For wounded military veterans returning home from a grueling tour overseas, you’d think that climbing a mountain is the last thing they’d want to do. But The Heroes Project, a nonprofit working closely to help wounded veterans and their families, is giving seven wounded soldiers the chance to climb the highest mountain peaks in the ...
When Mark Arnoldy launched a fundraiser through his Causes.com causes page to raise funds for a Nepalese hospital, he didn’t really know what the result would be. With the help of 32 individual donors from across the world, Arnoldy’s fundraiser raised $8,500 to successfully retile a Nepalese hospital. Here is an example. Launched October of 2011, the ...
Over the last 26 years, Paul Hastings has produced a new generation of leaders. He is a volunteer and chairman of Youth Rally — a week long summer camp providing mentoring and support services for kids with Crohn’s disease, Colitis, Vader’s Syndrome, and a variety of other autoimmune disorders. Throughout the week, camp attendees from 12 ...
Rachel Morrissey will never forget the day she was diagnosed with melanoma. “It was the 16th of June and I went to the hospital for a fine needle biopsy. The doctor said I had nothing to really worry about because I was so young.” It was a statement supported by melanoma statistics: 7% of the ...
Ingrid Newkirk, President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has started a Causes Birthday Wish. Below is a guest post from PETA about Ingrid’s Wish. One of the more common sights in India is that of a bullock trudging along in the heat, straining under a heavy yoke to pull an overloaded, ...