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John Wayne Cancer Institute Auxiliary To Honor The Mandela Family And Anton J. Bilchik, MD, At 29th Annual Odyssey Ball
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The Mandela family will be honored with the “True Grit” Humanitarian Award at the 29th annual Odyssey Ball on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Anton J. Bilchik, MD, PhD, FACS, Professor of Surgery and Chief of Medicine at the John Wayne Cancer Institute (JWCI) at Providence…
Read MoreTop 5 Reasons to Attend CPL’s Unleashed & Uncorked on Saturday May 10th!
#5: The View. Savor the gorgeous architecture, rolling hills and scenic views of one of Newtown Square’s most beautiful country estates, Heartwood Farm, located in the heart of horse country. #4: Alfresco Dining and Canine-Themed Cocktails. Nosh your way through a Brandywine Catering seasonal menu that you will daydream about for the rest of the summer. Sip locally-crafted brews from Victory…
Read MoreSPLC Demands Alabama School District End Discriminatory Practices
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center It’s a moment that often makes J.T. uncomfortable: The moment someone asks him why he isn’t in school. “It makes me feel like I dropped out,” J.T. said. “It’s like I have nothing to accomplish. I just feel worthless.” But the 17-year-old Latino didn’t drop out of school. In fact,…
Read MoreOn Your Mark, Get Set – Race to End Poverty on April 26th
Run or Walk…It’s a race we all can enter! Saturday, April 26 Cabin John Regional Park, Bethesda, MD 20817 9:00 a.m. 5K race starts Join The Race to End Poverty hosted by A Wider Circle and help children and adults lift themselves out of poverty. Including a 5K run/walk , 1-mile walk and a tot trot! This year’s race features…
Read MoreAmidst Prosperity, Many In Silver Spring Struggle To Survive
Source: WAMU 88.5 Ask most Silver Spring residents, and they’ll tell you their community’s downtown has come a long way over the past decade. These days, you can find all sorts of restaurants there, serving everything from jumbo diver scallops to lamb tartare. You can hit up the farmer’s market on Saturdays for organic apples…
Read MoreBoy Scouts of America, National Capital Area Council (NCAC) Joins America’s Charities – Community First
Source: The Scouter Digest (page 10) Boy Scouts of America, National Capital Area Council (NCAC) is pleased to announce their new partnership with Community First – America’s Charities of Greater Washington, D.C. America’s Charities’ local federation, Community 1st, addresses a diverse range of social concerns and needs in the greater D.C. area and supports some…
Read MoreWatch Videos from the Charities@Work Corporate Citizenship Summit
Did you miss the Charities@Work 13th Annual Summit? CLICK HERE TO WATCH NOW Save the date and join us this spring, April 3-4, 2014 for the Charities@Work 13th Annual Best Practices Summit on Employee Engagement in Corporate Citizenship. The Annual Charities@Work Summit is one of the country’s leading conferences on employee engagement and social responsibility. Attendees include Fortune 500…
Read MoreMentor Pair Highlight: Rachel Levin & Eli Capello
Work within the LGBTQ community both here in Claremont, California and nationally is something about which I am passionate. Being a parent and a professor, I am also painfully aware of what happens to kids of any age who are different in any way at both public and private schools and, unfortunately, what happens in some…
Read MoreHeartworm Awareness Month at the SPCA of Central Florida
Heartworm disease, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, can be fatal for dogs and cats. Because mosquitoes are present year round in Florida, our pets are constantly at risk from contracting the disease without protection. When an animal is bitten by an infected mosquito, adult parasitic heartworms (Dirofilaria immitis) develop and live in the heart and…
Read MoreHow FARE’s Life-changing Research & Resources are Helping the 15 Million Americans with Food Allergies
Featured Charity: Food Allergy Research & Education Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) is the nation’s leading organization working on behalf of the 15 million Americans with food allergies, including all those at risk for life-threatening anaphylaxis. This potentially deadly disease affects 1 in 13 children in the United States—or roughly two in every classroom.…
Read MoreEngaged Giving: American Express’s 20 Years of Philanthropic and Volunteer Support of JA New York
April is Youth Financial Literacy Month. So it’s only fitting that we feature a partnership between world-renowned financial industry leader, American Express and a nonprofit leading the youth financial literacy movement – Junior Achievement of New York (JA New York). Junior Achievement (JA) of New York’s relationship with American Express spans nearly two decades of…
Read MoreBecause So Little Had Changed This Breast Cancer Advocate Stepped Up
When Gloria Wakefield was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009, the experience was familiar. Not just because she had been diagnosed once before, 22 years earlier, but because so little had changed in how breast cancer was diagnosed and treated since her first diagnosis. “We’ve been led to believe that there have been many improvements…
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