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Making A Difference After Boston: Charitable Giving, Crowdfunding & Other Donations

19 April 2013

Tweet On Monday, in the midst of all of the terrible news coming out of Boston, I was heartened to hear the stories of ordinary people acting in extraordinary ways: those who rushed toward the scene – and not away – in order to help the wounded, those marathon runners who kept running to the [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012: Girls On The Run

31 December 2012

Tweet I was a fat kid. There’s no sugar coating it. I started out Southern beauty pageant cute a la Honey Boo Boo together with a combination of questionable genetics and a love of deep fried foods. My brothers were encouraged to be athletes, I was not. Girls did not play soccer. Girls did not [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012: Free Arts NYC

30 December 2012

Tweet Teenagers and young adults of low socioeconomic status who have a history of in-depth arts involvement earn better grades and have higher rates of college enrollment and attainment than those that are not exposed to the arts. They are more likely to work in a professional career, volunteer, vote and read a newspaper. In [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012: Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center

29 December 2012

Tweet Sea turtles inhabit all of the world’s oceans except the Arctic. There are seven species of sea turtles; five of these are found in my home state of North Carolina. The most abundant species in North Carolina is the loggerhead that nests annually on our beaches. Loggerhead and green sea turtles are listed as [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012: ShelterBox

27 December 2012

Tweet When a crisis hits, we tend to think big. But what if helping was as simple as finding relief inside a green box? ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity that provides temporary shelter and life saving supplies to displaced families. These families could be displaced due to earthquake, volcano, flood, hurricane, cyclone, tsunami [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012: The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research

26 December 2012

Tweet Let’s talk celebrity crushes. When I was a kid, I had a few, some of them a bit less humiliating than others. On the list? Greg Evigan (I was a huge BJ & The Bear fan), Scott Baio, Erik Estrada, Jon Bon Jovi, John Stamos and Jon Cryer (apparently I had a thing for [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012: Fisher House Foundation

23 December 2012

Tweet My brother got married yesterday. He’s in the military so the service was arranged in between deployments. His new wife understands that their lives will be largely like this: planning for birthdays, anniversaries and other events in between being shipped in and out. It is tough but it is the life that he signed [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012: Doctors Without Borders

20 December 2012

Tweet Over the span of three years (1967-1970), a civil war raged in Nigeria. When it was over, nearly three million people were dead and many more were suffering from the effects of hunger and poor sanitation. In response to the crisis – and the 1970 Bhola cyclone, which killed at least 625,000 in Bangladesh [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012: Covenant House

17 December 2012

Tweet One out of every 45 children – some 1.6 million – in the United States is homeless, according to a report released by the National Center on Family Homelessness. The majority of the children are under age 7, about the same age as my youngest children. Even more grim: almost 40% of the homeless [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012: School of Harmony

11 December 2012

Tweet Statistically, students who are involved in music (either appreciation or performance) do better in school. According to the American Chemical Society, nearly 100% of past winners in the prestigious Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science, and Technology (for high School students) play one or more musical instruments (The Midland Chemist (American Chemical Society) Vol. [...]

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