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CBC
11-05-2025
- General
- CBC
Easter Seals P.E.I. school tour beat last year's total by $13K, and it's not too late to give
Social Sharing P.E.I.'s 2025 Easter Seal Ambassador's School Tour has come to an end, raising over $61,000 for the charity, which is $13,000 more than last year's fundraiser did. Eight-year-old Ellerslie Elementary School student Remi Dean, who has cerebral palsy, completed her province-wide tour on April 30 after visiting 62 schools, raising a total of $61,125.11 with around $6,000 of that coming from her own school. Easter Seals executive director Helen Chapman said in a statement that the charity is proud of Remi's work. "Not only did she increase awareness about living with a disability, she inspired all Islanders young and old." The Easter Seals organization has been fundraising on P.E.I. for children with disabilities since 1956. Two of its major fundraising activities are the Tim Hortons Ambassador's School Tour and the UNSTOPPABLE Campaign. Some of the ways donated money is being spent: A grant to Parkdale Elementary School to get new swings, Money for Kids West Family Resource Centre to buy more accessible playground equipment, and Contributions to inclusive education programs at Montague Regional High School and Westisle Composite High School. Contributions are also going to organizations such as the Autism Society of P.E.I., ParaSport and Recreation P.E.I., and the Joyriders Therapeutic Riding Association. P.E.I.'s Easter Seals ambassador is hitting the road to spread her message at Island schools 17 days ago Duration 2:02 Eight-year-old Remi Dean is P.E.I.'s 2025 Easter Seals ambassador, helping raise money and awareness for people living with disabilities. She started out on the annual school tour with her motto in mind: "Remember, you can do hard things." CBC's Tony Davis reports. Remi's mother, Danielle Dean, is grateful to all those "amazing' people who welcomed her daughter during her tour. "I'm so proud of her and I'm, like, so thankful to all the students, teachers, parents — everyone who helped welcome her... It was just amazing to see," Dean said. Remi will continue as ambassador for the rest of the year. Though her school tour has ended, donations can be given year round on the Easter Seals website.
CBC
10-05-2025
- Business
- CBC
A P.E.I. brewery has joined a cross-country beer collaboration for a good cause
The Lone Oak Brewing Company is one of about 40 brewers that have joined a national campaign to brew a beer made completely of Canadian ingredients. A portion of the proceeds from the beer are being donated to the Easter Seals charity, says co-founder Spencer Gallant (shown). The P.E.I. Brewing Company is also taking part. CBC's Aaron Adetuyi put together this story.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Annual fashion show raises money for local charities
BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) — There's a springtime tradition in the Valley that's been going strong for nearly half a century. The 48th Annual Angels of Easter Seals fashion show and luncheon returned to Mister Anthony's in Boardman Thursday. The event drew nearly 400 people to see local celebrities, including First News anchors Stan Boney and Lindsey Watson, as well as reporter Hanna Erdmann, escorting some of the children who receive services through Easter Seals. Organizers admit that with so many charities looking for help, fundraising is never easy. 'But this one, we always get a large amount of people. They appreciate our children will be on stage with celebrities from the TV stations, and it's always appreciated to see them,' said event co-chair Geri Kosar. Organizers say last year's event raised more than $50,000 and they hope to beat that mark. In its 48 years, the luncheon and fashion show has brought in more than $4 million to pay for services for disabled children and adults in the area. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Dangers of tuberculosis keep Dr. Kathleen Jordan Project volunteers on mission
Apr. 30---- Last fall, an estimated 1,000 people, many of them high school students, came to Granite Falls to view exhibits and hear presentations on the very real threat that tuberculosis still represents, and to learn the story of a woman whose work saved untold lives from this infectious disease. The resulted in 20 different published articles telling her story and of the continued threat posed by tuberculosis, as well as speaking engagements for the organizers and statewide and nationwide exposure through media and a partnership with the and Easter Seals. "We thought we were gonna finish this project up," said Linda Heen, speaking April 16 at the annual meeting of the Chippewa County Historical Society in Montevideo. Linda and her sister, Carol Heen, were among the volunteers who organized the Dr. Kathleen Jordan Project with the goal of hosting last year's event, conducted in September across multiple Granite Falls locations. They have since realized the work is too important. The volunteers behind the Jordan Project said they decided to continue the work they began by reaching out and continuing to educate. "Every 20 seconds, somebody, somewhere in the world dies from tuberculosis. That's terrible," said Peggy Kvam, a Dr. Kathleen Jordan Project volunteer, in the presentation to historical society members. Every year in the world, more than 10 million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, and more than 1 million die. The reality of those numbers, and the fact that the disease remains with us in Minnesota yet today, led the group to decide they should continue their work. They are equally motivated by their desire to see that the story of Dr. Jordan is told. Kvam, as a fifth- and sixth-grade instructor, said she had told the story of the Mayo brothers and their importance to health care in Minnesota for many years. In her work with the project, she came to realize that the story of Dr. Jordan is every bit as important and inspiring. Kathleen Jordan grew up in French Algeria, where her English parents operated a missionary school and orphanage. She came to America for college and earned a medical degree at Western Reserve University of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1929. Only four of every 100 medical doctors at the time were women. Marriage to Dr. Lewis Jordan brought her to Granite Falls, where she and her husband oversaw the Riverside Sanatorium. Built and operated by the counties of Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Renville and Yellow Medicine, it served 1,525 tuberculosis patients during the years 1917 to 1963. It was located along the Minnesota River in Chippewa County near Granite Falls. The sanatorium was one of 14 in Minnesota where tuberculosis patients were cared for and isolated. For most, admission meant a full year confined to a bed. In the years before antibiotics, providing fresh air, good food and rest were the available treatments for tuberculosis. Dr. Kathleen Jordan traveled around the state of Minnesota to administer the Mantoux skin test to somewhere between 1.5 million to 2 million people — most of them school children — to identify those with the disease. Identifying and isolating those with the disease proved to be a highly successful strategy in drastically reducing its spread, according to Kvam and fellow team member Carol Heen. A key to the success was in identifying those who were spreading tuberculosis in the home or public settings, and may or may not have realized they were doing so. Tests performed by Dr. Jordan in the Montevideo Schools one year showed a number of infected students who did not share the same classroom, or play together on the same sports team or even attend the same church. Dr. Jordan discovered that their band instructor had latent tuberculosis, with no apparent symptoms. He was unwittingly spreading the disease by mouthing the students horn and reed instruments to tune them. There is no effective vaccine for tuberculosis, said Kvam. Antibiotics can successfully treat it, but there are antibiotic-resistant strains of tuberculosis circulating around the world. They require taking an expensive mix of drugs without interruption. "It is with us today and with us here," said David Lieser, a Chippewa County commissioner who was in the audience that night. Each year, Countryside Public Health reports on cases of tuberculosis showing up in Chippewa and neighboring counties, he explained. Another audience member offered how a young relative of his recently returned from an overseas mission trip and tested positive. Last year, there were 195 new cases of tuberculosis in Minnesota, said Kvam. It is being found most often in those ages 25 to 44 and those ages 65 and older. After being bumped from the top as the world's leading cause of death by COVID-19, tuberculosis is back on top. One-third of the world's population is believed to be infected with tuberculosis, according to Carol Heen. For about 90% of the infected, the tuberculosis is latent. It can become active if the body experiences stress from another disease or other life challenge. To get word out about the disease, the story of Dr. Jordan and the system of sanatoriums that once offered care for tuberculosis care in Minnesota, the Dr. Kathleen Jordan Project has created the website and a channel. Its members also remain ready to share the story at events and gatherings. They can be contacted through the website.
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
$6 Billion Philanthropist Mackenzie Scott (Formerly Bezos) Emerges as 2020's Real Superhero
One of the very big things that happened in the Year of Our Misery 2020 was something spectacularly good: an historic distribution of gifts by Mackenzie Scott — ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — of nearly $6 billion to more than 300 nonprofit organizations doing community-based work. These included large gifts to historically black colleges, to groups run by LGBTQ activists and old-school charities like Easter Seals, United Ways and Good Wills across the country. Her gifts — unsolicited and with no strings attached — amount to what is believed to be the most money ever handed out directly to charities in a single year by a living donor, according to the New York Times. Let us pause and note the stunning breadth and scope of this effort. In just a few months, the 50-year-old overthrew more than a century of philanthropic norms, assembling a top-level group of experts, gathering data and then handing out money — and fast. Scott explained her approach in a post on Medium in mid-December: '(The team) took a data-driven approach to identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results, with special attention to those operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital.' The result was $4,158,500,000 given to 384 organizations across all 50 states — food banks, emergency relief funds and local support services. This sum also provided debt relief, employment training, credit and financial services for under-resourced communities, education for historically marginalized and underserved people, civil rights advocacy groups and legal defense funds that take on institutional discrimination. Scott had given $1.7 billion earlier in the year, for a total of $5.8 billion. I'd never heard of anything like this. And it led me to wonder if female philanthropists are different from men. If so, how. And what impact this might have on future givers in a century of unimaginable wealth. 'There are glass ceilings in philanthropy too, and she just broke it,' a fundraiser for a major hospital told me. 'And she was able to do it at a scale that was remarkable, and very quick.' 'She showed an overwhelming degree of force,' the fundraiser continued (this person was not authorized to speak on the record). 'It was a super strike of philanthropy across the country to small places that really needed the help. Places where a $1 million gift was unbelievable, and a $10 million gift hadn't been imagined.' Places like: • Chief Dull Knife College • Easterseals Rehabilitation Center, West Virginia • Food Bank of Alaska • Global Fund for Women • Meals on Wheels of Eastern Kansas • YMCA of Greater New York Like many in the world of charitable giving, Stacy Palmer, the editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, was still mulling the extraordinary nature of Scott's largesse, and what it means for philanthropy, and for women. 'Women give more than men, but they tend to give slowly, maybe through bequest,' she said. 'Women tend to be cautious — even very wealthy women.' Scott's 'superstrike' flies in the face of these long-researched trends. 'And as fortunes have become big, people in philanthropy had been waiting for women to make their mark — for it to be clear that a woman is going to set different priorities than a man might, and with substantial sums,' Palmer said. Scott, now listed as the third wealthiest woman in the world since her divorce in 2019, joins a rarefied list of super-wealthy women in the world, virtually all coming from tech. Melinda Gates has led the charge and inspired her husband, Bill, to focus on world-changing philanthropy. Lorene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, has distinguished herself by investing in media (The Atlantic) and high-quality entertainment (Anonymous Content). And there will be others as the tech boom grinds on. Sheryl Sandberg, as well as Anne and Susan Wojcicki come to mind. As Palmer and others explained, donations this large — tens of millions of dollars or more — almost never happen at this pace. Large-sum donors normally give to big institutions run by big corporate (and predominantly white) boards. They take years, if not decades, to set up. In Scott's case, her team often sent out notifications of checks to organizations that had never heard of her. Recipients said that emails ended up in spam filters. In moving so fast, so directly and with no apparent ego involved, Scott put the men at the top of the philanthropic food chain on notice, including the likes of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, founders of The Giving Pledge. She also put her own ex-husband Jeff Bezos — currently the richest man in the world despite handing one-fourth of his Amazon shares to Mackenzie in the divorce — to shame. 'Overall he has not given much compared to his fortune,' Palmer said. 'There is longstanding criticism that he has not been as generous as other billionaires in his league.' She paused before answering the question that leapt to my mind: 'It's hard to know if that is something Mackenzie was pushing for in their marriage, or just didn't focus on and when she divorced decided to go do this.' A writer, mother and otherwise not much of a public figure, Mackenzie Scott has not given interviews around her landmark action. (I met her briefly at one Wrap Oscar party and a couple of Academy Awards. But I would like to make a formal interview request.) Scott inspires all of us with her bold, decisive action this year. Her words in announcing this action were both humble, and inspiring. She wrote: Life will never stop finding fresh ways to expose inequities in our systems; or waking us up to the fact that a civilization this imbalanced is not only unjust, but also unstable. What fills me with hope is the thought of what will come if each of us reflects on what we can offer. Though this work is ongoing and will last for years, I'm posting an update today because my own reflection after recent events revealed a dividend of privilege I'd been overlooking: the attention I can call to organizations and leaders driving change. Bravo, Mackenzie Scott. You lit a bright light in a dim 2020. 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