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Groundbreaking Ceremony in Port-au-Prince, Haiti for FilterPure Water Filtration Factory (Popularity:

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FilterPure and their partners Global Effect and other NGOs announced today a ground breaking ceremony in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti for a new water filtration factory. The FilterPure factory will employ Haitians to build, manufacture and distribute the FilterPure filters that eliminate 99.9% of antimicrobial contaminants that cause water-borne illnesses and deaths.The factory will begin production of the water filters in 30 days and can produce initially up to 2,000 filters monthly ...

Haiti 6-Months Later: World Vision Says Much Has Been Done But Road to Recovery Will Take Years (Popularity:

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http://www.worldvision.org
Six months after Haiti's devastating earthquake, World Vision says much has been done to help the people of Haiti, but the road to lasting recovery will take many years. As aid groups transition from relief to recovery efforts, providing sturdy, safe shelter to survivors is one of the most pressing and complex challenges now facing aid workers. With hurricane season already underway, better shelter is also one of the most ...

Haiti Relief Efforts, Other Experiences at Feb. 18 Newsmaker (Popularity:

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On Thursday, Feb. 18, at 2 p.m. at a Newsmakers press conference on Haiti relief efforts, Niurka Pineiro, spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration; Nan Buzard, Senior Director of International Response and Programs for the American Red Cross; Jennifer Parmelee, Public Affairs Officer, UN World Food Program and Jaspreet K. Singh, representative of the United Sikhs will discuss the earthquake in Haiti.The panel discussion will take place in the ...

Highlights of Economic and Business Growth in the Tampa Bay Region (Popularity:

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http://www.tampabay.org
News briefs concerning the economic and business growth in the Tampa Bay Region from the Tampa Bay Partnership: Tampa Bay Ranks #2 Nationwide For Lowest Business Costs The Tampa Bay region ranked number two for having the lowest overall business costs among the top 25 major U.S. cities, according to the 2008 KPMG Competitive Alternatives Business Cost Index. Tampa Bay tied with Dallas-Fort Worth in the ranking with a score ...

Holiday Cards Are on Their Way to Nation's Heroes (Popularity:

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http://www.redcross.org
The American public has answered the invitation from the Red Cross and Pitney Bowes Inc. to "send a touch of home" to service members and veterans with hundreds of thousands of holiday cards.Today is the last day to postmark and send cards to the Holiday Mail for Heroes campaign, which is jointly sponsored by the American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes, and mail is still arriving at a rapid clip."The ...

Hundreds Across the South Still Seek Safety in Red Cross Shelters (Popularity:

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http://www.redcross.org
More than 1,100 Red Cross workers are helping those whose lives were turned upside down after this week's flooding and tornadoes in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas.Clean-up efforts are underway and Red Cross teams from 37 different states are providing food, a safe place to stay, clean-up items, toiletries, blankets, shovels, rakes, gloves, trash bags and other necessities. Damage is widespread with people needing everything from immediate emergency assistance ...

Hundreds Across the South Still Seek Safety in Red Cross Shelters (Popularity:

Illinois Worst in Nation for Late Payments to Human Service Nonprofits (Popularity:

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http://www.donorsforum.org/
Illinois is the worst state in the nation for late payments to nonprofit human service providers, according to a new report released today by the Urban Institute. Illinois also ranks in the bottom nationally in two other key indicators of program quality: payments failing to cover the cost of services and unilateral changes by government to contract terms mid-stream."Illinois is failing its residents just at the time when they need ...

Important Message for 2008 Universal Children's Day (Popularity:

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http://www.unicefusa.org
Calling the daily preventable deaths of 25,000 children worldwide 'profoundly shameful and unnecessary', the U.S. Fund for UNICEF today marked Universal Children's Day by launching "Believe in Zero", a campaign that encourages policy makers and the general public to reduce daily child deaths from 25,000 to zero. "These children are not dying from incurable diseases or causes. These children are dying from diarrhea, pneumonia, measles and malaria---things that cost pennies ...

International Nonprofit to Release New Report Showing That Unregulated Money in Politics Is Greatest Corruption Threat Globally (Popularity:

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http://www.globalintegrity.org
The following was issued today by Global Integrity:WHAT: Teleconference -- Global Integrity, an award-winning international nonprofit organization that tracks governance and corruption trends globally, will release a new report that finds the unregulated flow of money into the political process to be the #1 corruption threat facinga majority of countries, regardless of income levels. The Global IntegrityReport: 2008 also features a new Grand Corruption Watch List, whichincludes Iraq and Somalia among ...