Jun 14, 2017 | Premature Babies, The Giving Back Society, Who We Love
Who We Love (Who are Helping Premature Babies): The March of Dimes was originally formed to help fight polio, but when vaccines effectively ended the epidemic in the United States, the March of Dimes turned its focus to preventing birth defects and infant mortality....
Jun 14, 2017 | 30 Minute Action Plan, Premature Babies, The Giving Back Society
Our cause this week is helping preemies — you can find a recap of the problem here. 30 MINUTE ACTION PLAN: Create a Care Calendar. So much planning goes into preparing for a new baby, but a premature baby can throw the plan right out of the window! Not only are...
Jun 12, 2017 | 5 Minute Action Plan, Premature Babies, The Giving Back Society
THE PROBLEM: 1 out of 10 babies are born too early in the United States (before 37 weeks of pregnancy is completed). (Source) These premature babies may have a variety of health problems both at birth as well as later in life. They also often need to stay at the...
Jun 11, 2017 | Hunger, Who We Love
Who We Love (Who are Helping to End Hunger): City Harvest is the world’s first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding hungry New Yorkers. This year, they will collect 55 million pounds of good, nutritious food from farms, restaurants, grocers, and...
Jun 10, 2017 | Hunger, Let's Go All In
This week we’ve been talking about preventing hunger or food insecurity. For those of you just tuning in, we suggest checking out our first post of the week and building up to this one because here we’re going all in! LET’S GO ALL IN: Grow a Community...