Bloggers Unite - Acts of Kindness

When I think of who epitomizes acts of kindness, I think of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Not just because their focus is on helping sick children, but because all patients are accepted for treatment at St. Jude and treated without the family’s ability to pay. This means that when a mother and father are facing what is probably the scariest time of their lives by having a sick child, they don’t have to worry about how they’re going to take care of the cost of treatment. This means they can focus on what’s important - providing their child with the love and care he/she needs to get well.

St. Jude is unique and unlike any other pediatric treatment and research facility anywhere in the world. Discoveries that have been made there have completely changed how the world treats children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. St. Jude is the only pediatric specialty cancer center that is funded by the National Cancer Institute. They are also the only private cancer center in the United States committed to caring for and supporting children with cancer regardless of the family’s financial situation and health insurance status.

During this holiday season, why not support St. Jude’s acts of kindness with your own? St. Jude offers many ways to support their treatment and research efforts and all donations are tax deductible. If you want to send a monetary donation, you can offer a single donation or a monthly gift. You can also donate gifts to honor the memory of a loved one. And if you haven’t found just the right gift yet for that special person in your life, there’s still time to purchase a gift from St. Jude’s Hope Catalog.

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2 Responses to “Bloggers Unite - Acts of Kindness”

stuart
December 30th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
On a different note, I found this article http://forum.skyscraperpage.co.....?p=3225220 listing the greenest cities in the US. This shows that municipalities care about climate change. I guess the general population cares about the environment and global warming. My score on their calculator was 400 but at least I am trying. Here is the link to the website that published the list of cites and where the carbon calculator can be found: http://www.earthlab.com. The test took me like 5 minutes tops, and then maybe another 2 minutes to find the pledges I wanted. Pretty cool application.
Adrian
February 8th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I really enjoy reading your blog, it always has great insight. But I am very frustrated with the fact that so few people are talking about presidential candidates and their thoughts on global warming. Now that it is down to just a few candidates I would think that this would be a bigger issue.

Live Earth just picked up this topic and put out an article ( http://www.liveearth.org/news.php ) live earth is also asking why the presidential candidates are not being solicited for their stance on the issue of the climate change. I just saw a poll on http://www.EarthLab.com that says people care a lot about what their next leader thinks of global warming. Does anyone know of another poll or other results about this subject?

Here is the page where I saw the EarthLab poll: http://www.earthlab.com/life.aspx. This is a pretty legit website; they are endorsed by Al Gore and the alliance for climate protection and they have a carbon footprint calculator. Does anyone have a strong opinion about this like I do? No matter what your political affiliation is or who you vote for this is an important issue for our environment, our economy and for homeland security.