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Help Create a Tobacco-Free Generation by Shopping Tobacco-Free

October 21, 2014

Tobacco use is the nation’s number one preventable cause of death, killing 480,000 Americans and costing the nation $289 billion in health care bills and…

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Changing Children’s Lives by Teaching Financial Literacy

October 20, 2014

Young students from a suburban Chicago elementary school drew pictures of their morning with a special classroom visitor. On each page they commented on the…

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How Goodwill Helped Cherise Get Out of the Welfare to Work Program & Become Self-sufficient

October 14, 2014

Goodwill helped me get out of the Welfare to Work program and become self-sufficient by helping me train and providing the tools needed to apply…

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What is Food Insecurity and What Does it Look Like in America?

October 10, 2014

Food insecurity refers to USDA’s measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and…

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Canine Partners for Life celebrates 25 years in grand style

October 9, 2014

By Nancy Johnson Correspondent The Canine Partners for Life Annual Open House was over the top this year as the Cochranville non-profit held its 25th anniversary…

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New Courthouse Dog To Help Comfort, Support Victims And Witnesses

October 7, 2014

By Walt Hunter NORRISTOWN, Pa., (CBS) — The newest and only four-legged employee at the Montgomery County Courthouse officially arrived for work Friday morning. “Turks”,…

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Happy Birthday to our Member, A Wider Circle!

October 1, 2014

Message from A Wider Circle Founder & Executive Director, Mark Bergel: Thirteen years ago, to this day, A Wider Circle was born. I remember clearly…

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Canine Partners for Life Service Dog Helps Danielle Cope With Narcolepsy & Cataplexy

September 30, 2014

By Danielle Brooks As many of you know, when you have a condition like narcolepsy and cataplexy, you can, and rightly so, start to doubt…

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Internship Program Seeks to Inspire Innovation, Service

September 30, 2014

By Derek Hardin WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — An honors student/student body president, a PhD student at the University of California – Berkeley, and a…

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Why a Beauty Salon in Guyana is an Excellent Place for Sex Education

September 30, 2014

If you go to Michelle’s beauty salon in Georgetown, Guyana, you might leave with more than a new hairstyle. Inside the small shop, the walls…

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A Teach For America Love Story

September 29, 2014

How we met: Of course, it depends on whom you ask, but we both agree it was serendipity! The story for both of us begins…

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Junior Achievement of New York Announces New Funding for 2014-2015 School Year

September 23, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                  CONTACT: Jacqueline Dolly Phone: 212-907-0046   Email: jdolly@jany.org September 23, 2014 JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK ANNOUNCES NEW FUNDING FOR THE 2014-2015…

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