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Every April, businesses, individuals and organizations around the world recognize Autism Awareness Month with unique fundraising and awareness-raising events to show support for the autism community. This year, four programs from Northern New Jersey will once again join forces and combine their fundraising efforts to produce the Sixth Annual Go the Distance for Autism Ride – the largest charity cycling event in Northern New Jersey - on Sunday, May 31, 2015 at Bergen Community College in Paramus, NJ.

More than 300 high school students from across the Southland will compete in 11th annual Project ECHO High School Entrepreneur's Business Plan Competition on Sunday, April 12, 2015. This event follows the Semi-Finals event and is intended to provide Southern California high school students the opportunity to pitch their new business ventures to prominent members of the local business community who serve as volunteer venture capitalist judges. Winning teams are awarded cash start-up funds.

Arabic content on the web is sparse but quickly proliferating. While this should be good news, the truth is that most of it is spam. Even despite this huge influx of low quality content, Arabic content still accounts for only 1% of total web content. Wikibia, a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading high quality scientific content in Arabic, is calling for action to be undertaken by web masters, search engines and citizens of the Arab world to raise the level of online discourse publicly available.

Tiny house advocates are harnessing the exponential rise in popularity of tiny houses by forming a new nonprofit organization, the American Tiny House Association. The mission of the association is to promote the tiny house as a viable, formally acceptable dwelling option for a wide variety of people. Its goal is to support tiny house enthusiasts who are seeking creative and affordable housing as part of a more sustainable lifestyle.

On February 27, 2015, Dr. Bill Busch of NKC Dental spoke at the 150th Chicago Mid-Winter Meeting. Lecturing on the subject of Digital Dentistry, his audience included 300 of his peers in the dental field, who watched as he performed a live demonstration on a patient that had a single-visit crown restoration done with PlanScan. The Chicago Mid-Winter Meeting saw over 25,000 attendees in total.

Known as Santa Monica's Neighborhood Real Estate Expert, Diane Dorin of Teles Proprieties is an avid participant of charity events and organizes fundraisers often in her areadianedorin.com. She is now working with a new project with the Habitat for Humanity organization. Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization that was established in 1976 and to this day, it has been providing housing for families in need. Diane Dorin, with the Personal Best in Intensive Steve Shull and her professional coaching group of 19 members, has been able to collect over three thousand dollars so far.

Philanthropy from the Heart, a non-profit organization developed with an aim to help the less fortunate people in the community also commits to put an end to poverty, helplessness and homelessness. The organization empowers people by inspiring them and mentoring them towards becoming productive individuals of the society. PTHeart welcomes all individuals, organizations and all those who wish to help them in this noble cause. There have been many contributors so far who have helped PTHeart accomplish their goals. PTHeart wishes to thank all those contributors and volunteers who have helped the organization spread the awareness amongst the community.

Eventually there is this media agency that helps any local broadcaster get a ranking they are dreaming of. This agency does all the work that a good media agency is required to do in the world of broadcasting. Armed with expert professionals who have years of experience in media marketing, this agency has all the package for any kinds of projects. The distinctive feature about this media agency is that they focus very less on the profits and their clients can rest assured to get a good deal in terms of service charges.

KR Moehr, Abstract Artist in Tucson, AZ, has announced a new Spring charity donation program. She will give a portion of all art sales made between March 1, 2015 and June 30, 2015 to her favorite charities.

Assistance League® of Greater Portland today announced that Albina Co., Inc. has donated $10,000 to support the local chapter of the national nonprofit Assistance League.

With nonprofits so critical to strong communities, we seek investors who will make nonprofits stronger by directly funding their marketing. This project showcases the work of Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco, Juma Ventures, and Trust for Public Land (TPL).

For anyone who enjoys live local performances $5.00 seems like a very small price to pay to enjoy a good show. The good folks at The Stage Door ran the math and figured that if just a few people kicked in $5 each to help them reach their $2,500 crowdfunding goal, not only would those funds save the "Stage Door" theatre troupe, but help it grow.

Essentially, VidaMark is an advertising network that has been started on humanitarian grounds in order to help homeless men, women and veterans to stand on their own feet and make a living. VidaMark hires these homeless and they help in their own unique way of advertising and creating social media campaigns for the sponsors of the company.

On March 5th, a luncheon honored the original charter members of Assistance League® of Greater Portland and the dedicated leaders who have volunteered for the community service organization. The event was attended by 60 women, many of whom have volunteered with Assistance League for decades. The luncheon was a fitting recognition for the local chapter of the national nonprofit Assistance League. The group was formed in response to a luncheon in 1961 at the University Club in Portland where thirty-one local civic minded women discussed ways to serve those in need in the community.

Antonio Velardo, a well known real estate tycoon,  is now starting a new charitable campaign to offer help to the senior citizens who are in dire need. Having come from a modest background himself, Velardo acknowledges the effort that the elders have put into guiding and molding the young people of his generation.  Now, residing in South Florida, Velardo has high hopes to start with the ones living in the area from Fort Lauderdale to Miami who are 65 years of age and older. Some sources believe that this new initiative on the part of Antonio can go a long way in motivating other big businessmen and tycoons to take similar steps for the welfare of the society.

Warrior Food Project, a 501c(3) non-profit charity organization based in the USA, has undertaken a war against hunger on behalf of veterans and their families by providing them free closeout food and beverages. Food and beverage manufacturers are invited to make a difference and donate their closeout food and beverage excess inventory.

Black Skeptics Los Angeles, an African American atheist community-based organization, will award four first generation students scholarships to two and four year colleges. Last year, Jamion Allen, Hugo Cervantes, Elizabeth Hernandez, Tiare Hill and Kelvin Manjarrez from El Camino College, UC Riverside and Gardena High School received $500-1000 scholarships toward their college expenses.

From 6 a.m. until noon or until funds run out on March 18, 2015, donations made to Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions online through the charity fundraising website, GlobalGiving, will earn a bonus match. GlobalGiving aims to match donations of up to $1,000 per donor at 30%. Proceeds from the fundraising project will go towards Palomacy's expenses in providing veterinary care and placement services for domestic, unreleased doves and pigeons in the San Francisco Bay Area that would otherwise be euthanized. Coops and Cages, a pet enclosures retailer and strong supporter of pet welfare, encourages the animal-loving community to lend a hand to the cause and receive a bonus in return.

Celebrity real estate guru, Todd Hill and his foundation, the Todd Hill Foundation, today announced they will be expanding the Bob Kaufman Charity to a new, user friendly website. This means the charity will now be able to handle promotion, donations and support for Bob Kaufman Charity online.

Free Mobile Mechanics has launched an IndieGoGo campaign to raise funds to provide free mobile auto repair to the working poor throughout the country. As part of this campaign, the founders hope to start a non-profit 501(c)(3) group that will travel the United States providing free car repairs for those who need it but cannot afford it.  The team's goal is to repair 200 vehicles within the first year.

"Beyond Goody Bag was started to bring meaning to party favors," said Ben Halpert, Founder of Savvy Cyber Kids. "We are excited to be a partner charity for virtual goody bag gifts where kids can make meaningful and impactful decisions on donating a portion of their gift and receive something for themselves."

Philanthropy From The Heart, a non-profit organization in Miami area is looking for a van that can help in its mission to reach out to more and more homeless people and offer them nourishment besides other services.

The Bethel Children's Foundation has launched an IndieGoGo campaign to buy a brick-laying machine as part of the total cost of construction for the Bethel Children's Home in Uganda.

Cars2Charities is a Fullerton, CA-based coordinator of charity car donations, specializing in improving donated vehicles in order to maximize the tax benefit to donors and to increase the value of the donation to Goodwill charities.

With the world becoming ever more culturally and professionally diverse, the global demand for certain job skills is on an upward trend. While backgrounds in Mathematics, Technology and Business Management remain high on employers' lists of priorities, the extensive range of knowledge and experience gained through Religious Studies is rapidly gaining ground. This reformation of the worldwide workforce has driven an unprecedented number of people to seek out an education that will equip them with those invaluable skills; unfortunately, the cost of such studies leaves many floundering in its wake.