Conservationists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have joined forces with local communities to form a team of rhino bodyguards on elephant-back to protect the species’ last remaining strongholds in Bardia and Chitwan National Parks.
The new patrol guards, who are trained to recognise individual rhinos and adhere to strict scientific monitoring, are proving to [...]

Earlier this fall, The Hunger Site’s nonprofit partner, GreaterGood.org, received an anonymous gift of stock worth more than $30,000. The world’s first “Click to Give” website chose to let its visitors decide how to divide this additional gift among six charities currently dealing with hunger issues. The final awards were announced this week, giving all [...]

Eleven days before the critical UN Copenhagen Climate Summit when world leaders will decide the fate of the world’s forests as part of the UN Copenhagen Climate deal, eighteen Greenpeace activists from 11 countries (1) have been detained by police following a non-violent action that shut down the export facilities of a giant pulp [...]

Busch Systems has recently taken a stand toward the reduction of poverty in Ethiopia. The company has teamed up with CHF, founded as Canadian Hunger Foundation, to donate over $9,500 toward the pursuit for sustainable living in impoverished countries.
Busch Systems, the North American leader of waste and recycling containers, has become widely recognized over the [...]

Last week, Humane Police Officers with the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals filed criminal complaints against six Pennsylvania commercial dog breeders after agents and volunteers purchased twelve dogs at a dog auction in Holmes County, Ohio on October 7, 2009. There is clear evidence as set forth in the criminal complaints [...]

In honor of World AIDS Day, The AIDS Institute (TAI), one of the nation’s leading advocacy organizations for support of people with HIV/AIDS and their providers, joined Nobel Laureate Dr. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, in calling for government leaders, patient advocates and the research community to expand therapeutic HIV vaccine research.
TAI believes with more research funding, biotechnology [...]

Dell YouthConnect, a global program designed to support education and digital inclusion initiatives for underserved youth, was launched in Beijing today. Dell awarded $2 million in cash and in-kind grants of products to the China Education Development Foundation (CEDF) and the China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF). Both non-profits will use the grants to enhance [...]

For the second consecutive year, Ford Motor Company Fund is donating funds to help feed 11,200 local homebound seniors on Thanksgiving and Christmas because of the company’s commitment to programs like the Detroit Area Agency on Aging Holiday Meals on Wheels Program.
“We know how important it is for the Detroit Area Agency on [...]

The Interior Design Department at The Art Institute of Jacksonville, joined the Beaches Habitat for Humanity to celebrate the completion of the 200th and 201st homes in the Jacksonville Beach area. The Beaches Habitat for Humanity’s Beach Bash 2009: History in the Making was held at the Selva Marina Country Club, on Saturday, November 14, [...]

This year, when you head out to do your holiday shopping on Black Friday, don’t just bring your current cell phone with you, bring your old one and donate it to HopeLine®, Verizon Wireless’ cell phone recycling and re-use program. The old phone you donate may help a survivor of domestic violence as she [...]

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) announced that its partnership with Wilkins Media Company and Lamar Advertising has been a major asset in 2009 efforts to raise awareness of the fight against Parkinson’s disease. Between April and September, the digital messages supporting MJFF’s efforts were seen on more than 400 Lamar digital [...]

More than 400,000 Atlanta and North Georgia residents, half of whom are children, either live with or are on the verge of hunger, and the number of families going to churches and food pantries seeking help to feed their families has increased approximately 10 percent over the past year.
Recognizing that access to nutritious food creates [...]

The American Dyslexia Association (ADA), a non-profit organization, is offering free online printable worksheets based in the Attention Function Symptom (AFS)-Method to help children in improving their reading, writing, spelling and calculating difficulties.
This scientifically proven method has been helping dyslexic children worldwide for over 15 years.
Livia Pailer-Duller, American Dyslexia Association’s Executive Director, emphasizes the scientific [...]

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced today that CVS/pharmacy and Warner Home Video will partner with the Foundation this holiday season to raise critical funds for cystic fibrosis through the sale of classic family movies.
The videos will be sold exclusively at CVS/pharmacy. Five dollars of every video purchased will be donated by CVS/pharmacy and Warner Home [...]

The U.S. Fund for UNICEF today announced a unique lineup of creative and life-saving gifts for holiday shoppers this season. All funds will fully or in part go toward saving, improving and protecting the lives of the unnecessary deaths of 24,000 children who die each day.
“Supporters can bring hope, happiness and health to children around [...]