Giving Back – 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.”

Giving Season: Heroes 2023

December 18, 2023December 18, 2023 by Roger Darnell

Together with my family, I am sending my warmest thoughts to many friends and colleagues worldwide, and feeling a lot of gratitude. I truly appreciate your help in sending daily clicks to https://GreaterGood.com, where our simple mouseclicks can benefit a number of vital causes each and every day.

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,

Veterans thank veterans

November 11, 2023November 10, 2023 by Roger Darnell

In 2016, the U.S. Department of the Interior produced this presentation where 11 veterans honor all other veterans. This authentic testament powerfully expresses how all of us who have served the country feel about others who have done the same. For yours truly, it is a profound honor to lend my voice to theirs in expressing appreciation to all of those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces:

Thank you.

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Let’s Stand Up To Cancer

October 27, 2023August 4, 2023 by Roger Darnell

During its eighth televised fundraising special on Saturday, August 19th, 501(c)(3) charitable organization Stand Up To Cancer is celebrating 15 years of funding groundbreaking cancer research. Mark your calendar and join in as entertainers from the worlds of film, television, music, and beyond share the screen to salute the life-changing work of SU2C’s scientists and researchers, and raise awareness about the continued need for cancer research to save lives now. The telecast will also feature moving patient stories, as well as inspiring looks into the developments being made by SU2C’s scientists.

Tonight is the biggest night in sports: The ESPYS

September 7, 2023July 12, 2023 by Roger Darnell

This very night – 12 July, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC – The ESPYS Presented by Capital One will feature the world’s premier athletes, the sports world’s biggest stars, and the very best sports stories of the year. With appearances by LeBron James, Patrick Mahomes, and Sue Bird, along with performances by Lil Wayne and H.E.R., this 31st annual celebration supporting ESPN’s ongoing commitment to The V Foundation for Cancer Research will be televised live from LA’s Dolby Theatre.

Abbreviated for the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly, the ESPYS honor the outstanding achievements of athletes and teams from various sports disciplines during the past year, as chosen by fans. Much more than a prestigious sports awards ceremony, the event brings together top athletes, coaches, celebrities, and sports enthusiasts to honor excellence in sports – including some of the many major initiatives aimed at improving our world.

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Jonah Hill, thanks for the life-changing “Stutz” documentary

September 7, 2023June 8, 2023 by Roger Darnell

Last October, Netflix released a feature documentary directed by Jonah Hill. It instantly leapt to my attention through the platform’s recommendation engine, but its buzz reached me from all directions. Still, it took my wife bringing it up in January for us to make the time and screen it together. For the record, it has changed my life.

Even in the trailer, Hill acknowledges the oddness of “a patient making a documentary about his therapist” (his words). Beyond that, I find Hill to be a fascinating and multi-talented person, and Dr. Stutz to be a bona fide gem. Even more specifically, with his process and his tools, the good doctor has helped the filmmaker immeasurably. To bring those tools to the attentions of others and facilitate understanding, Hill presents them methodically, then uses his own experiences to bring the lessons home in some surprising and authentic ways.