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Colby WIldasin

Childhood Cancer Facts | THON.org - Conquering Childhood Cancer - 3 views

  • Childhood cancers are the #1 disease killer of children in the U.S.
  • more than asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and pediatric AIDS combined.  
  • 12 major categorie
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  • Childhood Cancers are cancers that primarily affect children, teens, and young adults
  • Cancer in childhood occurs regularly, randomly, and spares no ethnic group
  • cause of most childhood cancers are unknown and at present
  • One in every 330 Americans will develop cancer by the age of 20
  • 12,500 children and adolescents in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer each year
  • 1 in every 4 elementary school has a child with cancer.
  • average high school has two students who are a current or former cancer patient
  • 46 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer every weekday
  • 2,300 children and teenagers will die each year from cancer.
  • now can be cured almost 80% of the time
  • 75% of the children with cancer can be cured
  • Together, we can make a difference in the life of a child.
emily sanders

Welcome to Pandas International, for the Research and Preservation of the Giant Panda - 2 views

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    helping pandas
Brooke Bortner

Quick Facts about St. Jude - 2 views

  • . Its mission is to find cures for children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. 
  • Research findings at St. Jude are shared freely with doctors and scientists all over the world
  • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened on February 4, 1962 and was founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas
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  • No family ever pays St. Jude for anything
  • St. Jude has developed protocols that have helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to 80 percent today
  • The daily operating cost for St. Jude is $1.7 million, which is primarily covered by public contributions
  • St. Jude was the first facility outside the National Institutes of Health to receive federal approval for research involving human gene therapy
  • St. Jude is the national coordinating center for the National Cancer Institute-funded Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium.
  • St. Jude is the coordinating center for the nationwide Children’s Cancer Survivor Study, funded by the National Cancer Institute. St. Jude is the national coordinating center for the National Cancer Institute-sponsored Pediatric Drug Discovery Consortium.
Jacob Rappoldt

AWF: Mountain Gorilla Census Reveals Increase in Population - 1 views

  • 480 mountain gorillas
  • in 36 groups along with
  • "This population has made an absolutely remarkable recovery from the approximately 250 individuals that existed only three decades ago.
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  • 14 solitary silverback males in the Virunga Massif,
  • Photo Credit: IGCP
  • The goal of the census was not only to assess the population level of the mountain
  • gorillas, but their level of health as well.
  • While the incredible increase in this population of mountain gorillas is clearly a good thing and cause for celebration, the threats to their existence are persistent. Recently, a coordinated patrol discovered and destroyed just over 200 snares in the Virunga Massif over a five-day patrol.
  • "We in IGCP are proud of the contribution we have made to the conservation of mountain gorillas over the last 20 years and we continue to vigilantly support transboundary collaboration and those on the front lines in the parks and surrounding communities,
  • estimated at 380 individuals. The current figure represents a 26.3 % increase in the
Levi Yanover

WWF - Tiger - Overview - 1 views

  • all-time low
  • top of the food chain and one of the most culturally important and best-loved animals, but they are also vulnerable to extinction
  • forced to compete for space
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  • , face unrelenting pressure from poaching
  • We are concentrating our efforts on protecting key landscapes where the big cats have the best chance of surviving and increasing over the long-term.
  • By saving tigers, we also save the biologically rich and diverse landscapes where they still roam — Asia’s last great rain forests, jungles and wild lands.
  • Russia’s prime minister convened a tiger summit where world leaders endorsed a bold plan to save tigers.
  • Three tiger subspecies - the Bali, Javan, and Caspian - have become extinct in the past 70 years.
  • six remaining subspecies - Amur, Bengal, Indochinese, Malayan, South China, and Sumatran - live only in Asia, and all are threatened by poaching and habitat loss.
  • In the 1940s the Amur tiger was on the brink of extinction, with no more than 40 tigers remaining in the wild.
  • Access to the areas where Indochinese tigers live is often restricted,
  • It is estimated that the South China tiger is functionally extinct.
  • WWF is working to ensure those strategies are successfully implemented so that tigers get a strong start on their road to recovery.
  • Wild tiger numbers are at an all-time low.
  • Wild tiger numbers are at an all-time low.
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    "Wild tiger numbers are at an all-time low. The largest of all the Asian big cats may be on top of the food chain and one of the most culturally important and best-loved animals, but they are also vulnerable to extinction." You can donate or "adopt" a tiger.
Amaris Jones

Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Greater Pennsylvania and Southern West Virginia - 1 views

  • th and joy.
  • of Greater Pennsylvania and South
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  • The Make-A-Wish Foundation®
  • West Virginia grants wishes of c
  • onditions to enrich the human experience with hope, streng
  • , a wish is a powerful force in their battle against a life-threatening medical condition
  • feel like normal kids again
  • hope and optimism replace fear and stress.
  • wish experience as a turning point in their fight against their illness
  • a wish experience influences a child's physical health
  • parents say a wish makes kids feel stronger and more energetic
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    The Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Greater Pennsylvania and Southern West Virginia grants wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.
Liam Metzger

SG Mini-THON - 1 views

  • The SG Mini-THON is an effort to raise funds and awareness for the fight against pediatric cancer.
  • SGAMS students raised $301,389.74 for The Four Diamonds Fund
  • The SG Mini-THON will take place April 14th, 2012 from 9am to 9pm at the Spring Grove Area Intermediate School.
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  •  Together, we will make a difference in the life of a child!
  • ildren's Hospital
  • at Penn State Ch
  • Since 2003,
  • It is the online home of the top money raising Middle School Mini-THON in the state of Pennsylvania.
Nickolas Erickson

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Glade Sparks

Disturbed - 1 views

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    amazinggg one of my favorite bands :D
Ashley Hildebrand

Locks of Love helps disadvantaged children suffering from medical hair loss - 0 views

  • hairpieces to
  • financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21
  • long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis.
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  • highest quality hair prosthetics
  • alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure.
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    Lock-Of-Love is another foundation that helps make hairpieces for kids that lost there hair due to medical reasons. They donate only to kids under the age of 21.
Ashley Wright

Get Involved | The Children's Heart Foundation - 0 views

  • In the United States, a child is born with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) every 15 minutes
  • undergo surgeries and sadly, some die every day
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  • Nearly one of every 100 babies is born with a CHD.
Ashley Hildebrand

Locks of Love - 0 views

  • an operation in 1998, strives to help all financially disadv
  • began operation in 1998
  • custom, vacuum-fitted hairpiece made entirely from donated human hair.
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  • children who have experienced a total loss of scalp hair and does not require the use of tape or glue.
  • at least 10 inches
  • bundled in a pony tail or braid
  • free of bleach.
  • receives in newspapers, magazines and on television programs
  • word of mouth
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    This gives information about locks-of-love and some facts about it.
Clint Walters

Programs | Rob Dyrdek Foundation - 0 views

  • Safe Spot Skate Spot Program, which seeks to create safe and legal havens for skaters across the country through the Rob Dyrdek Foundation.  Its main goal is to t assist municipalities municipalities with the design, development and construction of skate plazas that maintain the integrity of terrain occurring naturally in urban environments, and where the sport of skateboarding in its purest form is encouraged rather than discouraged.
  • Provide communities with safe, and legal skate plazas to skate • Increase and encourage the active engagement of people in the sport of skateboarding • Promote healthy and sustainable communities through exercise via skateboarding • Design, develop and construct Skate Plazas in municipalities throughout the world
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  • ree skateboards to organizations
  • Sk8 4
  • . Start a petition.
  • Skateboard Giveaway-
  • kateboard Curriculum/After School Programming
  • Civic Engagemen
  • HOW TO GET INVOLVED
  • Skate Pass
  • GOALS: • Provide communities with safe, and legal skate plazas to skate • Increase and encourage the active engagement of people in the sport of skateboarding • Promote healthy and sustainable communities through exercise via skateboarding • Design, develop and construct Skate Plazas in municipalities throughout the world
  • he Rob Dyrdek Foundation’s Sk8 4 Life Program seeks to promote and encourage the sport of skateboarding by providing free skateboards to organizations
  • has a need for and the ability to distribute free skateboards that are provided by our Foundation
  • The Sk8 4 Life Program seeks to create and maintain healthy and sustainable communities by providing youth with free skateboards to both exercise and stay physically and mentally fit.
  • Skateboard Giveaway- The Rob Dyrdek Foundation has partnered with Skate Pass to provide schools and 501(c) 3 organizations whose targeted demographic has a need for and the ability to distribute free skateboards. (i.e. Boys and Girls Club, Elementary and Middle Schools)
  • HOW TO GET INVOLVED These are many of the same tactics that have worked to get skate parks built across the US. The important thing to remember: you don’t want a skate park, you want a Skate Plaza. Stick to your guns, and remember to educate as many people as possible about the Skate Plaza concept. 1. Organize a group of skaters—the larger the better. 2. Talk to your local skate shop and see if they’ll help you organize and have meetings in their shop. If you’re under 18, you’ll probably need an adult to help. Good sources are a local skate shop owner or a parent. 3. Start a petition. It’s always good to hit your city with big numbers to let them know there’s a huge demand that’s not being met. Take petition forms to your local skate shops and ask the managers if you can leave them for people to sign. Pick them up in about two or three weeks
  • Take petitions to your schools. Take them to local skate parks and skate spots. There’s a good chance that most skaters already see the need for a Skate Plaza. If they don’t, you can explain it this way: “Want a Love Park here?” That should get their attention and explain the idea. Have your friends and family help you by taking the petitions to work.
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    Here are many ways you can help!
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    Here's how you can get involved...
Ashley Hildebrand

Locks of Love - 0 views

  • Most wigs sold by retailers
  • fit adult heads
  • too big for children
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  • not age-appropriate
  • burn or irritate the scalp.
  • use of tape or glue to keep them from falling off
  • lost more than their hair
  • They retail between $3,500 to $6,000.
  • hairpiece forms a vacuum seal,
  • suffer from a loss of self.
  • does not
  • teased by classmates and/or embarrassed by the attention they receive because of their hair loss.
  • tape or glue.
  • wearer of the hairpiece may remove it, by breaking the vacuum seal at the temples.
  • withdraw from normal childhood activities
  • swimming, going to the mall or even playing with their friends.
  • not a cure
  • wearing a hairpiece
  • they can be kids again.
  • some of the normalcy
  • recipient may style it to fit their face.
  • rebuild their self-esteem.
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    This says things about how it benefits children and why locks-of-love is needed.
Ashley Hildebrand

Locks of Love - 0 views

  • Alopecia
  • Alopecia is an auto-immune disorder that causes the hair follicles to shut down.
  • 4.7 million people in the United States alone.
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  • affects both sexes equally
  • no known cause or cure for alopecia.
  • Cancer
  • Alopecia Areata Sisaipho
  • Alopecia Totalis
  • Alopecia Universalis
  • Alopecia Areata Ophiasis
  • Every year approximately 2,200 children
  • Radiation
  • diagnosed with brain tumors.
  • Chemotherapy
  • Ectodermal Dysplasia
  • Loose Anagen Syndrome
  • Trichotillomania
  • Telogen Effluvium
  • Trauma
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    This shows the different reasons why kids could loose there hair and the types of diseases they could have.
Andrew Luckenbaugh

AWF: Action Opportunities - 0 views

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      Good action oppurtunities
Jordan Hoff

Guinea_Pig_Plush_3.jpg (JPEG Image, 430x330 pixels) - 0 views

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    You dyed your guinea pig! You traitor! D:
Jordan Hoff

Inuyasha - 0 views

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    Look at the puppy ears! Aren't they cute!!!
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    This... Is... An... Awesome... Anime...
Jordan Hoff

Yellowstone Park Foundation - 0 views

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    The Yellowstone Park Foundation works in cooperation with the National Park Service to fund projects and programs that protect, preserve, and enhance the natural and cultural resources and the visitor experience of Yellowstone National Park.
Ashley Wright

Children's Heart Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The Children’s Heart Foundation is a United States health charity, whose mission is to fund the most promising research to advance the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of congenital heart defects in children
  • founded in 1996 by Betsy Peterson
  • her 8-year-old son, Sam, died from multiple organ failure brought upon by a sudden heart related collapse.
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  • A congenital heart defect (CHD) is a defect in the structure of the heart and great vessels of a newborn.
  • holds activities across the United States to raise awareness of Congenital Heart Defects and to raise money to be used for research.
  • annual “Hearts at Play” celebration held in Chicago. Other events include golf outings, charitable walks, and galas.
  • The Children’s Heart Foundation is the only organization that strictly funds research for congenital heart defects
  • MacKinzie Kline is an international golf champion and one of the most promising junior golfers in the country. She was born with a Single Ventricle with Transposition of the Greater Vessels. “Mac” has benefited greatly from heart defect research and now actively promotes awareness of the Children’s Heart Foundation.
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