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New Ovarian Cancer Dream Team to Research DNA Repair Therapies
America’s Charities members, Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF) and Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (OCNA) have teamed up with Stand Up To Cancer and the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition (NOCC) to fund an Ovarian Cancer “Dream Team,” which will conduct a large-scale research project to help change the future of ovarian cancer. The project will be spearheaded by…
Read MoreCharities Intensify Efforts in Riot-Torn Baltimore
As tensions simmered down following riots that shook this city on Monday, foundations and groups here vowed to work harder to help people in neighborhoods affected by the destruction. Several groups, including the ACLU of Maryland and moveon.org, citing the growing number of protests against the police nationwide, have made the Baltimore riot the focus…
Read MoreYour Employees Want to Support the Nepal Earthquake Relief Efforts. Help Them Do It Safely.
Apart from the amount of damage it leaves behind, one of the worst things about a natural disaster like the earthquake that struck Nepal over the weekend, are the disaster recovery scams that follow. Unfortunately, as the world scrambles to provide disaster victims access to clean water, food, shelter, and emergency aid, cybercriminals and fraudsters are…
Read MoreApril 29th World Wish Day® Corporate & Employee Engagement Opportunity
This month, Make-A-Wish is celebrating World Wish Day, the 35th anniversary of the wish that inspired its founding, by launching a worldwide “thank you” campaign on April 29 dedicated to individual and corporate donor appreciation and recognition. How Your Company Can Participate Post a message on your corporate social networks on April 29. For example: Facebook:Text:…
Read MoreFeeding 7 Billion: How Food Impacts Communities Around the World
Food connects us, and at the same time helps shape our identity. That’s the narrative Seattle-based photographer Michael Hanson tries to show in his ongoing series, Feeding 7 Billion. He documents food’s scarcity and abundance, the communities and rituals that surround it, and how it affects our planet. For two months in 2010, Hanson traveled around the United…
Read MoreIn Focus: No Place to Call Home
“You never get to feel safe. You never get to make friends. You are always anxious, because you never know when something is going to go wrong.” That is how Mackenzie — who remembers being moved 26 times during nearly a decade in state care — said it felt being shuffled through a series of…
Read MoreSloan Kettering CEO Craig Thompson on the revolution under way in cancer prevention and treatment
By CRAIG B. THOMPSON Decades into the declared modern war on cancer, scientists and clinicians are excited by what we are learning. Yet patients and families are too often frustrated by the lack of progress in prevention and treatment. To understand this seeming paradox, we have to consider what has been learned about the biology…
Read MoreTeaching Tolerance recognizes 104 schools for ‘Mix It Up at Lunch Day’ efforts
The SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance project today named 104 schools as Mix It Up Model Schools for their exemplary efforts to foster respect and understanding among students and throughout campus during the 2014-15 school year. These schools participated in Teaching Tolerance’s signature event, Mix It Up at Lunch Day, which encourages students to break down social barriers by…
Read MoreFormer Hunting Dog Now Brings Joy and Comfort to Both People and Pets
Ben Forman will never forget the story of how his dog Miracle came to Homeward Bound, an animal welfare group in London, Kentucky. In the fall of 2011, a woman was driving down a rural road and saw 2 men had pulled their truck to the side of the road. They had guns, which they…
Read MoreA worldwide “Thank You” day that celebrates all Make-A-Wish donors, volunteers, wish kids and families.
Make-A-Wish® grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. With the help of generous donors and more than 27,000 volunteers, they have granted more than 254,000 wishes since its inception in 1980; more than 14,200 in 2014 alone. #GiveWishesWings and Help Grant 1,000 Wishes…
Read MoreNepal Earthquake Relief
The powerful earthquake that hit Nepal over the weekend is the worst to impact the region in the past 80 years, killing more than 3,300 and at least 61 people from nearby in India, Bangladesh, China’s region of Tibet, and Pakistan. While it will be a while before we know the full extent of the…
Read MoreAlone We are Rare, Together We are Strong. Helping the 30 Million Americans Affected by Rare Diseases
Any disease affecting fewer than 200,000 Americans is considered rare, and there are nearly 7,000 such diseases affecting nearly 30 million Americans. The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), a 501(c)(3) organization, is a unique federation of voluntary health organizations dedicated to helping people with rare “orphan” diseases and assisting the organizations that serve them.…
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