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Get Preteens, Teen and Young Adults Into Volunteering- The Sooner, The Better

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According to 2023 research data from Volgistics, a volunteer management software, kids that volunteer are 25% less likely to experience anxiety and 50% less likely to engage in destructive behaviors like smoking or  misusing alcohol. There’s no question, volunteerism translates into mastering important adult life skills. To name a few; Social and Professional Communication Skills …

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FORCE BLUE Special Ops Veterans Come Together With Marine Science….

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The result, “mission therapy” for Veterans  and  cleaner oceans and waterways for all of us. The idea for FORCE BLUE grew out of a trip co-founders Jim Ritterhoff and Rudy Reyes took in 2015 to go reef diving. Since returning home from several tours in Afghanistan Reyes, a former Recon Marine,  had been struggling with …

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Microplastics Concerns Are Not New

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For the Algalita Marine Research and Education  their 3 decades of plastic pollution research  and education it all started in the 1990’s with an eye-opening discovery in the North Pacific by the organizations Founder, Charles Moore.   The organization’s initial mission was to restore the disappearing kelp forests and improve water quality along the California …

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“Yelp” For Immigrants

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Rachel Micah-Jones interned for Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, and then worked on the Senate campaign of Oregon’s Ron Wyden, which stoked her interest in the law. While working in the Washington, D.C., public defender’s office, she saw that immigration laws ill-served her foreign-born clients. She began to think about combining her knowledge …

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Nashville Nonprofit Providing More Than Hope To The Formerly Incarcerated

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According widely published data, as well as Project Return’s website, the United States makes up only 5% of the world’s total population but 25% of the world’s prison population. The  nonprofit describes incarceration as a growth industry in Tennessee, ranking 12th in the nation in terms of per capita incarceration – which they document grew …

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60% Of World’s Population Washes Laundry By Hand

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The Washing Machine Project (TWMP)  is a U/K.-based  grassroots social enterprise. A social enterprise is a business that maximizes its primary purpose. In general, the goal is to maximize both profits and benefits to society and the environment. In the case of TWMP, they have honed in on a glaring underserved niche….. the fact that …

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Wild Horses Can Aid The Fight Against Wildfires

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Hear me out. I know this may seem out of left field. Wild horses and burros were granted protection by Congress in 1971 deemed “living symbols of history.” With the 1971 Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burro Act, Congress outlawed, capture, branding, harassment or killing of wild horses and burros. And As a result, thinking …

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Women In The Spotlight
Vanessa Garrison, T Morgan Dixon

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As part of this blog’s “Women In the Spotlight” series we are featuring a duo, Vanessa Garrison and T. Morgan Dixon, Co-founders of the internationally impactful GirlTREK Black women’s health initiative. They are both, in their own right, dynamic change agents, entrepreneurs and sought after public speakers. Vanessa is a volunteer Advisory Board member of …

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Women In The Spotlight
Meymuna Hussein-Cattan

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Meymuna Hussein-Cattan is  Founder and CEO of The Tiyya Foundation. She is a socially conscious motivational speaker, and an award-winning grassroots community organizer. Her recognitions and accolades include being selected as Woman Of the Year by Congressman Adam Schiff, receiving local honors from then Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti, and being named a Local …

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