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Archive for the 'charity' category
Rocky Balboa: I said why you doin’ this?
Mickey: Because you can’t win, Rock! This guy will kill you to death inside of three rounds!
Rocky Balboa: You’re crazy.
Mickey: What else is new?
Rocky Balboa: He’s just another fighter.
Mickey: No, he ain’t just another fighter! This guy is a wrecking machine! And he’s hungry! Hell, you ain’t been [...]
02/02/08 |
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3 1/2 months ’til Marathon day.
If I run, I’ll need to raise $5,000.
Thoughts?
01/26/08 |
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From today’s Boston Business Journal:
The Kettle fund-raising campaign is falling short and the Boston community is in greater need of fuel assistance this holiday season compared to last year, said Salvation Army Major William Bode.
Bode spoke to the Boston Business Journal following The Salvation Army of Massachusetts’ annual luncheon Thursday.
Bode said the Salvation Army in [...]
12/06/07 |
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Congratulations to Community Servings which reached its $4 million capital campaign fundraising goal, earlier this week.
[Community Servings] provides free home-delivered meals throughout eastern Massachusetts to people homebound with acute life-threatening illnesses; it recently moved into new headquarters in Jamaica Plain.
The new 13,500-square-foot industrial kitchen facility will allow Community Servings to increase the number of meals [...]
11/02/07 |
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Okay, that headline is going to have to be changed!
So, apparently Massachusetts residents aren’t giving a lot of money to charities.
The wealthiest Massachusetts residents give much more of their income to charities than wealthy people in the rest of the country, according to a forthcoming report on charitable giving by two Boston College researchers. But [...]
06/10/07 |
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Earlier this month, I ran the Boston Marathon to raise money for Pine Street Inn, which provides support for thousands of homeless and previously homeless men, women, and children.
I’m about to turn in my donations. Thanks to the generous support of loyal readers (and friends & family), I’ve collected over $2,000.
Thank you to all [...]
04/24/07 |
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