You and your loved ones are cordially invited to join more than a billion of your fellow humans to participate in Earth Day … the only global event celebrated simultaneously by people of all backgrounds, faiths, and nationalities.
Important Events
April 2024 Edition: Ultimate Events Happening Soon
Across this month’s full slate of alluring extracurricular activities, everyone open to new experiences has worlds to gain. Current and future leaders spanning all industries are going all in: Curtains will soon draw back and stages will illuminate. Scan the possibilities and pick your shots, remembering Anthony Bourdain’s wisdom: “The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
International Women’s Day 2024
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.
MLK Day of Service 2024
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
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
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.
Ready to Gobble Gobble Give?
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
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.
Let’s Stand Up To Cancer
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.
The Importance of Juneteenth
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.
