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The Animal Rescue Site and Petfinder have teamed up for a great cause! You can help by nominating your favorite shelter/rescue organization for a chance at the $100,000! That’s right, a huge prize to help your favorite organization continue doing the great work they do on behalf of animals.

The following entry is by Kathy Gingerelli, a Parsippany resident and a walk participant in the upcoming Paramus Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. When I was diagnosed with breast cancer three and a half years ago, my first thought was...

Last week I mentioned how often I get bored with food. It’s bugged me all week, quite frankly. I don’t like sounding so ungrateful. There are people right in my area who struggle to put food on the table each day, and here I am complaining about variety.

It is obvious that we are in a financial crisis lately and we don’t even know how worse this will get or if it will end soon. So with that uncertainty, a lot of people are looking for alternative ways to wealth. Is the idea of wealth still a possibility, you may ask? Well, it depends on what you determine wealth to me.

This October, Bring Home a Shelter Dog for American Humane’s Adopt-A-Dog Month® With Home Foreclosures Displacing People and Dogs Alike, Shelters and Rescue Groups Need Adopters DENVER, September 23, 2008 – The housing crisis and economic turmoil have taken their toll on an unexpected group: dogs.

A bigg salute to Stowe Boyd for his recent post on the /message blog. He argues that personal productivity isn’t important anymore. It’s the productivity of your network that matters. ___ ___ That made us think of Stephen Covey.

Thanks to MathTeacher’s comments in the previous post, I will stop dreaming of ways to spend all that money and get back to work LOL! Just also shows how much “we the people” would love a bit of help from our government versus the elite always getting a helping hand.

  A Hectoring Robert Rector by Charley James It never occurred to me that being on food stamps because you’re too poor to feed your family is unhealthy. But Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation believes it is and thinks we should starve the wretches into submission.

NEW YORK -- Thousands of runners have participated in a charity race named for the heroics of a firefighter killed on Sept. 11 after he ran through a tunnel to get to the World Trade Center on his day off....

This week, my dear friend Rebecca Corliss told me a bit about Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC), and what the new organization is up to. I think it’s great. SM4SC is an online grassroots movement started by Boston’s Gradon Tripp to rally social media participants and influencers in support of a common cause.