From the category archives:

July 2010 Nominees

The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma

July 31, 2010

The last day of the month brings us the final nominee for the July edition of Sweatshirt Blanket’s Spread Your Warmth campaign. Today we are pleased to present the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. There are 500,000 Oklahomans at risk of hunger every day, including one in five of all children in the state.

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JustOne creates global awareness of extreme poverty

July 29, 2010

We are nearing the end of the line for July’s Spread Your Warmth nominees and today we have JustOne, a non profit organization that was formed to stimulate greater global awareness about extreme poverty, and to provoke compassionate ideas and intelligent giving in order to provide sustainable relief.

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Save the Children

July 28, 2010

Our next nominee for July’s Spread Your Warmth campaign contest is Save the Children USA. This organization is modeled after Save the Children, an organization established in England by Eglantyne Jebb to provide food for starving children in Vienna after World War I.

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St. Louis Samoyed Rescue

July 27, 2010

The July edition of Spread Your Warmth keeps rolling along and our next nominee is the St. Louis Samoyed Rescue. They were founded in 1984 by several Samoyed owners who were concerned about the welfare of abandoned and unwanted Samoyeds.

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Modest Needs seeks to stop poverty cycle

July 26, 2010

The fifth nominee for July’s Spread Your Warmth campaign is Modest Needs. Founded in 2002, Modest Needs is an award-winning public charity whose mission is to to stop the cycle of poverty before it starts for low-income workers whom conventional philanthropy has forgotten.

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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

July 26, 2010

Our next nominee for the July edition of Sweatshirt Blanket’s Spread Your Warmth campaign is the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. They are the worldwide leader for research to cure type 1 diabetes.

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Children’s Craniofacial Association

July 22, 2010

The third nominee for July’s Spread Your Warmth campaign is the Children’s Craniofacial Association (“CCA”). They are a national, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with facial differences and their families.

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Friends Like Us

July 15, 2010

Our next nominee for the July edition of the Spread Your Warmth campaign is Friends Like Us, a great organization that is focused on helping children devastated by childhood cancer with their Chemo Bear program called “Getting Better Together”.

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Cherry Street Mission

July 14, 2010

The first nominee for the July edition of Sweatshirt Blanket’s Spread Your Warmth Campaign is the Cherry Street Mission. Their mission is to serve all who come to them in need and to provide purposeful discipleship by rescuing the downtrodden, restoring home to the hopeless and releasing God’s greatness to those they serve.