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A Pride Month Promise – The Trans Military Ban’s Days are Numbered

June 17, 2014

By Ian S. Thompson By all accounts, Landon Wilson served with honor in the U.S. Navy during a short, but distinguished military career. He was trained as a…

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A Wife Speaks: 10 Years in Prison and 1,000 Lashes for a Blog

June 17, 2014

By Ensaf Haidar, Wife of Imprisoned Saudi Arabian Activist Raif Badawi I still pursue that mirage…two years have passed and I am still faced with…

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Changing Centers – A View of the LIVESTRONG Symposium

June 17, 2014

By Iram Leon Iram is many things to many people: proud father, amazing cancer survivor, and runner extraordinaire. Recently he attended and spoke on a…

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Sometimes Students Become Our Role Models: Lessons from Lily

June 17, 2014

I handed out the benchmark test results in April. Lily looked at hers, the 48% glaring back at her. This wasn’t the grade she was…

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Teen Capitalists Demand Congressional Attention, Supply Dessert

June 17, 2014

By Warren Rojas Junior Achievement USA’s latest crop of budding entrepreneurs are looking to bend pols’ ears with prospective start-up plans on Tuesday. And the…

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We Know How to Change Foster Care

June 17, 2014

By Juan Carlos Piñeiro Escoriaza In 2010 I got a call from the founder of a nonprofit called the Possibility Project, requesting a meeting —…

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NARF, CILS, and ACLU defend students’ rights to wear eagle feathers at graduation

June 17, 2014

NARF has long defended the right of Native American students to wear eagle feathers at graduation.  Earlier this month, NARF, California Indian Legal Services (CILS),…

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The Benefits of Aquatic Exercise and MS

June 17, 2014

Walking was always something that I took for granted until that one day that I couldn’t do it anymore. Then, as I watched the world…

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Increased social network can have big payoff for nonprofits, study shows

June 17, 2014

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Charitable fundraising once depended primarily upon a charity’s size, efficiency and longstanding reputation. That was before Razoo, Kickstarter, Facebook and Twitter came…

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A Bolder Effort by Big Tobacco on E-Cigarettes

June 17, 2014

By Matt Richtel Electronic cigarettes, promoted as a healthier alternative to tobacco, are getting powerful new backers with an unhealthy reputation: big tobacco companies. The…

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Goodwill Assistance Dog Academy graduates second class

June 17, 2014

By Ashley Hopkins The second class of fully trained Goodwill Industries assistance dogs graduated from training last week, and they are now the working companions…

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SPLC files federal lawsuit over inadequate medical, mental health care in Alabama prisons

June 17, 2014

The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed suit today against the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) for putting the…

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