It all started with a Fitbit Challenge in August, 2020. Our founder Mark Halvorson set out to beat his friends by walking the distance of 1/2 marathon a day for 5 days.

Four days into the challenge he had already exceeded his goal, but kept on walking anyway clocking in over 82 miles. That's more than three marathons!

Doing all that walking gave him a lot of time to think about how the massive level of effort he was putting into this challenge wasn't going to match the mild satisfaction he would feel after winning.

Thats when he looked at his step count and thought, "If I had a $0.01 for every step I took I would have $1,616.51. I bet there is an organization out there that could really use that much money." So he donated it.

That's where One Cent Per was born.

We are just getting started, but have big dreams for the One Cent Per.

So far, we have created this website to share stories, and created a Facebook Page to spread the word.

The current goal is to find other like minded individuals seeking to turn their everyday activities into opportunities to give. When people share their stories with us we will add cents to our total.

A longer term vision is to create a more robust app to bring people, goals, and gifts together into a community that motivates one another to set and achieve small goals that can make a big impact.

Sound good to you? If you are interested in joining the One Cent Per movement sign up to our email list and we will keep you updated as we get things going.

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