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LUNGevity Salutes Importance of Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Official Month Underscores Impact of Lung Cancer, Highlights Urgent Need to Fund Advanced Research as Hope Is on the Horizon WASHINGTON, DC (November 1, 2013)…
Report: Nearly Half of Teens Surveyed are Interested in Careers in the STEM and Medical Fields
Today’s teens want to pursue careers that will provide both financial rewards and job satisfaction. To gauge teens’ perspectives on their ideal careers and what…
Standing for Something is No Longer Enough. Social Impact is Crucial and Sets Leaders Apart.
Achieving social impact requires a measured approach centered on five guiding principles: Tweet Turn your stakeholders into partners by making their participation urgent and necessary…
Washington Post’s Article on Nonprofit Fraud Spawns Warranted Reaction from Charitable Sector
You have to hand it to the Washington Post. They sure know how to write a catchy headline. Their recent front page Sunday edition lead…
Declining black, Latino admissions to NYC’s specialized schools could be reversed
Admissions to the city’s elite schools could become more broad-based than a single test under Bill de Blasio, according to a report by Community Service…
One Year Later, Sandy Survivors Continue to Rebuild
By Delaney Gracy, Chief Medical Officer One year ago, Superstorm Sandy barreled into the New Jersey coastline, bringing 80 mile-per-hour winds and a record-breaking surge…
Language-Gap Study Bolsters a Push for Pre-K
Nearly two decades ago, a landmark study found that by age 3, the children of wealthier professionals have heard words millions more times than those…
Preventing Kids from Abusing Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medicines
Source: Children’s National While prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medicines serve an important role when used under a doctor’s care, the misuse of these medicines is…
Staying Positive is Half the Battle for Miss Arizona Contestant, Fighting Ovarian Cancer
A lot of cancer patients set goals when they’re going through chemotherapy, but Kristina Anderson is pushing herself to do something out of the ordinary. …
Former All-American passes up NFL to teach
Tejay Johnson won a Rose Bowl, then never played football again. Now he’s an assistant coach at Fort Worth’s Dunbar High School TCU had just…
Smart Kids, Not Smart Bombs
How Malala put education on the global agenda By Wendy Kopp, Founder and Chair of the board of Teach for America Shortly after she was…
Research Finds Shelter Dogs Still Need Help
Source: PetSmart Charities A sure way to learn what people think about shelter pets and adoption is to ask — and recently, Best Friends Animal…