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Canine Partners for Life’s Prison Puppy Raising Program is Healing Inmates’ Hearts and Spirits, Using Man’s Best Friend
By Sue Ann Rybak One look into a 8-week-old Labrador Retriever’s big brown eyes, and even the hardest criminals heart will melt. Canine Partners for Life’s prison puppy raising program is healing inmates’ hearts and spirits, using man’s best friend. Canine Partners for Life (CPL), a local non-profit organization that trains service dogs, home companion…
Read MoreWebinar: Funding Cancer Research in an Era of Fiscal Restraint
Save the date! Prevent Cancer Foundation invites you to their webcast, “Funding Cancer Research in an Era of Fiscal Restraint” on Thursday, July 17 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. EST. Â To join this live event, visit www.preventcancerwebcast.org and interact with Prevent Cancer Foundation and their panelists by sending questions to questions@preventcancer.org or via Twitter…
Read MoreOne Size Doesn’t Fit All When it Comes to Giving at Clorox
By Simone Strydom Given the diversity of our product portfolio, we were recently asked the following questions: How do you determine which brands are aligned with a particular social or environmental cause? How do you balance the causes that resonate with your employees with those that are relevant to consumers? Here’s how we think about.…
Read MoreKenneth Cole and HRC Partner in Celebration of Marriage Equality
Famed designer and activist Kenneth Cole once again joins the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) in raising awareness for marriage equality for everyone, everywhere. The limited-edition t-shirt design also marks the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s historic 2013 marriage rulings. Designed by Kenneth Cole, the t-shirt features a red HRC equal sign logo inlaid with the…
Read MoreAmerica’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places
Since 1988, the National Trust has used its list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places to raise awareness about the threats facing some of the nation’s greatest treasures. The list, which has identified more than 250 sites, has been so successful in galvanizing preservation efforts that only a handful of sites have been lost. Dozens…
Read MoreHow Big Tobacco Has Made Cigarettes So Much Deadlier Than They Used To Be
By Tara Culp-Ressler Fifty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general tied tobacco to lung cancer for the first time. Since then, additional scientific research has linked smoking with a host of other health issues, and efforts to publicize those harmful side effects helped spur a historic decline in the number of Americans who regularly smoke. Nonetheless, more than 42 million…
Read MoreThe Current System is Broken: Bringing Hunger Relief Home for the Summer
By Kevin Hagan It’s summertime, and with summer break comes the laughter of carefree children in many neighborhoods… But not all of them. When the final school bell rings, millions of kids head home to empty refrigerators. During the school year, 21 million American children qualify for free or low-cost school meals from school lunch…
Read MoreWhat’s Black, White and Endangered?
With roughly 1,600 panda bears left in the wild and fewer than 400 in captivity, these animals need help to survive. Morris Animal Foundation has been helping to improve panda health since 2000. Pandas rarely reproduce in captivity, which is why the birth of Tai Shan at the National Zoo (Washington, DC?) in 2005 made…
Read More20 Years of AmeriCorps – Why Young People Serve
AmeriCorps turns 20 in September, and who better to talk about its beginnings than its co-founder, President Bill Clinton? Even though some of us at the Rebuilding Together Alexandria office have been members of AmeriCorps for more than a year, we have never learned as much about it as we have these past few months. Furthermore,…
Read MoreIt’s Mission, Programs, Services For Employee Giving
Workplace giving funnels about $4 billion into nonprofit coffers each year. But as evidenced by the nearly one-fifth decline in the federal employee Combined Federal Campaign last year, nonprofits, donors and businesses must respond to changing trends. Snapshot 2014: Rising Tide of Expectations — Corporate Giving, Employee Engagement and Impact, a report from Chantilly, Va.-based…
Read MoreInspiration from 17-year-old Special Olympics Athlete With Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Whitney and her family live in Lebanon, Tennessee. Because of TSC, Whitney has non-cancerous tumors in her brain, kidneys and eye, and developmental delays. No matter. She represents Team Tennessee at the 2014 Special Olympics USA in the bocce event, competing June 16 through 18. Her mom, Sharon, has her own goal in mind — raise awareness…
Read MoreWhy Mid-Sized Businesses Should Prioritize Corporate Philanthropy
By Ryan Scott Mid-sized businesses – often defined as organizations with 100 to 5000 employees – comprise 26% of U.S. businesses, according to the Midmarket Institute. Â And yet, despite their numbers, mid-sized businesses are often overlooked in discussions about employee volunteer and giving programs. Â The big corporations are more typically the ones that have the…
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