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2008 Great American Bake Sale – How
You Can Participate
Share Our Strength's Great American Bake
Sale is a national campaign that mobilizes
people of all ages to help end childhood
hunger in America by holding bake sales
in their communities. More than 4 million
people have baked, bought, or sold goods
to end childhood hunger in their communities
by participating. Since 2003, nearly $4
million has been raised to make sure no
child in America grows up hungry.
The 2008 Great American Bake Sale launches
on March 1 and concludes on June 30. Proceeds
are granted to organizations in communities
nationwide to help provide at-risk children
with nutritious meals when they're
needed most – during summer, and
after school.
Now is your chance to help children in
need year-round! Consider hosting
a bake sale for move-in and move-out days,
as well as during parent day at your camp!
For more information on how to get involved,
visit http://www.greatamericanbakesale.org for
more information.
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The Weather Channel and the National
Environmental Education Foundation Launch
Dynamic Environmental Education Program
for Youth
The Weather Channel and its affiliated
foundation, Landmark Communications Foundation,
announced a $2.5 million donation to the
National Environmental Education Foundation
(NEEF). The funds, to be contributed by
the Landmark Communications Foundation
over the next five years, will be dedicated
to creating an interactive, web based environmental
education program that will ultimately
reach and impact 20 million American high
school students.
The new program draws on expertise and
content from The Weather Channel's Forecast
Earth properties and The National Environmental
Education Foundation's innovative educational
programming. High School students
and teachers nationwide will be invited
to design this program from the ground
up to make teaching and learning about
the environment easy, accurate, timely,
accessible and effective for any subject
taught in high schools.
For more information, visit
http://www.neefusa.org.
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A Forum for Parents and Youth Professionals
The National Center on Addiction and Substance
Abuse at Columbia University (CASA*)has
just launched a new forum – Parent
Power - on its Web site www.casacolumbia.org to
engage parents and child and youth professionals
in a conversation about how to keep kids
alcohol- and drug-free!
CASA wants to learn about your experiences
in talking/listening to children about
alcohol, marijuana, pills, and other drugs.
What works? What doesn't work? What
are the questions you want answered? Your
comments will be used to help shape CASA's
second book, Parent Power, a guide to raising
healthy and substance free children, which
will be published in 2009.
To share your thoughts, questions, and
ideas simply log on to www.casacolumbia.org and
click on the Parent Power link. Share
now and you can be apart of creating the
best book ever done to help raise healthy
kids free of drugs and alcohol!
*The National
Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
at Columbia University is neither affiliated
with, nor sponsored by, the National Court
Appointed Special Advocate Association (also
known as "CASA") or any of its
member organizations, or any other organization
with the name of "CASA."
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