Tag: General Editorial
One Woman’s Mission: Empowering Rural Villages, Transforming Lives
AKUM, Cameroon, May 3, 2013 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Cameroon Partnership in Development today announces a program, Cameroon Cultural Travelling and Volunteering, started by Anja Schwarz from Germany, an adventure traveler interested in cultures, who prefers experiencing another culture as a member of that community, and in the process, finds opportunities to transform lives in communities in need.
Food Finders Kicks Off its 3rd Annual 'Summer To End Hunger' Food Drive
SIGNAL HILL, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- On May 1, 2013, Food Finders is kicking off its 3rd Annual 'Summer To End Hunger' Food Drive. The food drive will run through the entire month of May, and food that Food Finders collects during the May 11 Stamp Out Hunger postal drive will contribute to the Summer drive.
Citizen Tax Reformer Alleges Income Tax Scandal: Denounces Legal Fiction Used to Deprive Workers Deduction of Living Expenses
PHOENIX, Ariz. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- A world traveler, a U.S. citizen and Viet Nam veteran, citizen tax reform advocate, John C. Garrison, loves his country. Being a law-abiding citizen, Garrison files peacefully every year his federal income tax return and wants to pay his fair share of government support. Where Garrison sees that reform of income tax law is needed, he does not believe it should come through disrespect for existing law but through responsible legal and/or political action.
Center for Student Opportunity Announces I'm First Scholarship for First-Generation College Students
BETHESDA, Md. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Center for Student Opportunity (CSO), a national nonprofit, is now accepting applications for the 'I'm First' Scholarship, a $2,000 four-year renewable scholarship for matriculating first-generation college students.
Ruth Roberts – Children's Music Songwriter for All Seasons
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Whatever holiday pops up on your calendar, two things are always true: kids are happy about it and the late Ruth Roberts wrote kids' music to help you celebrate it. 'Children's music was the special province of Ruth Roberts,' says Susan Nicoletti, Director of Operations for Goldenrod Music.
Leading Environmentalist Links Climate Change Solutions to The Trust Frequency Concept in Paradigm-Shifting New Book
ASPEN, Colo. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Cameron/Baxter Books announces the worldwide launch of the paradigm-shifting book 'THE TRUST FREQUENCY: 10 Assumptions for a New Paradigm' (ISBN: 978-0-988747-1-3) at Explore Booksellers in Aspen, Colorado, March 29 at 5:30 p.m. Sally A. Ranney, visionary environmental leader and author of the foreword to the book, will speak on the need for fundamental, whole-systems change to enable global-level collaboration for solving climate change.
10-Year-Old Dance Prodigy Sophia Lucia will Attempt to Break the Guinness World Record of 36 Consecutive Pirouettes
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- 10-year-old dance prodigy, internet sensation and featured performer on the hit TV series on Lifetime, 'Dance Moms,' Sophia Lucia, will attempt to break the Guinness World Record of '36 Consecutive Pirouettes' on March 30, 2013 in her home town of San Diego, Calif. The event will take place at San Diego Dance Centre, where Sophia started dancing at the young age of 2 years.
Workforce Investment Board Member and San Bernardino County Resident Honored with ASPA's Lifetime Achievement Award
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Audrey Mathews, County of San Bernardino Workforce Investment Board Member, has received the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)'s Elmer B. Staats Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Public Service. The award ceremony was held on Tuesday, March 19, at the Hilton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, La., during ASPA's Annual Conference.
World Mind Network, along with Harvard, Oxford Students are Building a New Network for Planetary Change
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ -- Students from Harvard and Oxford, in cooperation with the World Mind Network, Peer to Peer Media Group, and the Creative Commons Initiative, are building a new social network dedicated to using advanced Web and Smart Phone tools to achieve goals in social change, academic research, environmental improvement, education, cultural preservation, and worldwide online discussion of important issues.
