Bread of Life, Inc., a Quest for Health Equity (Q4HE) grantee, recently hosted its third annual Community Baby Shower in Houston, where 100 expectant moms and their guests were showered with refreshments, games, entertainment—and plenty of baby gear.
Global Health Corporate Champions is making pro bono experiences more accessible and affordable for companies interested in exploring pro bono in a critical emerging market. PYXERA Global is fielding a multi-corporate, cross functional team of 10-12 professionals for a four-week assignment in Accra, Ghana in June, 2016, under the USAID Global Health Fellows Program II.
Rebuilding Together — a leading national nonprofit in safe and healthy housing that provides low-income homeowners with critical home repairs — will join together with its affiliate, Rebuilding Together San Francisco and more than fifteen NFL players from teams across the country, to lead its 21st annual Kickoff to Rebuild, a Super Bowl 50 sanctioned event. This year’s event, in partnership with Lowe’s, will take place on February 5 in the Bayview neighborhood and will be the culmination of a series of projects across the Bay Area by five Rebuilding Together affiliates.
The United States is experiencing a number of extreme weather events. Ten years after Hurricane Katrina and three years after Superstorm Sandy, the vast majority of Americans remain unprepared for major disasters, according to results from a National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) research study. Many communities, systems and child-serving institutions are not sufficiently prepared to meet the needs of children when a crisis strikes. And many parents are not confident that their children will be protected and are not aware of what plans schools have made to be sure that children are safe in case of a catastrophic event in their community.
“Never before has the world had a document that so eloquently unites ethics and environmental stewardship. That is why Laudato Si was the most significant environmental event of 2015.”
Impact isn’t a finish line, it’s a continuous cycle. As you reach greater impact you will undoubtedly uncover new ideas on how to go even further. And those new ideas will undoubtedly require changes to the whole program including the software measuring outcomes.
More than 75 organizations and individuals from communities across America received national recognition at Keep America Beautiful’s National Awards celebration, which took place Monday, Feb. 1, at Keep America Beautiful’s National Conference in Orlando, Florida.
In an effort to help the more than one million young people in the United States who experience homelessness every year, the cast of FOX's hit musical special Grease: Live partnered with DoSomething.org for its annual Teens for Jeans campaign, encouraging youth to collect jeans for the homeless. FOX promoted the campaign across its social media platforms during the live broadcast on Sunday, January 31, and members of both the cast and the audience got involved, as well.
The Super Bowl is undeniably America's biggest sporting event of the year. In fact, last year's game pulled in 114.4 million viewers – the most watched show in U.S. history. And large brands have never shied away from spending big dollars on advertising during the game – spending upwards of $4.5 million for a 30-second commercial. Yet, for the first time Super Bowl organizers are taking this captive audience to create a force for good, asking consumers to play a part in making the event the "most healthy, sustainable, shared, and socially responsible Super Bowl ever."
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