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Spoonfuls of Stories—How Cheerios Is Helping Get Books to Families

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For the past 8 years, Cheerios has been helping parents make reading with their child part of their daily routine. They do this by helping to get great children’s books into kids’ hands, and encouraging families to read together, by distributing popular and award-winning books free inside boxes of Cheerios.

Starting this month, Cheerios is again distributing 6 million children’s books inside boxes. The books, which Cheerios had specially printed in both English and Spanish, are five different titles…

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How OfficeMax Is Helping Erase Teacher-Funded Classrooms

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What Is “A Day Made Better?”

“A Day Made Better” is a national cause founded by OfficeMax and nonprofit organization, Adopt-A-Classroom, to lead the fight to end teacher-funded classrooms. Annually in October, more than 3,500 OfficeMax associates surprise and honor more than 1,000 teachers at 1,000 schools…

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Born to Fly International Announces Sept. 9 Twitterthon to Fight Child Slavery

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A Florida-based journalist turned abolitionist recently named in Huffington Post as one of the “Top 10 Women Warriors of Twitter” has launched “09-09-09” – a one-day Twitterthon initiative on September 9, 2009, to raise funds to fight child trafficking. Diana Scimone, a veteran journalist who has chronicled the $9.5 billion-a-year…

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This Summer’s Last SOS Challenge—Giving the Gift of Cleaning and Organizing!

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Does your spring cleaning ever turn into fall cleaning? Or, do you feel that the housework is never done? This week is the last in 14 weeks of  Summer of Service challenges and is sponsored by Dyson, because it is all about making this week—starting with today!—squeaky clean…

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Make Today Unexpected

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Do you ever feel that one day runs into the next without a lot of difference between them? This week’s Summer of Service challenge, sponsored by Famous Footwear, is about making this week—starting with today!—unexpected. Here are 11 ways to do that. If you have more ideas, please…

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10 Ways to Brighten Someone’s Day

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This week’s Summer of Service challenge, sponsored by Crayola, is to brighten someone’s day by doing one or more of the following creative things. If you have more ideas, please share them in the comments!

  1. Run up to a loved one and give him or her an

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Ten Ways to Strengthen Your Relationships This Week

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This week’s Summer of Service challenge, sponsored by Crayola, is all about building and strengthening your relationships and helping your children to do the same by doing one or more of the following creative things. If you have more ideas, please share them in the comments!

  1. Write

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Take the Summer of Service Challenge This Week by Including Others!

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10 Ways to Include Others This Week Feeling included is a great feeling. Walking into a room—whether it be at an event, an activity, a conference, church, a school function, or otherwise—and not knowing a single soul in the room can be difficult. What…

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Is Service Sexy? Take This Week’s SOS Challenge and See!

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10 Fashionable Ways to Make a Difference This Week
Service doesn’t have to be stodgy! Make service sexy and “in” by taking on this week’s Summer of Service challenge, sponsorsed by Lifetime TV. How? By doing one or more of the…

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Touch Other’s Hearts by Going Through Their Stomachs!

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10 Delicious Ways to Make a Difference This Week
Service doesn’t have to be bland or boring! Spice it up. Sweeten the pot. Make it delicious. Think of people that need a little love and touch their heart by going through their…

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