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Friends Like Us is a nonprofit organization looking for business sponsors who will help support their efforts to give chemo bears to children being treated for childhood cancers.

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Tellman Knudson, internet entrenpeneur, has set out on a mission to raise funds to help at risk homeless youth to get themselves out of dangerous situations; with a goal of teaching them business and life skills.

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Are you aware that breast cancer is more than one disease? October is breast cancer awareness month and research is the key to understanding how to fight breast cancer.

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World Alzheimer’s Day is being observed today, September 21, 2009. The day of recognition was established to create an awareness of the devastation of the disease its patients & their families; & to help raise funding to fight the disease.

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        Last year 100 million dollars was raised to help fight cancer in an unprecedented way.  All three major television networks joined together to do a broadcast announcing the plan to join together to raise funds and raise awareness in the battle against cancer.  Celebrities, newspeople, researchers and medical professionals and everyday people have combined [...]

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        Stephen Hawking’s, physicist, has made the news recently, because he has been hospitalized in ill health.  Stephen Hawkings was diagnosed with ALS or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis over 40 years ago; and, he has still managed to live a productive life.  ALS is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.  It is never good news when someone [...]

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       Twitter is quickly becoming a way of life for many businesses and folks.  Anytime twitter shows a fail whale…(the symbol a person sees when trying to access Twitter and its service is unavailable) people quickly bemoan the fact that they can’t get on.     The fail whale doesn’t usually last long…I’ve only seen it [...]

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        For those of you who have never heard of Operation Smile it is a great not-for-profit organization that organizes volunteers who team up to medically improve the lives of children who were born with facial deformities.  The non profit was begun by Dr. William P. Magee, Jr. who is a plastic surgeon and his [...]

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        Lance Armstrong is a force to be reckoned with; in sports, and in the world of cancer education and fundraising.  He is a world reknown cyclist of the Tour de France fame.  He himself fought his way back from a grim testicular cancer diagnosis.           He has celebrated his well-being by committing to the [...]

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