New Handbook Helps Texas Homeless Youth Understand Legal Rights

In a joint pro bono effort, Weatherford, Texas Appleseed and Baker & McKenzie partnered to create The Texas Homeless Youth Handbook, a guide to help homeless youth better understand their legal rights, responsibilities and resources. Texas will be the fourth state in the U.S. to have this particular resource, found at www.homelessyouth.org.

Volkswagen Brand Supports 100 CSR Projects Throughout the World

The Volkswagen core brand is actively engaged in 100 environmental and social projects worldwide. All CSR themes are presented in the sustainability Report. In Mexico, 1,000 young people were trained as environmental "angels" and ambassadors called "EcoChavos".

#GoodNews: First Braille Library Opens in Guwahati with 200 Books

The first library for visually-impaired students was set up in Guwahati at the Blind High School on Wednesday. The library offers the braille versions of a variety of academic books and journals, self-help, general knowledge books, which students otherwise find hard to procure, as reported by The Tribune

More Bang for Your Buck: How to Ensure Effective Company Giving

Community investment, as demonstrated through philanthropy, community engagement, corporate partnerships and more, is essential to staying relevant in today’s competitive landscape. In fact, nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of job seekers won’t take a position if the potential employer doesn’t have strong corporate social responsibility practices, according to a recent study on millennial employee engagement.

Enjoy Chocolate to Benefit Keystone Human Services at Chocolatefest Weekend

How much chocolate is too much? Keystone Human Services puts it to the test during its annual Chocolatefest Weekend, held on January 28-29, 2017 at Hershey Lodge in Hershey, PA as we raise funds to support our life changing services.

National Federation of the Blind, Wells Fargo Launch the 2017 Bell Academy Program

Today, on the birthday of Louis Braille, the inventor of the reading and writing system for the blind that bears his name, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and Wells Fargo launched the 2017 Braille Enrichment for Literacy and Learning (BELL) Academy program. The program takes place throughout the country each summer and provides blind children initial or advanced Braille instruction so that they may learn how to use this powerful reading medium in fun, interactive ways. In addition to sponsoring the BELL Academy, Wells Fargo will provide strategic input into the program and offer team member volunteers at select academies.

Baxter Employees Help Improve Health and Nutrition of Yi Children in Liangshan

Baxter employees in China recently visited Naituo village in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Region in China to help improve minority children’s health and nutrition.

Arrow Electronics Employees Spread the Love

Two dozen employees from Arrow Electronics’ enterprise computing solutions business assembled more than 200 sack lunches last month for area homeless people who were turned away from a local housing shelter due to overcrowding.

The Power of the Individual

Have you heard of Sybil?

In 1777, in the dark of night, a sixteen-year old Sybil Ludington mounted her horse, Star, and raced furiously across forty miles of rocky terrain to warn her community of an imminent threat.
It was the time of the Revolutionary War when British citizens were fighting tooth and nail for the place I now call home—the United States of America. Sybil, the age of a high schooler, travelled a distance significantly farther than that of Paul Revere to alert militia forces of the British army’s approach.

Serving the Poor in a Transformative Way at Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social service agency offering services in twenty-one counties and seven independent cities in northern and central Virginia that comprise the Diocese of Arlington.

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