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The UND Alumni Association is sending out word to approximately 85,000 people that they should be monitoring their credit.  Their information was stored on a laptop computer that was lost by a software vendor contracted by the alumni association.  It also sounds like affected members will be signed up for credit monitoring services, free of charge, of course.  This is despite the fa

At last I am qualified to donate my blood! I was denied before for the reason that I have not enough hemoglobin that time. I’m scared about needles but, I want to prove myself that I can surpass my fear and I did it. Not all in our department volunteered to become a blood donor [...]

By Sean KelleyEvery eight weeks, I donate blood. Despite a pronounced needle phobia, I do it for two reasons: One, as a diabetic, I get more than my fair share of attention from the medical community, and dropping a pint in the blood bank is a way to give back. But the second reason is not about altruism. I also give for points. Just like an airline loyalty program, I earn 10,000 points per pint.

This is a special call and a program at the same time being developed and promoted by the Philippines Blood Registry. They are a new and prime provider of free web-based Info Service for Blood Donors and for people who need blood supply. This is a good example of give and take relationship just like [...]

-Barack Obama told potential donor Jill Iscol in a private phone conversation that Hillary Rodham Clinton is still on his list of possible vice presidential running mates.-John McCain apparently thinks that it is funny to joke about killing Iranians by sending them cigarettes.-Environmental experts are in a state of shock over a new government report that shows a decline in zooplankton of more tha

Donor Partnerships OfficerMerlinLocation: London, UKLast Date: July 6, 2008Email: applicatons@merlin-uk.orgJob descriptionPosition: Donor Partnerships OfficerDepartment: Donor Partnerships (part of Marketing & Communications)Responsible to: Donor Partnerships ManagerWorks with: Marketing & Communications, Health and Policy, Programmes and Finance Dept.’s and Field representativesGrade: DSalary:

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Total Donated= $175 million + WOW. Michael Bloomberg has been donating all that dough to hundreds of arts and social-services groups through the Carnegie Corp. His lastest $60 million donation is being spread over the next two years as he begins establishing his own philanthropic foundation. They say that when you leave this world [...]

The UN appealed for US$755 million to cover the high costs of food and fuel which have risen dramatically since June 2007, hampering the world's most vulnerable nations in the global food crisis.31 countries responded in donating a collective US$460 million. Saudi Arabia now close the gap with a US$500 million donation.The half-billion dollar contribution puts the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the fo

Vanaf 6 mei a.s. huisvest het Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum een tentoonstelling over orgaan- en weefseldonatie. De tentoonstelling is samengesteld door NIGZ-Donorvoorlichting. Deze organisatie informeert de Nederlandse bevolking over orgaan- en weefseldonatie en de daarmee samenhangende aspecten, zoals donorschap en registratie in het donorregister.

Speaking of community outreach and charity works, Foster clothing made some campaign ads regarding this topic. They appeal to everyone to have a social tendency that gives blood and donate organs. Their concept is good but I can't connect it with the clothes they're selling.Photo SourceBookmarkz

My friend 1337 Hax0r is considering putting $1000 at stake, if the Liberal Party of Canada brings down the Conservative government in less than one month from the ‘wager’. What more can a blogger do at this point? The Cadman bribery scandal continues to go unpunished, and we’re left with a government content to let [...]

Property developer an early donor to philanthropic cause  - Singapore Foundation, set up to pool money from the rich, has received pledges of $6m so far By Theresa Tan  ——————————————————————————– Million-dollar SMS to Simon Cheong: $1 million needed to start a new community foundation for charity. His immediate reply: Yes. PROPERTY developer Simon Cheong was having dinner two weeks ago when [...]

Photo and Story Via People:After singer Rihanna put out a plea for help, a leukemia-stricken New York City woman has found a bone marrow donor."Today a 32-year-old guardian angel consented to be my donor, even though in all likelihood she has never met me and does not know who I am," Lisa Gershowitz-Flynn, 41, a lawyer, wrote in an email to supporters Thursday."While we cannot verify the source of the donor," Flynn adds, "this angel was most likely found through the efforts of my family and friends, as well as complete strangers who heard about my story and took it upon themselves to aid in the effort to find a donor."After PEOPLE exclusively reported Rihanna's campaign to find a donor for Flynn, more than 5,000 readers contacted DKMS, the world's leading bone marrow donor center, to becom

Originally posted Thursday March 06, 2008 07:00 PM EST After singer Rihanna put out a plea for help, a leukemia-stricken New York City woman has found a bone marrow donor."Today a 32-year-old guardian angel consented to be my donor, even though in all likelihood she has never met me and does not know who I am," Lisa Gershowitz-Flynn, 41, a lawyer, wrote in an email to supporters Thursday."While we cannot verify the source of the donor," Flynn adds, "this angel was most likely found through the efforts of my family and friends, as well as complete strangers who heard about my story and took it upon themselves to aid in the effort to find a donor."After PEOPLE exclusively reported Rihanna's campaign to find a donor for Flynn, more than 5,000 readers contacted DKMS, the world's leading bone m

Do you use direct mail fundraising letters to drive donors to your website to make their donations? If you do, make sure your website donation page answers the three most common questions asked by donors. More: continued here

This will be a superficial kind of post. I am not sure I’ll ever discipline myself to give this subject alot of thoughts. However it is definitely a subject worth discussing. Fear of death is the most primal of all fears. There are ways to suppress it depending on situations. When I just started riding I [...]

The quickest way to improve your donor newsletters is to start seeing your world in story form. Behind every person there is a story. And behind every story there is a person. Your job is to uncover both. Your donors want to read about people, not projects. So write about people. Show photographs of people. [...]

We all know that motorcycling is dangerous. Accepting that there is a possibility of crashing is easy. I’m ready to go down every second of my ride, it would upset me but not surprize me. How about dying in a crash? I refuse to even think about it. I’m in this state of denial when [...]

Your fundraising newsletter will attract more readers, raise more funds and retain more donors when you publish outstanding photographs. Photographs are the most important images you can feature in your donor newsletter. Good photos make your newsletter pages more interesting. More: continued here

Local 4wd club, GBR4WD will be hosting their 5th annual Mud 4 Blood Drive at Bass Pro Shops on Saturday, May 10th. They have been doing this for several years, and each year’s event has been bigger than the last.  Last year they pulled in over 140 pints of blood for LifeSouth.  For several years, Mud [...]

Your fundraising newsletter will attract more readers, raise more funds and retain more donors when you publish outstanding photographs. Photographs are the most important images you can feature in your donor newsletter. Good photos make your newsletter pages more interesting. More: continued here

Do you use direct mail fundraising letters to drive donors to your website to make their donations? If you do, make sure your website donation page answers the three most common questions asked by donors. More: continued here

Jennifer Aniston is reportedly desperate to have a baby and wants a friend to donate sperm.The 38-year-old actress, who is said to be dating Sex and the City hunk Jason Lewis, has reportedly told best pal Courteney Cox that she wants one of her male friends to help her conceive a child."Looks, intelligence and personality are all in the equation because she wants beautiful, bright children to make her life complete"Potential candidates allegedly include current lover Lewis and ex-boyfriends British model Paul Sculfor and Vince Vaughn.The source added: "While Jen may have soured on marriage after her divorce from Brad Pitt, she's still desperate to start a family. She has a beautiful mansion complete with nursery all fitted out, millions in the bank and a select band of eligible guys, one o

As a result of the dodgy donations by David Abrahams, one of Labours top donors, Willie Haughley, has said he will stop donating to the party until the funding crisis is over. When someone is banged up, presumably.If those enthusiastic enough to give money to political parties are stopping doing so it's only indicative of the wider distrust with which people regard politicians. Donorgate has seriously undermined Labour and looks even worse because of Brown's constant preaching about his moral compass.In scandals such as this, all politicians get tarred with the same brush which is why Cameron has frequently been heard saying that "we all get things wrong in party funding" in order not to appear as someone engaging in ecstatic schadenfreude at Labour's expense. The public don't like gloating and it would be unwise to do so as Ashcroft is hardly whiter than white.

In what can only be described as another shining example of a waste of public funds, the BBC reports that the Electoral Commission divvied up £700k between the parties to help them understand the new laws on donations over £5,000.The Electoral Commission - the UK's naffest quango - gave £180,000 in 2001/2002 to the Labour party with the dodgy donations from David Abrahams starting the following year. A spokesperson for the Electoral Commission said the money was to be used to hire new staff or implement new systems. Like honesty?As Matthew Parris reported early this scandal isn't even that impressive - the Labour party can't even do corruption properly. This new piece of information makes the story even more farcical and adds insult to injury. Aside from the obvious lack of a "moral compass" the party was even given funding to help understand the laws. What was the money spent on, then? Did the Electoral Commission monitor how the money was spent? Does ANYONE in government monito

There has been some speculation over the inclusion of identity theft in the long list of convictions that MPs involved in the sleaze scandal could be charged with. Now it looks as thought that might be the case. A lawyer based in the North-East gone to the police because of concerns that his identity was stolen in order to illegally fund Labour donations.George Crawford is concerned because as man with the same name as himself was registered as giving a donation of £36,000 in 2004. his complaint has been forward to Scotland Yard because he believes his identity was being used to make unlawful donations to the Labour party.Mr Crawford works for the same company as John McCarthy, the same man who was previously identified as one of the third party donors used by Mr Abrahams to donate money. Both men have worked for Mr Abrahams previously.In a statement, Mr Crawford said:"I am not a member of any political party and I have better things to do with my money than give it to political parti

Turns out that the second biggest donor to the Labour party is an Iranian born French citizen (pictured) with a car dealership in California who isn't even allowed to vote in UK general elections. Any minute now Brown will be denying knowledge and launching a review. Johnathon Oliver, the reporter who broke the first the McSleaze scandal involving Abrahams has pulled it off a second time. The article says:"The focus of the sleaze scandal engulfing the Government switched dramatically last night to the Labour Party's second biggest donor - an Iranian-born car dealer who is not even entitled to vote in general elections. Dodgy dealings from someone in the car dealer industry? Who'd have thought...Mahmoud Khayami, a French citizen, has given a total of £830,000 in the past eight months, making him Labour's biggest individual backer after Lord Sainsbury. " [picture: Mail on Sunday]COMPETITION - What will be the name of the new scandal? Since he's French my choice would be: "frog-gate

Do you ever heard about Egg Donors?If you have a friend or family who have a problem with the infertility adn really want to have a children, may be the Egg Donors is the one of the solution for that problem. You could get the benefit of this from the article below.Couples Suffering from Infertility Can Benefit from Egg DonorsBy Eva SmithIn dealing with Endometriosis, I have come to understand the pain and frustration that occurs with infertility. The feeling of being alone and having no one that understands can be a very lonely one. Luckily, there are many treatments for Endometriosis that can help women become pregnant. Unfortunately, there are other women's health issues that can prevent pregnancy. One of those problems includes women that can't produce healthy eggs.Previously, there were few options for woman that were unable to produce healthy eggs,. There really wasn't much recourse for women (and their husbands) that were looking to start a family, other than adoption. Most f

Acquiring donors through direct mail is risky. So you should reduce your risks as much as possible by testing. There are two primary tests - lists and creative. You test who you mail to (lists) and you test what you say to those people (creative). More: continued here

I wonder how much it would take for the Hillary Clinton supporters to see what problems she really has. She is neither honest nor ethical, especially when it comes to campaign donations. But I would bet that won’t make a bit of difference to her supporters. There could be a YouTube video of her frying and eating babies and the left would still not waver in their support for her. ~RJH New York Times article link Clinton Sees Fear Realized in Trouble With Donor By PATRICK HEALYOf all the possible vulnerabilities facing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton has long believed that the one of the biggest was money, friends and advisers say. Some sort of fund-raising scandal that would echo the Clinton-era controversies of the 1990s and make her appear greedy or ethically challenged.As a result, Mrs. Clinton told aides this year to vet major donors carefully and help her avoid situations in which she might appear to be trading access for big money, advisers s

People aren’t the only ones who need blood in an emergency. Many dogs and cats lives are saved because of blood that’s donated by other pets. It seemed like an average day when Karen Price got the call. The caller was Allison Osborne, the owner of Diesel, a Great Dane. Price needed Diesel at the hospital immediately. Price, the owner of South Paws Doggie Daycare in Hanover — the Great Dane’s babysitter — offered to drive him. “I try not to get too personal so when she called I thought that maybe there was a family emergency,” Price said. “Or my other thought was that he had some blood work done and had gotten some bad results.” But neither was the case. As Price brought Diesel to Osborne, who works as a veterinarian technician at Roberts Animal Hospital, Osborne explained the reason for the call.’ “Thanks,” she said. “He’s got to give blood. There’s an emergency.” It turns out that people aren’t the only ones who need blood transfusions. And an

"Chainsaw Al" Dunlap, the take-no-prisoners former CEO of Sunbeam Inc., was fired from the now-defunct Boca Raton company in 1998 amid multimillion-dollar allegations of fraud and mismanagement by Dunlap and others. But you wouldn't know that by the press release announcing Dunlap's $10-million gift to Florida State University. FSU's public relations folks, in announcing the money for a "Student Success Center" bearing Dunlap's name, make only a vague and glossy reference to his troubled corporate past: "During his business career, Dunlap was a top CEO, running nine companies in the United States, Australia and England. He never shied away from the controversy that so often comes with leadership." The release quotes Dunlap as saying: "Criticism is the price of leadership, and I think it's a price well paid." He paid, alright. After he was fired in June 1998, the courts ordered Dunlap to pay out $15-million in the settlement of a class-action lawsuit by Sunbeam shareholders wh

Setelah melakukan proses ujian. Alhamdulillah lulus tuh dan pada waktu itu saya bernazar untuk melakukan donor darah yang kebetulan dikantor ada PMI yang lewat. Nah singkat cerita terjadi deh yang namanya melakukan donor darah. Nah sejarah kenal donor darah dimana ya?. 1. Dulu waktu smp pernah ikut PMR.. Tapi waktu itu tetap tidak melakukan donor darah. 2. Pada [...]

In Canada in 2005, people on the waiting list for an organ donation: 4025 People who died while on the waiting list: 283 (5 people per week) Swimming had been something Victor Davis, who was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, had enjoyed since he was a boy. During his career, Davis held several world records as the winner of 29 national titles and 16 medals in international competition. At the 1982 world championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador, he set his first world record while winning the gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, he won a silver medal in the 100-meter breaststroke event, then captured the gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke, in the process establishing another world record. Only a few months after his retirement, on November 11, 1989 while outside a nightclub, Victor Davis was struck by an automobile whose driver fled the scene. Two days later, the 25 year-old died of his injuries in hospital. Victors parents fu

I am urging everyone to get behind the BlogCatalog Organ Donor Awareness Challenge! Wednesday, July 18.To help raise awareness of the challenge itself please digg the BlogCatalog article on the Digg site.BlogCatalog is asking all bloggers to raise awareness of organ donation on July 18th, by posting about the subject. BlogCatalog successfully ran a similar campaign in May which helped more than 1,000 students get the school books, supplies, and resources they needed for their classrooms.Why Organ Donation was chosen for this campaign ? Just look at the waiting list figures: Australia - over 1,700Latin America - over 50,000.Europe and the United States - over 170,000.China - over 2 million.Africa - unknownWhat to include in your post on Wednesday, July 18:Use the title 'BlogCatalog Community Organ Donation Awareness Campaign' or similarExplain the importance of organ donation and how it is a gift of lifeUrge readers to donate organsLink to one or multiple donor web pages listed bel

I can't even remember how I ended up in this site but I do remember that I spend at least half an hour reading and browsing around. The Art Donor is not just another t-shirt shop; it's a place where you can read some amazingly well written autobiographical notes, download cool and humorous wallpapers, screensavers, avatars etc, and generally is an excellent flash website to have fun clicking and browsing around. The designs are smart and funny and sometimes bitter or ironic without having to use offensive language or cheap humor to deliver their message. What can I say? The Art Donor is one of these shops that I wanna keep coming back! The t-shirts cost $24.95 and there's a section with posters and stickers too, but I truly recommend you to read the "About" section if you're in a mood for some good reading.

Celebrating your gift of blood14 June is a special day dedicated to celebrating and thanking voluntary non-remunerated blood donors. This event is called World Blood Donor Day.«The event on 14 June is not intended to replace events such as national Blood Donor Days, but provides a special opportunity for a united, global celebration on a day that has particular significance: the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, the Nobel prize winner who discovered the ABO blood group system». Visit the official World Blood Donor Day website

It is rare when the Dutch make international news but when they do, it’s because they do something outrageous and controversial. How about a reality show where there is a dying woman who wants to donate a kidney before she dies and three contestants sit in anticipation as to who will live a long and healthy life with her kidney; that’s pretty out there don’t you think? Lisa, 37, was dying from an inoperable brain tumor and had roughly 6 months to live. She does have an organ donor card so when she dies her organs will be used but she wants to do it while she is alive; her kidney. Based on histories, stories and conversations she has three people to choose from out of 25 she originally started with but eliminated for a variety of reasons. Now just like any reality show just as Idols or Dancing with the Stars, you call in or text your vote to see who will win! People actually sms’d or called to vote for one of the three based on the stories they were hearing. Dutc

Follow up to my previous post The Big Donor Show. It's all over. The show was aired this evening starting with all the news headlines across the world and a montage of the networks founder Bart de Graaf. Bart was on dialysis for 13 years before having a kidney transplant. Before he died in his 30s his founded BNN (Bart Nederland Network) with fun shows. The audience was filled with transplant survivors and they covered the donor crisis in the Netherlands. The number of donors is actually decreasing whilst more than 200 people die a year waiting for organs. Most European countries have a policy where you are a donor unless you opt-out but Holland has an opt-in policy. Lisa (the donor) firstly selected from 25 compatible recipients removing those over 50, the very young and both smokers and ex-smokers. From there she whittled the list down to 3 possibilities who appeared on the show. She then asked the possible recipients questions about how they live and what they would do after their

Next week the Dutch broadcaster BNN will broadcast their new Big Brother style show named "The Big Donor Show". You have probably heard about this as I first heard about it from a kiwi. A 37 year old woman dying from a brain tumour will decide from 3 contestants via SMS voting who gets her kidneys. Normally cancer patients cannot donate organs but the exception is brain tumours. I don't know what the legal aspects of this are but certain in NZ people cannot sell their organs but they can donate their kidneys and bits of liver to whom they choose (relative, friend etc) providing they are healthy. As I see it there is one major advantage of airing the show and that is to perhaps highlight the lack of organ donors around the globe. However I doubt this is their message. I can't stand these sorts of shows so we don't plan to watch it.

If you thought Survivor was suspenseful and rough on the contestants, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The Big Donor Show, a new Dutch reality TV show from the creators of Big Brother, gives new meaning to the word ’survivor’. In the first episode, a 37 year-old terminally ill woman...

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I know how stupid that sounds, but it is true. Read about it here. Jodilynn Jacob, 33, and Jennifer Lee Shultz-Jacob, 48, moved in together as a couple in 1996, and were granted a civil-union license in Vermont in 2002. In addition to conceiving the two children with the help of Frampton — a longtime friend of Shultz-Jacob’s — Jacob also adopted her brother’s two older children, now 12 and 13. But the women’s relationship fell apart, and Jacob and the children moved out of their Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, home in February 2006. Two women enter into a civil union, they love and care for each other. They decide to have children together. The only problem is… well you know what the problem is. They have a mutual friend who donates sperm to them so they can have children. They go through a divorce and because they are both woman there is no man to make pay child support, the courts go after the sperm donor, and win. This is just the beginning.

CQPolitics.com: Avid Small Donor Base Lifts Longshot Tancredo Into Seven FiguresExcerpt:"Tancredo, who has been raising money through a direct-mail campaign, reported receiving an overwhelming majority of his funds from smaller donors. According to the Campaign Finance Institute, Tancredo received 78 percent of his funds in increments under $200."http://www.cqpolitics.com/2007/04/avid_small_donor_base_lifts_lo.htmlAlex

trevor scorgie Request Please pray for the family of my donor who passed two years ago today. It was his his thoughts for others that gave me my double lung transplant and saved my life. Please pray for his family and my continued good health.

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