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- Two new projects win funding to support news in the public interest: The Detroit Journalism Cooperative and The Michigan Reporting Initiative
- 12/4/2013 4:14:00 AM
- Two projects totaling $500,000 were announced today to advance public interest journalism in Detroit and Michigan. The two, funded separately, are: The Detroit Journalism Cooperative – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has granted a total of $250,000 to five nonprofit media organizations in Detroit to focus on the city’s bankruptcy and its impact on community …
- Talking about business benefits
- 12/4/2013 3:58:21 AM
- Henkel Polska together with the business magazine CR Navigator of Warsaw, organized a public debate on diversity and social inclusion. Michael Pyner, co-author of the London-based Shoreditch Trust project aimed at including groups threatened by social exclusion, was a special guest of the event. Dorota Strosznajder, Head of Corporate Communications at Henkel Polska, opened …
- NYRR and Borough President Molinaro Announce $125,000 Staten Island Day Donation
- 12/4/2013 3:54:21 AM
- New York Road Runners (NYRR) and Staten Island Borough President Molinaro announced today a $125,000 Staten Island Day donation to Hurricane Sandy recovery programs. The donated funds were provided to the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation and ECHO. “We were honored to partner with Borough President Molinaro to create Staten Island Day and raise significant funds to …
- Celebrating Giving Tuesday - how to give effectively
- 12/3/2013 8:09:29 AM
- Tomorrow marks the second annual Giving Tuesday, in which thousands of nonprofits – including World Vision and their annual Gift Catalog campaign – are partnering to publicize the day dedicated to giving back. But, how do we celebrate Giving Tuesday, and is it effective? Last year, across participating charities, Giving Tuesday brought a 53 percent increase in online …
- Laure Prouvost wins the Turner Prize 2013
- 12/2/2013 5:38:43 PM
- The Turner Prize 2013 has been awarded to Laure Prouvost, it was announced at Ebrington in Derry~Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013, in partnership with Tate, this evening. The jury thought her work was outstanding for its complex and courageous combination of images and objects in a deeply atmospheric environment. Building on personal memory, it weaves together fact, …
- Applications open for $1M Challenge Fund to hack journalism education
- 12/2/2013 5:31:38 PM
- Journalism educators can now apply for a $1 million challenge encouraging universities to create teams that will experiment with new ways of providing news and information, run by the Online News Association, the world’s largest membership group of digital journalists. The competitive Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education is the brainchild of a collaborative …
- 41,000 Children Compete in World’s Largest Youth Marathon, Raise Awareness of Save the Children Programs
- 12/2/2013 5:24:15 PM
- Forty one thousand children have participated in Save the Children’s 2013 World Marathon Challenge, a global relay in which teams of children from around the world banded together to complete a full marathon distance of 26.2 miles. The students raced one another to attempt to break the world marathon record of 2 hours, 3 minutes and 23 seconds, while raising funds and …
- Give back with the first-ever donatable Hangout-a-thon on Google+
- 12/2/2013 5:10:33 PM
- As the holidays approach and our calendars become full, it can be hard to find time to give back to the causes you care about most. Tomorrow, on Giving Tuesday—an annual one-day event that encourages people to make donations to their favorite charities—we’re making it easier for you to connect with a worthy cause through the first-ever “Hangout-a-thon” on Google+. Starting …
- ABIH Encourages Industry Awareness of OSHA’s Annotated PEL Tables
- 12/2/2013 12:54:45 PM
- In October, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a news release that declared, “While many chemicals are suspected of being harmful, OSHA’s exposure standards are out-of-date and inadequately protective for the small number of chemicals that are regulated in the workplace.” The document discusses the fact that tens of thousands of American …
- Songs For The Philippines” Launched Globally On Itunes To Benefit The Philippines Disaster Relief Efforts
- 11/28/2013 4:28:39 PM
- The global music community has come together for the worldwide release today of a new compilation that features the biggest names in music to raise money for those affected by supertyphoon Haiyan in The Philippines. "Songs for the Philippines," a unique collection of 39 chart-topping hits and classic tracks, is now available worldwide on iTunes (iTunes.com/Philippines). …
- ’Getting to Zero’: 2.5 Million Children Infected with HIV as World AIDS Day Marked Globally
- 11/28/2013 11:21:44 AM
- As we mark World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, Save the Children remembers the millions of lives lost, and reaffirms its commitment to preventing HIV transmission and AIDS-related death. With more than 2.5 million children infected with the virus, according to UNAIDS, it is critical we work to improve care and treatment, while preventing more children from contracting it. The global …
- UPS Delivering 15,000 Pounds of Vital Medical Relief Supplies to Typhoon Haiyan Survivors
- 11/27/2013 10:54:17 PM
- On Thanksgiving Day, a UPS "Browntail" aircraft will depart Louisville, KY, loaded with approximately 15,000 pounds of donated vital medical relief supplies, valued at $1.5 million, headed for Cebu, Philippines, to assist the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan. The shipment was made possible by the Catholic Diocese of New York and the Harmony for Peace Foundation in …
- Target Canada Donates $160,000 to The Salvation Army’s School Nutrition Program
- 11/26/2013 7:09:03 PM
- As part of its commitment to assisting families in need by providing access to food and education, Target Canada today announced a $160,000 donation to support The Salvation Army’s meal and snack program for school-aged children in 22 communities across Canada. With an emphasis on healthy, nutritious foods including fresh fruit and vegetables, the program provides a range of …
- Delays And Downtime Prove Deadly For Newborn Screening Programs
- 11/26/2013 11:22:33 AM
- Newborn screening programs across the nation rely on fast detection to spot and treat rare infant disorders and diseases. In many cases hours, not days, can be the difference between life and death for a newborn with a rare undetected condition. Such was the case for Noah Wilkerson, born in Colorado in 2009, on a Friday. His blood sample was drawn the morning after his birth, …
- Healthy Living Club offers healthy holiday tips
- 11/25/2013 10:42:43 AM
- With Thanksgiving just around the corner, partners in Lafayette’s Healthy Living Club are serving up some ideas to help local families have a healthier holiday season. “Thanksgiving is a wonderful, family-oriented time of the year, but it can often come with larger amounts of calories than we usually get in our diets,” said Dr. Joan Landry with the Picard Center for Child …
- ABIH Wishes the Industrial Hygiene Community a Happy Thanksgiving
- 11/25/2013 10:22:39 AM
- In 1621, the Pilgrims celebrated what is known by Americans as the first Thanksgiving after their initial harvest in the New World. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day for Thanksgiving which made the holiday an annual tradition. Millions of workers will spend the Thanksgiving holiday with their family and friends. Others, …
- Ericsson receives CSR award for its work in Myanmar from Télécoms Sans Frontières
- 11/22/2013 6:41:01 AM
- * The award is given as part of the Global Carrier Awards’ Télécoms Sans Frontières Special Recognition Awards category for Corporate Social Responsibility. * The award is in recognition of Ericsson’s CSR approach in Myanmar, where the company re-established its presence in June 2012. It recognizes the research that Ericsson has undertaken to demonstrate that access to …
- WHO and the Philippine Government launches mass vaccination campaign
- 11/22/2013 6:28:30 AM
- MANILA, Philippines - WHO and the Philippine Department of Health have launched a vaccination campaign to prevent outbreaks of measles and polio among survivors of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). “Large numbers of non- or under-vaccinated children are at risk of contracting and spreading infectious diseases such as measles – particularly in congested areas where the homeless …
- Epson Provides Additional Typhoon Aid to the Philippines
- 11/21/2013 8:14:33 AM
- MANILA, Philippines In view of the extent of the devastation caused by super typhoon Haiyan (called Yolanda in the Philippines) in the central Philippines, Epson has donated Php 4.2 million (approx. US$96,500) in additional aid to assist the recovery effort. The aid consists of a Php 2 million donation by Epson’s affiliates in the Philippines, Epson Precision …
- Our website survey results
- 11/21/2013 3:18:18 AM
- We launched our new website in May. In September we asked what you thought about it: how easily you can get what you want, how useful and clear the information is to you and what we can do to improve your experience using our site. We had a really good response to the survey and it confirmed our previous findings that the majority of our website users are from charities. …
