Causes Blog http://blog.causes.com Inspiration for changing the world. Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 JoinStampede campaign tackles student loan debt http://blog.causes.com/2013/05/joinstampede-stephen-dash/ http://blog.causes.com/2013/05/joinstampede-stephen-dash/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:12 +0000 Alejandro De La Cruz http://blog.causes.com/?p=10499 Q&A with Founder Stephen Dash and his team brought a world-first approach to the way borrowers and lenders interact. Visit joinStampede.com to learn more. In 2012, the student loan crisis reached a boiling point: students across the United States had amassed more than 1 trillion dollars in debt. College students continue to invest in higher [...]

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]]> http://blog.causes.com/2013/05/joinstampede-stephen-dash/feed/ 1 Guest Post: Pushing For an End to Gendercide in China http://blog.causes.com/2013/05/gendercide-in-china/ http://blog.causes.com/2013/05/gendercide-in-china/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 19:32:12 +0000 Alejandro De La Cruz http://blog.causes.com/?p=10496 Evan Grae Davis is the director of the film “It’s A Girl,” a documentary film asking why nearly 200 million women are missing in the world today– killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. Evan is also spearheading an awareness campaign on Causes.com to end gendercide in China and around the world. Evan [...]

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]]> http://blog.causes.com/2013/05/gendercide-in-china/feed/ 0 Earth Day Event Kicks off New Community Garden Grants Program http://blog.causes.com/2013/04/earth-day-kgi-odwalla-causes/ http://blog.causes.com/2013/04/earth-day-kgi-odwalla-causes/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:12:04 +0000 Alejandro De La Cruz http://blog.causes.com/?p=10466 Since the inaugural Earth Day in 1970, people across the world have celebrated the only home humans know by taking notice of the environmental effect they have on the planet. This year, we decided to do something, too! On April 21, members of the Causes team, along with Kitchen Gardeners International founder Roger Doiron, and representatives [...]

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]]> http://blog.causes.com/2013/04/earth-day-causes/feed/ 1 Guest Post: A Victory for Elephants http://blog.causes.com/2013/04/wwf-elephants-ivory/ http://blog.causes.com/2013/04/wwf-elephants-ivory/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:24:35 +0000 Alejandro De La Cruz http://blog.causes.com/?p=10459 World Wildlife Fund is the world’s leading conservation organization. Author Jan Vertefeuille leads World Wildlife Fund’s campaigning efforts. She has been with WWF for 11 years, working to inspire and mobilize the public to help conserve endangered species around the world. Visit WWF’s cause to learn more. – Alejandro De La Cruz, Causes.com Last month [...]

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]]> http://blog.causes.com/2013/04/wwf-elephants-ivory/feed/ 14 Pinwheels for Prevention Takes Over Times Square http://blog.causes.com/2013/04/pinwheels-for-prevention-takes-over-times-square/ http://blog.causes.com/2013/04/pinwheels-for-prevention-takes-over-times-square/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:54:11 +0000 Alejandro De La Cruz http://blog.causes.com/?p=10446 There’s one basic question Matt Feldman of Prevent Child Abuse America wants us all to think about — as a society, how do we want to raise our kids? On April 16, 2013, Prevent Child Abuse America will bring thousands of people together for an event in Times Square — the heart of New York City [...]

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]]> http://blog.causes.com/2013/03/tennessee-bill-222/feed/ 2 Spotlight: High School Student Anna Hankins Takes on Plastics http://blog.causes.com/2013/03/anna-hankins/ http://blog.causes.com/2013/03/anna-hankins/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:38:04 +0000 Alejandro De La Cruz http://blog.causes.com/?p=10434 How many times have you thrown away a plastic bottle this week? That’s the question high school student and cause leader Anna Hankins wants people to think about the next time they buy a one-use plastic water bottle. Anna launched a petition in January of 2013 to get vending machines that sell bottled water out [...]

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]]> http://blog.causes.com/2013/03/anna-hankins/feed/ 55 Success on Causes this year: Whole Foods Addresses GMOs, Ivory Trade Ban in Thailand, and more http://blog.causes.com/2013/03/success-on-causes/ http://blog.causes.com/2013/03/success-on-causes/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:48:59 +0000 Alejandro De La Cruz http://blog.causes.com/?p=10426 People are changing the world and their local communities through dynamic campaigns on Causes.com every day. Your success on Causes inspires us to make the best tools possible. This week, we decided to look at some of the most successful campaigns on Causes so far in 2013, run by both amateur organizers like Heath Arnold [...]

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