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Food Pantry Helps Family Get Through Tough Time Dealing With Cancer
I spent my youth in the Navy, and when I got out I began working as a chef. I knew nothing and so I taught myself everything. I worked hard, and eventually worked my way up. I helped open one of the most prominent restaurants in Boston and in the meantime married my beautiful wife,…
Read MoreIncreasing Participation in Your Volunteer Program
By Ryan Scott A question that corporate philanthropy leaders and volunteer program managers ask me all the time is this: “How can we increase and improve volunteer participation in our program?” Ensuring that your company has a high volunteer participation rate is one of the missions of my company, Causecast. So we make it a priority to…
Read More‘Alzheimer’s in a Dish’ Expected To Hasten Drug Development
Currently taking the science world by storm are Harvard neuroscientist Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD, a past recipient of several BrightFocus grants, and 2013-15 BrightFocus Grantee Se Hoon Choi, PhD, who works at the Genetics and Aging Research Unit of Massachusetts General Hospital, which Tanzi directs. These researchers and their colleagues have managed to accomplish what…
Read MoreEmployee Engagement is Important! Increase Engagement through Matching Gift and Volunteer Grant Programs
Guest Post by Adam Weinger, President of Double the Donation More than ever before, organizations are relying on employee engagement and loyalty for overall success. On the same spectrum, today’s millennials (individuals aged 18-35) are not starting their “forever careers” at such an early age. Many young individuals get their first jobs out of college, gain…
Read MoreSeismic Shift in Rome: New Catholic Church Document Praises Committed Gay and Lesbian “Partnerships”
By Liz Halloran HRC today commended Catholic leaders meeting in Rome for using new, inclusive language in referring to the LGBT community. The preliminary but potentially ground-breaking document released today by the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops asserted that LGBT people have “gifts and talents to offer the Christian community,” and, for the first time, referred to…
Read MoreObama to nominate ACLU lawyer to lead Justice Department’s civil rights division
By Sari Horwitz President Obama plans to nominate a top lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union to head the civil rights division of the Justice Department, which has been without a permanent leader for more than a year. Vanita Gupta, a longtime civil rights lawyer, deputy legal director of the ACLU and director of its…
Read MoreSPLC victorious in challenge to Alabama’s immigrant ‘scarlet letter’ law
It was a minor offense with potentially big consequences in Alabama. In November 2012, four Latino immigrants were arrested for fishing without a license – a misdemeanor. But under a provision of the state’s anti-immigrant law, if immigrants appearing in state court could not prove their legal status, they would have their names placed on…
Read MoreImproving the Health & Welfare of Horses
When I think of freedom, one of the images that instantly comes to mind is that of a horse running free. Anyone who’s spent time around these beautiful animals knows that it isn’t that they merely like to run, they live to run. Horses are beautiful, majestic and also a scientific marvel because their entire…
Read MoreSIDS, Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month
Each and every day, in communities across America, expectant moms will feel their baby’s first kick; parents will listen to their newborn’s first cry; and families will celebrate the birthday of a healthy baby. Also each and every day, 13 babies will be lost to SIDS and other sudden, unexpected infant deaths; more than 70…
Read MoreHow Goodwill Helped Cherise Get Out of the Welfare to Work Program & Become Self-sufficient
Goodwill helped me get out of the Welfare to Work program and become self-sufficient by helping me train and providing the tools needed to apply for and obtain a job. Over the past several years Goodwill has taught me work ethic and gave me opportunities to grow by allowing me to attend seminars, help out…
Read MoreRebuilding Together Alexandria Releases Energy Efficiency Home Audit Ideas as Part of Energy Awareness Month
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Winter’s cold can be a budget buster for many low-income homeowners—many of whom are elderly, disabled and veterans. As part of Energy Awareness Month, Rebuilding Together Alexandria is releasing its top five energy efficiency home audit ideas so that families and friends can help their neighbors in need prepare for the winter. Rebuilding Together…
Read MoreA Psychotic Episode Shouldn’t End in a Jail Cell
By Kara Dansky Michelle Mata wants to be treated the way you would want your mom to be treated. She’s an aunt and a neighbor. She likes line dancing. And she suffers from major depressive disorder with psychotic features. When people like Michelle have a mental health crisis, people often call the cops. The situations…
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