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Outdated business lists result in a novel approach for eGood, a California-based social good movement, seeking business suggestions to build a more comprehensive global database of both businesses and causes. Glendora, California (PRWEB) May 23, 2013 In a movement that is bringing worthy causes, companies and customers together in a unique way, one organization is taking a distinctly different approach. eGood is passing up typical purchased data lists and building a more current,...

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bread for the World is troubled that the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management (FARRM) Act of 2013 fails to provide a place at the table for poor and hungry people. The bill, which the House Agriculture Committee is considering this week, proposes more than $20 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. "These cuts will take as many as 2 million recipients off...

NEW YORK, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to Senate and House hearings this week on foreign assistance and the president's FY14 budget proposal, here is a statement for attribution from Ruth Messinger, President of American Jewish World Service, an organization that has been deeply involved in the fight for international food aid reform: "We enthusiastically support the proposal for international food aid reform in President Obama's FY 2014 federal budget plan....

Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory have identified a molecule that prevents repair of some cancer cells, providing a potential new "genetic chemotherapy" approach to cancer treatment that could significantly reduce side effects and the development of treatment resistance compared with traditional chemotherapy. In healthy people, white blood cells called B cells (or B lymphocytes) are a kind of sophisticated tool kit, making antibodies against pathogens or other invaders. In the process...

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For 50 years ACDI/VOCA's stock-in-trade has been agricultural development and food security. In 2003 we were called "the premier agricultural development NGO in the world" by USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios. In line with our longstanding commitment to the toughest, most intractable development challenge, feeding the world while improving livelihoods of the vast majority of the poor, we support food aid. (Logo:...

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leading NGOs respond to President Obama's international affairs budget recommendations for fiscal year 2014: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121101/DC04603LOGO ) 1,000 Days"We are heartened to see that the administration continues to prioritize the reduction of malnutrition and preventable child deaths as a core component of U.S. development efforts. The success of the U.S. government's Feed the Future initiative and...

WASHINGTON, March 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As the US struggles with its own domestic and military budget reductions, sector leaders met to outline strategies that will help them increase their demining efforts in conflict and post-conflict regions through more in-country involvement and market-based incentives while receiving less direct funding from the US and western governments. An estimated 70 million landmines/UXOs exist in 70 countries (source: ICBL) from years of conflict, and...

2014 Budget Funding for USAID Food for Peace and USDA Food for Progress Threatened Washington, DC (PRWEB) March 06, 2013 In anticipation of the release of the 2014 fiscal budget later this month, the international aid community is campaigning to preserve funding for the USAID Food for Peace and USDA Food for Progress programs, critical to feeding those living in global poverty. PCI (Project Concern International) has joined more than 85 private voluntary organizations, farming, shipping,...

WASHINGTON , March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NGO alliance InterAction urged members of Congress and the administration to restore support for life-saving foreign assistance programs in continued budget negotiations, warning that sequestration cuts that take effect today will cost lives. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121101/DC04603LOGO ) Under sequestration, programs that provide food aid, support for refugees, HIV/AIDS treatment, primary school education...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Among the 46.0 million adults who received income-based government assistance in 2011, 30.4 percent of them had a disability, according to a report released today from the U.S. Census Bureau. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130226/DC66589-INFO) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO) The report, Disability Characteristics of Income-Based Government Assistance Recipients in the United States:...