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After more than 10 years of making cancer a national priority in the USA, the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) announces it is launching a global campaign to fight cancer. On September 24, 2008, Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor and Tour de France cycling champion, announced the creation of the LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Awareness Campaign at the [...]

The Desert Research Institute (DRI), established in 1959, is a stand alone institution, within the Nevada System of Higher Education, that has about 500 researchers, staff and students working on approximately 300 environmental science research projects each year.
DRI is committed to science that improves people’s lives around the world, protects the Earth’s resources and helps [...]

Wisconsin-based International Children’s Fund (ICF) provides food, clothing and medicine to needy children across the African continent. ICF also supports the construction of orphanages, churches, schools, vocational training centers, drilled water wells, and agricultural projects.
Dr. David Breunning, after serving in Asia, Europe, India and Africa on Christian missions, decided to use his missionary connections across [...]

Upwardly Global (UG) is an American nonprofit organization that helps highly qualified immigrants find employment in the USA. UG has helped professional job seekers from more than 94 countries through relationships with more than 70 employers. Job seekers must be permanent residents of the U.S. and be work-authorized.
UG’s job search program for professional immigrants is [...]

Ball for All (Louisville, Kentucky) is an American nonprofit organization that supports youth soccer in Africa as a medium to enhance children’s confidence and leadership skills, promote teamwork, and contribute to a brighter future for Africa.
Ball for All assists boys and girls in impoverished African schools who play soccer. Combining the benefits of education and soccer, [...]

The Portable Light Project (PLP) is a nonprofit initiative that creates new ways to deliver renewable power and light to the developing world in a textile form that integrates flexible photovoltaics and energy efficient solid state lighting … solar textiles. PLP is a project of Kennedy & Violich Architecture (KVA MATx).
More than 2 billion people live [...]

The Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF), based in California, is a nonprofit organization that brings education, housing, medical care and loving support to the destitute children of the impoverished Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal. NYOF has been working in Nepal for over 16 years.
Olga Murray, founder and President of NYOF, spends about half of each year [...]

A September 16, 2008 report by Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that 97% of American teenagers (ages 12 to 17) play computer, web, portable, or console games … 31% play ever every day.
26% of teenage gamers played 2 hours or more per day (when asked how many hours they played yesterday). 34% of boys [...]