In 2006, inspired by Oprah's "Pay It Forward Challenge", we decided to give 17 of our friends and family the gift of giving during the holiday season by creating The Giving Challenge. Each of our 17 friends and family were given $1,000 to spend within one week toward bettering someone else's life and we asked them to put a video documenting their experience on this website.

Our 2006 Giving Challenge was such a success that we decided to make it an annual event and in 2007 we hosted our second Giving Challenge with 24 participants. Now as the holiday season of 2008 is approaching we are in the process of planning our third annual Giving Challenge.

At first our Giving Challenge was created just for our friends and family, but we soon expanded the scope of our challenge and invited others to join our cause as donors. This website documents the impact of every $1,000 gift during our Giving Challenge every year.

On January 26, 2007 our Giving Challenge was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show! Click here to see us on the Oprah website.

Our 2008 Giving Challenge will begin later this year. If you would like to get involved in our 2008 Giving Challenge please email Mariela Kleiner here.

Enjoy the videos and get involved if you can!

Thank You,
Mariela and Keith Kleiner