Our second installation of the TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is here give you the very best of Katie, Nicole, Giulia, Gina and Kerry! More blogs means more to love this Valentine’s Day week, and more social action means a healthier and happier world for everyone. Check out our most popular posts of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites.

Katie:

5 Ways to Take Action and Get Action On Valentine’s Day

Top 10 Guilt-Free Valentine’s Day Jewelry Gifts: Show Your Valentine You Have a Heart

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Nicole:

Kiva: Microlending to Change Lives

Top 10 New Releases to Inspire Social Change

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Giulia:

Alicia Keys Uses Grammys to Help Keep a Child Alive

V-Day Celebrates Its 10 Year Anniversary!

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Gina:

Top 10 Movie Characters That Make A Difference

Art As Politics In “The Silence Before Bach”

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Kerry:

Tap Project Gets Donations Flowing For Safe Global Water

Levon Helms’ “Dirt Farmer” Wins Grammy Gold

A small New York ad agency is making a big difference in the lives of third world children who lack access to clean drinking water. Droga5’s Tap Project, a pro bono ad campaign, partners with restaurants that donate $1 to Project Tap each time a diner chooses tap water over bottled during the week of March 16th. With World Water Day coming up on March 22nd, the Tap Project is raising awareness of–and money for–the cause of clean water in undeveloped nations.

The first Tap Project, last March, raised about $100,000 through the participation of  300 or so New York restaurants and thousands of patrons; this year, as the New York Times reports, the Tap Project’s going nationwide:

Additional markets scheduled to take part are Boston; Chicago; Cincinnati; Dallas; Los Angeles; Milwaukee; New Orleans; Portland, Ore.; Richmond, Va.; San Diego; San Francisco; Seattle; and several cities in South Carolina.

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