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Millennials Can Help Businesses Put the Value of Profit, Society and Cause on Equal Footing
MCON14 | June 18-19, 2014 | Register Now By Sarah Ford This past week in his article, Where Profits Aren’t Enough, Marc Ross stated, “If we can’t step away from short-term economic thinking and take into account the long-term consequences of our actions, our thirst for energy and sustaining a highly wasteful material culture, we must…
Read MoreAmerica’s Charities Welcomes New Board Directors
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 4, 2014 – America’s Charities is pleased to announce the appointment of five new members and two re-elected members to its Board of Directors. Joining America’s Charities’ Board of Directors is Robert Letgers, Senior Vice President – Product of Fidelity National Information Services; Perla Ni, Founder & CEO of GreatNonprofits; George Sifakis,…
Read MoreDo More 24 on June 19th
Do More 24 is coming soon! A special fundraising day in the Greater Washington area will take place on June 19, 2014. Do More 24 will be a day dedicated to online giving and is hosted by the United Way of the National Capital Area (UWNCA). You may recall in November of 2011, they ran a similar program called Give to the…
Read MorePutting a Societal Safety Cap on Animal Poisons
As collateral damage to our war on rodent “pests,” hundreds of children and thousands of pets are exposed to rodenticides each year, with many suffering serious illness or death – to say nothing of the slow, painful deaths suffered by the intended victims. In addition to being used extensively in and around our homes and…
Read More“Pretty Little Liars” Star Ian Harding Visits Rescued Animals at Fund for Animals Wildlife Center
“Pretty Little Liars” star Ian Harding visited The Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in Ramona, Calif., on Saturday, May 31, to learn about wild animal rescue and rehabilitation. During his tour, Ian helped release a red-tailed hawk who was found struggling on the ground, and has been in rehabilitative care since early May. The bird’s ailments were a…
Read MoreAmerica’s Charities Welcomes New Board Directors
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 4, 2014 – America’s Charities is pleased to announce the appointment of five new members and two re-elected members to its Board of Directors. Joining America’s Charities’ Board of Directors is Robert Letgers Senior Vice President – Product of Fidelity National Information Services; Perla Ni, Founder & CEO of GreatNonprofits; George Sifakis, CEO of Axela LLC; Laura Thrall, CEO of…
Read MoreWatch This Service Dog’s Touching Reunion With Family That Trained Him
For 25 years, Canine Partners for Life (CPL) has been training service dogs to assist individuals with a wide range of disabilities. Families who foster and train these dogs often form a deep connection with these dogs before they place the dog with his/her lifetime companion. Lindsay Myers is one of those trainers. When she learned…
Read MoreTrained canine can even predict seizures: Volunteers, service dogs, help make life ‘Wynnderful’
by Sue Ann Rybak Before Alison Brady received her first seizure alert dog in 2004 from Canine Partners for Life, she felt as if she was being held hostage by her disability. “At that time in my life, I was having like 100 seizures a month,” said Brady, who was diagnosed with AVM (Arteriovenous Malformations,…
Read MoreThe Relationship Between Innovating and Achieving Transformative Scale
By Bill Shore During a recent address I gave to social entrepreneurs at Duke University, Professor Joel Fleishman asked me about the dramatic increase over the past few years in the number of students eating subsidized breakfast at school—one of the nation’s most important nutrition programs for low-income children. Research shows that children who eat a good…
Read MoreThe Power of a Mother’s Unconditional Love
When Kathy Ramey found out she was expecting triplets in 2009, the love for her three daughters grew with each day of her pregnancy. She was excited that her sons would soon have three sisters to play with. On July 13, 2010, at 29 weeks – way earlier than Kathy or her husband expected –…
Read MoreWish Experience Makes the World Huge Again
Sometimes, sitting in my bed for hours on end, I felt quite diminutive and trapped; hidden away from the world like a prisoner in a jail cell. There were days where it took all my energy to get out of bed, not out of a lack of physical energy, but that of a mental one.…
Read MoreLaurie and Reneshia Share Inspiring Story of How House of Ruth Gave Them a Safe Home and Life Free of Domestic Abuse
Laurie and Reneshia Gaskins talked about their experience at House of Ruth at A Night for the Children, a gala fundraiser held to benefit House of Ruth and The Children’s Inn at NIH. The event was sponsored by AFCEA Bethesda, an association of information technology professionals who serve the federal IT community. Listen to Laurie…
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