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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

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.

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.

No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D’oro Strike Has Its World Premier at the Downtown Community Television Center Landmark Firehouse (87 Lafayette St NYC) On Thursday June 30th.

Yamaha recently donated a P-155 keyboard to Musicorps, a rehabilitative music program for injured combat veterans, for use in a high tech physical therapy center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

The Millennium Hotel-St. Louis will soon become the latest hotel property to take a strong stand against the commercial sexual exploitation of children by signing the tourism Code of Conduct (The Code), ECPAT-USA announced today. The Code specifically focuses on the protection of children from sexual exploitation in the travel and tourism industries.

ECPAT-USA, a nonprofit organization that advocates for policies to protect sexually exploited children, announced that Governor Peter Shumlin has signed Vermont’s new human trafficking law, noting: "The new law now ranks among the strongest anti-trafficking laws in the nation, allowing Vermont to continue our legacy of fighting slavery within our borders and around the world."

Vertex Systems introduces Intuition by Vertex, a new software solution for agencies that serve those with disabilities to easily enter time, attendance and documentation. Intuition allows staff to easily record data for client payroll, case management, service billing or attendance anywhere using iPods, PCs, laptops, iPads or telephones. Intuition is an electronic documentation portal to help social service organizations eliminate paper, errors, redundancies and executive oversight.

More than 20 states in the United States have changed or are considering changes to their policies around trying kids as adults according to a new report, State Trends: Legislative Changes from 2005-2010 Removing Youth from the Adult Criminal Justice System, released today by the Campaign for Youth Justice.

Gregory Silva, CCM, General Manager of Falmouth Yacht Club, Massachusetts, and Member of the New England Club Managers Association (NECMA) has been accredited with the "Certified Club Manager" (CCM) designation by the Club Managers Association of America (CMAA).