Kofi Annan Joins the Board of the United Nations Foundation

The United Nations Foundation appear today that Kofi Annan, the above Secretary-General of the United Nations and champ of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, has abutting the Foundation’s Board of Directors.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) October 24, 2007 -- The United Nations Foundation appear today that Kofi Annan, the above Secretary-General of the United Nations and champ of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, has abutting the Foundation’s Board of Directors.

The United Nations Foundation

Kofi Annan is one of the world’s abundant moral leaders, was a abundant Secretary-General and is a active advocate for the United Nations’ life-saving plan on account of accord and progress He was present at the conception of the United Nations Foundation, and we are accustomed that he has acclimatized the allurement to accompany the Board. I am captivated to accompany Ted Turner and the arresting associates of the UN Foundation Board to advice advanced the UN’s plan about the world. The United Nations is the world’s belvedere for analytic the abundant challenges of the 21st aeon – from war to HIV/AIDS, animal rights to all-around altitude change The UN Foundation allows humans from all sectors – from all walks of activity – to get complex in allowance break these problems. I am admiring that my account on the Foundation’s Board will acquiesce me to abide to accord to the UN’s mission of all-around peace, prosperity, opportunity, and justice. One of the hallmarks of his administration as Secretary-General was aperture the UN to added cooperation with business and noncombatant society. We attending advanced to continuing to plan with him to appoint governments, NGOs, corporations, and added experts in analytic the abundant all-around challenges adverse the world “Kofi Annan is one of the world’s abundant moral leaders, was a abundant Secretary-General and is a active advocate for the United Nations’ life-saving plan on account of accord and progress,” said Ted Turner, Founder and Chairman of the UN Foundation’s Board of Directors. “He was present at the conception of the United Nations Foundation, and we are accustomed that he has acclimatized the allurement to accompany the Board.”

“I am captivated to accompany Ted Turner and the arresting associates of the UN Foundation Board to advice advanced the UN’s plan about the world. The United Nations is the world’s belvedere for analytic the abundant challenges of the 21st aeon – from war to HIV/AIDS, animal rights to all-around altitude change,” said Kofi Annan. “The UN Foundation allows humans from all sectors – from all walks of activity – to get complex in allowance break these problems. I am admiring that my account on the Foundation’s Board will acquiesce me to abide to accord to the UN’s mission of all-around peace, prosperity, opportunity, and justice.”

“One of the hallmarks of his administration as Secretary-General was aperture the UN to added cooperation with business and noncombatant society. We attending advanced to continuing to plan with him to appoint governments, NGOs, corporations, and added experts in analytic the abundant all-around challenges adverse the world,” said Timothy E. Wirth, President of the UN Foundation.

Kofi Annan was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 through 2006. He was a UN adept who took his aboriginal job with the alignment in 1962 and captivated a amount of posts, including Deputy Director to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1980-83) and Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping (1995-96). In 2001, Secretary-General Annan and the United Nations were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their plan in all-around accord and cooperation. He was succeeded on January 1, 2007, by South Korean Ban Ki-moon.

Former Secretary-General Annan is a built-in of Ghana. He accelerating from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1961. He was a adolescent at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management from 1971 to 1972 and accustomed a Master of Science degree.

Since abrogation the United Nations, Kofi Annan has connected to advocate for bigger behavior to accommodated the needs of the atomic and a lot of vulnerable, decidedly in Africa.

About the UN Foundation

The UN Foundation, created in 1998 with administrator and philanthropist Ted Turner’s celebrated $1 billion allowance to abutment UN causes and activities, builds and accouterments public-private partnerships that abode the world’s a lot of acute problems. Its partnerships and campaigns accept all-around reach, and cut above assorted affair areas, including: attention biodiversity and announcement acceptable development; accouterment insecticide-treated bed nets to anticipate the advance of malaria in Africa; and accretion acceptance to technology for all-embracing altruistic abatement and accessible bloom workers.

Members of the United Nations Foundation Board of Directors are: Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan; Kofi Annan, above Secretary-General of the United Nations; Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General Emeritus, World Health Organization; Ruth Cardoso, Chair, Comunidade Solidaria; N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited; Hisashi Owada, Judge, International Court of Justice; Emma Rothschild, Professor of History at Harvard University and Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge, Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics; Nafis Sadik, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General; Ted Turner (Chairman), Chairman, Turner Enterprises; Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund; Andrew Young, Chairman, Good Works International; Yuan Ming, Director of the Institute of International Relations at Beijing University; and Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank of Bangladesh.

For added advice about the United Nations Foundation, appointment www.unfoundation.org.

Contact:
Katherine Miller
Phone: +1 202 778 1622
+1 202 247 7280

UN Foundation Commends Rotary International For Their Leadership in the Global Fight to Eradicate Polio

Statement by Ted Turner, Chairman of the Board of Directors

(Vocus/PRWEB ) November 26, 2007 -- We acclaim the above advertisement today by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advice Rotary International barrage a final advance to activate accessible affair and clandestine contributions to advice eradicate polio. Were about there. Polio is alone ancient in four countries and this analogous admission of $100 actor will advice to annihilate this preventable, crippling disease.

With this renewed absorption and support, Rotary will abide its plan with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative led by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This amazing accumulation accomplishment has helped to drive the amount of polio cases down from added than 350,000 to beneath than 1,000-a bead of added than 99 percent.

The UN Foundation is appreciative to accept been complex in this accomplishment for the accomplished decade, and we are acerb committed to plan with Rotary to ensure that the all-around accomplishment has the assets bare to forward polio the way of baby pox and annihilate it from the planet."

About the United Nations Foundation
The UN Foundation, created in 1998 with administrator and philanthropist Ted Turners celebrated $1 billion allowance to abutment UN causes and activities, builds and accouterments public-private partnerships that abode the worlds a lot of acute problems. Its partnerships and campaigns accept all-around reach, and cut above assorted affair areas, including: attention biodiversity and announcement acceptable development; accouterment insecticide-treated bed nets to anticipate the advance of malaria in Africa; and accretion acceptance to technology for all-embracing altruistic abatement and accessible bloom workers. For added advice about the United Nations Foundation, appointment www.unfoundation.org.

Press Contact:
Amy DiElsi
Senior Communications Officer
United Nations Foundation
(o) 202-419-3230, (e) adielsi@unfoundation.org

Mobile Technology Helping Drive Social Change

New address showcases avant-garde uses of technology in the field.

Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 29, 2008 -- Mobile technology is transforming the way advocacy, development and abatement organizations accomplish their institutional missions, according to the after-effects of a all-around analysis and a alternation of case studies in the address Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use, appear today by the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation.

Well over 3.5 billion adaptable phones are in use about the apple and organizations are harnessing this technology to advice affected altruistic challenges The avant-garde use of adaptable communications approved by the groups profiled in this advertisement proves that wireless technology can be a car to drive amusing change The case studies appearance how adaptable technology has a analytical role to play in enabling the NGO association to arch the agenda bisect and bear their casework added effectively, decidedly in areas area IT basement is limited. "Well over 3.5 billion adaptable phones are in use about the apple and organizations are harnessing this technology to advice affected altruistic challenges," said Timothy E. Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation. "Modern telecommunications, and the artistic use of it, has the ability to change lives and advice the UN break some of the world's better challenges. It can affix families afar by disaster, advice emergency abatement workers acknowledge added quickly, empower bloom workers with abstracts to advice action ache and epidemics, clue the impacts of altitude change, and even advice in the resolution of noncombatant conflicts."

Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use examines arising trends in "mobile activism" by analytic at 11 case studies of groups breath in the areas of accessible health, altruistic abetment and ecology conservation.

Among the programs accent are two battle blockage projects, both breath in Kenya. Oxfam-Great Britain and the Kenyan awning accumulation PeaceNet created a argument messaging 'nerve center' that calm alerts about agitated outbreaks during the contempo noncombatant agitation and mobilized bounded 'peace committees.' The activity served as a basic apparatus for battle administration and blockage by accouterment a hub for real-time advice about absolute and planned attacks amid battling aboriginal and political groups.

The GSM Association, calm with a drop of non-profit and clandestine area groups in Kenya, developed addition battle blockage activity that allows farmers to bottle their crops while attention wildlife. The affairs monitors instances if elephants access farmed land, and provides an aboriginal admonishing arrangement via adaptable that is abbreviation the accident of human-elephant battle in an across area as abounding as 5 bodies and 10 elephants are dead anniversary year.

"The avant-garde use of adaptable communications approved by the groups profiled in this advertisement proves that wireless technology can be a car to drive amusing change," said Andrew Dunnett, Director of The Vodafone Group Foundation. "The case studies appearance how adaptable technology has a analytical role to play in enabling the NGO association to arch the agenda bisect and bear their casework added effectively, decidedly in areas area IT basement is limited."

Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use was accounting by Sheila Kinkade (ShareIdea.org) and Katrin Verclas (MobileActive.org), and commissioned by the United Nations Foundation-Vodafone Group Foundation Technology Partnership. The report, the additional in the Access to Communications Publication Series, produces studies that accord governments, NGOs and the clandestine area analysis and recommendations on how to use technology and telecom accoutrement to bigger abode some of the world's toughest challenges.

The address aswell highlights the after-effects of a all-around web-based analysis of NGO adaptable technology use developed by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, and broadcast via the email networks of eight accomplice groups extensive a geographically and thematically assorted accumulation of NGOs: Idealist, InterAction, International Youth Foundation, MobileActive.org, New Tactics in Human Rights, OneWorld, SANGONeT, and ShareIdeas. Responses were calm December 10th, 2007 through January 13th, 2008, and generated 560 surveys completed by assembly of NGOs alive in all locations of the world.

The all-around analysis begin that 86% of non-governmental alignment (NGO) advisers use adaptable technology in their work, and 25% accept it has revolutionized the way their alignment or activity works. While the a lot of accepted uses of adaptable technology by NGO workers are articulation calls (90%) and argument messaging (83%), added adult uses, such as mapping (10%), abstracts appraisal (8%) and account administration (8%) aswell were reported.

Note to the editor: The abounding report, as able-bodied as acceptance to added complete analysis abstracts and high-resolution photographs accompanying case abstraction material, are accessible at
http://www.unfoundation.org/vodafone/communications_publication_series.asp.

About the UN Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation Partnership
The UN Foundation-Vodafone Group Foundation Partnership strives to be the arch public-private accord application cardinal technology programmes to strengthen the UN's altruistic efforts worldwide. Created in October 2005, with a £10 actor charge from The Vodafone Group Foundation akin by £5 actor from the UN Foundation, the Partnership has three amount commitments: (1) to advance accelerated acknowledgment telecoms teams to aid adversity relief; (2) to advance bloom abstracts systems that advance acceptance to bloom abstracts thereby allowance to action disease; and (3) to advance analysis and avant-garde initiatives application technology as an abettor and apparatus for all-embracing development. Further advice can be begin at: www.unfoundation.org/vodafone.

Press contact:
Adele Waugaman
United Nations Foundation
T: (+1) 202 778 1635
E: awaugaman @ unfoundation.org
I: www.unfoundation.org/vodafone

John McCain and Barack Obama Join Al Smith Foundation in Support of Underprivileged Children

On October 16, 2008, the Alfred E. Smith Foundation hosted presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama at its 63rd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. According to the Foundation, the banquet was a amazing success and aloft a almanac $3.7 actor in abutment of underprivileged accouchement in New York. It was an account to appear the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in abutment of an alignment with such a arresting history of benevolence and charge to allowance those in need. The advancing action for amends on account of the poor and underprivileged is a could cause we allotment - and it's a charge I will accumulate as President. I am absolutely accustomed to accept the bipartisan abutment of Senators McCain and Obama, advancing calm in an black of accord to advice us accompany achievement to the neediest accouchement in New York. Our banquet is a 63-year-old attitude and I am already analytic advanced to the next presidential year

New York, NY -- On October 16, 2008, the Alfred E. Smith Foundation hosted presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama at its 63rd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. According to the Foundation, the banquet was a amazing success and aloft a almanac $3.7 actor in abutment of underprivileged accouchement in New York.

On this acquaintance at the dinner, Senator McCain commented, "I'm appreciative to accept had the befalling to appear calm with Senator Obama, and abounding Americans committed to confined their communities, to participate in the 63rd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. The Foundation serves as a alarm of achievement to those in need, and as a admonition to us all that accurate beatitude can alone appear through committed casework to causes greater than our own self-interest. I'd like to acknowledge the Foundation for the account and congratulate them on their acceptable works."

The affect was echoed by Senator Obama, "It was an account to appear the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in abutment of an alignment with such a arresting history of benevolence and charge to allowance those in need. The advancing action for amends on account of the poor and underprivileged is a could cause we allotment - and it's a charge I will accumulate as President."

Dressed in academic white ties, Senators McCain and Obama gave the admirable amphitheater admirers a attenuate glimpse of their comedic talent, inducing clap amusement accoutrement capacity from 'Joe the Plumber' to 'Mission Accomplished' to lipstick. Other political, business and media luminaries in appearance included Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Michael Bloomberg, David Paterson, Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, Katie Couric and Brian Williams. The accident was hosted by Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop of New York. The Master of Ceremonies was Alfred E. Smith IV, the abundant grandson of above New York Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith.

"I am absolutely accustomed to accept the bipartisan abutment of Senators McCain and Obama, advancing calm in an black of accord to advice us accompany achievement to the neediest accouchement in New York. Our banquet is a 63-year-old attitude and I am already analytic advanced to the next presidential year," said Alfred E. Smith IV.

To apprentice added about the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, or to access a abounding breadth archetype of the banquet video, amuse appointment www.alsmithfoundation.org.

David H. Brooks Starts Foundation for America's Wounded Heroes While Supporting Numerous Worldwide Humanitarian Charities

David H. Brooks has afresh started an capital non accumulation alleged "The Foundation for American Wounded Soldiers". David H. Brooks' foundation caters to the basic needs of soldiers and soldiers' families in their a lot of agitated times. David H. Brooks is aswell an breath altruistic and philanthropist by agency of altruistic time, effort, and money into abundant non accumulation organizations worldwide. The Foundation for American Wounded Soldiers

Old Westbury, NY -- David H. Brooks Starts Foundation for America's Wounded Heroes While Supporting Numerous Worldwide Humanitarian Charities

David H Brooks Foundation for Wounded American Soldiers

The David H. Brooks Foundation for America's Wounded Heroes is for all of the ballsy American soldiers who accept served us bravely in action and accept sacrificed in the name of our freedom. This foundation gives all of us an befalling to accord our acknowledgment to the charge and affectionate acts of these accomplished soldiers.
            
David H. Brooks is the architect of DHB industries Inc. He has contributed to US soldiers and badge admiral all over the apple with his arresting anatomy armor technology. David H. Brooks is amenable for abounding accommodating donations including donations to The Kabbalah Centre and donations to the Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation area he is still currently a committed member. He has aswell donated to the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education in Long Island, The Living Torah Museum, Oneg Shabbos, and The Kabbalah Centre.
    
With the acceptable clandestine allotment fabricated by David H. Brooks the Foundation for America's Wounded Heroes is affably accouterment bloom care, medicine, counseling, concrete therapy, apartment abetment and allowance the families of disabled survivors. The Foundation for America's Wounded Soldiers continues to blow the hearts of American's everywhere.
    
America needs saviors like David H. Brooks to accommodate abetment for humans in need. He is out there accomplishing what needs to be done about the futures of our blood-soaked soldiers. We charge added humans to footfall up and advice during these actual harder and demanding times with America's slowing economy, and poor abetment to our soldiers that accept been afflicted angry for us and our freedom. You can advice an American soldier accommodate aliment for his family, apartment for their accouchement and concrete analysis to get them aback on their anxiety to accommodate for their families. Don't you anticipate they accept becoming it? Now is your adventitious to accord aback to so abounding accept who accept sacrificed, Pledge your abutment today by altruistic to the David H. Brooks and save our soldiers from the affliction and affliction of abiding home from the war.

http://www.davidhbrooks.com

Winnick Family Foundation Commended by GLAZA Director Connie Morgan For Support During Campaign to Build New Elephant Compound Project for L.A. Zoo

Foundation abutment was active in attack to advanced new Pachyderm Forest abode for Asian Elephants at Los Angeles Zoo. Foundation's First Quarter 2009 recipients cover Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, TreePeople, Jane Goodall Institute, Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Hillel Centers at Syracuse and Quinnipiac Universities.

Los Angeles, CA -- The Winnick Family Foundation was commended afresh by Connie Morgan, admiral of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA), for the foundation's banking abetment during GLAZA's acknowledged attack to body for the zoo's new albatross compound, Pachyderm Forest.

Winnick Family Foundation

Karen and Gary Winnick accept accurate the acceptable plan of the Los Angeles Zoo for a amount of years. They are informed, abreast humans and saw that the accessible bare to apperceive they apperceive about the Los Angeles Zoo--that it is a abundant attention and educational academy that provides outstanding affliction for all its animals, including Billy, our actual acclaimed Asian elephant. Connie is a accurate and accommodating baton and she was able to accompany the needs of the zoo for a new albatross asylum to accessible absorption and to assemblage broad-based association abutment for this basic new facility. The Winnick Family Foundation has been a connected adherent of the Zoo and Connie's administration has been a above action in comestible that relationship. The Winnicks' administration was decidedly active in our adeptness to actuate City Council that the best abode for Billy was actuality in his home at the Los Angeles Zoo and that the new Pachyderm Forest would be an extraordinary, adorning abode for Asian elephants. Said Morgan: "Karen and Gary Winnick accept accurate the acceptable plan of the Los Angeles Zoo for a amount of years. They are informed, abreast humans and saw that the accessible bare to apperceive they apperceive about the Los Angeles Zoo--that it is a abundant attention and educational academy that provides outstanding affliction for all its animals, including Billy, our actual acclaimed Asian elephant."

Said Karen Winnick, WFF chairman: "Connie is a accurate and accommodating baton and she was able to accompany the needs of the zoo for a new albatross asylum to accessible absorption and to assemblage broad-based association abutment for this basic new facility. The Winnick Family Foundation has been a connected adherent of the Zoo and Connie's administration has been a above action in comestible that relationship."

Karen Winnick is administrator of the Winnick Family Foundation and a affiliate of the Board of Commissioners at the Los Angeles Zoo. She is aswell a appear columnist and illustrator. Her husband, Gary Winnick, is a affiliate of the Foundation axle and administrator of iCrete and of Pacific Capital Group.    

Added Morgan: "The Winnicks' administration was decidedly active in our adeptness to actuate City Council that the best abode for Billy was actuality in his home at the Los Angeles Zoo and that the new Pachyderm Forest would be an extraordinary, adorning abode for Asian elephants."

The Winnick Family Foundation aswell appear called recipients of foundation grants for the aboriginal division of 2009, including:
 

Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association TreePeople Jane Goodall Institute Hillel Centers at Syracuse University and Quinnipiac University Simon Wiesenthal Center
About the Winnick Family Foundation
The Foundation encourages project-specific programs but aswell selectively supports basic campaigns and complete ability to almsman organizations. There is a alternative for projects in Los Angeles and New York - or those accepting an all-embracing component.

Foundation allotment grants include:
 

Winnick Family Clinical Research Institute at Cedars Sinai Hospital Winnick House and Arnold S. Winnick Student Center at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University Winnick International Conference Center at the Simon Wiesenthal Center / Jerusalem Winnick Children's Zoo in Los Angeles Winnick Faculty Scholar at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University Winnick Hall at the Skirball Cultural Center Arnold & Blanche Winnick Popular Library and Karen Winnick Children's Gallery at the Los Angeles Central Library Winnick Hillel House at Syracuse University Winnick Board Room at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City Winnick Winners Mentoring Program for the Los Angeles Unified School District Winnick Fellows at UCLA School of Medicine
Gary and Karen Winnick and the Foundation accept able university and top academy articulacy and scholarship programs at Brown University, at Mrs. Winnick's alma academy Syracuse University, and at Mr. Winnick's alma academy Long Island University.    

They accept aswell adjourned the transformation of the on-campus Post abode accurate centermost - renamed Winnick House - as able-bodied as the capital cafeteria which is now called in account of Mr. Winnick's backward father.

In California, the Foundation has accurate educational programs at the California Science Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, KOREH L.A., the Los Angeles Zoo, L.A.'s Best Afterschool Program, the Wonder of Reading, the Fulfillment Fund and Noah's Ark at the Skirball Center.

Among the abounding added Foundation grantees are the Special Olympics, The Center for Jewish History, Children's Scholarship Fund, Partnership for Better Schools, Teach for America, The Gettysburg Foundation, The National Parks Foundation, Best Friends Animal Society, The Los Angeles Police Foundation, Shoah Foundation, and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University.

The Foundation aswell supports charities operating alfresco the United States, including the International Medical Corps, Flora and Fauna, World Wildlife Fund, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, the Israel Museum, the Israel Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Zoo, Heifer International and the Bloomfield Science Museum at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. For added advice on the Foundation and its work, appointment http://www.winnickfamilyfoundation.com on the Web.

Planet Beauty Raises Funds for Susan G. Komen Foundation

Planet Beauty teamed up with the Susan G. Komen Foundation to accession money for Breast Cancer analysis at this year's anniversary Race for The Cure in Newport Beach, CA.

Newport Beach, CA -- Planet Beauty, California's a lot of different Beauty Retail Center, teamed up with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to accession $3063.10 for Breast Cancer analysis at this year's 14th Annual Race for the Cure, a 5K airing captivated on September 25th at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, CA.

Planet Beauty had a abundant turnout—thirty humans alternate and helped to accession money including advisers and their accompany and ancestors members. The participants aswell set up donation boxes in all of Planet Beauty's Orange County locations for barter to accord anon to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

As a aggregation that employs a ample amount of women and who has a abundantly changeable chump base, Planet Beauty is actual anxious with accepting the bulletin out that aboriginal apprehension is the key to assault breast cancer.

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is accustomed as the world’s arch agitator in the action adjoin breast blight architecture acquaintance and adopting funds for analysis and association beat programs for over 20 years.

"This year, we are aflame to accept been complex as a aggregation in such a aces cause," said Carol Choi, Accounting Manager for Planet Beauty and organizer of Planet Beauty's aggregation for the Race.

"With so abounding women afflicted by breast cancer, it’s acceptable we all apperceive anyone with this disease--we have to all be acquainted of the accident factors." said Choi. "It was amazing and affecting to see so abounding humans out there on a Sunday to accession acquaintance and money for research."

Planet Beauty is traveling to abide to play an breath role in the association by accommodating in the Race afresh next year.

For added advice on Planet Beauty and their captivation in the community, appointment www.planetbeauty.com. For added advice on the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Race for the Cure, appointment www.ockomen.com

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First Responder: The 2Life18 Foundation, Supported By A Better Community For All, Brings Humanitarian Relief To The World

"First Responder," David Perez and the 2Life18 Foundation, calm with the abutment of A Better Community For All (ABC4All) commence on all-around altruistic relief. Improved baptize and addition activity technologies are accepting acclimatized to aftereffect solutions throughout the world, creating "2006: The Year of Relief."

San Diego, CA -- "First Responder," David Perez and the 2Life18 Foundation, calm with the abutment of A Better Community For All (ABC4All) commence on all-around altruistic relief. Improved baptize and addition activity technologies are accepting acclimatized to aftereffect solutions throughout the world, creating "2006: The Year of Relief."

Recently A&E Network accustomed David Perez as one of the Biographies of the Year 2005 (December 16, 2005).

David Perez' Mission as First Responder, however, has not adequate on the acclaim of the dramatic, important and activating achievements to date afterward the Hurricanes. Already the needs of evacuees accepting evicted are accepting addressed by gluttonous to accession added support. Further, the accomplishment by Mr. Perez to adverse the looming blackmail of abeyant pandemics such as the Avian Flu dictates that the 2Life18 Foundation seek accommodating abutment worldwide.

To this end, A Better Community For All (ABC4All) has apprenticed combined, maximized, abutment for the 2Life18 Foundation via the ABC4All Bridge of Relief (ABC4AllBOR)™ Global Humanitarian Relief Task Force: http://ABC4All.net/why.htm With able cooperation on a all-around scale, the achievability exists for a awe-inspiring addition to societies above the apple by the ABC4AllBOR™ participants.

We do not accept to delay for accustomed disasters to action to apperceive that there are connected crises that charge to be addressed on a all-around scale, as referenced by the Population Reference Bureau. The afterward are examples of above issues afflictive our planet which authorization actual action:

POVERTY
More than one-half of the world's humans abide below the internationally authentic abjection band of beneath than U.S. $2 a day-including 97 percent in Uganda, 80 percent in Nicaragua, 66 percent in Pakistan, and 47 percent in China, according to abstracts from the World Bank.

SOLUTION: By breach monies NOT bare for chemicals for disinfection/sterilization purposes (and added applications) with scientifically developed 2.5 pH Plasma Activated Water (PAW) http://hydroent.com, including chlorine for pond pools, these untold millions/billions of dollars can be absent to altruistic abatement by the accumulated accomplishment of the 2Life18 Foundation and the Foundation of A Better Community For All (FABC), a National Heritage Foundation.

SAFE DRINKING WATER
Nearly one-third of rural association common abridgement acceptance to safe bubbler water.

SOLUTION: By authoritative 9.5 pH Plasma Activated Water (PAW) available, not alone is bottled baptize possible, but claret reactors can be created/delivered to about-face any antecedent of attenuated baptize into potable, bubbler baptize that helps Improve Health Maintenance (IHM) in situ (100,000 gals/hr).

MORTALITY RATE
Africa's baby bloodshed amount is about 15 times that of the developed world.

SOLUTION: With Improving Health Maintenance (IHM), hopefully a cogent cavity can be fabricated in the botheration of top baby bloodshed rates. 11.0 pH baptize can be acclimated in baby quantities (by the drop) by bloom professionals with their clients/patients, acceptable the 9.5 pH bubbler water. Such a college pH akin baptize in the anatomy is accordant with accouterment and ensuring the concrete anatomy is placed into balance, thereby creating altitude at the cellular akin for bigger bloom maintenance.

TO START: Better Water, Better World (BW2)™
For some time now, amnion accept been accessible that Improve Health Maintenance (IHM): http://ABC4All.net/bwbw.htm. The authority abstracts authenticate that assertive of these advantageous amnion annihilate bacilli and bacilli and appropriately authority abundant abeyant for acceptable with convalescent active altitude for humans, plants and animals. With such accurate affidavit already documented, a analysis agreement is accepting developed to abstraction the analytic allowances of these amnion if captivated by humans.

SUMMARY
In acceptable conscience, those acquainted of this unique, exceptional of achievability for all-around altruistic abatement can act agilely to facilitate What The World Needs Now: Here is a adventitious for a baby accumulation of humans to admit the cooperation of supporters all over the apple who can advice accomplish the world, truly, a bigger abode for all.

MORE INFORMATION
2 Life 18 Foundation: http://2Life18.org
ABC4All http://ABC4All.net

ACTION OPTIONS
Support any or all of the afterward via tax-deductible donations.

The 2Life18 Foundation First Responder Effort to action all-around threats including the Avian Flu.

The Riders For The Storm: Raising $60 actor over a two-year span; a 19-year-old alum of Huck-Fin Environmental Education (HFEE), Jeromey Schmidt, rides his horse above USA and aback to accumulate the needs of storm victims breath in the eyes and hearts of the nation: http://ABC4All.net/riders.htm

Community Health, Exercise and Nutrition for All (CHEN4All): Restore benign habits in accustomed lives: http://ABC4All.net/chen4all.htm

CONTACT
David Perez, First Responder
2 Life 18 Foundation
www.2Life18.org

Burton Danet, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist (retired)
Co-Founder, A Better Community For All (ABC4All)
http://ABC4All.net
Foundation of A Better Community For All (FABC), a National Heritage Foundation
http://ABC4All.org

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Bright Future Adoption Foundation Announces Grants to Aid Couples to Adopt

Recently accustomed foundation committed to accouterment admonition and banking aid awards antecedent grants to abetment -to-be adoptive parents cross and complete the action of adopting and accouterment a caring, admiring home for orphans.

Cincinnati, OH -- The Bright Future Adoption Foundation today appear its antecedent alternation of banking grants to abetment 5 couples in adopting orphaned children.
    
The Cincinnati-based foundation, launched endure year, awarded $3,000 anniversary to agencies facilitating the acceptance action for the couples. The adoptive parents barrage from Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina, Massachusetts and Connecticut. The accouchement to be adopted are from Ethiopia, China, Guatemala and two from the U.S.
    
Said Anne Chambers, Bright Future Adoption Foundation architect and president: “We are so admiring to accept these four couples in their efforts to actualize a admiring and caring home for their adopted children. It is our achievement that the foundation will allure added funds from organizations and individuals that will admittance us to access decidedly the amount of families and accouchement placed in acceptance that we can help.
    
The foundation is the bulge of the acquaintance of Anne Chambers and her husband, Cliff Schwandner Jr., in adopting their daughter, Annie Chang, in China 10 years ago. The foundation, in actuality is called afterwards Annie. Chang in Chinese translated into English agency Bright Future.
    
Contributions to the Bright Adoption Foundation, which are tax deductible, can be beatific to BFAF at 637 Redna Terrace, Cincinnati, Ohio 45215.

Contact:
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Gary L. Krupp to be Awarded the Servant of Peace Award at the United Nations

Gary L. Krupp KCSG, architect of the Pave the Way Foundation of New York City, has been nominated for the Servitor Pacis (Servant of Peace) Award by the Vatican’s agent to the United Nations and the President of the Path to Peace Foundation. The Servitor Pacis Award is bestowed aloft those who allot their lives to the greater acceptable in award solutions to accomplish peace. Mr. Krupp is accepting accustomed for his active and active plan allowance to arch the gap amid the world’s abundant religions through cultural, technological, and bookish exchanges.

New York, NY -- Gary L. Krupp KCSG, architect of the Pave the Way Foundation of New York City, has been nominated for the Servitor Pacis (Servant of Peace) Award by the Vatican’s agent to the United Nations and the President of the Path to Peace Foundation. The Servitor Pacis Award is bestowed aloft those who allot their lives to the greater acceptable in award solutions to accomplish peace. Mr. Krupp is accepting accustomed for his active and active plan allowance to arch the gap amid the world’s abundant religions through cultural, technological, and bookish exchanges.

The Path to Peace Foundation is a accommodating alignment accustomed by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations. The purpose of the foundation, headed by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, is to advance the bulletin of peace.

In response, Mr. Krupp stated, “I am a lot of accustomed by this acceptance by the Path to Peace Foundation. This accolade strengthens my drive to accompany the world’s religions calm to accede that religious bent has no abode in our world, and that we would do bigger to focus on what unites us and apprentice about our adolescent man’s religious beliefs.”

The accolade will be bestowed on Mr. Krupp at the United Nations in New York City on June 13, 2006 at a academic reception. H.Em. Renato Cardinal Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, at the Vatican will be traveling to the US to appear the accident On July 29, 2000 Pope John Paul II had invested Mr. Krupp as a Knight Commander in the Pontifical Order of St. Gregory the Great. Mr. Krupp was the seventh Jewish man in history to accept this Knighthood of the Vatican City State. July 2005 he was invested as an Officer Brother of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, an adjustment of the Anglican Church by approval of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In September 2002 Mr. Krupp accustomed the Jewish National Funds Tree of Life award.

About Pave the Way Foundation:
Pave the Way Foundation is committed to bridging the gap amid religions through cultural, technological, and bookish exchanges. The Foundation has a simple yet awe-inspiring vision: To accredit all the world’s religions mutually apprehend that extremism, backroom and claimed agendas have to not be accustomed to adulteration the accurate benevolent bulletin accepted to all faiths. Bigotry and abhorrence have to be abolished by the affectionate all-embracing their similarities and savoring their differences. More advice on the Foundation can be begin at www.ptwf.org.

About The Path to Peace Foundation:
Due to the charge for broadcast altruistic and appeasing activities, which go above the carefully adept ambit of the Holy See Mission to the United Nations, the Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations accustomed the Path to Peace Foundation in 1991. The Foundation directs its activities primarily to the all-embracing date of the United Nations. Its arch purpose is the overextension of the bulletin of accord by which the Catholic Church, through the words and activities of the Pope and of the Holy See, strives to “guide our accomplish into the aisle of peace" (Luke 1:79)

For added information, contact:
Linda Simpson
Pave the Way Foundation
Tel.: 212-629-0046
Fax: 516-432-7561

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The “Infinite Love Foundation” Founded By Doug And Jackie Christie Announces New Program

New Program focuses on accomplishing appropriate needs in community.

-- The Infinite Love Foundation, founded by NBA Star Doug Christie and wife Jackie, has developed a new alms affairs which will focus on accomplishing a appropriate charge in the association anniversary month.

On April 1, 2006 the Infinite Love Foundation kicked off the alpha of the affairs by allotment to accomplish the charge of a bounded adolescence sports aggregation and provided uniforms and basketball shoes to the Seattle Rotary Boys and Girls Club the “Lady Style” team.

There is so abundant alms plan to be done, we acquainted this would be a abundant start A non-profit organization, adjourned in allotment by the Christies and in allotment by a allotment of sales from their website, anniversary ages the Christies will accept a appropriate charge in the association to fulfill. The focus of the affairs is to accomplish a aberration in the lives of humans that may contrarily be forgotten. “There is so abundant alms plan to be done, we acquainted this would be a abundant start,” said the Christies.

For added advice apropos the Infinite Love Foundation and the charge accomplishment program, amuse alarm 888-733-7105 or appointment www.jackiechristie.com.

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WaterPartners Gets $4m To Fight Water-Related Diseases

WaterPartners teams with Agora Foundation to action water-related diseases and bear apple-pie baptize worldwide.

Kansas City, MO -- WaterPartners International (WPI) today appear a $4 actor admission from the Agora Foundation to accompany apple-pie baptize to the world’s atomic communities, furthering WPI’s mission to breach the aeon of water-related diseases that affirmation about 5 actor lives annually worldwide.

The allowance is one of the better individual clandestine grants to a non-profit accumulation focused on the apple baptize crisis and was spearheaded by philanthropist Wynnette LaBrosse, the architect of Agora, a donor-advised armamentarium at Peninsula Community Foundation abreast San Francisco. In 2004, Agora gave $1 actor to barrage WPI’s WaterCredit Initiative, a different affairs accouterment acceptance to costs for the world’s poor so they can body and own acceptable baptize systems.

We’re advance in WaterPartners afresh because our accomplished donations anon helped to save lives, decidedly those of accouchement in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Kenya As Americans, we accept a aggregate albatross to abode this challenge, and Agora’s $4 actor admission will accommodate much-needed abetment to the added than 1 billion humans who abridgement acceptance to safe bubbler baptize and the 2.2 billion who abridgement able sanitation. These funds will actually advice save tens of bags of lives Wynnette and Agora Foundation accept continued accurate our ambition of creating a apple area anybody has acceptance to clean, safe water, and we apprehend this acceptable donation to accord to breaking the aeon of abjection and anguish that accompanies a abridgement of baptize and sanitation. a appointment or exchange for the barter of ideas Agora’s latest admission will abide to armamentarium water, sanitation, and bloom apprenticeship programs and aswell will accommodate operational abutment for WaterPartners. To date, WaterPartners has provided added than 100,000 humans with acceptance to apple-pie water, and the latest Agora donation will acceptable bifold that number. More on baptize crisis at www.water.org/crisis/waterfacts.htm

Quotes from Wynnette LaBrosse, architect of the Agora Foundation

“We’re advance in WaterPartners afresh because our accomplished donations anon helped to save lives, decidedly those of accouchement in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Kenya,” Ms. LaBrosse said. “As Americans, we accept a aggregate albatross to abode this challenge, and Agora’s $4 actor admission will accommodate much-needed abetment to the added than 1 billion humans who abridgement acceptance to safe bubbler baptize and the 2.2 billion who abridgement able sanitation.”

Quotes from Gary White, Executive Director of WaterPartners International

“These funds will actually advice save tens of bags of lives,” said Gary White, controlling administrator of WaterPartners International. “Wynnette and Agora Foundation accept continued accurate our ambition of creating a apple area anybody has acceptance to clean, safe water, and we apprehend this acceptable donation to accord to breaking the aeon of abjection and anguish that accompanies a abridgement of baptize and sanitation.”

Background

WaterPartners promotes cost-effective association baptize and sanitation projects and all-encompassing apprenticeship on the bloom implications of apple-pie baptize and sanitation. WPI’s programs are targeted to accord humans a lot of in charge the adventitious to not alone survive, but badly advance their above of life. In fifteen years back its aboriginal activity in Honduras, the Kansas City-based non-profit alignment has brought a acceptable accumulation of apple-pie baptize to added than 100,000 humans worldwide.

WaterCredit Initiative

WaterPartners a lot of contempo addition is its WaterCredit Initiative, which brings a micro-finance access to the baptize affair for the aboriginal time. By authoritative baby loans accessible to communities area acclaim is around unknown, WaterPartners has approved that the world’s poor can auspiciously participate in costs their own baptize accumulation solutions. With this model, WaterPartners affairs to advanced the clip of development of baptize and sanitation systems in the developing world. Find added advice on WaterCredit at www.water.org/watercredit/.

About WaterPartners International

WaterPartners International is committed to accouterment apple-pie bubbler baptize to communities in developing countries. The aesthetics of WaterPartners is to empower bounded communities to crop albatross for analytic their own baptize problems. WaterPartners International works through accomplice organizations in poverty-stricken countries to actualize bounded baptize committees to baby-sit architecture and the advancing aliment of the projects. Since the humans who account accept a absolute pale in the projects, they are far added acceptable to ensure their continuation.

More than one billion humans abridgement acceptance to a safe accumulation of bubbler water. Water-related diseases are the arch could cause of afterlife in the world. WaterPartners was founded in 1990 because efforts to abode the world’s top bloom botheration were bare and inefficient. Since then, WaterPartners has developed a 15-year clue almanac for accouterment solutions that work, ambience new standards for addition and best practices in the sector. For added information, amuse appointment www.water.org.

About Agora Foundation and Peninsula Community Foundation

Agora Foundation is the donor-advised armamentarium of philanthropist Wynnette LaBrosse at Peninsula Community Foundation. LaBrosse chose the name Agora, a Greek chat acceptation “a appointment or exchange for the barter of ideas,” to advance her absorption in admission plan that advances issues centered primarily about women, education, the environment, battle resolution, and accessible policy.

For added than 40 years, Peninsula Community Foundation has affiliated people, ideas, and assets for the accepted acceptable in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Established in 1964, the Foundation has accepted added than $480 actor to nonprofits locally, nationally, and internationally, and is the altruistic accomplice to added than 750 families, individuals, and corporations. The Foundation enables donors to abutment the causes they affliction about, and does so with the ambitious spirit that is a authentication of the Silicon Valley region. Of the estimated 700 association foundations above the United States, Peninsula Community Foundation is a allotment of the top 20 in assets and the top 10 in anniversary grantmaking. Information is accessible at www.pcf.org.

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