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Videos
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P.E.A.C.E. Academy working with at-risk teens to prepare them for the "real-world" in east L.A. high schools.
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The Covenant House Artisans Woodworking Program is a career-training initiative that teaches homeless and at-risk youth fine woodworking. A local business in Washington, DC, hired some of graduates of this program. Watch here to see how that worked out. Produced by Lucian Perkins for the Do1Thing Project http://do1thing.org
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Causecast featured organization Stoked Mentoring helps at risk youth through the use of action sports, mentoring and coaching. In this video, Elizabeth applies the lessons of snowboarding to everyday lessons in life.
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Causecast featured organization Stoked Mentoring helps at risk youth through the use of action sports, mentoring and coaching. In this video, the lessons of skateboarding are applied to the everyday lessons in life.
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Causecast featured organization Stoked Mentoring helps at risk youth through the use of action sports, mentoring and coaching. In this video, the lessons of surfing are applied to the everyday lessons in life.
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Causecast featured organization Stoked Mentoring helps at risk youth through the use of action sports, mentoring and coaching. The lessons of surfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding are applied to the everyday lessons in life.
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Do1Thing: The story of Griffin and Melissa
The photography, interviews and production for this project for Do1Thing.org are by Katja Heinemann, who is represented by Aurora Select. Principal reporting done in New York, NY, February 14, 2009. Griffin Kinard, 22, has been a poet and writer for the past five years. Born in Brooklyn, he spent his childhood and teenage years in a series of state institutions - larger residence programs for at-risk youths such as Children's Village in Dobbs Ferry, NY, and Green Chimneys in Brewster, NY. During the last four years before aging out of the system he found himself back in NYC, finishing high school while living in a Salvation Army group home for boys, The East Village Residency. A 7-months stint in jail was followed by his 21st birthday, and a new commitment to writing. He is a senior writer at Represent Magazine, a bi-monthly publication for and by youth in foster care by the non-profit www.youthcomm.org. Griffin stays at his older sister's home in Harlem most nights, with occasional stints in drop-in shelters when the siblings argue. For the past 5 months, Melissa, age 20, and Griffin have been a couple. She is recovering from a history of institutionalization in group homes and psychiatric programs. Melissa says that for the first time in her life feels like she can love and trust somebody, and she also appreciates the help and guidance Griffin's sister Salena can provide for her. The young couple fantasizes about getting married and getting a place of their own, providing a home for themselves, along with Salena and her boyfriend Anthony, if they can scrunch together enough money between the four of them. www.katjaheinemann.com www.auroraselect.com Do1Thing.org www.youthcomm.org"
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This is a video I produced and edited for the Heart Gallery, Los Angeles.
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Photojournalist Ron Haviv Speaks about Homelessness in the US for the Do1Thing Project
Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced some of the most important images of conflict and other humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War. A co-founder of VII, whose work is published by top magazines worldwide, including: Fortune, The NY Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, Paris Match and Stern. He has published two critically acclaimed collections of his photography -- Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul ? and has contributed his wide-ranging body of work to several other books. With a special focus on exposing human rights violations, he has covered conflict and humanitarian crises in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and the Balkans. Most recently, he has documented wars in Darfur and the DR Congo. His often-searing photographs have earned Haviv some of the highest accolades in photography, including awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, and the Leica Medal of Excellence. He regularly lectures at universities and seminars, and numerous museums and galleries have featured his work, including the United Nations, The Louvre and The Council on Foreign Relations. Haviv has been the central character in three films. National Geographic Explorer?s Freelance in a World of Risk explores the hazards inherent in combat photography. The Serbian-made documentary Vivisect explores Serbian reaction to the Blood and Honey exhibit. Eyes of the World, which has featured in film festival worldwide, examines Haviv as a witness to war. In addition, Haviv has spoken about his work on The Charlie Rose Show, NPR, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, MSNBC and The Best Damn Sports Show Ever. Haviv donated his time to photograph homeless teenagers for the Do1Thing project. www.do1thing.org
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Photojournalist Ron Haviv Speaks about Homelessness
Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced some of the most important images of conflict and other humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War. A co-founder of VII, whose work is published by top magazines worldwide, including: Fortune, The NY Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, Paris Match and Stern. He has published two critically acclaimed collections of his photography -- Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul ? and has contributed his wide-ranging body of work to several other books. With a special focus on exposing human rights violations, he has covered conflict and humanitarian crises in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and the Balkans. Most recently, he has documented wars in Darfur and the DR Congo. His often-searing photographs have earned Haviv some of the highest accolades in photography, including awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, and the Leica Medal of Excellence. He regularly lectures at universities and seminars, and numerous museums and galleries have featured his work, including the United Nations, The Louvre and The Council on Foreign Relations. Haviv has been the central character in three films. National Geographic Explorer?s Freelance in a World of Risk explores the hazards inherent in combat photography. The Serbian-made documentary Vivisect explores Serbian reaction to the Blood and Honey exhibit. Eyes of the World, which has featured in film festival worldwide, examines Haviv as a witness to war. In addition, Haviv has spoken about his work on The Charlie Rose Show, NPR, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, MSNBC and The Best Damn Sports Show Ever. Haviv donated his time to photograph homeless teenagers for the Do1Thing project. www.do1thing.org
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Stand Up To Cancer-Manage Your Treatment
Learn more about managing your cancer treatment at www.manageyourtreatment.com. The risk of infection during cancer treatment can be very high. And infections can delay your treatment or stop it altogether. So do everything you can to get healthy, stay healthy, stay strong. Talk to your doctor right now. Some things you can’t control. But learning how to reduce the risk of infection, you can.
Articles
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Leading breast surgeon Dr. Kristi Funk looks at breast cancer risk and offers her best advice on how to know whether you’re at increased risk.
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Economic Crisis Puts Children at Risk
The same stories are quietly popping up in many communities across the country. Children are already directly affected by the nation's economy.
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Pledge to End Hunger donates food at SXSW
For every pledge received by Pledge to End Hunger, Tyson will donate 35 pounds of food to the hungry in Austin, Texas, this March.
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Malaria No More at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos
Last week, Malaria No More attended the World Economic Forum alongside business, political and thought leaders in Davos, Switzerland.
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Climate Change Poses Highest Risk For Africa
A new report lists 166 countries by their climate change risk index. A staggering 22 of the 28 countries considered to be at "extreme risk" are found in Africa.
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Far From Recovery: The Global Economic Crisis Poses Major Risks For Developing Countries
While the western world shows signs of recovering from the global recession, experts predict developing nations will continue to suffer for some time to come.
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Setting up Safe Areas for Sheltered Children in Haiti
With tens of thousands of homes destroyed or damaged and a delay in the start of school, Haitian children may face a more lengthy stay in temporary shelters ... -
States Must Do More to Help Day Care Centers Prepare for Emergencies
Three years after Hurricane Katrina focused national attention on the need for disaster preparedness, most states and the District of Columbia have failed to... -
Women In The UK Are More Interested In Celebrity Than Breast Cancer Prevention
While women are aware of the latest gossip from Hollywood, it appears they are dismissing serious information that could save lives.
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Genetic Testing: Should You Be Tested?
The decision to be tested for the genetic mutations that dramatically raise a woman’s risk of the disease is a fraught one.
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Rapid care 'cuts baby's HIV risk'
Rapid drug treatment of babies with HIV dramatically cuts their risk of death and debilitating disease, international research shows.
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Investment Will be Used to Improve the Lives of Young People Nationwide.
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Blog posts
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Liquidity and Community (Matt Flannery)
Kiva has a pretty important software release in a couple of days. First, we are releasing a "community" section of the site. The purpose of the section is clear enough -- to foster a sense of...
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Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival Comes to Maine
On Saturday, October 4th, 5-9 p.m., Friends of Casco Bay will host the Patagonia Presents the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival on Tour at the Abromson Community Education Center on the U...
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Join PAT in the Fight against Leukemia. YOU can be the ONE to help save a life. What is my commitment if I register? If you register as a potential marrow donor, you make a voluntary commitment...
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Read this and weep ...RFK, Jr. Deadly Immunity - published in 2005!!!
Deadly Immunity Robert F. Kennedy Jr. investigates the government cover-up of a mercury/autism scandal By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. (reprinted below but actual link to Rolling Stones article publis...
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Response from former pediatrician
Dear Mrs. Shear, Thank you for your recent letter, which I know came directly from your heart. I am very happy to hear that Alex’s condition has improved while on chelation therapy. It has b...
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November is both Alzheimer’s Awareness Month and National Family Caregiver Month, and though its message recently seems to have lost the spotlight to various other causes, the millions of people su...
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Written by Felipe Tewes It is not every high school graduation that each and every keynote speaker breaks into tears at the podium. The ceremony for the Harvey Milk High School class of 2008 was...
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What to Do with Your Leftover Holiday Cards
Posted by Bryna Subherwal I just got off the phone with a colleague in Mexico who has been working with the women of Atenco, and she told me she had come into her office after vacation to see th...
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Doctor's Quotes Vaccines and Autism
"Our children face the possibility of death or serious long-term adverse effects from mandated vaccines that aren't necessary or that have very limited benefits." -- Jane M. Orient, M.D., Associati...
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Time Out For Hunger New York City Sunday, March 8, 2009 On Sunday, March 8, invite your friends and family to dine out for a good cause — fighting hunger in NYC. It’s Time Out New York’s “Time...
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On Friday, February 20, 2009, I was terminated by Wal-mart #0753 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. I was fired for policy violations that were far less than violations by other employees who are still employed...
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What you can do in response to Darfur and the Aid Expulsion
What You Should Know: On 4 March 2009, the Government of Sudan announced the expulsion of 16 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The UN OCHA Humanitarian Country team in Sudan reports the foll...
