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Videos
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National Veterans Foundation 1
National Veterans Foundation provides insight into their organization and the need to welcome our veterans back in a sustainable way.
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Helping Veterans Out - National Veterans Foundation
The National Veterans Foundation is an organization created and employed by American war veterans to assist homecoming soldiers to adjust back to normal life through medical and financial assistance.
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As LA-based filmmaker Maital Guttman returns to her home state -- political battleground state North Carolina -- in the last weeks of a highly competitive election, she reveals faces of NC supporters of Obama, from a Veteran to a Republican, from Joe Sixpack to Obama the Presidential Candidate.
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Photojournalist Nina Berman on Do1Thing.org
Nina Berman is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. Her work has been extensively published, exhibited and collected, garnering praise in both the art and journalism communities with awards from the World Press Photo Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Open Society Institute documentary photography fund. Her first monograph, “Purple Hearts – Back From Iraq” a collection of portraits and interviews with U.S. soldiers wounded in the war, was published by Trolley in 2004 and received wide acclaim. The book was made into a feature length documentary film by the same name and was screened worldwide. Her work on wounded veterans has continued and her 2006 “Marine Wedding” portrait that shows a severely disfigured marine with his young bride on their wedding day is considered to be an iconic image of life during wartime. Her work has been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in New York, Chicago, Washington D.C. and throughout Europe. She is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography in her hometown of New York City. She received her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Chicago and her masters from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. For more about Nina see http://www.ninaberman.com. For more on the Do1Thing project, visit http://do1thing.org
Articles
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Ray Brown Jr's New Album Benefits National Veterans Foundation
Ray Brown Jr. has released a new album that benefits the National Veterans Foundation. The album features duets with Dionne Warwick, Jane Monheit, James Mood... -
The Scary Truth About Veteran Suicide
CBS News' five-month investigation determined a starling number of soldiers are taking their own lives.
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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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Military veterans go fishing for recovery
Amidst the tranquility of a fishing trip at the Rose River Farm in Madison County, a wounded warrior says he almost feels "semi-normal again."
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How to Support Veterans or Retirees
Sometimes all you need to help is time. Visiting a retirement home or veterans support center and lend an ear is simple and could mean the world to someone.
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Veteran's Day: Support Veterans In Your Community
Each year, our nation honors veterans for a national holiday. But how much do we really do to support the men and women who have given our country so much?
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The Charity Race To The White House
How much did each presidential candidate give to charity last year?
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Mad Props - A Simple Ballot Proposition Primer for All 50 States
With the snarling of citizens, the buffoonery of political pundits, where can you get unbiased information?
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MAD PROPS 2- 2008 Proposition and Election Results
Drumroll, please. Here are the results for ballot initiatives during the 2008 elections most important to the organizations and leaders on Causecast.
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To the Captain I Saw at Cracker Barrel
"I saw your boots first, sir and the brown and tan of your desert camouflage and then your face – a face I knew like my mothers, like my own."
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You’ve gotta hand it to Billboard magazine. Not only do they keep us up to date on the music industry’s hitmakers, but they provide an always interesting...
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Nuclear power was the energy of Tomorrowland — in the 1950s it was going to make electricity too cheap to meter — until it came to a standstill over the past...
Events
- 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...
- 2nd Annual Formal Affair- National Women Veterans United Location: Illinois
- Food Forward on Veteran's Day Location: Atwater Village
- Rockin Unlimited Location: Irvine Lake in Orange County 4621 Santiago Canyon Rd. Silverado, CA 92676
- Local Media for Social Change Location: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA Mosher Auditorium in the Norris Hall of Chemistry
- Operation Gratitude Volunteer Opportunity Location: Operation Gratitude/California Army National Guard 17330 Victory Boulevard Van Nuys, California 91406
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Blog posts
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When my oldest son was in kindergarten we were behind schedule, he had one of those mornings where he didn’t want to go to school; he didn’t want to get out of bed: it that ended up in a huge b...
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Happy New Year! Resolution One: Help a family dealing with Autism. Feel good
Thank You and Happy Holidays to you all. You are a crazy, wonderful, caring, young, and Causefull group. Never forget one of the greatest needs of the human condition is human connection. We all ar...
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This comment was sent to me by an Unknown Soldier... "Your comment was right on target. Your second to last line is so very true. I am a Soldier, who's will to fight for our country has been cru...
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10 random things/facts/habits/goals of yours that bring positive change to our world
As an avid Facebooker... Facebookee...? ... I've noticed that many of my friends have been swept up by the "16 / 25 / 124,543 things about me" note and tag epidemic. Maybe you've noticed this w/ yo...
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This isn't an original piece of mine but a statement issued by UCLA's Samahang Pilipino (http://www.samahang.org/), which was passed on to me by my sister. It's a response to the ARRA in relation t...
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Mr. Obama's First Four Weeks as a War President
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), Afghanistan Veterans Against the War (AVAW), Vets for Peace (VFP), Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), and Gold Star F...
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Dare to Dream: A Falling Whistles Blog Entry
Here is an article from my friend Sean Carasso taken from the http://www.fallingwhistles.com/blog April 22, 2009 Dare to Dream by: Sean Carasso Hello everyone. This journal is a bit long a...
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Culture Today: Victims of Domestic Violence paint a brighter future
Art and culture are effective media which can be extensively used to create awareness about the issues of domestic violence and thereby reduce the vulnerability of women to succumb to it. An art ex...
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Sears Kicks Off Its Spring Heroes at Home Rebuilds Partnering with Rebuilding Together
Sears Kicks Off Its Spring Heroes at Home Rebuilds Partnering with Rebuilding Together Article type: Press Release Hoffman Estates, Ill., (May 15, 2009) – This spring, Sears’ Heroes at Home p...
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dubSpot, New York City’s one-of-a-kind electronic music production and DJ training institute, has undertaken its first nationwide philanthropic project with a series of charitable mix CDs. The firs...
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Familiar Players in Health Bill Lobbying Firms Are Enlisting Ex-Lawmakers, Aides Former House majority leader Richard K. Armey, left, is one of several ex-congressmen working on behalf of hea...
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Veteran Comedian/Filmmaker Peter Chen on Nonviolence
Filmmaker Peter Chen returns with his short film 'Soft Might' which explores winning by nonviolence and love prevailing when we set aside our prejudices. Using his comedic charm and wits, Chen ex...
