Communities Helping Families Through Kids Cafe
Kids Cafe is a program that provides after school meals for children from low-income families. It’s a partnership between local food banks and area partners. Feeding America, the organization that helps many local/regional food banks, provides the basic framework for locals to start their own Kids Cafes. Here’s a great video from Austin via Texans [...]
Read more »Blogging for the uninsured: getting health care access for everyone
One of the causes that I follow and blog about occasionally is the issue of health care access. Recently on my personal blog I posted my four reasons for healthcare reform. Zane Safrit is a fellow blogger that often writes about health care. (Here’s a link to many of his healthcare posts.) Via Zane’s Twitter [...]
Read more »Twestival: Twitter users raise over $250K for charity:water
It’s been a little over a week since the Twestival and the donations are tallying up. Over $250,000 has been raised for charity: water, a non profit organization that brings clean, safe drinking water to people in developing countries. Many of the events were small networking parties, bringing together people who normally only correspond via [...]
Read more »Blogging to Help Children Get Life Changing Surgeries
Interplast is an organization that champions a great cause — helping children with serious medical needs. They provide free life-changing surgery for children and adults with cleft palette or disabling burns and hand injuries. You can see their website here and then the blog is here. They use the blog to share stories of the [...]
Read more »World AIDS Day Bloggers Unite on Dec. 1
BlogCatalog.com is sponsoring a bloggers unite day on Monday, urging bloggers to write about the AIDS issue. I’m still thinking of what to write, but just to start here are a few facts about AIDS. Did you know that… in the United States: Nearly half of all AIDS cases in the U.S. involve people 13 [...]
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