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Serious Nattitude at RMHC DC
Last week, Kevin Frandsen visited the DC Ronald McDonald Family Room to see some very excited kids on the Hematology/Oncology floor at Children’s National Medical Center. Then, he and the rest of the Washington Nationals beat the Cubs 13-0 during the McDNats Day on July 5th! McDNats Day was a way for the McDonald’s Family Restaurants of…
Read MoreSchoolhouse lessons confront small-town racism
Dayton is a picturesque little burg tucked in the southeastern corner of Washington state. With just over 1,000 families, it is 93 percent white. When racist incidents began last fall, one after another, the community became nervous. No one was more unsettled than Dayton School District Superintendent Douglas Johnson. The people on his campuses were…
Read MoreFamily from Uganda finds respite at Children’s Inn
Recently a Ugandan family, with three teenagers affected by a seizure disorder called Nodding syndrome, stayed at The Children’s Inn. The disorder strikes at about age five and seizures and their aftereffects negatively impact intellectual and physical development. The affected children stayed at the Clinical Center; other family members stayed at The Children’s Inn and…
Read MoreMove it Monsters!
Things that creep and crawl, shadows lurking on the wall, scary thoughts running through your head or even monsters under your bed can all be a bit overwhelming for a child, especially when away from home. Yet thanks to the extremely brave Isabella, who was a wish child this past April, the Village now has…
Read MoreThe Truth About Skin Cancer
Fifteen years ago, Heather Haux, a high school teacher in Long Island, New York, noticed what appeared to be a scrape on her arm. When it didn’t heal and she sought medical care, she was shocked to find out that the innocent looking mark was skin cancer – a combination of both basal cell cancer,…
Read MoreYoga For a Cure to Breast Cancer
On February 13, 2014, Maggie DiNome, MD, Director of the newly developed High-Risk Clinic at the Cancer Prevention Clinic at the Margie Petersen Breast Center at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, CA, hosted a gorgeous fundraiser with actress Kate Beckinsale and celebrity yoga instructor Many Ingber, New York Times best-selling author of…
Read MoreHow MADD and Nationwide are Working Together to Save Lives
One in three people in this country will be involved in a drunk driving crash in their lifetime. Mothers Against Drunk Driving® (MADD) is working to protect families from drunk driving and underage drinking through advocacy, a variety of programs and partnerships. Many generous supporters have helped MADD deliver the strongest awareness and educational programs…
Read MoreHow CSR Natives Can Help You Drive Impact & Stimulate Innovation
By Craig Bida (From the CSRwire Talkback Blog Series) Ask any CEO: It’s a corporate social responsibility (CSR) jungle out there. C-suite leaders know just how hard it is not only to compete for attention in a marketplace full of purpose-driven branding but also to meet amped-up expectations of delivering significant societal and environmental impact. Oh, and…
Read MoreWhy We Need Boys Town
Why do we need Boys Town? Hundreds of thousands of children in the U.S. lose their childhood to poverty, gangs, homelessness and abuse, through no fault of their own. Boys Town needs your help to give children back their childhood. Without hope and without help, these children would have been lost. Boys Town, saving children and…
Read MoreRemembering Vincent Chin: The Passion and Agony of a Community
I don’t know why I didn’t do it this year. Maybe because it’s too painful, and rounded-year anniversaries give us an easy excuse to let it go. But I couldn’t help noticing this year, as I looked at the calendar and remembered the dates. There’s really no reason why we shouldn’t call for a national…
Read MoreReflections of a Daughter of a Prostate Cancer Survivor
By Melissa Stewart I can remember sitting in the San Francisco airport on an August afternoon in 2008. I was annoyed because my flight was delayed for over 5 hours and all I wanted to do was get home. Then I got the call. My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer. At the time, he was…
Read More“Orange Is the New Black’s” trailblazing portrayal of foster care
In this excerpt from a new Salon.com article, which takes a look at how the hit show “Orange is the New Black” is “trailblazing in the way it manages to capture the painful contradictions at the heart of the foster care system”, Children’s Rights’ Ira Lustbader and Fostering the Future blogger Michael Place are featured.…
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