PhilanthroFlash

Antidote to Mortality

philanthroflash — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:51:51 +0000

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” –Albert Pike

Bush Cuts Birth Control

philanthroflash — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:22:04 +0000

Excerpts from Nicholas D. Kristof’s Can This Be Pro-Life? in the NY Times:

“The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world’s poorest women in Africa.

Thus the paradox of a “pro-life” administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year — along with more women dying in childbirth.

The saga also spotlights a clear difference between Barack Obama and John McCain. Senator Obama supports U.N.-led efforts to promote family planning; Senator McCain stands with President Bush in opposing certain crucial efforts to help women reduce unwanted pregnancies in Africa and Asia…

…Retrograde decisions on reproductive health are reached in conference rooms in Washington, but I’ve seen how they play out in African villages. A young woman lies in a hut, bleeding to death or swollen by infection, as untrained midwives offer her water or herbs. Her husband and children wait anxiously outside the hut, their faces frozen and perspiring as her groans weaken.

When she dies, her body is bundled in an old blanket and buried in a shallow hole, with brush piled on top to keep wild animals away. Her children sob and shriek and in the ensuing months they often endure neglect and are far more likely to die of hunger or disease.”

Spielberg & Capshaw Say No to Prop 8

philanthroflash — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:58:53 +0000

Steven Spielberg & Kate Capshaw have matched Brad Pitt’s $100,000 donation to help defeat Proposition 8, a California referendum to outlaw same-sex marriage.

The right for same-sex couples to wed was granted in May in a 4-to-3 decision by the California Supreme Court.

“When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.” –Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988

Emotional Rescue at YourShoes

philanthroflash — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:14:09 +0000

YourShoes is a 24/7 toll-free hotline for anyone touched by breast cancer. It is staffed by trained peer counselors who are breast cancer survivors.

The counselors at YourShoes will answer your questions. Give you the info you need. Match you with a survivor who had a similar diagnosis or life experience.

YourShoes offers interpreters in 150 languages.

Call YourShoes Breast Cancer Hotline at: 800-221-2141.

Or e-mail a YourShoes counselor at www.networkofstrength.org.

Do You Wanna Do Good?

philanthroflash — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:47:33 +0000

Find out how at San Francisco’s Do Good.

Do Good helps you support issues that mean something to you: homelessness, animal rights, the environment, and more.

Go to www.sfgate.com/dogood

How a Saint Becomes a Communist

philanthroflash — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:36:36 +0000

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”

-Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop and author of Spiral of Violence

Tell It Like It Is

philanthroflash — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:01:41 +0000

“Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”

–Heathcliff, in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

Piglets Save Girls From Slavery

philanthroflash — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:56:45 +0000

Find out how by reading Meredith May’s “Woman’s Idea Saves Thousands of Nepalese Girls” at www.sfgate.com.

Learn what you can do for the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation at www.nyof.org.

New Clothes Needed for Foster Kids

philanthroflash — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:03:56 +0000

Sleep Train is hosting a new clothing drive through July 20th as part of its Sleep Train Foster Kids program.

Please bring new clothes of any size to any Sleep Train mattress store.

For more info, check out www.sleeptrain.com.

Pass the Bread Please

philanthroflash — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:54:09 +0000

“If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.” –Buddha