Contact: Jon Hirst, With This Ring, 719-362-5235, jhirst@dotheword.org

YORBA LINDA, Calif., Jan. 13 /Christian Newswire/ -- A study conducted by Dorthy.com in conjunction with Harris Interactive found that 29% of Americans plan to make a resolution for 2010, an increase of 12% from last year. Among the most popular resolutions: losing weight, quitting smoking, and better money management. Ali Eastburn, Executive Director of With This Ring, is challenging Americans to look beyond themselves in keeping these resolutions. "Any effort to improve our own lives or world will be incomplete if we focus only on ourselves. It's time for us to lose the 'weight' of luxury and convenience so that others can have their basic needs met."

Eastburn founded With This Ring two years ago when she gave up her wedding ring to help dig a well for a village in Africa. Since then, she says, "I've seen an astonishing wave of generosity. Men and women are truly changing the world through acts of radical giving." So far, the charity has provided clean water to over 20,000 people in Africa, helping villages to eliminate many of the illnesses and problems caused by a lack of clean drinking water.

"We usually discount resolutions as a waste of time, but making decisions to better our lives and the lives of others through radical giving is time well spent," says Eastburn. "It's really just a matter of committing to lose 'weight' in all areas of our lives. If everyone made a commitment to give up one convenience in 2010 and used the saved resources to help others, it would change the world."

In conjunction with this challenge, With This Ring has created a program called Radical Giving Rings designed to help people join in groups and commit to give up something in the new year. These groups provide accountability to each other and then also get to see how their gifts can make an even greater impact as they give together towards providing clean drinking water for those in need. To find out more about the Radical Giving Ring program, visit www.withthisring.org.