Posts Tagged ‘Children’

Hiring Camp Counselors for This Summer

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

It is just the time of year when The Fresh Air Fund begins preparing for the summer full of summer camps filled with happy faces and lots and lots of kids from the cities who get to spend their summer vacation out of the city and in the country. It is also a very important time for finding and hiring camp counselors for the summer as well as locating, vetting, and securing host families as well. All of this information is collected on a little informational web site you can check out, but I will excerpt some of this below.

Fresh Air Fund Needs Counselors for Summer 2009!

You love working with children, and that’s probably what we like most about you. Running across the ball field, washing off the glitter glue, or swimming in the lake - with your cabin group laughing around you - you’ll be in your element.

Are you going to be the counselor the children learn to paint with? The one they play soccer with? The one they want to hang out with? Or perhaps the one they read a bed-time story with? Whatever your role becomes, you’ll thrive on the challenge and commit yourself to the cause.

You’ve got to be 18 or over by June 20th to apply, and you’ll usually have completed at least one year of college by the summer. Any previous work with children should always be included on your application.

The experience you’re about to apply for will be like no other, and it’s going to take patience, flexibility, creativity, and a whole lot of self-motivation. But the rewards will be great… overcoming challenges, meeting new friends, playing games in the sun, jumping into the cool lake, painting face masks, hitting a home run, telling stories around a camp fire…

…and then seeing that smile brighten a child’s face.

We’re looking for counselors and program staff for all five of our summer camps - but places fill fast, so get your application in today.

We are now accepting applications for the 2009 season.

What I think the fine people at Fresh Air Fund are looking for Camp Counselors right now, so if you’re interested in applying to become a Fresh Air Fund camp counselor, please apply here. And, if you are on the fence, be sure to check out the below video, see through the eyes of some Fresh Air Fund counselors:

Thank You Fresh Air Fund Holiday Bloggers!

Monday, January 26th, 2009

In December, we at Abraham Harrison helped the Fresh Air Fund reach out to bloggers and folks online in order to remind the online Fresh Air Fund friends and family that they both need donations during this time of year as well as needing families to host children for the summer. Since the holidays, over ninety bloggers have responded to Fresh Air Fund’s call to action with the placement of banners, with tweets, and with blog posts. We are much obliged to you, Fresh Air Fund bloggers!

  1. Young Manhattanite via Young Manhattanite.
  2. Dicky’s Doodles &Scribbles via a Banner.
  3. Mexico Surfin’, Traveling via a Banner.
  4. Sonofthebeaches via a Banner.
  5. More Of Dicky’s Doodles and Scribbles via a Banner.
  6. Willy Wipeout via a Banner.
  7. Dicky’s Gallery via a Banner.
  8. Mexico Surfin’, Traveling via a Banner.
  9. East Village Idiot via a Banner.
  10. Assertagirl via The Fresh Air Fund: Donate Today To Change A Child’S Life Forever..
  11. Olean NY, Bradford PA Entertainment Connection via Give The Gift Of A Fun Summer.
  12. Picking Daisies via a Banner.
  13. Rethinking Life via Rethinking The Natural World.
  14. Sugar and Spice & a Little Rice via a Banner.
  15. Self-Absorbed Boomer via Fresh Air Fund Needs Your Help This Holiday Season..
  16. Make it Happen via Help The Fresh Air Fund.
  17. Serf City via Give To The Fresh Air Fund.
  18. Art of the Possible Online via The Fresh Air Fund Helping Inner City Children.
  19. Yoga and Judaism Center via Fresh Air Fund.
  20. Blah Blah Babycakes via This Holiday Season Give The Gift Of Fresh Air..
  21. The Hosanna Road via Fresh Air.
  22. The Stephford Diaries via Randomness Because I Can.
  23. Lost in the Ozone via Happy Holidays From The Fresh Air Fund.
  24. Stories of a Traveling Diva via Share Your Blessings For The Fresh Air Fund.
  25. Grace come By Hearing via a Banner.
  26. LeeOdden via a Tweet.
  27. Ocean Hopping: NY To London via Fresh Air For Christmas.
  28. Parenting Cares via Making This Holiday Count.
  29. She Lives via Fresh Air.
  30. I Say Hella via Support And Awesome Cause.
  31. Bloody Brilliant via a Banner.
  32. Tom Glover’s Hamilton Scrapbook via The Fresh Air Fund
  33. Around the World in beautiful Shoes via a Banner.
  34. Circle Of Life via a Banner.
  35. Fat Doctor via Give The Gift Of Fresh Air.
  36. Gotham Unleashed via Don’t Forget The Fresh Air Fund!.
  37. Blue Ridge Dreaming via a Banner.
  38. Mountain Mama via a Banner.
  39. Best View in Brooklyn via Need An End Of The Year Tax Deduction? Consider The Fresh Air Fund.
  40. Left of Centre via a Banner.
  41. Samotalis via Happy Holidays From The Fresh Air Fund.
  42. Word Journey via You Can Give A Child A Break This Summer.
  43. Blogging for Business via The Fresh Air Fund Needs Help.
  44. Speaking Thru Me via a Banner.
  45. Myrtus via Open Your Heart.
  46. Queens Crap via a Banner.
  47. Camy’s Loft via a Banner.
  48. Just A Flip Flop Mom via a Banner.
  49. The Online Degree Dorm Room via Try A Little Fresh Air This Holiday Season.
  50. Jewels of My Heart via The Fresh Air Fund.
  51. Citizen Hunter via The Gift Of Fresh Air - And A Family.
  52. The Common Room via Truly Give The Gift Of Space To A Needy Child.
  53. mytopicalescape.com via a Tweet.
  54. Political Junkie via The Fresh Air Fund. .
  55. Outskirts:Life and Times in Charlottesville via C-Ville Needs Fresh Air.
  56. Zoeysworld via Fresh Air Fund Thoughts.
  57. Newbie NYC via NYC Charities - Tis The Season.
  58. Lessons From a Recovering Doormat via The Gift Of Charity.
  59. via Editors Advise On The Pursuit Of Happiness… The Couture Pack Or Not….
  60. The New Dad Blog via a Banner.
  61. South Bronx Math Teacher via a Banner.
  62. Christ, My Righteousness via Supporting Fresh Air Children Fund Psa.
  63. Friends of Dave via The Fresh Air Fund.
  64. Base Magazine via The Fresh Air Fund Needs You!.
  65. Christian Spirituality w/ Edges via The Fresh Air Fund: Changing Children’s Lives.
  66. Inside the frame via a Banner.
  67. Sherman’s News and Editorials via The Fresh Air Fund.
  68. Tri Valley Technology News via Giving To Children In Need For The Holidays.
  69. Enux.org: Regional News via Giving To Inner-City Children For The Holidays.
  70. The Tutorial Blog via Giving For The Holiday Season.
  71. Pregnant Pause via a Banner.
  72. Healing Quotes.Daily Inspiration via a Link.
  73. Healing Quotes.Daily Inspiration via a Link.
  74. Green Daily via Share Your Christmas Blessings.
  75. Paravanes: Christian Meditations via Fresh Air; It’s A Good Thing.
  76. The Diva Network via a Banner.
  77. Baby Fruit via a Banner.
  78. Cheap Textbooks for college English literature writing via a Banner.
  79. Happy at HFC via Fresh Air Fund.
  80. ClearlyEnlight’s Travel Blog via a Link - Under “Websites”.
  81. Granby 01033 via Support The Fresh Air Fund.
  82. Third Mom via a Banner.
  83. Baby Ethiopia via a Banner.
  84. Baby Ethiopia via a Tweet.
  85. The Buddha Diaries via Fresh Air.
  86. Third Mom via The Fresh Air Fund.
  87. The Evil Beet via Amazing Opportunity To Help Out: The Fresh Air Fund!.
  88. New York Portraits via Sparkly Lights In Rockefellar Center.
  89. Londonderry NH net via Thinking Of Summer, A Child In NYC Is!.
  90. Good As You via a Banner.

Thank You All Who Supported International Medical Corps!

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

On behalf of the International Medical Corps and Abraham Harrison, thank you so much for all of your support over the last four weeks to get the vote out to help get the International Medical Corps into the top-five of the Members Project and then for securing the $100,000 from American Express, to be used to feed hungry children worldwide. Here’s a thank you video blog entry from Paige Strackman, who was the PaigeS who submitted IMC in the first place under the title, Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children.

Here’s the official, final, press release you can read, directly from International Medical Corps:

International Medical Corps Wins $100,000 Grant from American Express to Save Malnourished Children

October 14, 2008, Los Angeles, Calif. –International Medical Corps (IMC) has been awarded $100,000 through the American Express Members Project. The grant will be used to treat malnourished children worldwide. IMC is one of five organizations to receive funding in the nationwide campaign where American Express Card members submit and vote for projects that are meant to bring people and organizations together for positive change.

The funding will be used to implement the project, ‘Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children.’ Submitted by American Express cardmember Paige Strackman, the project focuses on treating malnutrition through nutrient-rich, ready-to-eat food, which International Medical Corps provides to more than 35,000 children every month through a network of 215 supplementary and therapeutic feeding sites in some of the world’s most food-insecure environments, including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Somalia. The project was selected by an elite panel out of 1,190 others and received more than 14,000 votes in the final round of competition.

“I submitted this project because, as a mother, I cannot ignore that five million children under five die every year due to malnutrition,” says Paige. “This funding will save thousands of malnourished children around the world who otherwise may not have been reached. I am so grateful to everyone who supported this project and helped make it a reality.”

While the project was submitted by one individual hoping to make a difference, it gathered public momentum. The project’s message was shared in the media from Los Angeles to New York, on nearly 200 blogs across the Internet, through thousands of emails and on social networking sites, including Facebook, My Space and Twitter.

The grant from American Express comes at an opportune time when rising food costs are driving millions deeper into poverty everyday while trying to afford basic staples. As a result, hunger and malnutrition kill more people each year than HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria combined.

“We are incredibly grateful to Paige for not only submitting the project, but also for fueling it with the passion to make it so successful,” says Rebecca Milner, Vice President of Institutional Advancement. “There are approximately 178 million children around the world who are malnourished and only 3 percent get treatment. This funding makes it possible for International Medical Corps to reach more of those children who desperately need our help.”

In Democratic Republic of Congo alone, International Medical Corps’ supplementary feeding centers admitted 3,500 new children in the past two months. At one center for severely malnourished children, IMC has a 35-bed capacity, but is accommodating 82. Another 30 children await treatment. This trend is symptomatic of the food insecurity affecting East Africa and much of the developing world. The World Food Program estimates that 15.7 million of those in need are in East Africa, and another 8.6 million are in Afghanistan.

With a mission that focuses on training, International Medical Corps works to empower individuals and communities, providing education on how to treat malnutrition, identify warnings signs, and intervene before malnutrition worsens. Health care workers and parents are educated on proper diet and hygiene, and communities are equipped to grow their own food and reduce their vulnerability to rising prices.

*The ‘Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children’ project can be viewed here: http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/OZH1P1
**Videos of children’s dramatic recoveries from malnutrition can be seen on International Medical Corps’ YouTube Channel: http://ca.youtube.com/user/IMCMembersProject

For more information visit our website at www.imcworldwide.org.
Also, thank you to every single blogger and social media maven who was so generous as to help us spread the word out and get as much attention as possible for both the Members Project as well as for International Medical Corps as well. You were all more than generous and all of us at IMC and AHLLC would love to thank you for being so generous and selfless.

Thank You International Medical Corps Bloggers Part II

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

First off, if you haven’t voted yet, please vote. Secondly, as recently as Wednesday, September 24th, 2008, I posted a thank you for blogging about International Medical Corps as a thank you for all of the bloggers who were so generous as to blog about the current voting contest going on — 73 earned media posts — called the Members Project. International Medical Corps is being represented by the Member Project called Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children. Well, three days later, we have been lavished with another 30 earned media mentions, listed below:

Anyway, bloggers and everyone else who has supported, thank you very much from both the IMC and AHLLC!

If you want more information, please check out the informational page we made for the project — the SMNR — and you can learn a lot more and see all the various and sundry assets the organization has provided for this noble campaign.

Finally, please let me know if I missed your post in the Chris Abraham comment area — and if you want to post about the contest and the issue, please feel free and pop the URL into the Chris Abraham comment section and I will add you and thanks in advance!

Thank You for Blogging about International Medical Corps!

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

The International Medical Corps and my team have been working on winning $1.5 Million dollars through American Express’ Members Project. IMC needs to be in the top 5 in order to win. Please check out the Member Project page, Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children, and then please vote.  I would like to personally thank each and every one of you who have blogged about the issue and about the contest — see below:

Also, please let me know if I missed your post in the Chris Abraham comment area — and if you want to post about the contest and the issue, please feel free and pop the URL into the Chris Abraham comment section and I will add you and thanks in advance!

If you need more information, please check out our informational page, International Medical Corps Matched With Top 25 American Express Members Project, “Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children”