. Sell, trade or offer securities (example: interest in a business venture); incentives like equity, revenue sharing or investment opportunities; issue debt; or offer products or services that benefit a business or company, or involve business-related expenses (example: business travel).
8. Finance kidnapping ransoms, bounties or vigilantism.
9. Incite or commit violence. This includes fundraisers that raise money intended to support an individual or group committing or inciting violent acts.
10. Violate local laws, regulations, or guidelines.
11. Involve knives, firearms, explosives, other weapons or any accessory or component of a weapon or firearm (including holsters, barrels, ammunition, and so on).
12. Raise money for marijuana, CBD products, or any recreational drugs regardless of legality or use.
13. Narcotics or opioids. Note that we may allow fundraisers for legally prescribed medical treatment or prescriptions, excluding narcotics and opioids.
14. Raise money to support crimes or the legal defense of alleged crimes associated with hate, terrorism, violence, sexual violence or exploitation, or discrimination.
15. Raise funds for a minor without permission of the minor's guardian, or another arrangement that does not comply with local laws and regulations.
16. Seek or accept compensation for using the personal fundraising features.
17. Suggest that donations to personal fundraisers are tax deductible.

Why Create a Personal Website?

Why Create a Personal Website?

A personal website is a group of web pages that someone creates about themselves. It basically contains things that are personal. It doesn't have to be about you, and it doesn't have to contain personal information but it does need to be personal.

A personal website must exhibit content that tells your readers about your thoughts, ideas, interests, hobbies, family, friends, feelings, or something you feel strongly about. Online diaries, self-written books, poems, family, pets, or a page about your favorite topics such as a TV show, a sport, or a hobby are examples of things that could go on your personal website. Or, it could be a page written to help others with topics like health, or how to's on just about anything.

Do You Need To Know HTML?

Absolutely not! Personal Web pages have changed a lot over the years. Back in 1996 Web pages were small files with HTML code, and maybe some JavaScript thrown in for fun. There wasn't much else. They were very plain and basic. You could add graphics, but not too many because they make the pages load very slow, and back then Internet service was slow to begin with.

These days most personal Web sites are not coded by the writer of the website. They can often times add code if they want to, but they don't need to. Most free hosting services have easy to use Web page builders with them. All you have to do is click, drag, copy/paste and type, and you have your very own personal Web page. Since Internet service, and computers, are faster you can add more graphics and photos to your site too.

Why Do People Create Personal Websites?

There are tons of reasons someone would want to create a personal website of their own. One of the most popular reasons to write a personal website is simply to write about oneself. People like to talk about themselves, they also like to write about themselves and tell other people who they are.​

Another popular reason people write persoal websites is to show off their family. They may include lots and lots of photos of their kids all over the site. Sometimes they create a separate page for each of their family members.

How to Live a Healthy Life

How to Live a Healthy Life

Living a healthy life means making lifestyle choices that support your physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being. Managing your health can be challenging at times; while one facet of your wellness demands more attention than others, you may end up struggling to maintain a good balance in other areas. To be of sound body, mind, and spirit, it’s important to pay attention to all aspects of health—your mental, emotional, and spiritual sides all play a role in your physical welfare, and vice versa. A state of optimal well-being means more than just the absence of disease or disorder; it also means having the resources to cope with problems and circumstances beyond your control and recover from difficult or troubling situations. This intersection between health and behavior can help you prevent or at least delay chronic illness, and steer you to make better decisions about your well-being.

What Is Health Psychology?

Health psychology, developed in the late 1970s, is its own domain of inquiry. A health psychologist, also called a medical psychologist, helps individuals explore the link between emotions and physical health. The health psychologist also helps physicians and medical professionals understand the emotional effects of a patient’s illness or disease. These experts practice in such areas of health as chronic pain management, oncology, physical rehabilitation, addiction treatment, and eating disorders, among others. Health psychologists can be found in clinics, hospitals, private practice, and public health agencies. Some also work in corporate settings to promote health and wellness among employees, engaging in workplace policies and decision-making.

Lifestyle Sociology

Lifestyle Sociology

Lifestyle is the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture.^[1][2] The term was introduced by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler with the meaning of "a person's basic character as established early in childhood",^[3] for example in his 1929 book "The Case of Miss R.". The broader sense of lifestyle as a "way or style of living" has been documented since 1961.^[4][3] Lifestyle is a combination of determining intangible or tangible factors. Tangible factors relate specifically to demographic variables, i.e. an individual's demographic profile, whereas intangible factors concern the psychological aspects of an individual such as personal values, preferences, and outlooks.

A rural environment has different lifestyles compared to an urban metropolis. Location is important even within an urban scope. The nature of the neighborhood in which a person resides affects the set of lifestyles available to that person due to differences between various neighborhoods' degrees of affluence and proximity to natural and cultural environments. For example, in areas within a close proximity to the sea, a surf culture or lifestyle can often be presen

Individual identity

A lifestyle typically reflects an individual's attitudes, way of life, values, or world view. Therefore, a lifestyle is a means of forging a sense of self and to create cultural symbols that resonate with personal identity. Not all aspects of a lifestyle are voluntary. Surrounding social and technical systems can constrain the lifestyle choices available to the individual and the symbols she/he is able to project to others and the self.^[5]

The lines between personal identity and the everyday doings that signal a particular lifestyle become blurred in modern society.^[6] For example, "green lifestyle" means holding beliefs and engaging in activities that consume fewer resources and produce less harmful waste (i.e. a smaller ecological footprint), and deriving a sense of self from holding these beliefs and engaging in these activities.^[7] Some commentators argue that, in modernity, the cornerstone of lifestyle construction is consumption behavior, which offers the possibility to create and further individualize the self with different products or services that signal different ways of life.^[8]

Lifestyle may include views on politics, religion, health, intimacy, and more. All of these aspects play a role in shaping someone's lifestyle. ^[9] In the magazine and television industries, "lifestyle" is used to describe a category of publications or programs.

History of lifestyles studies

Three main phases can be identified in the history of lifestyles studies:^[10]

Lifestyles and social position

Earlier studies on lifestyles focus on the analysis of social structure and of the individuals’ relative positions inside it. Thorstein Veblen, with his ‘emulation’ concept, opens this perspective by asserting that people adopt specific ‘schemes of life’, and in particular specific patterns of ‘conspicuous consumption’, depending on a desire for distinction from social strata they identify as inferior and a desire for emulation of the ones identified as superior. Max Weber intends lifestyles as distinctive elements of status groups strictly connected with a dialectic of recognition of prestige: the lifestyle is the most visible manifestation of social differentiation, even within the same social class, and in particular it shows the prestige which the individuals believe they enjoy or to which they aspire. Georg Simmel carries out formal analysis of lifestyles, at the heart of which can be found processes of individualisation, identification, differentiation, and recognition, understood both as generating processes of, and effects generated by, lifestyles, operating “vertically” as well as “horizontally”. Finally, Pierre Bourdieu renews this approach within a more complex model in which lifestyles, made up mainly of social practices and closely tied to individual tastes, represent the basic point of intersection between the structure of the field and processes connected with the habitus.

Lifestyles as styles of thought

The approach interpreting lifestyles as principally styles of thought has its roots in the soil of psychological analysis. Initially, starting with Alfred Adler, a lifestyle was understood as a style of personality, in the sense that the framework of guiding values and principles which individuals develop in the first years of life end up defining a system of judgement which informs their actions throughout their lives. Later, particularly in Milton Rokeach’s work, Arnold Mitchell’s VALS research and Lynn Kahle’s LOV research, lifestyles’ analysis developed as profiles of values, reaching the hypothesis that it is possible to identify various models of scales of values organized hierarchically, to which different population sectors correspond. Then with Daniel Yankelovich and William Wells we move on to the so-called AIO approach in which attitudes, interests and opinions are considered as fundamental lifestyles’ components, being analysed from both synchronic and diachronic points of view and interpreted on the basis of socio-cultural trends in a given social context (as, for instance, in Bernard Cathelat’s work). Finally, a further development leads to the so-called profiles-and-trends approach, at the core of which is an analysis of the relations between mental and behavioural variables, bearing in mind that socio-cultural trends influence both the diffusion of various lifestyles within a population and the emerging of different modalities of interaction between thought and action.

Lifestyles as styles of action

Analysis of lifestyles as action profiles is characterized by the fact that it no longer considers the action level as a simple derivative of lifestyles, or at least as their collateral component, but rather as a constitutive element. In the beginning, this perspective focussed mainly on consumer behaviour, seeing products acquired as objects expressing on the material plane individuals’ self-image and how they view their position in society. Subsequently, the perspective broadened to focus more generally on the level of daily life, concentrating – as in authors such as Joffre Dumazedier and Anthony Giddens – on the use of time, especially loisirs, and trying to study the interaction between the active dimension of choice and the dimension of routine and structuration which characterize that level of action. Finally, some authors, for instance Richard Jenkins and A. J. Veal, suggested an approach to lifestyles in which it is not everyday actions which make up the plane of analysis but those which the actors who adopt them consider particularly meaningful and distinctive.

Health

A healthy or unhealthy lifestyle will most likely be transmitted across generations. According to the study done by Case et al. (2002), when a 0-3 year old child has a mother who practices a healthy lifestyle, this child will be 27% more likely to become healthy and adopt the same lifestyle.^[11] For instance, high income parents are more likely to eat organic food, have time to exercise, and provide the best living condition to their children. On the other hand, low income parents are more likely to participate in unhealthy activities such as smoking to help them release poverty-related stress and depression.^[12] Parents are the first teacher for every child. Everything that parents do will be very likely transferred to their children through the learning process.

Adults may be drawn together by mutual interest that results in a lifestyle. For example, William Dufty described how pursuing a sugar-free diet led to such associations:^[13]

I have come to know hundreds of young people who have found that illness or bingeing on drugs and sugar became the doorway to health. Once they reestablished their own health, we had in common our interest in food. If one can use that overworked word lifestyle, we shared a sugarfree lifestyle. I kept in touch with many of them in campuses and communes, through their travels here and abroad and everywhere. One day you meet them in Boston. The next week you run into them in Southern California.

Class

Lifestyle research can contribute to the question of the relevance of the class concept.^[14]

Media culture

The term lifestyle was introduced in the 1950s as a derivative of that of style in art:^[15]

"Life-styles", the culture industry’s recycling of style in art, represent the transformation of an aesthetic category, which once possessed a moment of negativity [shocking, emancipatory], into a quality of commodity consumption.

Theodor W. Adorno noted that there is a "culture industry" in which the mass media is involved, but that the term "mass culture" is inappropriate: ^[16]

In our drafts, we spoke of "mass culture." We replaced that expression with "culture industry" in order to exclude from the outset the interpretation agreeable to its advocates: that it is a matter of something like a culture that arises spontaneously from the masses themselves, the contemporary form of popular art.

The media culture of advanced capitalism typically creates new "life-styles" to drive the consumption of new commodities:^[15]

Diversity is more effectively present in mass media than previously, but this is not an obvious or unequivocal gain. By the late 1950s, the homogenization of consciousness had become counterproductive for the purposes of capital expansion; new needs for new commodities had to be created, and this required the reintroduction of the minimal negativity that had been previously eliminated. The cult of the new that had been the prerogative of art throughout the modernist epoch into the period of post-war unification and stabilization has returned to capital expansion from which it originally sprang. But this negativity is neither shocking nor emancipatory since it does not presage a transformation of the fundamental structures of everyday life. On the contrary, through the culture industry capital has co-opted the dynamics of negation both diachronically in its restless production of new and "different" commodities and synchronically in its promotion of alternative "life-styles."