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Cell Phones For Soldiers Gets the Red Carpet Treatment

CPFS Fergie

Grammy award-winning artist Stacy Ferguson, a.k.a. Fergie, held a star-studded holiday party at the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles last week to launch a new partnership between Cell Phones for Soldiers and Volí Vodka. Cell Phones for Soldiers co-founder Brittany Bergquist told us in a chat this week that CPFS is moved by the surge ...

Victory: Lackland Sexual Assaults Petition Finds Success on Causes

A petition demanding a public hearing to talk about sexual assaults in the military gains success.
A petition demanding a public hearing to talk about sexual assaults in the military gains success.

Protect Our Defenders and sexual assault survivor Paula Coughlin-Puopolo declared a major victory yesterday on Causes.com. They created a petition on Causes.com in July demanding House Armed Services Committee chairman, and Congressional representative from California, Buck McKeon schedule a public hearing regarding sexual assaults at Lackland Air Force Base. The petition was created on behalf ...

Actor Dean Winters Raises Funds for Wounded Veterans

Actor Dean Winter hopes to raise $15,000 for The Heroes Project.
Actor Dean Winter hopes to raise $15,000 for The Heroes Project.

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 ...

Lackland Air Force Base Petition Puts Pressure on Congress

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When a military court launched an investigation into allegations that Air Force instructor Luis Walker sexually assaulted 10 female recruits at Lackland Air Force Base, the nonprofit Protect Our Defenders jumped into action. They created a Lackland Air Force Base petition on Causes.com asking the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), specifically chairman Buck McKeon, to hold ...

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