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Cabot Creamery, in partnership with Potato Hill Poetry, is launching a Poetry Contest for Middle Schoolers, in honor of 2012: The International Year of the Cooperative.…

ConAgra Foods, Inc., announced today that the community exceeded this year’s goal of raising 1 million meals for the hungry through the fifth annual “Shine the Light on Hunger” campaign. This year’s campaign achieved unprecedented results, raising the equivalent of 1,032,835 meals through both in-kind and cash donations to Food Bank for the Heartland.  “Thanks to the generosity of our community, there will be fewer people wondering where their next meal…

Study of half a million pregnant women in the United States finds 15.5% of those tested were positive for gestational hypothyroidism, much higher than prior estimates.

The study is part of Quest Diagnostics Health Trends, a series of reports provided as a public service on health conditions based on the company's uniquely large repository of laboratory testing data. Other Quest Diagnostics Health Trends reports have focused on gestational diabetes,…

5th Annual All Kids Can CREATE Launches on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday and Encourages Students of All Abilities to Submit Original Artwork. …

Check out our new blog by Choose You contest winner Linda Tallau, as she shares how she is getting back on track with Choose You!…

Updated guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention from the American Cancer Society stress the importance of creating social and physical environments that support healthy behaviors. 

PepsiCo teamed up with Feed the Children and Tops Friendly Markets to provide 800 families in Buffalo, New York with four truckloads of food and essentials early this November. PepsiCo employees working in the Buffalo area also volunteered their time on the day to help make it a success. This effort is part of Feed the Children’s Americans Feeding Americans Caravan program which has helped more than 300,000 families across the United States since its launch…

PCI-Media Impact partnered with CECOPI (Community and Indigenous Village Education and Communication Center) and Radio Atipiri to produce two Entertainment-Education radio serial dramas. With the Name of a Woman and Looking for Love both address the sexual and reproductive health and rights of indigenous women in El Alto, Bolivia. Tania Ayma shares her story about working with PCI-Media Impact and using behavior change communications to improve her…

Watch the newest litter of Susquehanna Service Dogs puppies online through SSD’s puppy cam, available on SSD’s website. People can watch the Eastern Star litter as they begin their journey to become service dogs. As a program of Keystone Children & Family Services, Susquehanna Service Dogs raises and trains service dogs to assist men, women and children with disabilities to be more independent.…

GE Healthcare employees participated in GE's Community Service Day to help improve resources for the Kostopulos Dream Foundation program, Camp Kostopulos. Camp Kostopulos is a Summer camp devoted to improving the quality of life for people with disabilities through recreation, education and growth experiences. More than 500 GE Healthcare employees, retirees and other volunteers from the Salt Lake City area volunteered.…

This FTI Journal article discusses GE's Developing Health Globally (DHG) initiative and how GE is helping to improve the lives of an estimated 4.8 million people in the developing world.  Developing Health Globally is a GE Citizenship program that aims to improve access to quality healthcare for some of the world’s most vulnerable populations, with an emphasis on maternal and infant care. The program uses GE products, expertise and employee engagement to…

Vigilant Futures employees donate their time and money to Raise-a-Reader while the company becomes a corporate sponsor for a second year.…

AOL has partnered with Feeding America  to promote their Hunger Action campaign on AOL Impact, a site dedicated to helping non-profits tell their stories and making it easy for our users to take action. We have a goal of donating 100,000 meals to Feeding America by October 3rd and we need YOUR help in getting us there. Here's how: 

1. Visit …

On September 8-9 2011, the Third World Meeting of Human Values and Culture of Lawfulness was held in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, with the purpose of creating awareness on “Non-violence: from the inside out”.

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The Otto Group and the Aid by Trade Foundation have launched a project to promote Zambia's school infrastructure. With the cooperation of the Dunavant Zambia cotton company and the Deutschen Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG, German Investment and Development Association), the project will ensure that around 7,000…