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The Emmaus Center Homeless Shelter

August 29, 2010

Our final nominee for the August edition of Sweatshirt Blanket’s Spread Your Warmth program in the Emmaus Center, a homeless shelter in Ellsworth, Maine. The Emmaus Center exists to provide a safe and comfortable environment for homeless men, women and families in need of temporary shelter who are willing to work towards ending their homelessness.

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The Cloth Diaper Foundation

August 19, 2010

Today we have the seventh nominee for the August edition of the Spread Your Warmth campaign, the Cloth Diaper Foundation. This non profit organization is dedicated to helping qualifying families all over the United States get a jump start on cloth diapering.

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Spina Bifida Association of Northwest Ohio

August 13, 2010

Today we have the fifth nominee for the August edition of Sweatshirt Blanket’s Spread Your Warmth campaign, the Spina Bifida Association of Northwest Ohio. The SBA of Northwest Ohio was founded in 1975 by a group of parents looking to find support from one another.

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Crusade for Children

August 12, 2010

Our next nominee for the August edition of the Spread Your Warmth campaign is the Crusade for Children. They were established in 1954 by WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky to help raise money for agencies, schools and hospitals to better the lives of special needs children.

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Craniosynostosis Halloween 5K

August 9, 2010

Our good friends at CAPPS passed along some information about a Halloweek 5K they have launched together with the Jorge Posada Foundation and the CSEA 830 to raise funds and create awareness for craniosynostosis. This is their first annual event and we obviously wish them all the best for it to be a great success.

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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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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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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”.