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Holiday Cooking & Food Allergies
Holiday cooking and baking can be a hectic activity, as well as confusing! So when in doubt, and as family and friends fill your home…
Giving a Pet As a Gift: How to Make Sure Everyone Wins
Has someone you love been talking about adding a pet to the family? It ispossible to give a pet as a gift — if the circumstances…
Hey Cancer: Do You Know Who You Are Dealing With? – Part 1
By Stephanie Klein Eisler In March 2013, I met a man named Barry. He and I instantly became friends, partners and lovers. We were both…
How Spoons Across America is Influencing Eating Habits of Children and Families
Our programs educate children and families about healthy eating In 2014, Spoons Across America reached over 5,000 children through our food and nutrition-based educational programs.…
US Federal Employees Donate to Charities Through CFC
 By Mariama Diallo Whether it is donating to help homeless children or improve senior care or treatments for autism, American federal workers can give…
Make-A-Wish and Macy’s Grant 50 Wishes Across America on National Believe Day
This Friday, Dec. 12, is National Believe Day and to celebrate Make-A-Wish®, with the help of Macy’s, will grant more than 50 Wishes Across America…
Feed the Children and PepsiCo Unite to Fight Childhood Hunger in Phoenix
PHOENIX, Nov. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Longtime partners Feed the Children and PepsiCo, helped out Phoenix families with food and daily essentials today. Eight hundred families visited the Salvation…
Kick Butts Day Webinar Series Announced: Mini-grants, Activities and Action
Join the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 from 3-4 p.m. EST for their first webinar about Kick Butts Day 2015 and the launch of…
Help Good Neighbors Provide Light to 25 homes in Nueva Oasis Through Project BrightLights
Imagine going home every day to darkness. The residents of Nueva Oasis, a village in La Fragua, Guatemala are day laborers, working on farms and fields,…
Ed & Alepo: The Road to Independence
By Ed C. I am 57 years old, and for the first 30 years of my life I was a healthy person, with a very…
Junior Achievement of New York Announces New Funding for the Second Quarter of the 2014-2015 School Year
[NEW YORK, NY] – Thanks to the generosity of our corporate and foundation grantors, funding for the second quarter of Junior Achievement of New York’s…
Settlement reached in SPLC’s pre-kindergarten discrimination lawsuit
A Florida pre-kindergarten program will take steps to ensure it does not discriminate against children with diabetes as part of a settlement agreement announced today to resolve…