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- December 15, 2010
Big businesses reaching out to help smaller businesses, which has come into vogue since the depression, is the latest example of what is known in corporate circles as cause marketing — hitching a brand to a social issue. “Brewing the American Dream,” a program Boston Beer established with a microlender, Accion, to help small businesses,
READ MOREKraushar, 26, organized an army of 60 volunteers, saved an 80-year-old man who was having a heart attack, and rushed an oxygen tank to a woman who would've died without it. Good for You to Krausher, who is now being referred to by the nickname "Medical Matt" in his adopted Brooklyn, NY neighborhood of Red Hook.
READ MORETom's of Maine recently announced the winners of its fourth annual "50 States For Good: Growing Good Works One Community at a Time" contest. The 51 finalists (one organization per state, plus the District of Columbia) were voted on by the public. The top six will share a $150,000 prize for supporting "healthy, human and environmental
READ MOREMedical errors kill over 250,000 people in the United States yearly. Fortunately, though, there are strategies you can use to help doctors and nurses avoid mistakes. CNN, 11/5/2012
READ MORENBC brought together some of entertainment’s best-known New Jersey and New York natives — as well as other superstars who lent their support — for a live concert benefiting the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Time, 11/3/2012
READ MORECameron Diaz recently wrote a book on health and fitness, aimed at teens. She says, "it's not about what I eat or do what I do. It's really about the information, so that young girls and women can look at it and make their own choices. I'm excited about my discipline [which revolves around] a
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