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TGIFYGDF…Thank Goodness It’s Feed Your Good Dog Friday!

December 10, 2010 by Rose Caplan

This Sunday, December 12, 7pm local time, light a candle and help ensure that the light of a beloved child may always shine.

If there is to be any comfort at all as we endure the loss of a child, it would be that they are never, ever, forgotten. ~ Rosemarie Maki, in loving memory of Thomas

This Sunday, December 12 is National Children’s Memorial Day and Worldwide Candle Lighting.

Please light a candle to remember all children who have died. Candles are lit at 7 pm local time around the world. This is believed to be the largest mass candle lighting in the world, and it creates a virtual 24-hour wave of light as it moves from time zone to time zone. Hundreds of formal candle lighting events are held and thousands of informal candle lightings are conducted in homes as families gather in quiet remembrance of children who have died, but will never be forgotten.

For more information including the location of services both in the U.S. and around the world, visit The Compassionate Friends or call 877-969-0010.

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Wednesday Wide Smile

December 1, 2010 by Rose Caplan

This Wednesday Wide Smile commemorates the life and work of Rosa Parks whose most famous action happened 55 years ago today!

Rosa Parks was a modest seamstress on her way home from work when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. That single act of defiance on December 1st 1955 is remembered as the start of the civil rights movement and she is respectfully remembered as the mother of the civil rights movement.

Although many had refused to comply with segregation laws before, Mrs. Parks’ humility and strength of character made her an ideal candidate for the NAACP and Women’s Rights Movement to rally behind and organize a boycott in protest of her arrest and trial. The boycott lasted 381 days, forcing the government to overturn segregation laws and also launched a then little known preacher and activist, Martin Luther King Jr.

Mrs. Parks’ accomplishments leading up to her fateful bus ride, included receiving her high school diploma later in life, and registering to vote, both rare and major accomplishments for African-American women of her day. After she was thrust into the spotlight, Rosa Parks continued her commitment to civil rights by attending marches, co-founding the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development and publishing and speaking about her perseverance.

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Wednesday Wide Smile

November 10, 2010 by Rose Caplan

Tomorrow is Veteran’s Day. If you are looking for a way to say thanks to our military, we came across an appropriately named organization, The Thank You Foundation. Its mission is to to show appreciation and express gratitude for members of the U.S. Military both past and present.

The Foundation accomplishes its mission by offering programs and services for Veterans, Military Personnel, and their Families. It believes that words of gratitude need to be followed with action and a commitment to meet the varied needs of the community it serves and to help . . . try to meet the needs of those that have given so much for our freedom.

Here is one program The Thank You Foundation has to meet its mission:

The Thank You Foundation delivers the Kroger Neighborhood Rewards Program and makes it easy to help “Support the Troops” and our Veterans simply by shopping at Kroger.

HERE’S HOW

You may link to The Thank You Foundation here to obtain a Kroger Gift Card.

After you receive the card from The Thank You Foundation take it to any Kroger or any Kroger owned store and load it with a cash value of anything between $10 – $250.

Then use the card to make purchases just like a debit or credit card.

Each quarter Kroger will donate 4% of the total value of all cards distributed by The Thank You Foundation back to the foundation to be used by them to continue their “Mission of Appreciation” and to send care packages, honor Veterans, support military families and other programs offered by the foundation.

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TGIFYGDF…Thank Goodness It’s Feed Your Good Dog Friday!

October 15, 2010 by Rose Caplan

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Water is everywhere, right? Actually, for such a plentiful resource, clean water is surprisingly scarce. Less than 1% of all fresh water is readily accessible for direct human use, representing only 0.007% of all water on earth. Bet you didn’t know that. Check out five more clean water facts that you might not know:

1. Unsafe drinking water and lack of sanitation kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.
2. More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. Today, 2.5 billion people lack access to toilets.
3. Every day, women and children in Africa walk a combined total of 109 million hours to get water.
4. It takes 6.3 gallons of water to produce just one hamburger. That 6.3 gallons covers everything from watering the wheat for the bun and providing water for the cow to cooking the patty and baking the bun.
5. The average American uses 159 gallons of water every day – more than 15 times the average person in the developing world.

Read this article in its entirety here.

While these facts may be grim, there is hope for real solutions as more and more people around the world are waking up to the clean water crisis. Earlier this year, the UN declared access to clean water a human right and groups like Water.org and charity: water continue to work tirelessly to bring water access to the developing world.

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Building for Peace – Washington DC

July 22, 2010 by Rose Caplan

Building for Peace Logo

Rendering of Building

The United States Institute of Peace—an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established by the U.S. Congress – is constructing a headquarters building at the northwest corner of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The new building will be a working headquarters for the Institute and a national center for advancing the study and practice of peacebuilding. The site—steps away from the Lincoln, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam Veterans memorials—will house a Public Education Center, a research library and archives, classrooms, and a world-class conference center. It will be a powerful and lasting affirmation of the American people’s commitment to peace More

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Wednesday Wide Smile

May 26, 2010 by Rose Caplan

THE TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION BRINGS SMILES TO DESERVING SENIORS THROUGH INDIVIDUAL WISH GRANTING CONNECTING GENERATIONS.

Mother Teresa was once asked what is the loneliest place in the world. Her answer was “nursing homes in America.” The Twilight Wish Foundation is changing the way America views the aging process and redefining what is acceptable in our attitudes about aging.

It’s Mission: To honor and enrich the lives of deserving seniors through wish granting celebrations that connect generations; and it’s Vision: To make America a nicer place to age.

The Twilight Foundation believes it’s time to say “thank you” by bringing smiles and joy into quiet, humble lives. They celebrate the life of someone special by giving them an unexpected “thank you” in the form of a wish come true.

Twilight Wish also has an Intergenerational Caring Program that “connects generations” by getting many students and schools, clubs, organizations and companies involved by fund raising and directly granting wishes through our wish management.

Since their founding, the Twilight Wish Foundation has granted more than 1,275 wishes. Learn more about the Twilight Wish Foundation in the following Good Deeds On Demand video.

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