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With Cisco Support, Feeding America Helps Clients Chart a Path to Self-Sustainability
This post was written by guest blogger Kelli Walker, Director of Corporate Partnerships at Feeding America Cisco has been a significant strategic partner with Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization. Since 2009 Cisco has helped fund various pilots that use technology to increase efficiency in our operations, transportation, and food sourcing throughout the Feeding America…
Read MoreLack of CSR & Employee Engagement Program Alignment Can Hinder Your Growth & Success
I look forward to Fridays. Not for the obvious reason working a 9-5 M-F. It’s the day I start getting excited about my Saturday routine. It’s the one day that I look forward to the clock striking 5:00 p.m. so I can start implementing and preparing for my weekend routine that begins with prepping two…
Read MoreSave the Date! Membership Assembly is 5/14/15
Mark Your Calendar! On May 14, 2015, from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM, America’s Charities will host its 2015 Membership Assembly, “Engagement: From Strategy to Success”, at The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Conference Center in Washington, D.C. What You Can Expect: Insights into how companies are thinking about employee engagement and nonprofit impact Ways to connect your…
Read MoreFederal jury in SPLC case awards $14 million to Indian guest workers victimized in labor trafficking scheme by Signal International and its agents
A federal jury in an SPLC case today awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to five Indian guest workers who were defrauded and exploited in a labor trafficking scheme engineered by a Gulf Coast marine services company, an immigration lawyer and an Indian labor recruiter who lured hundreds of workers to a Mississippi…
Read MoreProfessional Development: How Pro Bono Makes You Better at Your Job
Ed Kamrin, a communication manager at Wordwright Communications and vice president of operations for the San Francisco chapter of IABC, wrote a wonderful piece on IABC titled Why Doing Good Can be Good for Your Career. He has completed pro bono branding and publications projects for clients such as the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium, the Friends of…
Read MoreBaby Danny Reminds Us That Kicks Really Do Count
A message, recently received by First Candle, from the mother of this beautiful baby: “I just wanted to thank you for your awareness campaign for “Kicks Count!” You could say we are a success story. I was 37 weeks pregnant and contacted my doctor one evening because of reduced activity confirmed with a kick count…
Read MoreAs U.S. Celebrates 25 Years of Smoke-Free Airlines, It’s Time to Make All Workplaces and Public Places Smoke-Free
Statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Feb. 23 2015 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, it is inconceivable to Americans that smoking would be allowed on airline flights. In fact, smoking and noxious clouds of secondhand smoke were widespread on airlines in the United States just 25 years ago. That all changed on…
Read MoreBeads of Courage Helps Tell the Stories of Cardiac ICU Patients
Every patient at Children’s National Health System has a story and sometimes they choose to animate them through the Beads of Courage® program. Beads of Courage® was brought to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Children’s National in 2009 by art therapist Heather Stemas, M Ed, ATR-BC, LCPAT, and is a collaboration with art…
Read MoreCompany’s Staff Is 80% Employees With Autism, Provides Model For Other Businesses
A father-son team launched a car wash to help an underemployed population make a splash on job scene. John and Tom D’Eri recently spoke to Nation Swell about their plans to expand their Florida car wash, where 80 percent of the employees have autism. The family originally founded the company, Rising Tide, in 2013 to provide…
Read MoreSPLC lawsuit demands necessary health care for transgender inmate in Georgia prison
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections on behalf of a transgender woman who has been denied medically necessary treatment and sexually assaulted by other inmates while held at a men’s prison. Since entering prison three years ago for a nonviolent offense, prison officials have denied…
Read More[Interview] Luftwerk Takes You Inside “INsite” at Farnsworth House
You might have heard it said that the past illuminates the present. But what if we in the present illuminated the past — literally and wonderfully? That’s what INsite, last year’s light and sound installation at National Trust Historic Site Farnsworth House, achieved in spectacular measure with a hypnotic video composition set to original music that played on…
Read MoreGiving Is Expected to Rise Nearly 5% This Year and Next, Study Predicts
By Alex Daniels Philanthropic giving is expected to increase 4.8 percent this year, and 4.9 percent in 2016, exceeding the average rate of growth in gifts since the recession, according to a forecast released Tuesday. Gifts from individuals, corporations, estates, and foundations are all expected to increase, according to the Philanthropy Outlook, a set of projections…
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