Even through difficult times, organizations enhance the quality of our children’s lives.
“The DC Youth Orchestra Program provides music classes and ensemble training to all students who wish to participate. Because of the program’s unique structure and curriculum, no child is turned away and every child is challenged by being placed in a level appropriate to [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Music for Young people; Achievement for Life!
Doctors Without Borders
By Darragh Worland | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:33 PM ET
A staff member with Doctors Without Borders offers an insider’s view of the organization’s medical relief work in Haiti and how your thoughts and prayers are helping those in need.
In the days and weeks after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, beyond donating money, [...]
People Doing Good: Haiti Women and the Fonkoze Bank for the Organized Poor
Able to quickly reach a well-developed network of women throughout the country, an alternative banking system performs while the Haitian economy is in shambles.
A micro-credit program and banking system for more than 200,000 women in Haiti has come to the rescue of the overall economy in the wake of the devastating earthquake.
At a time when [...]
Doing Well Doing Good
(from the WSJ)
This is the time of year when all of us think about giving back. But for some, it seems to be in their blood.
When Cory Doctorow co-founded the open-source software company OpenCola in 1999, he was just another techie genius. Then he had a discussion with people at the Electronic Frontier Foundation — [...]
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