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Children’s National Medical Center to Create Healing Garden for Children and Their Families
Children’s National Health System is turning a 7,200-square-foot gravel rooftop into a healing outdoor space for children and their families in the hospital. This special…
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Helping to End Poverty, One Person at a Time
“What does the world need me to do?” When Mark Bergel, 51, asked himself that question, his answer was to start A Wider Circle, a nonprofit…
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Climate change could impact the poor much more than previously thought
It’s widely accepted that climate change will have bigger negative impacts on poorer countries than wealthy ones. However, a new economic modeling studyfinds that the economic impacts on…
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New research connects investments in low-income communities to direct gains in employment and income
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new study of dozens of poor communities across the country found that families fared better economically in places where…
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Kortney Gains Back Independence Thanks to Canine Partners for Life
After several failed medicines, the doctors decided that Kortney had intractable epilepsy, meaning that the cause is unknown and it is uncontrollable with medicine. For her…
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Our Post-9/11 Vets: Primed for Greatness
I am always touched when I see a military officer recognize the very real challenges that veterans face when they come home. So, when I…
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Feed the Children and PepsiCo Unite to Fight Childhood Hunger in Phoenix
PHOENIX, Nov. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Longtime partners Feed the Children and PepsiCo, helped out Phoenix families with food and daily essentials today. Eight hundred families visited the Salvation…
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Help Good Neighbors Provide Light to 25 homes in Nueva Oasis Through Project BrightLights
Imagine going home every day to darkness. The residents of Nueva Oasis, a village in La Fragua, Guatemala are day laborers, working on farms and fields,…
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Provide Safe and Stable Housing for #GivingTuesday with Rebuilding Together Alexandria
Children learn better, families achieve more, and everyone is healthier in safe and stable housing. But many of our neighbors are living on the brink…
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Cub Scouts Help Paralyzed Dog Get Moving Again
Noah, a 1-year-old Beagle/Dachshund mix, had just hours to live. The poor guy had likely been hit by a car and had lost the use of his…
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Attend Good Neighbors’ Holiday Crafts Party & Photobooth on Giving Tuesday
Good Neighbors is an international humanitarian NGO committed to child education, community development, and emergency relief projects in more than 30 countries. On Giving Tuesday,…
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This Old House: Fisherman Brown’s Cottage
By Susan Pollack The day my husband and I bought our house, the real estate agent gave us a loose-leaf binder with copies of maps…
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