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Videos
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Day Without a Gay: Riverside Response
The gay marriage protests have run their courses, the town hall meetings are ongoing, and people are looking for the next step. Causecast and Actual Action invite you to participate in RIVERSIDE RESPONSE, to coincide with the “Day without a Gay” on December 10th, 2008. We’ll be coordinating a community service project in Riverside, CA, an area that did not support Proposition 8 and marriage equality. We hope to introduce ourselves through a day of community service, putting faces to the issue at hand. Please check actualaction.org or causecast.org for more details.
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VietMOMS: Maternal Outreach Management System
This project helps plan and develop culturally appropriate health care coordination, education and access to community services for low income Vietnamese mothers and babies in Orange County. For more information on projects funded by The California Endowment visit us on the web at www.calendow.org.
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I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
"Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve." As we prepare for the inauguration of Barack Obama, we recognize that electing a new president is only the first step to change. He calls upon all of us to join in service to our community on January 19, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For more information, go to usaservice.org
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Incredible Fridays is a ministry of First Baptist Church in McKinney, TX. This outreach to the special needs community opens the door for many families to have child care that otherwise are unable. Having the opportunity to spend a few hours alone, one a date, eating at a restaurant, or seeing a movie is often rare for special needs families. Incredible Fridays makes it possible. See how they do it.
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Bittersweet Farms in Whitehouse, Ohio provides services for Adults and adolescents with autism.
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Global Service Corps Tanzania Sustainable Agriculture and HIV/AIDS Programs
Global Service Corps offers volunteer opportunities and internships year-round ranging from 2 weeks to up to one year. We offer volunteer vacation packagesto compliment your vacation or service learning programs for those seeking a more intense volunteer experience. Help us fight against world poverty and hunger while making new friends and memories that will last a lifetime! Visit our Global Service Corps Website for more details on our programs and packages.
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Tanners Dad on Social Services Budget Cuts in Illinois
Champaign - Governor Pat Quinn spoke at the Developmental Services Center rally and stressed the importance of social services funding.
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Causecast featured organization The Trevor Project share stories about The Trevor Helpline, a free confidential service for gay and questioning youth.
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The Trevor Helpline is a free service for gay and questioning youth. This helpline is provided by Causecast featured organization The Trevor Project.
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Autism the Musical short clip: Parent Room Meeting... Feel the emotion.
Parents would like the gaps in care, service, and respect filled in. Please help us support Generation Rescue. http://www.causecast.org/member/tanners-dad
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If you are Friend... If you have resources please consider supporting Generation Rescue as they move the agenda towards services and support programs. If you do not have financial resources provide respite services... Babysit, go with a parent to the grocery store, or running errands. Be there to listen.
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Do 1 Thing Animated Short Trailer - Do1Thing to Help Homeless Youth
Pasquale Chieffalo, a graduate student in the Communications, Design & Technology department at Parsons, The New School for Design produces short animated promo for the Do1Thing project. Chieffalo animated the short as well as composed original music for the project. Using Aftereffects software to convey a simple but clear message, Do1Thing to help homeless youth. A NATIONWIDE CALL TO ACTION www.do1thing.org There are more homeless people today than at any previous time in U.S. history. Right now, more than 1.3 million of them are children. Do1Thing is our call to action to make a difference. We believe that by focusing our efforts on highlighting 1 Cause while asking people to do 1 Thing for that cause, great change will come. More than 30 Pulitzer-prize winning photographers and some of the most recognized names in photography have come together to put a “face” on teenage homelessness while asking you to put a “face” on activism and do 1 thing to help. Why focus on teenage homelessness? Three out of every 10 homeless adults admit to a history in foster and with 25,000+ children “aging out” of the foster care system each year, many will end up experiencing homelessness. The issues surrounding homelessness are gigantic. The solutions offered are endless. But what if everyone did 1 thing on 1 day to help this 1 cause? PROJECT PARTNERS It is the goal of Do1Thing to not only raise awareness for teenage homelessness, but also to promote and support the work of those non profits who have a long history of providing education, health care, job training and temporary housing to them. Through sustainable projects they are moving children from a life on the streets to permanent housing and a future. We are proud to partner with the following organizations. Covenant House International www.covenanthouse.org The largest privately funded agency in the Americas providing shelter and other services to homeless, runaway and throwaway youth. Stand Up For Kids www.standupforkids.org Their mission is to help homeless and street kids. They do this, every day, in cities across America through volunteers who go to the streets in order to find, stabilize and otherwise help homeless and street kids improve their lives. All facets of their mission are guided by the mandate that their volunteer’s tell kids they care about them and then, at every point, prove it. Do1Thing is a project of The Heart Gallery of New Jersey, a unique not-for-profit dedicated to raising awareness about foster children available for adoption. Through the volunteer efforts of some of the country's most prestigious photographers, portraits are taken that help capture the individuality and spirit of each foster child who is eligible to be adopted. www.heartgallerynj.org To view more of Pasquale Chieffalo's work, visit his website: http://www.pasqualechieffalo.com/
Articles
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As the weather gets chilly this winter, you can rally your neighborhood to make sure everyone in your community has enough clothing to stay warm.
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Mobile Phones, Adapted To Monitor Child Health, Net UNICEF Top Development Prize
UNICEF will share first prize in the United States Development Agency’s innovation competition for adapting basic cell phones to monitor the health of children.
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Want To Know How To Help on MLK Day In Maine?
During the 1950s and ’60s, civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. recognized the power of service to strengthen communities and achieve common goals.
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Veterans Turn To Online Strangers For Financial Help
When Robert Sprenger's Humvee blew up in Iraq, the Army specialist was burned black over large swatches of his body.
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Graffiti by US Soldiers, Gangs Tags & Graffiti Writing
US soldiers took to Iraq not only war and pain, or peace and freedom, as you prefer to conceive the situation, but also their cultures.
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River Threatens Historic Flooding In North Dakota
More than 1,000 volunteers rushed to fill sandbags early Wednesday as many in North Dakota tried to protect themselves from the historic floods.
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Your extra clutter could fit great in a local school or library. Why not hold a book drive? Like you're really going to read The Kite Runner again?
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How to Volunteer at a Local School
Volunteering at a local school to moderate class assemblies or even help with after-school programs can be a helpful benefit to students.
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According to the United Nations, over one billion people go hungry every day, a number that's increased due to the global financial crisis.Check out Causecast's United We Serve page for more summer Do-It-Yourself service projects!
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How to Take Part in a Shoe Drop
In 2006, Blake Mycoskie founded TOMS Shoes, a company that gives a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair sold. Take part in one of their shoe drops.
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Organizing a local art show is a great way to bring recognition to the creative ingenuity going on in your community. We show you how to get started.
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United We Serve: How to Get Involved
United We Serve begins today! You know all about the White House's summer service initiative...now learn how you can take action in your community!
Events
- Martin Luther King Day of Service Location: Your community!
- Global Youth Service Day Location: Worldwide!
- The 20th Annual National Service-Learning Conference Location: Nashville, TN
- Day Without A Gay Location: Everywhere!
- Help beautify the Wilshire Center and Koreatown Location: 3191 West 4th Street, Los Angeles CA, 90020
- 2009 National Veterans Wheelchair Games Location: Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane Convention Center, Lilac Valley and North Bowl facilities, Whitworth University pool, Spokane Valley Gun Club, Spokane Falls C...
- Rebuilding Together's "United We Serve" Day of Service Location: Washington, DC, Metro
- LA's Best Volunteer Opportunity Location: LA's BEST Los Angeles Unified School District 711 East 14th Place Los Angeles, CA 90021
- Friends & Helpers: Adopt a Family and Volunteer Location: 15260 Ventura Blvd. Suite 2100 Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
- National "Wear Red" Day Location: Everywhere!
- World Health Day Location: Worldwide
- Arts after Dark at the Park Location: BARNSDALL ART PARK 4800 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90027
People
- Balanqui Rosas Boston, MA
- Oscar Gutierrez San Francisco, CA
- danielleking Miami, FL
- MFH
- Perico429 MACON, GA
- jasonrothberg Los Angeles, CA
- kbalto Rio Grande, NEW JERSEY
- MissDiaz Hackettstown, NJ
- Destinee Ministries Worldwide Plantation, FL
- futureexecs
- MelanieNegrin Randolph, NJ
- jaime53093 Bronx, NY
Blog posts
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First Capital Alumni Network Service Day!
The first community service day for the Capital Alumni Network is this month!! I was recently appointed to be on the board to create a community service committee to work with the over 300 alumni g...
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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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Part 2: The Personal and Professional Benefits of Philanthropy
In Part 1, I discussed how volunteerism is cool again. In this post, I will share some of the direct personal benefits of community service. A long term commitment to volunteering for a cause y...
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Kestrin's Top 3 Causes: "We are ones we are waiting for"
You know how the world has been getting a little crazy lately? You know how it feels to be completely helpless as our country and the world at large fluctuate from crisis to crisis, with no end in ...
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Kestrin's Top 3 Causes: "We are ones we are waiting for"
You know how the world has been getting a little crazy lately? You know how it feels to be completely helpless as our country and the world at large fluctuate from crisis to crisis, with no end in ...
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$22.6 Million Wasted By South Carolina Beuracracy Children with Autism Lose Services
The work is never done. South Carolina parents worked for years to get services and funding for their children dealing with autism. Only to have excuses and slow progress in start up once programs ...
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At first I was not going to post the questions given to me by Tom Daschle & the Obama Biden Transition Team Project on Autism and Health Reform. I was afraid that would stand in the way of creative...
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Kestrin's Top 3 Causes: "We are ones we are waiting for"
You know how the world has been getting a little crazy lately? You know how it feels to be completely helpless as our country and the world at large fluctuate from crisis to crisis, with no end in ...
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New Attitude. The Autism Communities Amazing Future.
The year is 2030 Autism is cured. We have united as parents to find the cause. We have realized we were poisoning our children through continued generational mistreatment of our bodies. We were ab...
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Change-Maker in Women's History: Dolores Huerta
From DoSomething.org When you hear about the movement for the rights of farm workers, the first mention is Cesar Chavez, but a woman, Dolores Huerta, was just as essential to the struggle as was...
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Next spring break skip Cabo, or chilling on your parent's couch and head down to Costa Rica for the volunteer experience of a lifetime. Goodbye blackberry, hello mono titi. I first traveled with ...
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Looking for a way to help out in your community? Do you love what 826LA does but have more experience in home improvement than mentoring aspiring writers? Liven your spirits, help out the Venice...
