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UN To Slash Food Aid By 40% For Millions Of Syrians Because It Doesn't Have...
The U.N.’s World Food Program (WFP) is so strapped for funds that it has no choice but to soon cut its nutrition aid to millions of needy Syrians by 40 percent, Reuters reported. Nearly 6 million...
View ArticleDream Chasers: Winter's Coming
The brisk morning wind is a reminder that change is in the air. I am a huge fan of summer -- 90 degrees and no humidity calls to me. However, fall demands my attention. Maybe it is the changing of the...
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Why I Hate Breast Cancer Awareness Month
I don't look forward to Breast Cancer Awareness Month. That may seem like a strange statement coming from a woman whose own mother was diagnosed with the disease. Given my sex and age, I have a...
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Pastor Gets Rival Gang Members To Put Down Guns And Pick Up Basketballs, And...
A midday basketball game on Chicago's South Side brought together an unlikely group of people Saturday. Churchgoers, NBA stars, community leaders and gang members all gathered for the third annual...
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Strangers Rally Together To Rescue Teen Driver Trapped In Flipped-Over SUV In...
These teens are lucky to be alive. Three young men, ages 16 and 17, were in an SUV, speeding down a highway in Salt Lake City last Thursday, according to Fox13. In an attempt to avoid cars that were...
View ArticleMaternal Health: More Than Just Survival!
By Julia Wiklander, Founder and Executive Director of Girls' Globe Around the world, women and girls of reproductive age get pregnant -- either by choice, through thoughtful planning, after years of...
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Moms Unite: Fighting For a Bright Future For Our Children
Someone once explained the difference between an introvert and an extrovert: Both enjoy a good party, but the extrovert is charged and energized by big groups. The introvert needs to recharge...
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Good Neighbors Around the World: This Week In Daily Giving
What is it like to make a financial investment in a social change leader, every single day of the year? Since January 1, 2013, through the Pollination Project, I've been giving daily micro grants to...
View ArticleVote or... Just Vote
It is National Voter Registration Day on September 23, an entire 24 hours dedicated to getting unregistered voters to fill out that voter registration form and commit to voting in this upcoming midterm...
View ArticleGoogle Chairman: Giving Money To ALEC Was A 'Mistake'
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said on Monday that his company's support for the American Legislative Exchange Council was a "mistake," adding that it should avoid aligning with groups that...
View ArticleWell-Known Scholar Says Planned Births, Not Marriage, Top Priority for Child...
Isabel Sawhill, an expert in poverty and fiscal policy, has long championed the idea that couples should marry before having children. As recently as May 2012, she wrote a piece in The Washington Post...
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Ma Lies While Chen Dies: Ugly Party Politics on a Beautiful Island
Once again, it's time to look at Taiwan. Unfortunately, there is still a need to call for freedom from prison for Chen Shui-bian and a need to call out Ma Ying-jeou (the most unpopular president in...
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Obama Unveils Efforts To Support Human Rights Groups, Tells Activists 'USA...
President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday the U.S. government’s increased efforts to better protect and empower human rights groups and the activists who risk their lives to fulfill their missions....
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Timber The Pit Bull Was Abandoned And Shot In The Head, But Now He's Smiling...
Timber the Pit Bull has the biggest, goofiest grin you'll ever see, but it was hard-won. According to his rescuers, the now happy-go-lucky pit bull mix was shot in the head and left for dead in April....
View ArticleUses of Power that Start with A: Abnegation, Abuse, Avoidance
This morning, I began the day at a school conference with my high school senior, to find out if Jie would be suspended for carrying a weapon at school. When Jie's teacher called to initiate this...
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A Ugandan Parliamentarian's First Gay Wedding
Picture: Hon. Sempala with "just married" same-sex couple | Photo: Kristina Lapinski© 2014. Imagine a Ugandan Parliamentarian, fresh from signing a petition to bring back the Anti-Homosexuality Act...
View ArticleAaron Rodgers Surprises Young Fan, Goes Door-To-Door With Her To Support...
As part of his It's Aaron campaign, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been visiting nonprofits in Wisconsin, highlighting organizations that deserve greater attention. In the first of his...
View ArticleMidwives Are The Cornerstone To MDG 4 And 5 Success
By Esther Sharma, Girls' Globe Blogger The countdown is on. We have less than 500 days to meet Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5 focused on improving child and maternal health. Sustained and...
View ArticleWhy the People's Climate March Is Significant and What Was Missing
Civil Rights activists mobilized by the thousands for the March on Washington, suffragists united for the right to vote with the Women's Suffrage Parade and anti-nuclear groups took to the streets for...
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This Man With Severe Cerebral Palsy Created Mind-Blowing Art Using Just A...
You don't have to be able to hold a pencil or a paintbrush to be a brilliant artist. And Paul Smith, a man born with severe spastic cerebral palsy, proves just that. He couldn't dress, feed or bathe...
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