It’s the second day of our 12 Days of Charitable Giving! Today we feature Flashes of Hope, an organization which provides families of children with cancer with portraits – along with a cool photo shoot. The organization touches the lives of about half of all children with cancer in the country.
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 run cross country….
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 on…
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, or…
A number of years ago, a chubby teenage girl from rural North Carolina piled into a van with some friends and headed to the great city of New Orleans. It was summer, hot and humid, even for those of us used to it. We were armed with craft supplies, loads energy and great ideas –…
I attended a great session at BlogHer today about online charitable fundraising and activism. Afterwards, one of the other attendees asked me why I was there. Hmm. Well, a lot of it was because I have interest on behalf of my nonprofit clients. Online charitable fundraising and activism is changing the face of the nonprofit…
I attended a great session at BlogHer today about online charitable fundraising and activism. Afterwards, one of the other attendees asked me why I was there. Hmm. Well, a lot of it was because I have interest on behalf of my nonprofit clients. Online charitable fundraising and activism is changing the face of the nonprofit…