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Instead of our usual one
favorite media story per month, this month (November 2006) we feature nearly
a hundred media reports all on the same exciting topic: Oprah’s Pay It
Forward Challenge. I’m sure there will
be much more to come.
Thanks, Oprah!
Wichitan meets Oprah's challenge
Kansas.com, KS - Nov 28, 2006
... The Eagle
introduced readers to Angie Gregory, a 29-year-old attorney for Cargill who
was part of the audience for the "Oprah" show's "Pay
It Forward Challenge ... |
Conklin:
The side effects of 'Side Effects'
Wisconsin
State Journal, WI - Nov 28, 2006
... Part two of Oprah's "Pay It Forward Challenge" aired Monday, and there was
Young -- in the front row of the on-stage bleachers. ... |
Conklin:
The side effects of 'Side Effects'
Wisconsin
State Journal, WI - Nov 28, 2006
... Part two of Oprah's "Pay It Forward Challenge" aired Monday, and there was
Young -- in the front row of the on-stage bleachers. ... |

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Oprah features city's generosity
Centralia
Morning Sentinel, IL - Nov 28, 2006
... CHICAGO - Oprah Winfrey's "Favorite Giveaway Show Ever" aired on Monday, and
among an ... out video cameras and $1,000 with the challenge to"Pay it Forward." A man ... |
Suddenly Santas
Sun
Publications Chicago, IL - Nov 28, 2006
... Two animal-related
charities benefited from
Naperville
resident Celeste Feggestad's gift that stemmed
from Oprah's "Pay It Forward Challenge.". ... |
Oprah:
World needs a few more miracles
Chicago
Sun-Times,
United
States
- Nov 28, 2006
... an update episode of Oprah Winfrey's show Monday. Sophia Asare-Nkansah and Celeste Feggestad were participants in
Winfrey's "Pay It Forward Challenge," which ... |
Act of
kindness has positive repercussions
WTHR,
IN - Nov 27, 2006
... Oprah challenged 300 audience members including Cirbo to take a one week, one camera, a $1,000 gift card and "pass it
on" or "pay it forward," a theory made ... |
Jackson
man on "Oprah" today on ABC
Jackson
Sun, TN – Nov 27, 2006
A
Jackson
man and his
sister will be seated on Oprah Winfrey's stage during today's
follow-up to "Oprah's Pay it Forward Challenge.". ... |
SC woman appears on Oprah
WIS, SC - Nov 27, 2006
(
Columbia
) November
27, 2006 - If you're an Oprah fan, you may remember her 'Pay it
Forward' challenge. That's when she gave a thousand ... |
Jackson
man, sister share stage with Oprah
Jackson
Sun, TN - Nov 27, 2006
... Buchanan, and her
24-year-old daughter, Cara Buchanan, will be seated on Oprah Winfrey's stage during today's follow-up to "Oprah's Pay it Forward Challenge.". ... |
Sowing the seeds
of hope
Denver
Post, CO - Nov 27, 2006
... But until she
accepted Oprah Winfrey's "Pay It Forward Challenge"
and raised money to cover dental surgery for a
Denver woman shot in the face by her
boyfriend ... |
Lehigh
pair pay it forward for Oprah
The
News-Press, FL - Nov 27, 2006
... They were given
$1,000, a camera and one week to do something good for others. "Oprah's Favorite Giveaway," which aired Oct. 30, is based on the pay-it-forward ... |
Ocala
couple given money by Oprah to help others
Ocala.com, FL - Nov 26, 2006
... members who
received debit cards worth $1,000 each during a taping of the "Oprah"
show on Oct. 26. The project, called "Pay It Forward Challenge," required ... |
Thankful
for Maddie
Detroit
Free
Press,
United States
- Nov 25, 2006
... For Oprah Winfrey. Two teachers from St. Clair were at Winfrey's show when she
started a program called "Pay It Forward," giving everyone
in the audience ... |

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The Oprah Effect
Richmond.com, VA - Nov 25, 2006
... is alive in
Richmond, thanks in part to a local woman who was willing to "pay
it forward" – with a little help from the Queen of TV herself, Oprah Winfrey. ... |
The Oprah Effect
Richmond.com, VA – Nov 25, 2006
... is alive in
Richmond, thanks in part to a local woman who was willing to "pay
it forward" – with a little help from the Queen of TV herself, Oprah Winfrey. ... |
The Oprah Effect
Richmond.com, VA – Nov 24, 2006
... is alive in
Richmond, thanks in
part to a local woman who was willing to "pay it forward"
– with a little help from the Queen of TV herself, Oprah Winfrey. ... |
'Pay
it forward' team returns to Oprah show
Blue
Springs Examiner, USA - Nov 24, 2006
... the Oprah show this week to tape the conclusion of "Oprah's Favorite
Giveaway ... the studio audience received $1,000 and a camcorder to
"pay it forward." The goal ... |
Church
members hold cash in hands, charity in hearts
Atlanta
Journal Constitution (subscription),
USA
- Nov 24, 2006
... The couple had just
seen the movie, "Pay it Forward," which is about a boy who ... In late October, Oprah Winfrey gave audience members
$1,000 each with a similar ... |
OPRAH'S MONEY PUT TO VERY GOOD USES
Kentucky.com, KY - Nov 24, 2006
... the charitable
giving project initiated by talk show host Oprah Winfrey, but ... The "pay it forward" projects initiated by the Kentucky
duo include giving an ... |
Merokeans take Oprah challenge
Merrick
Herald, NY - Nov 23, 2006
"Oprah's an amazing person, and I wanted to be in her presence," said ... told in advance that an opportunity to give back, the "Pay It
Forward Challenge," would ... |
From
Africa with love
Sun
Publications Chicago, IL - Nov 23, 2006
... As part of Oprah's "Pay It Forward Challenge," each audience member was given
a video camera to document the presentations. Asare ... |
Inspirational
giving
The
Courier News, IL - Nov 23, 2006
... As part of Oprah's "Pay it Forward Challenge," each audience member was given
a camcorder to document their presentations. Asare ... |
Thankful
for Maddie
Detroit
Free
Press,
United States
- Nov 22, 2006
... For Oprah Winfrey. Two teachers from St. Clair were at Winfrey's show when she
started a program called "Pay It Forward," giving
everyone in the audience ... |
Centralian's to Appear on Oprah Winfrey Show Monday Afternoon
WJBDRadio.com, IL -
... The Oprah show
featuring Scheidt and others from the "Pay
It Forward" show will be on channel 5 out of St. Louis Monday
afternoon at 4:00. |
Will
you 'pay it forward' with Oprah or rely on good ol' ...
Blogging Stocks - Nov 22, 2006
... you're supposed
to use your spare cash (and the $1000 debit card, if you were in her
audience during the October taping of Oprah's "Pay it
Forward" show) to do ... |
East
China teachers 'Pay it Forward'
New
Baltimore Voice Newspapers, MI - Nov 21, 2006
Call it
a "Pay It Forward" challenge. ... challenges began
when Pat Biebuyck and Dorothy Derrow were among 300 people at an October taping of the Oprah Winfrey Show ... |
McNamee,
community 'Pay It Forward'
Western
Courier (subscription), IL - Nov 17, 2006
Junior
social work major Erin McNamee participated in Oprah's "Pay
It Forward" challenge in which she received a $1,000 Bank of
America card and told to give ... |
Thanksgiving
is the time to celebrate the good
Dailyrecord.com, NJ - Nov 17, 2006
... Or maybe you
recently saw or heard about the episode of the Oprah Winfrey show
during which Winfrey ... She offered money, but was told to pay
it forward instead. ... |
Airline
gift to hospital starts with Oprah
Phoenix
Business Journal, AZ - Nov 16, 2006
... interisland tickets after hearing about a woman's purchase of tickets in a "pay
it forward" project. The story starts on television. Oprah Winfrey gave $1,000 ... |
Local
business helps Oprah 'pay it forward'
Times
Community Newspapers of Greater Dayton, OH - Nov 16, 2006
... good deed. Recently
talk show diva, Oprah presented her audience with $1,000 debit cards
to go out and use to help others. One audience ... |
Airline
gift to hospital starts with Oprah
San
Antonio Business Journal, TX - Nov 16, 2006
... interisland tickets after hearing about a woman's purchase of tickets in a "pay
it forward" project. The story starts on television. Oprah Winfrey gave $1,000 ... |
Airline
gift to hospital starts with Oprah
Milwaukee
Business Journal, WI - Nov 16, 2006
... interisland tickets after hearing about a woman's purchase of tickets in a "pay
it forward" project. The story starts on television. Oprah Winfrey gave $1,000 ... |
Airline
gift to hospital starts with Oprah
Bizjournals.com, NC - Nov 16, 2006
... interisland tickets after hearing about a woman's purchase of tickets in a "pay
it forward" project. The story starts on television. Oprah Winfrey gave $1,000 ... |
Airline
gift to hospital starts with Oprah
Washington
Business Journal, DC - Nov 16, 2006
... interisland tickets after hearing about a woman's purchase of tickets in a "pay
it forward" project. The story starts on television. Oprah Winfrey gave $1,000 ... |
Airline
gift to hospital starts with Oprah
Charlotte
Business Journal, NC - Nov 16, 2006
... interisland tickets after hearing about a woman's purchase of tickets in a "pay
it forward" project. The story starts on television. Oprah Winfrey gave $1,000 ... |
Airline
gift to hospital starts with Oprah
Pacific
Business News, HI - Nov 16, 2006
... interisland tickets after hearing about a woman's purchase of tickets in a "pay
it forward" project. The story starts on television. Oprah Winfrey gave $1,000 ... |
Freedom
Remembers Dedicated Teacher
Loudoun
Connection, VA - Nov 15, 2006
... Oprah Winfrey.
On Oct. 30, Winfrey gave her audience members the debit card with the
instructions that they must do something good with it, or pay it forward. ... |
Teachers
`pay it forward' with help from Oprah
Kalamazoo
Gazette, MI - Nov 13, 2006
... Winfrey had a few
rules for those participating in ``Oprah's Challenge to Pay it
Forward:'' Audience members had to spend the money on someone they did
not know ... |
Paying
it forward
Charleston
Post Courier (subscription), SC - Nov 13, 2006
... Two Charleston area
women learned how much $1,000 can mean when Oprah Winfrey equipped
each with a debit card to "pay it forward" and a camcorder
to record ... |
Thanks
to Oprah, iPods at Moffitt
St.
Petersburg Times, FL - Nov 9, 2006
... successful. Massetti was one of more than 300 studio audience members Oprah challenged to "pay it forward" around the
country. She ... |
Local
woman 'pays it forward'
WTHR, IN - Nov 9, 2006
... When you do something
nice for someone and they pay it forward to someone else - it keeps
going and going and ... "This is crazy, but I am with the Oprah show, and ... |
Women
From Oprah Show 'Pay It Forward'
Kansas
City Channel.com, MO - Nov 8, 2006
The women
were part of a "Pay-It-Forward" program,
designed to send members of Oprah's studio audience out to give money
away and spread hope. ... |
Driven
to beat violence
MLive.com, MI - Nov 8, 2006
... mom of four the car
after attending a recent taping of Oprah Winfrey's television show.
Winfrey encouraged audience members to "pay it forward."
Each audience ... |
This
just in: News sweeps avoid sleaze
St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - Nov 7, 2006
... To open sweeps,
though, Christine Buck had a charming feature on a Chesterfield woman who
used a "pay it forward" gift card from Oprah Winfrey
to help a camp ... |
Cheer
squad ‘paying it forward’
Sapulpa
Daily Herald, OK - Nov 6, 2006
... is one of just two
Oklahoma cheerleading teams selected to participate in the OTLA program,
which was taken from Oprah Winfrey’s “Pay it Forward” mission ... |
Oprah challenge reaches Chappaqua
The
Journal News.com, NY - Nov 5, 2006
... The story began a few
weeks ago when Wendi Silverman sent an e-mail to the "Oprah Winfrey Show" after learning about Winfrey's Pay It Forward Challenge, in ... |

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Oprah's seeds
bear fruit of kindness
News
& Observer, NC - Nov 5, 2006
... Richardson called the McDougald event "Pay It Forward 2006:
Durham, North Carolina." The
Durham
resident and Oprah fan hopes she can make the event annual and ... |
Influences
What shapes the minds that make the news
Philadelphia
Inquirer, PA - Nov 5, 2006
... so much I've watched
them more than twice: Pay It Forward, Seabiscuit,
Miracle ... Friedman, Malcolm Gladwell,
Colin Powell, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, to ... |
'Pay It Forward'
gift helps needy moms
Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel (subscription), WI - Nov 4, 2006
... Amy McBurney (left) used her $1,000 portion of Oprah Winfrey's "Pay It Forward" challenge to help mothers such as
Jocelyn Turner and her 3-month-old daughter ... |
Gifts
multiply value of Oprah's $2,000
Atlanta
Journal Constitution (subscription), USA - Nov 4, 2006
... and 300 other
audience members $1,000 each and challenged them to pay it forward —
pass it on ... O'Conner, 38, and Osborne-Lumpp,
34, had turned Oprah's pair of ... |
Accepting Oprah's challenge
Gary
Post Tribune, IN - Nov 4, 2006
... or spend a dollar on
every person, it doesn't matter to me," Oprah told her ... If I've ever done anything nice for you, would you pay it forward?"
She included a ... |
STARR
REPORT
New
York Post, NY - Nov 3, 2006
... an Upper West Side
writer/tutor, was in the "Oprah Winfrey Show" audience when
Winfrey distributed $1,000 debit cards for her "Pay It Forward Challenge" (the ... |
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Others
from Valley give to causes with their $1,000 debit cards ...
Dayton
Daily News (subscription), OH - Nov 3, 2006
... A challenge from Oprah Winfrey to "pay it forward" will help Tellis get her van detailed, tuned up and equipped with a remote starter at Carl's
Body Shop and ... |
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MN Woman Part Of Oprah's 'Pay It Forward' Show
WCCO,
MN - Nov 3, 2006
(WCCO)
Instead of passing out her favorite things this year, Oprah is
passing out her favorite feeling. Oprah gave everyone in her ... |
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Local resident and Oprah change a Centralia families life
WJBDRadio.com, IL - Nov 3, 2006
Scheidt went to
Chicago
on Monday to tape the "Pay it Forward" show that aired on
Thursday of last week. Oprah gave everyone in the audience
1-thousand dollars ... |
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Woman
Uses Oprah's Gift For Coats For Colorado
TheDenverChannel.com, CO - Nov 3, 2006
...
Broomfield, it was a dream come true when
she received $1,000 from Oprah. ... And that's when Stitzer decided to pay it forward with the Coats
for
Colorado
campaign ... |
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Sisters
take Oprah gift and turn it into much more
Atlanta
Journal Constitution (subscription), USA - Nov 3, 2006
... Each audience
member at one of Oprah's shows last week was given a ... Q100
has been heavily promoting the "pay it forward" cause and
metro Atlanta Kroger shoppers ... |
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Oprah's challenge
is windfall for sick kids
Lowell
Sun, MA - Nov 3, 2006
... "Isn't this
cool?" says Merck, at the Toys R Us checkout counter. "Oprah's giving us the opportunity to pay it forward.". Marchand ... |
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Paying
it forward to those who give back
South
Bend Tribune, IN - Nov 3, 2006
... The three women
were at a taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last week ... Winfrey explained that this giveaway was part of the "Pay It
Forward" movement based on ... |

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Pay
It Forward means giving the gift of love
Maryville
Daily Forum, MO - Nov 2, 2006
... this time, Tant has no idea whether or not any of the four people
who she has chosen to feature for the pay it forward challenge will
be aired on the Oprah Show ... |
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Our
views: Thumbs up or thumbs down
Herald
&
Review,
IL - Nov 2, 2006
... THUMBS UP! To
Decatur native Diana Slaviero, who didn't waste any time in responding to Oprah Winfrey's Pay it Forward challenge. ... |

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Pay It Forward
KOTV, OK - Nov 2, 2006
Oprah Winfrey was in the
giving spirit earlier this week, when she gave her audience a thousand
dollars each. She asked each person ... |

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Pupils,
seniors enlisted to help philanthropic effort
Macomb
Daily Journal, IL - Nov 2, 2006
... Erin McNamee, 21,
attended a taping of "Oprah" last week after she had
submitted a written request to be part of Oprah's "Pay it
Forward" challenge. ... |

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On Oprah Show, Trick Or Treat
TheDay (subscription), CT - Nov 2, 2006
... The rest of the hour
was consumed with feel-good pay-it-forward bits:
adorable dog ... Oprah even flew in from
Australia
the
guy who started giving away free hugs ... |
Earning the rewards
of 'paying it forward'
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(subscription), WI - Nov 1, 2006
... Oprah was
still giving, alright. But this time, she wanted to give the joy of giving.
She's calling it her "pay it forward challenge.". ... |
Oprah's spirit inspires gifts from SJ woman
San
Jose Mercury News, USA - Nov 1, 2006
... Needless to say, the
non-profits are thrilled with Oprah's by-proxy gift ... Winfrey
issued her ``pay it forward'' challenge on her nationally broadcast
show Monday ... |
Local women take on Oprah's challenge
Daily
Herald, UT - Nov 1, 2006
... Acerson,
a Lindon resident, and James, a Cedar Hills
resident, were in
Chicago
last week for the filming of Oprah's Pay-It-Forward challenge, which aired Monday ... |
Oprah Asks Local Women To 'Pay It Forward'
KMBC, MO - Oct 31, 2006
That's
the challenge Oprah Winfrey gave her studio audience, which included
two Kansas City women. Winfrey said the idea is to "pay it forward.". ... |
Central Wisconsin
Teacher Appears on "Oprah"
WSAW, WI - Oct 30, 2006
...
Birnamwood
High School
thought their teacher must have been disappointed to have to give away money
given to her by Oprah Winfrey. ... We were to pay it forward. ... |
Oprah tells guests to 'pay it forward'
Western
Courier (subscription), IL - Oct 30, 2006
... Oprah's "Pay
it Forward" challenge asked those in attendance to step up to the
plate and help others. Each of the 300 audience members ... |
Oprah's grand idea hits home
Flint
Journal, MI - Oct 30, 2006
... The show's topic
turned out to be a "Pay It Forward" theme, with Oprah giving Clothier and everyone else in the studio audience $1,000 and a videocamera. ... |
Three
local women part of Oprah's challenge
South
Bend Tribune, IN - Oct 30, 2006
... "Pay It
Forward" is a movement embraced by Winfrey, based on a book with the
same name ... distributing the money and send the tape back to the
"Oprah Winfrey Show ... |
Oprah sends audience on a mission ...
Blue
Springs Examiner,
USA
- Oct 28, 2006
... is for each person to
take the $1,000 and "Pay It Forward." They are then supposed
to tape their random acts of kindness and submit it to the Oprah Show
for ... |
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