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In Loving Memory of My Mom, Ruth D. Kanter (My Mom)

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My mom was generous and supportive of everyone in her life and those less fortunate than her. To honor her memory, I’m rais ing money for NTEN to offer diversity, local, and general scholarships for the 19NTC in Portland. In Loving Memory of Ruth D. Let me connect some dots. She was also an arts lover.

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Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun and Do Good

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Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. We strive to support all moms to succeed in life and parenting, and to build the 40 developmental assets of teen parents and all our kids. With a group of mom-friends in St.

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Gift the Gift of Charity: Make A Contribution to any of these Fabulous Organizations

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Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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Twenty "Fearless" Changemakers

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Jen Fu Cheng | Peak Potential Climbing | Fairfield, NJ Peak Potential is an organization running a 12-week introduction to rock climbing for children with physical disabilities. Twitter: @CSElive ) 6. Twitter: @PeakClimb ) 7. Twitter: @clarkfork ) 10. Twitter: @PDXJrScientists ) 16.