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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: 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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12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012: Baby Basics of Collier County

9 December 2012

Tweet If you ask most young parents how they spend the first year as a mom or a dad, they’ll likely tell you “changing diapers.” Assuming that you change a baby 7-10 times per day (or 5-7 times per day as they get a little older), you’ll change between 1825 and 3650 diapers per year, [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving 2012 Starts Soon

16 November 2012

Tweet There are 45 days left until the end of the year. That means you have just a little over a month to whittle down your taxable income. Sure, you could buy your friends and family a set of taxgirl mugs for the holidays – or you could make a nice charitable donation. It’s the [...]

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12 Days of Charitable Giving: Humane Society for Seattle/King County

18 December 2011

Tweet It’s the first day of my annual 12 Days of Charitable Giving. Each of the 12 charities that I’ll be featuring in the series was suggested by a reader as a charity that could use a boost this holiday season. I’ll be posting one a day for – well, 12 days (I’m clever that [...]

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