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Producer & Author Frank Beddor Entertains Foster Care Kids with Seeing Redd
Producer of “There’s Something About Mary” Visits Hillsides Students in Pasadena
(PASADENA, CA)— Animating his second book, SEEING REDD, Frank Beddor entertained children in foster care who live at Hillsides, Pasadena children’s charity, and students in special education at Hillsides Education Center. Producer of “There’s Something About Mary,” Beddor’s first visit with the children was last year when he engaged them in the story of THE LOOKING GLASS WARS, the first…
Monaco Humanitaire 2008, a Photographic Exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum
Monaco Humanitaire 2008 is a Monegasque association set up for the organisation of a photographic exhibition in order to illustrate the humanitarian action carried out globally by the Principality of Monaco over the past fifty years.
This significant humanitarian involvement, highlighted by prominent international photographers including Duncan Willets, Nick Danziger, Patrick de Wilde and others, in addition to local photographers, will be showcased to the public on the occasion of H.S.H.…
ACG Chicago Awarded ACG Chapter of the Year, Large Market
CHICAGO, March 18, 2008 – The Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the premier professional organization focused on corporate growth, corporate development, and mergers and acquisitions, today named ACG Chicago winner of “Chapter of the Year, Large Market” award. ACG is pleased to present this award to ACG Chicago at the ACG InterGrowth® conference, April 9-11, in Orlando, FL, the world’s largest conference for merger and acquisition professionals and corporate dealmakers.
“Today…
Website Created To Help Non-Profit Organizations
National – A new website, Not For Profit World (notforprofitworld.com), has been launched to help non-profit organizations raise funding and awareness.
The site provides free information, resources, and discounted products specifically tailored for non-profit organizations. Topics include fundraising, annual appeals, special event assistance, board of director and volunteer development, grant writing, and efforts for donor and volunteer retention.
The site features a fundraising checklist, samples for printed fundraising pieces such as…
New Pet Rescue Association Offers Members Teleseminars from Experts in the Human …
SANDPOINT, Idaho – The new National Association of Pet Rescue Professionals (NAPRP) has lined up teleseminars with a number of experts in the humane community. NAPRP Founder and President Susan Daffron will talk with the expert, and then open up the call to questions from members. The live telephone conferences will be recorded and available for download from the membership area of the NAPRP Web site at http://www.naprp.com. The following…
Leading Entrepreneur & Social Enterprise Network To Support Re-building of Homes …
(Singapore: 13 March 2008): The XL Group, the world’s leading entrepreneur and social enterprise network, has announced that it will be supporting Habitat For Humanity with a commitment to provide funding for the rebuilding of homes in southern Mexico. 80% of the Mexican state of Tabasco is under water and 80,000 people are currently homeless.
XL Property, the most recent addition to the XL Group of companies, has selected Habitat…
Lama Zopa Rinpoche to Teach ‘Buddha Nature’ at Choe Khor Sum Ling, Bangalore
Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the spiritual director of Choe Khor Sum Ling and of the international organization of Dharma centers known as the Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Traditions (FPMT), will teach at the Center in Bangalore from Thursday through Sunday, March 13 – 16, 2008. Rinpoche will give a teaching on how one can transform one’s daily activities into the activities of enlightenment. Rinpoche will talk about the…
Washington Attorney General Rob MeKenna congratulates the Olympic Peninsula Trav …
Washington’s attorney general Rob MeKenna expressed his delight to offer his congratulations to the Olympic Peninsula Travel Association.
In a letter of recommendation to the organization Mekenna went on to state that ‘It was very interesting to review OPTA’s history dating back to 1932 when a handful of business owners established the original Olympic Peninsula Resort and Hotel Assoc. Then MeKenna Wrote “Through the Years OPTA has worked tirelessly to…
Moving Kenya forward: Rotary members seek to heal wounds
Nairobi Rotary club honors three for promoting peace and helping others during post-election violence
(NAIROBI, Kenya – 10. March 2008) -- Welcoming the peace deal signed to end the post-election crisis, Kenyan Rotary club members met last Thursday with diplomats, civic and professional leaders to discuss practical ideas for healing the nation after the post-election crisis.
The Rotary Club of Nairobi hosted a panel discussion to talk about the…
Informa India announces the launch of MSI 2008 (Maritime Security International)
MSI 2008 - the only Indo-international mega-show dedicated to maritime security, and focused on the buoyant Indian and international maritime and naval sectors, will take place in November 2008.
MARCH 2008, NEW DELHI: Informa, the owners of information super-brands including Lloyd’s MIU and Datamonitor - in association with Lloyd’s List, the international maritime and transport newspaper - have launched India’s first large-scale exhibition dedicated entirely to maritime and naval defence and…
Chinese Dragons Race to Midsummer Place this Saturday 8th March
London, 5th March 2008 - The 2008 Milton Keynes Dragon Boat Festival, organized by Gable Events and sponsored by Electricity4Business, is being showcased this Saturday with a full size Chinese dragon boat display inside Midsummer Place.
The Festival, taking place at Willen Lake on Sunday 29th June, has quickly become the biggest team event in MK and is one of the most eagerly anticipated spectacles in the city’s events calendar.…
Orcas Island Chamber of Commerce Announces Business Essentials Series
The Orcas Island (WA) Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce its new Business Essentials series of workshops and seminars. Presented as a monthly morning event, with speakers touching on topics of value to your business, this series will be free for Chamber members to attend and are presented as benefit of Chamber membership. Be prepared to learn something useful with your morning coffee! Donations are accepted…
Author Showcase Features Authors Passionate about Children's Picture Books
Charlottesville, VA February 29, 2007. The Reading Tub, Inc. is pleased to announce its Author Showcase for the Winter Quarter, 2008. The current slate of featured guests – Frances Gilbert, Tara Risom, Patrick Mader, and Amber Kingston – have embraced pre-readers in the adventures they create for children.
\"It is always a wonderful experience putting together the interviews. The behind-the-scenes stories for the authors and their books are just as…
Producer & Author Frank Beddor Entertains Foster Care Kids with Seeing Redd
Producer of “There’s Something About Mary” Visits Hillsides in Pasadena
Who: Frank Beddor will entertain and animate his second book in THE LOOKING GLASS WARS trilogy, SEEING REDD, for children in foster care who live at Hillsides, Pasadena children’s charity, and students in special education at Hillsides Education Center. Freestyle skiing champion, stuntman, actor and producer BEDDOR added “author” to his repertoire with the publication of THE LOOKING GLASS WARS, the…
Media Revolution 2013 – Communities and Video Games Gain in Importance
„The screening of consumer opinions“ is the motto of the 5th GfM World and Digital Marketing Entertainment Congress in Berlin, dealing with crucial trends in e-game marketing and digital marketing entertainment. For the second time the event takes place in cooperation with the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. BMW, BBDO Group, IBM, MTV, Wild Tangent and the Future-Institute present their visions of future entertainment.
Erding, 29th February 2008 – It is obvious: the…
The Commonwealth Nations Research Society is born
In the early hours of the morning of 7 February 2008, the Commonwealth Nations Research Society (CNRS) was born.
The Commonwealth Nations Research Society (CNRS) is a non-lobbying and non-profit organisation which educates and promotes a closer, wider and stronger Commonwealth.
The CNRS was founded by the former United Commonwealth Society (UCS) President, Vice President, and a few other UCS members. The mission of the new society is to foster closer bonds…
Hans Messer Prize awarded to two university graduates
On 12 February the Frankfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) awarded the Hans Messer Prize 2008 to two graduates of the Frankfurt am Main University of Applied Sciences (FH FFM). They received this prize in recognition of their excellent research projects and exam results. The award brings with it EUR 2000 in prize money.
Sigrun Safdari (Faculty 2: IT and Engineering) focused in her thesis on an \"Examination of the…
BCI Launches BSDQ22 BPO Delivery Standards & Certification in Asia Pacific
BPO Certifications Institute, Inc., the Texas-based competence credentialing giant has finally approved its BSDQ22 Service Delivery Standards for the Asia Pacific BPO Industry. This paves the way for hundreds of BPO services organizations to benchmark their service delivery processes to global delivery standards for the first time.
The BCI Standards Board, which is the credentialing regulations body of BCI for all standards and certifications, took nearly a year to validate…
Support Bonaire, Inc. Grants Over US$48,000 to Bonaire Charities in 2007
Support Bonaire, Inc., a U.S. non-profit organization created to help support Bonaire’s non-profit social and environmental efforts announced that its 2007 grants to various Bonaire non-profit organizations was US$48,913.90. Funding for Support Bonaire’s grants comes solely from individual donors who select from one of a series of special projects Support Bonaire has created to focus on particular needs on Bonaire. In some cases, donors may also request that Support Bonaire…
Parenting Author Launches TwinsTalk, a New Website for Parents of Twins
Susan M. Heim, author of three books for parents, including "It’s Twins! Parent-to-Parent Advice from Infancy Through Adolescence," has launched a new website that offers advice to parents of twins and multiples from the real “experts” in the field – other parents of twins and multiples.
The birth of twins is a double blessing, but also a double challenge! Only parents of twins and multiples really understand the challenges that…
WASME VIENNA – Promotion of Waste Treatment in Colombo
Sri Lanka Ambassador in Austria H.E. Mrs. Aruni Wijewardanein in support of UNIDO action \"Waste to ElectricíEnergy\" in Colombo
On occasion of a visit in the Sri Lanka Embassy in Vienna, WASME Delegates at UNIDO, Susanne Forstinger and Norbert Knoll-Dornhoff, presented to Ambassador H.E. Mrs. Aruni Wijewardane, their proposal to implement in Colombo under the patronage of UNIDO a demonstration plant for South Asien Countries for the production of electric energy…
Donors Honored for Support of Children’s Charity Gala in Pasadena
(PASADENA, CA) – Set in San Marino, the sponsor reception for “Once Upon a Hillsides,” this year’s theme for the annual benefit for Hillsides, the foster care children’s charity in Pasadena, was a spectacular hit. Honoring over 75 generous individuals and companies, donors gathered at the home of Debbe and Spike Booth, dedicated supporters of the children’s charity.
Giving thanks to supporters who donated $500 or more to the…
Children’s Author Reads to Kids at Special Education School
(Pasadena, CA) — Foster care children and students with special education needs were captivated with children’s author Lisa Dunn-Dern. Visiting with students at Hillsides Education Center and children living at Hillsides, a Pasadena foster care charity, Dunn-Dern read her latest book, “Dr. Duncan Dog on Duty.”
Participating in the children’s library author reading program, Dunn-Dern answered questions from the curious children. From illustrations to real-life therapy dogs, the answers piqued further…
Building for the Future
Islamic Relief and the Council for the Advancement of Muslim Professionals (CAMP) have teamed up to host "Building the Future" gala dinner, featuring world renowned Pakistan cricket star Shahid Afridi. A formal dinner is scheduled for February 17, 2008 at Ashyana Banquets located in Downers Grove, IL.
The focus of the evening is to raise awareness about Islamic Relief’s development projects in Pakistan and to gain support for…
BITS Pilani Rajasthan's Next Big Event All India Management Convention - INTERFA …
INTERFACE is an event linking Engineering, Science and Management disciplines so characteristic of the broad based educational system of this university in Rajasthan India.
The Birla Institute of Technology and Science "BITS", Pilani is an all-India Institute for higher education and a deemed University established under section 3 of the UGC Act 1956 offering educational programmes both on-campus as well as off-campus, offering degrees at all three tiers, namely Integrated First…
ZCA and ISPU team up to host the first Islamic Finance conference in Chicago
January 28, 2008 Chicago, IL – Zeus Capital Advisers and the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) have teamed up to host the first Islamic Finance conference in Chicago, IL. This half day event is scheduled for March 13, 2008 and will be hosted at the DePaul University campus located in downtown Chicago. “Chicago is becoming a hub for Islamic financial activity and is home to many institutions that…
ACG Chicago Elects James A. McNair as 2008-2009 President
CHICAGO – January 28, 2008 – The Association for Corporate Growth Chicago (ACG Chicago) today announced the appointment of James A. McNair, Senior Managing Director of Corinthian Capital Group LLC, an equity investment group, to Chapter President for the 2008-2009 term.
“I am very proud to be involved with such an esteemed group dedicated to serving the growth needs of the Chicago business community,” said Jim McNair. “I am excited about…
MCFM Announces Workshop on Pensions and Separation Agreements: Crafting Settleme …
Chelmsford, Mass.—Join the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation on Wednesday, February 13, 2008, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Wellesley Free Library for a special workshop, “Wife Shall Receive One-Half of Husband’s Pension: How To Avoid Unintended Results from Vague Language in Separation Agreements.” Pension expert Diane Wittenberg of QDRO Outsource will share her strategies for crafting agreements that work for everyone involved.
Since retirement assets are generally the…
Putting Your Campaign 'On the Map' Services Announcement
14 January 2008...Kauai, HI, USA..HarmonyNet Media Group, parent of InBusiness4Good Enterprises of NY/SF/HI, announced today, that in commemoration of the birthday for Martin Luther King, and as a prequel to the Season of Peace & Non-Violence, commencing 30 January, a New service. This \'Putting Your Campaign On the Map\' is a comprehensive support system, for non-profits, charities, and organizations, who have a message consistent with the Ahimsa and Satyagraha philosophies…
First Eritrea, then Norway, now Congressman Payne: Ethiopia Tars Those Who Oppos …
OEA Statement - January 14, 2008 - If more proof is needed to show that when you lie down with dogs, you are bound to get up with fleas in U.S.-Ethiopian relations, this is a good one. A U.S. Congressional leader goes on a fact-finding trip to the troubled region of the Horn of Africa and talks about bringing peace to the region. Congressman Donald Payne, who chairs the…
foundercontact neXt – connects Students online with 8,200 SME entrepreneurs worl …
Entrance to new talent will be important growth enabler for SME’s
foundercontact international and The Centre for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL-BITS Pilani) signed a strategic alliance with the aim to bring students from one of the leading Science and Technology Universities of India, Birla Institute of Technology (BITS Pilani) into contact with entrepreneurs from Small and Medium sized Enterprises. Under this agreement, foundercontact will set up foundercontact neXt, that…
Management Simulations Changes Name to Capsim® Management Simulations, Inc. (Cap …
NORTHFIELD, Ill. – Jan. 10, 2008 – Management Simulations, Inc., the world’s largest supplier of business simulations, announced today that it has changed its name to Capsim® Management Simulations, Inc. (Capsim). Company President Dan Smith offered the following insight:
“For many years, our company name was Management Simulations, Inc.® or ‘MSI®,’ and our website was www.capsim.com. As an Internet-based company, our customers all typed ‘Capsim’ when they wanted to reach us.…
3M makes record in-kind donation to United Way Resource Center
Austin, TX (January 4, 2008) – The United Way Resource Center was a half-empty warehouse before corporate giant 3M decided to fill it to the rafters with office supplies that will be donated to local nonprofit agencies. And 3M promises to keep the shelves stocked with materials for the next three years.
The United Way Resource Center is the home base for the Gifts In-Kind Program, which accepts donations from…
ACG Chicago names James C. Tyree 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
CHICAGO, Jan. 7, 2008 — The Association for Corporate Growth Chicago (ACG Chicago) today announced that it has named James C. Tyree, chairman and CEO of Mesirow Financial, as recipient of the prestigious 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. ACG Chicago – the premier professional organization focused on corporate growth, corporate development and mergers and acquisitions – is proud to honor Mr. Tyree for his unwavering commitment to the strategic growth of…
OHIO University-Christ College Academy announces Admissions for 13th Batch
OHIO University–Christ College Academy (OUCC) announces admission for OHIO University MBA Program for the academic year 2008-10. The 21-month MBA Program has 18 month long course work and an additional 3 months of professional development to hone the soft skills of the students in an attempt to make them industry ready. The full-time MBA program is being offered at Christ College Campus, Bangalore.
All candidates with a degree from a recognized…
Skype Video Calling added to WD Bathrooms Website
Online bathroom retailer, WD Bathrooms has added the facility to their website to Skype their sales department. Skype is a simple piece of software that allows people anywhere in the world to make calls to landlines and mobiles and other Skype users at low-cost rates, or for free. Skype customers calling WD Bathrooms can do so for free, making the WD experience even cheaper.
As well as being money-saving…
RFID Primer: Learn Your RFID ABC’s, Dig Deeper
Association for RFID professionals creates a RFID reference tool
Dallas, Texas (December 26, 2007) -- After establishing a network of 3,500 members in more than 65 countries around the world, RFID Tribe created the RFID Primer. The online tool serves as a reference for those who use RFID technology and RFID applications.
“The RFID Primer represents a knowledge base for the RFID community, aiding in a deeper understanding…
PMI Dallas Chapter Announces Results of 2007 Board of Directors Election
Addison (Dallas), TX, USA - 2007 PMI Dallas Chapter Board of Director elections were held at the November 8, 2007 member meeting at the Crowne Plaza North Dallas/Addison. The following Board members were elected to serve 2 year terms beginning in 2008.
President - Dwaraka Iyengar, PMP
VP of Finance - Adrienne Bransky, PMP
VP of Membership - John T. Cole, PMP
VP of Applied Project Management - Dwight Davis, PMP
VP of Professional Development…
ACTOR JOEY NABER VOLUNTEERS WITH LOS ANGELES MISSION FOR CHRISTMAS EVE CELEBRITY …
Los Angeles, CA (December 18, 2007)— Joey Naber, star of Academy Award winning short film, West Bank Story, is set to volunteer on Christmas Eve at the Los Angeles Mission amongst celebrities, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner, Melissa Joan Hart, to name a few.
Celebrity volunteer Joey Naber shares, “My heart really goes out to people who don’t have life’s necessities. That heartache is always worse around the…
Descartes becomes Cesidian Church's first saint
According to the Bible, a saint is one who is sanctified, consecrated, set apart as sacred. Early Christians were all called saints. Over time, the term saint came to refer to a person who was recognized as having attained a certain level of holiness. Bishops and martyrs became the first kinds of saints to be venerated by the early Christian church, and later the hermit type of saint became recognized.…
Volunteer Santas and Mrs. Claus Needed on Christmas Eve
Calling All Santa! All Ages, Ethnicities, and Girths Welcome! The Pasadena Jaycees are in need of volunteers to participate in Santa and Mrs. Claus teams on Christmas Eve.
The Pasadena Jaycees are preparing for their 73rd Annual Operation Santa program benefiting thousands of children in Pasadena. Volunteers are meeting every Tuesday and Thursday in Pasadena to read thousands of Dear Santa Claus letters written by children…
2SIMPLE TRUST LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN FOR YOUNG CANCER SUFFERER
London, 10 December 2007. The 2Simple Trust, a charity that supports young children who suffer from the rare cancer neuroblastoma, has launched a new campaign to support Jacob Marsland.
Jacob, who is five years old and from Kingsmead in Northwich, is currently undergoing the last possible treatment he can in the UK, which is called MIBG and involves injecting a highly radioactive chemical into the bones.
If the treatment is unsuccessful, Jacob…
Santa Barbara Couple Donates $5,000 to Operation Family Fund in Support of Our T …
Santa Barbara, CA—December 4, 2007--Henry and Dundie Schulte of the Dos Pueblos Ranch Located in Goleta, CA presented Operation Family Fund with a check for $5,000 at the December 1, 2007 event. Santa Barbara Harley-Davidson with special guest Dr. Laura Schlessinger, sponsored the motorcycle show and family fun day. 100% of the money raised will go to benefit the families of our troops who have been injured or killed in…
Wounded Veterans Receive Holiday Donations
MIAMI BEACH, FL, DECEMBER 4, 2007: Veteran Love and Appreciation Fund, Inc. a non-profit, will be visiting wounded service men and women at various Veteran’s Administration hospitals to donate holiday gifts such as personal CD players and music, massage pillows, as well as t-shirts, hats and playing cards. There are a select number of families in dire need that will receive gas and food gift cards as well. …
New Study Shows Strong Participation in Christmas Among Jews, Interfaith Familie …
In its new December Holidays Survey, InterfaithFamily.com, an independent non-profit publisher and advocacy organization, uncovered surprising findings about holiday celebrations from Jewish families and a growing number of interfaith parents raising their children Jewish. While many Jewish families and the majority of interfaith families raising Jewish children participate in Christmas activities, they do not believe it negatively impacts their children’s religious identity. The majority of interfaith families raising…
Foster Care Charity Needs Help with Adopt-a- Family Program
(PASADENA, CA)— While attending school, teen parents are getting a lesson on how to be better caregivers. And as parents, they are seeking to bring joy and smiles to their babies with the help of Santa’s helpers, especially from Hillsides, a foster care children’s charity.
In a safe environment with the ability to express themselves and ask provocative questions, students, like Michelle*, whose unstable mother has been in…
Cesidian Church urges support for canonization of Descartes or Cartesius
The Bishop of the Cesidian Church has issued the \"Saint René Descartes Declaration\".
In this Declaration, the Bishop announces that the Cesidian Church has already beatified René Descartes (or Renatus Cartesius) for his first miracle, the miracle of the discovery of analytic geometry. This miracle of human thought has produced further miracles, since it provided the basis for the calculus of Newton and Leibniz, and through this Descartes also became one…
James Otto in an interview with Christian Lamitschka on Radio4Humans
Radio4Humans is proud to present an exclusive James Otto interview with Christian Lamitschka December 8th, 2007 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Central Time (North America). The interview will be conducted in English and in German, so the German listeners as well as the international audience can listen to the interview in the language they prefer.
At the same time the interview will be broadcast on our partner-stations iWebRadio and Radio…
GEODE Position Paper on European Third Energy Package - Smart Metering
The view of the European Commission
In it’s Communication ”Prospects for the internal gas and electricity market” issued on January 10, 2007, the European Commission states that infrequent measurement of consumption prevents any kind of demand response from certain customers.
It is further stated that the extended use of smart metering would enhance competition and other policy goals such as energy efficiency and security of supply, encouraging innovation in the provision of…
Santa Barbara Harley Davidson & Special Guest Dr. Laura Host Motorcycle Show Ben …
Ridgecrest, CA – November 26, 2007 – Operation Family Fund is a non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to helping families of fallen or injured military heroes. It receives no government funding and is solely supported by private donations from businesses, individuals and organizations. The benefit is destined to be a fun event complete with live music, martial arts exhibition, vendors, raffle, 50-50 and dunk tank.
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When: Saturday December 1, 2007 from…
