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In 2009, there were 6,510,210 children between the ages of birth to 18 in the state of Texas and 1,795,971 in the North Texas region.
Continue reading Texas foster care statistics for 2009
Jim Wallis and Jon Stewart are such a great combination…
Wallis was on the Daily Show Wednesday night talking about his new book, “Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street.”
Continue reading Making your message relevant
Shared this on Twitter earlier this week and thought it was definitely worth sharing again here.
From Fireside International founder, Luke Renner and The Elms…
The video was filmed in Citè Soleil, Haiti on July 28, 2009, highlighting the beauty and strength of the Haitian people.
As you watch the video, consider what you can do to help the people of Haiti — and then do it.
Earlier this week I shared a Tweet from a friend in Austin:
PRAYER: RT @eloranicole @tiffsoutherland: friend who was adopting from Haiti-met child-going this week 2 get her-found out child was killed
It was a hard Tweet to read (and share).
Essentially, this friend of a friend of a friend were in the process of adopting a little girl from Haiti. They were set to go to Haiti this week and pick her up – but discovered the girl had died in the earthquake.
Continue reading Orphans and the tragedy in Haiti
I had a great video chat with Charles Lee about the upcoming !deation Conference (April 5-6, 2010 in Long Beach):
Registration is taking place now www.ideationconference.com
A special web registration rate of $249 expires tomorrow (Jan 15, 2010) – so sign up today.
And I love that as part of your registration cost, you can pick a group to donate $25 towards — so with 400 registrations, !deation will be donating $10,000 to some great non-profits.
Find out more at: www.ideationconference.com or on twitter at: @theideation
Thanks to Charles for taking the time to chat – and to Wetoku for the great service.
The following groups are on the ground and offering relief after the earthquake in Haiti yesterday.
Disasters Emergency Committee (UK): www.dec.org.uk
One Day’s Wages: onedayswages.org
Salvation Army (US): salvationarmy.org
Compassion International: compassion.org
Haiti Reborn: quixote.org/haiti
Church World Services: www.churchworldservice.org
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance: www.pcusa.org
World Vision: donate.worldvision.org
Bright Hope: www.brighthope.org
UNICEF: www.unicefusa.org
Christian Aid: www.christianaid.org.uk
Americares: www.americares.org
Mercy Corps: donate.mercycorps.org
American Red Cross: newsroom.redcross.org
United Church of Christ: www.ucc.org
Doctors Without Borders: doctorswithoutborders.org
Disciple’s Week of Compassion: secure.groundspring.org
Episcopal Relief: www.er-d.org
Reformed Church in America: www.rca.org
Oxfam: www.oxfam.org
Habitat For Humanity: www.habitat.org
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund: www.haitiaction.net
My good buddy Chris Allman is currently next door to Haiti in the Dominican Republic. You can read some of his thoughts on his blog: chrisballman.blogspot.com
Additionally, just received word from Brandt Russo that all of the proceeds from Cant Ignore The Poor will go to Haitian Disaster Relief through http://www.mercycorps.org/.
HT to @brianmerritt for assembling the majority of this list