*** This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – scroll down to see who won!***
Perhaps you’ve heard of a little store called Ikea? And perhaps you’ll be interested in a $350 gift card from them for this week’s giveaway? Yeah we couldn’t believe it either when they emailed us. Hooray is right, Ikea catalog. Well said.
And not only are they generously offering up this week’s sweet prize, Ikea’s also presenting “The Life Improvement Project” where they’ll award one philanthropic individual $100,000 to take a one year sabbatical to help others (start a non-profit, volunteer for a year, etc). Plus they’re hosting free seminars in their stores about improving your life through your living space.
But back to how you can get your mitts on that $350 gift card:
- PRIZE: A $350 gift card to Ikea!
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “IKEA Me!” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: … tell us what you’d do if you could spend one year helping others. Would you open an after school program? Volunteer at a homeless shelter? Rescue animals?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, October 27th at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
- PRIZE SHIPS: The United States
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday as an update to this post. That’s right, come right back here Thursday morning for the announcement of our winner. Good luck…
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You guys are quite impressive with your nearly 11,000 entries. So impressive in fact that Ikea decided to change their plans and give away not just one, not just two, but THREE $350 gift cards. That’s over $1000 in gift cards! Thanks Ikea!
So let’s see who the lucky three winners are according to random.org:
- Alyssa Allen (who’s Life Improvement Project would include moving her fam somewhere in the world to help the poverty crisis)
- NEPD (who’d give her wedding florist services away free of charge)
- Jill (who’d give a year working with the Wildlife Conservation Society)
Note: We weren’t paid or perk’d for hosting this giveaway, we just take them on to reward our lovely readers! See our Giveaway FAQs page for more info. Pics from Ikea.
Carolyn says
IKEA Me! I would love to work with Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution or something of that nature for a year!
Ralph Cameron says
Ikea Me!
I would spend a year working for Teach for America.
Erin says
IKEA ME!
I would love to spend a year cleaning up/sprucing up the small town I call home–Burlington, Colorado. Planting flowers, painting houses, re-vamping the main streets, giving the little movie theater a face lift (including replacing the neon in the sign), painting the water tower (ok, maybe getting someone else to go up that high, but you get the jist)that sort of thing. Kind of like “curb appeal the block” on steroids for the whole town! Bring new life to small town America!
megan says
IKEA ME, please?
CarrieK says
IKEA ME!
I would work with the Michigan Humane Society!
Julie says
Ooops, that last post from me!
IKEA ME!
My husband and I would like to open a soccer school for at-risk youth.
Paola says
IKEA Me!
I could you this gift card, specially for the holidays coming up and several birthday celebrations. Hurray for IKEA.
Susan says
IKEA ME!! Wow so cool that IKEA contact you guys! I think I would spend a year working with Animals, especially Pitbulls! They are a misunderstood breed, and can be very loving and loyal pets. Any animal will be mean if it is treated mean, they need love just like all fur children! Thanks Guys!
Sarah B says
IKEA ME!
sara says
IKEA ME!!
Erin says
IKEA Me!
I would love to spend a year working with teen girls and building their self esteem. Maybe working with a program like Girls on the Run.
Ann says
IKEA Me! I would use the Life Improvement Project winnings to start a non-profit dedicated to improving the workspaces of other non-profit organizations.
Casey N. says
IKEA Me!
I would love helping with animals who need a good home!
Izzy Wilson says
I would work with at risk inner city kids, in some aspect.
Kaitlin Y says
IKEA ME!
Amanda Kattner says
Ikea Me!
I would love to spend a year working with at-risk youth.
Roshni says
IKEA ME!!
I would love to volunteer at an animal shelter!!
Purnima says
IKEA ME! I would love to spend a year working in literacy outreach – it makes me so sad to think that there are adults and children who have not been able to learn how to read and are thus denied what I think is one of the best things in the world – the joy of a good book!
Amy says
IKEA ME!
I’m not sure exactly what I would love to spend a year doing, but I think it would involve babies.
joy says
I believe I would try to start up a discipleship program in Ethiopia to help young families learn to manage their money and make wise financial decisions.
Avonelle says
Ikea Me!
Helen says
IKEA ME!!!
I just got back from Uganda, and I would love to go back for a year to encourage the people there!
Woodmansee says
Ikea me!
I would spend a year working for Habitat for Humanity.
oneida says
IKEA ME!!!!
oh wow, this question is so hard! i would love to spend a year helping refugees in our city (tucson) learn life skills and acclimate to life here. they have been through so much and yet have to go through so much more even when they get here.
amberto says
IKEA ME!
I would move from the suburbs to Detroit proper and do everything I could to help bring this city back to the greatness it once was!
fidget says
i would spend a year doing photography portrait sessions for families faced with life ending illnesses
rich says
IKEA Me!
I would do Habitat for Humanity. I’d get to help AND get soe building skills in the process. Is that too mercenary?
Rachel says
IKEA ME!!!
PLEASE!
I would love to spend a year in New Orleans helping with the ongoing post-Katrina relief. Specifically, I’d like to be involved in rebuilding and refurbishing homes.
Katie says
IKEA Me!
I would start an organization that offered supplies to school teachers for there classrooms. Where I live, and I’m sure many other place throughout the country, there are huge education budget shortfalls and lots of classrooms are left without supplies they need for there students. I would like to have an organization that would collect supplies from individuals, businesses and office supply companies and either give them away to teachers or be able to offer them at a very small price.
Jaime says
IKEA me!!! I would want to spend a year working in an orphanage in Ethiopia helping kids find homes and loving on them.
Deirdre Opp says
IKEA ME! If I had a year to volunteer I would want to focus my time on working with children and helping them with school readiness and success because so many children in poverty do not get to school with the same skills and advantages that middle class and wealthy children do. I would need to spend a lot of time researching projects that I felt like had the right mission, one that addressed the holistic causes in the children’s lives including nutrition, safety, health care, employment for parents, and parenting skills.
Carollyn says
IKEA me! I would spend my year focused on helping the mentally ill. Our countries resources for this group of people are dwindling and it is a shame.
Anjani Webb says
IKEA ME!
I would continue my work for The Salvation Army (and other nonprofits) by improving their marketing and social media strategies. But I’d be able to offer the services for free!
Sarah G says
IKEA ME….(pretty pretty please!)
If I had a year to spend volunteering, I would LOVE to spend a year documenting wildlife species in South Africa with an environmental organization!
Miranda says
IKEA ME! If I could do anything for a year and money wasn’t an issue, I’d spread the gospel abroad to unreached peoples.
Amy says
IKEA ME!!!
Amanda@Reno366 says
IKEA ME
I’d love to spend a year helping orphans in another country!
Meg says
IKEA ME!
I recently started tutoring a middle schooler and rediscovered my love for children, so I would either do something to help out underprivileged kids, or something with animals. :)
Shire says
IKEA Me!
I would love to become more involved with Habitat for Humanity!
Megan G says
IKEA ME!!
I would love to spend a year helping out in an animal shelter!
Julie Hamby says
Ikea me!
Feeding people.
Elizabeth says
Ikea Me!
I would love to work with children in elementary school, maybe in an after-school program. Helping them to learn the basics that my college students were never taught would be so rewarding.
Kelly says
IKEA ME! :)
christa says
Ikea Me!! And…I would love to be involved in a children’s home or hospital in some way with my little girl. I think it would be great to find a children’s home in the area in need of some “cheering up” and redecorate it.
bashtree says
IKEA ME!
If I could travel around helping people out, I would probably do something with books or literacy. Although I also think it’d be cool to set up some sort of traveling astronomy lab thing, too. Even though I don’t know anything about astronomy. (I just have lots of happy memories of watching the night sky.) (And Star Trek.)
Elizabeth Harville says
IKEA ME!!! I would use the money to help my favorite non-profit, Hope House Memphis, where they help families affected by HIV/AIDS.
Susie says
IKEA ME!
I’d love to be an advocate and/or practitioner for arts education.
Lori H says
IKEA ME! What an awesome giveaway! Wow. Anyway, with a year off, I would throw myself into being a volunteer reading tutor. And help at the Central VA foodbank and/or Bainbridge Ministries in downtown Richmond.
dinah says
IKEA ME!
dang, this is a pretty sweet giveaway.
I would love to do something abroad.. but also to do something for the environment! Like cleaning up oceans! Actually I will do that!
And animals! Oh I would definitely volunteer at an animal shelter.
Adrienne B says
IKEA ME…. I think I would work with Habitat for Humanity.