Communities – universal positive

International Women’s Day 2024

March 4, 2024March 7, 2024 by Roger Darnell

International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. For 2024, organizers are seizing the occasion to activate us all around the critical idea of inspiring inclusion.

Celebrate women’s achievement. Raise awareness about discrimination. Take action to drive gender parity. IWD belongs to everyone, everywhere. Inclusion means all IWD action is valid.

Today, I invite you to visit this site – https://www.internationalwomensday.com – where you can better understand how, together, we can forge women’s equality.

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MLK Day of Service 2024

January 14, 2024January 14, 2024 by Roger Darnell

The MLK Day of Service is an opportunity for Americans to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s legacy through service and volunteerism.

Dr. King once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’”

Each year, Americans across the country answer that question by coming together on the King Holiday to serve their neighbors and communities. To learn more, please visit https://www.nationalservice.gov/mlkday.

Giving Season: Love

December 18, 2023December 21, 2023 by Roger Darnell

In the video above, in his own words, Narayanan Krishnan says, “I thought, what is the purpose of my life? What am I going to do? … And I quit my job and I started feeding all these people from 2002.” And later: “There are thousand and thousands and lots and lots of people suffering. What is the ultimate purpose of life? It’s to give. Start giving. See the joy of giving.”

Take your best shot on 28 Nov., Giving Tuesday

November 20, 2023November 27, 2023 by Roger Darnell

Great things are shaping up, thanks to you and everyone else making plans to participate in the annual #GivingTuesday festivities. This movement began in 2012 as an organized effort dedicated to giving back. As a result, on Tuesday, 28 Nov., charities, families, businesses, community centers, students, and others all around the world will come together to celebrate generosity and to give.

Participation is simple.

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Ready to Gobble Gobble Give?

November 17, 2023November 20, 2023 by Roger Darnell

Each year, people all across America gather-up on Thanksgiving morning for a few hours to feed the homeless. Some of these efforts are organized by Gobble Gobble Give, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charity where your vital donations are 100 percent tax-deductible. For their upcoming gatherings in Albuquerque, Boston, Chicago, Crenshaw LA, Garden Grove, Hollywood, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, NYC, Orange County, San Diego, and Santa Monica, participants will bring their own dishes and prepare meals using all the food that comes in (and care packages, too). Then, everyone will hit the streets together to give it all away to homeless men, women, and children.

If you are available to get involved with the Gobble Gobble Give festivities this Thanksgiving, participation only takes a few hours, and it very well might change someone’s life, including yours.

Gobble Gobble Give started with one person in 1998,

The Importance of Juneteenth

September 7, 2023June 18, 2023 by Roger Darnell

Juneteenth is the oldest internationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States of America. Tracing back to Galveston, Texas, when Union General Gordon Granger and his troops enforced the Emancipation Proclamation and freed all remaining slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865, it wasn’t until 2021 that Juneteenth became a federal U.S. holiday.

Memorial Day USA

September 7, 2023May 28, 2023 by Roger Darnell

Special dedication commemorating our soldiers who died serving America.

World Water Day: Be the change

September 7, 2023March 21, 2023 by Roger Darnell

On World Water Day, we all are being challenged to change the ways we use, consume, and manage water. The international event dates back to 1992 when the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development made a recommendation.

World Oceans Day: Let’s protect our home

June 8, 2022June 8, 2022 by Roger Darnell

World Oceans Day has been celebrating the ocean on 8 June every year since 2002. The need for protective action for the ocean has never been greater.

For people everywhere, in one way or another, the ocean connects us all. World Oceans Day formally unites and rallies each of us to protect and restore our precious shared ocean. Specifically,

Brilliant directors: Ben Strang

August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 by Roger Darnell

Filmmaker and photographer Ben Strang joined the directorial roster of one-stop cross-media production company Sarofsky in 2019. As a director of both scripted and documentary works, Ben’s stories are born from the unique locations and individuals he has encountered as an independent photojournalist for over a decade. His scripted pilot “Beast” won the SXSW Grand Jury Award for Best Independent Episodic, and his latest documentary series “A Mystery To Me” won a 2021 Cannes Lion, and was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick, as you can see here.