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The Boys & Girls Club Nan Knox Unit in Broward County received a free energy makeover by Florida Power & Light Company and S & H Lighting, which will save the organization $1,500 annually on its energy bill.

Fifty local children will have a brighter holiday season this year through TriMark Solutions’ generosity. The Raleigh-based internet marketing company has once again chosen The Salvation Army’s Angel Giving Tree program as this year’s holiday philanthropy. The children, ages 12 and below, will be receiving clothes, toys, and other gifts purchased by TriMark, and donated through The Salvation Army, on Friday, December 9, 2011.

Connected Women of North Carolina (CWNC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit networking group, has announced that nearly 400 women attended the group’s fourth annual “Know Your Value” fall networking event on Nov. 18 at the North Ridge Country Club. Attendees heard from keynote speaker Katty Kay, lead anchor of BBC World News America, as well as a panel of local business leaders from Allscripts, Cisco, WakeMed, Red Had, Fidelity Investments and Greene Resources. Women from around the area participated in various activities designed to enhance networking skills as well. A portion of all proceeds from the event went to InterAct, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness and providing support for victims and survivors of domestic violence.

Senior Pastor Andy Thompson, founder of World Overcomers Christian Church, a nondenominational church serving worshippers in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park community, has announced that the church is sponsoring more than 600 local children for the CARE Ministry’s Angel Tree project this holiday season. For more than four years, World Overcomers Christian Church has provided clothing, learning materials, toys and other goods during Christmas to area children in need. Members can pick an angel from the tree and then purchase the child’s requested and recommended gifts. The church collects items during its Sunday and Wednesday services, and members volunteer with the Salvation Army to sort gifts before delivery. Besides the Salvation Army, World Overcomers Christian Church partners with local schools, social workers and Operation Breakthrough, an organization that provides low-income families with the means to be self-sufficient, to receive names for the church’s Angel Tree children each holiday season.

The Continental Group (TCG), a FirstService Residential Management company, will be joining forces with local charities to put smiles on children’s faces for the holidays. The Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach County offices will be contributing to various philanthropic activities throughout South Florida.

Senior Pastor Andy Thompson, founder of World Overcomers Christian Church (http://www.wocconline.org), a nondenominational church serving worshippers in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park community, has announced that the church’s CARE Ministry Team recently distributed more than 1,300 Thanksgiving meals to residents of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Families in need received Thanksgiving turkeys, as well as groceries needed for traditional side items, as part of the church’s community outreach efforts for the holiday.

Patty Briguglio, president of MMI Public Relations, a Raleigh-based full-service public relations firm, has announced that the company will serve as a collection center for the Heart of Cary Association holiday toy drive. The company will collect new unwrapped toys at its location at 223 E. Chatham St. until Tuesday, Dec. 13. All donations will be distributed at The Carying Place, a nonprofit that helps working families with children who have inadequate housing or financial resources, and Dorcas Ministries, a organization dedicated to providing area residents with emergency assistance in shelter, clothing, fuel, food, transportation, medical care and education.

New England Club Managers David Meador Foundation (DMF) is pleased to announce today that they have received confirmation from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service of the approval of the Foundation as a tax deductible, 501(c)3 charitable organization.

Passage Home, a nonprofit agency fighting poverty and homelessness in Wake County, has announced the staff additions of Karis Lovett Tompkins as chief development officer and Tiffany Wright as chief operations officer. Both Tompkins and Wright will seek to enrich the network of corporations, congregations and community organizations that support Passage Home.

Operation: Coming Home, a joint volunteer project by the Triangle Veterans Association, Royal Oaks Building Group, Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake County (HBA), and Gaines & Company, among others, has announced that Sgt. Carlos Evans, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, and his family will be the recipients of the third house donated by the organization in a ceremony to be held in Cameron, N.C. on Friday, Dec. 2. Operation: Coming Home volunteers and local dignitaries will be on hand to present Sgt. Evans with the key to his new house, which he will share with his wife, Rosemarie, and their two daughters, Nairoby and Genesis.

Growth Welfare Organization organized an event on November 20, 2011 on “Universal Children’s Day” in Tauheed Colony, Orangi Town, Karachi Pakistan. Three Schools with over 150 Students have been participated in the Event.

Ampegy works to improve the quality of life in the communities where it does business. That includes serving community citizens through the newly launched Ampegy Community™ charitable giving program. Ampegy works to improve the quality of life in the communities where it does business. That includes serving community citizens through the newly launched Ampegy Community™ charitable giving program.

For the second year in a row, Drew Polin, president of OpDecision LLC (OpDecision.com), has received the second place award for Young Entrepreneur of the Year of the Delaware Valley, given by the Entrepreneurs Forum of Southern New Jersey. The award was given at their second annual ceremony, at the Valleybrook Country Club on Oct. 19. Polin is the only person to place in the innovative category (2010) and the most successful category, this year (2011).

Film star (Breaking Bad, Stitched) & advocate Tank Jones, along with his 501 ©(3) organization, Choices Empowerment, announces the launch of a valley-wide campaign to deliver food and gifts to families in need during the holiday season.

Across the nation, school groups are using green fundraisers to raise money and promote environmental awareness among students says Kimberly Reynolds of FundraiserHelp.com

OurJewishCommunity.org, believed to be the largest online Jewish congregation, has been named one of the nation’s 50 most innovative Jewish nonprofits in Slingshot ’11-‘12, a resource guide for Jewish innovation. OurJewishCommunity.org was selected for this list because of its groundbreaking use of technology to create an online Jewish community with a contemporary Jewish voice and philosophy.

The New England Club Managers David Meador Foundation awarded its 2011 student scholarships at a dinner and awards ceremony at Nashawtuc Country Club in Concord, MA

SBWire, the online newswire for small to medium-sized businesses and organizations, today announced that Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco has enrolled in the SBWire for Non-Profits program.

For the second consecutive year, Transdiaspora Network (TDN) is commemorating the National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) on Thursday October 13th, 2011, 7:30pm, at Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW). Intending to proactively engage social work students and the academia as well as community residents and social service professionals, this leading non-profit organization has put together a panel discussion “HIV/AIDS and Latinos: Dancing from Tradition to Prevention” in partnership with CUSSW's Latino Caucus. The panel will explore how the Latino cultural tradition influences HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns (and viceversa). There will be also references to the Congressional Briefing that took place in Capitol Hill, Washington DC, last September.

One of the nation’s most dependable debt management nonprofits helps individuals filing bankruptcy

The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences has announced that Dr. Charles E. Hamner, chairman of the institutes’ board of directors, will receive the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor the state bestows, at a ceremony Thursday, Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. at the N.C. Museum of History, located at 5 E. Edenton St. in Raleigh, N.C.

Dr. Burrell E. Montz, Professor and Chair of the Geography Department at East Carolina University, is leading our next discussion, Water Wars: Who's Winning the Battle for Our Water World, at the next science café on October 10th from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at The Tipsy Teapot located at 409 Evans St # B, Greenville, NC 27858-1854.

Operation: Coming Home, a joint volunteer project led by the Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake County (HBA), the Triangle Real Estate and Construction Veterans (TREAC-V), and supported by Royal Oaks Building Group and Gaines & Company, among others, has announced that the effort has attained official 501(c)3 status from the Internal Revenue Service, thus allowing all contributions to the charitable organization to be tax-deductible. This will benefit Operation: Coming Home in its efforts to direct more money to pay for homes constructed in the Triangle for disabled veterans of the Middle East conflicts. With this new status, Operation: Coming Home can apply to the N.C. Department of Revenue for exemption from state sales tax, corporate income tax and franchise tax as well.

In honor of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, the Prostate Cancer Awareness Project (PCAP) successfully hosted their first Prostate Cancer Pony Express motorcycle ride to Capitol Hill to deliver to the US Congress their message.