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Bringing Hope To Angolan Children: Mass Health Campaign Begins To Help 3.5 Million (Popularity:  )
http://www.redcross.org
The government of Angola, and its partners in the Measles Initiative, the Global Fund on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative are launching a major health campaign to provide life-saving interventions for Angolan children. The integrated campaign is targeting more than 3.5 million children with measles and polio vaccinations, vitamin A, de-worming medication, and, in seven provinces, long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLIN’s). The campaign begins on ...
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Building Governing Skills Pays Big Dividends for Nonprofits in Turbulent Times, Expert Says in Newest Book (Popularity: )
http://www.dougeadie.com
In his latest book, nonprofit expert Doug Eadie argues that many of the nation's estimated 10 million nonprofit board members fall short of their leadership potential because they are consigned to a passive, review-and-approve role, participating only at a surface level in decision making about the high-stakes issues facing their organizations. A volunteer Governing Board sits at the top of each of the country's estimated 1.5 million nonprofit organizations (NPOs). ...
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Bush AIDS Proposal an Important Step, but not a Doubling of Current Funding (Popularity: )
http://www.globalaidsalliance.org
As the President prepares to attend the G8 Summit June 6-8 in Germany, he is announcing new proposals on global development to showcase US leadership. Today he proposed that the next five-year phase of the US global AIDS plan provide $30 billion in US assistance to impoverished countries, mainly in Africa. "Of course, we welcome the President's support for action to address HIV/AIDS," said Dr. Paul Zeitz, Executive Director of ...
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Butler Salvation Army Scores Big Win from Team Depot - World's Largest Home Improvement Retailer Has a Heart for Kids (Popularity: )
http://www.use.salvationarmy.org
Giving back is a fundamental value of The Home Depot and a passion for its associates. Thanks to that generosity and community spirit, many children from the Butler Salvation Army will reap the benefits. Beginning Wednesday, March 18th and culminating Thursday March 19th, more than 50 volunteers will pick up brushes, hammers, and nails and totally renovate The Salvation Army's After-School program areas.Through Team Depot, The Home Depot's associate-led volunteer ...
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CAIR Files Amicus Brief in Texas Muslim Charity Trial (Popularity: )
http://www.cair-net.org
A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today announced the filing of an amicus brief relating to the ongoing trial of the Holy Land Foundation Muslim charity in Texas. The brief, filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), asks the court to remove the Washington-based group's name, and that of several hundred other Muslim individuals and institutions, from a list of so-called "unindicted co-conspirators." In a related ...
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CAIR: Bush 'Abandoned' Americans in Gaza (Popularity: )
A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group said today that President Bush has "abandoned" the more than 150 American citizens and their family members seeking evacuation from the Gaza Strip.The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it is not known if any American citizens are among the more than 1300 dead, including hundreds of women and children, and more than 5000 injured by Israeli attacks. Americans with ...
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CAIR: NY Groups to Announce Coalition in Support of Park51, Religious Freedom (Popularity: )
http://www.cair.com/
On Wednesday, August 25, more than 40 prominent organizations, civic groups, leaders and religious and interfaith groups will join together to announce the creation of a coalition in support of religious freedom and diversity and to rebuff the increasingly strident opposition to a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero. New York Neighbors for American Values embraces the American constitutional values of religious freedom, diversity and equality. We stand together today ...
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CAIR: State Department Sets Up E-Mail for Gaza Evacuee Support (Popularity: )
http://www.cair.com
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said today that the U.S. Department of State's Visa Office has set up an e-mail address, GazaAssistance@state.gov, to help coordinate assistance for American citizens and their family members who plan to travel to the United States after being evacuated from the Gaza Strip.Those who send a message to the new address receive an automated reply that states in part:"This e-mail is not for information ...
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Caterpillar Foundation Donation to Help Clean Up Port-au-Prince (Popularity: )
http://www.padf.org/
More than 150,000 people in Haiti's most impoverished slum will benefit from a massive drainage canal clean-up project thanks to a donation by the Caterpillar Foundation, the Pan American Development Foundation announced. (www.ImUnitedforHaiti.org) Nearly 1,200 residents of the Port-au-Prince slum of Cite Soleil will be hired to clean 50 percent of the canals that are choked with trash and earthquake rubble through a $500,000 grant from the Caterpillar Foundation, the ...
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Celebrities to Attend the Ninth Annual Kidney Teen Prom (Popularity: )
http://www.rsnhope.org
The Ninth Annual Renal Teen Prom, "Winter Elegance," sponsored by the Renal Support Network (RSN), is to be held Sunday, January 20, 2008 at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California. This unique event attracts more than 350 kidney teens (ages 13-24) who are on dialysis, pre-dialysis or with a transplant, and their guests, coming from Washington D.C., Arizona, Massachusetts and Southern California. This year's prom will be packed ...
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