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10-Year-Old Chef Supports Missing, Exploited Children with Award-Winning Gourmet Burger

10-Year-Old Chef Supports Missing, Exploited Children with Award-Winning Gourmet Burger

Cooking for a Cause: Red Robin restaurants sell ‘Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger’ to support National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s child safety initiatives.

August 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Causes | Read More »

Donate your bra to a woman in need

Donate your bra to a woman in need

Intimate apparel retailer to collect new and gently worn bras to benefit women in need

July 12th, 2010 | Posted in Causes | Read More »

Keeping Up with Kelly and Kim

Keeping Up with Kelly and Kim

Kelly Ripa and Kim Kardashian Star in Public Service Announcements for QVC Presents Super Saturday Live, Benefitting the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF)

July 12th, 2010 | Posted in Causes | Read More »

Hooters Girls Donate Their Pantyhose to Absorb Oil In The Gulf

Hooters Girls Donate Their Pantyhose to Absorb Oil In The Gulf

Hooters Girls from all over the country will be voluntarily donating their torn pantyhose in an effort to help absorb the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico. The laundered pantyhose are used to make booms which are stuffed with hair, fur and fleece to absorb the oil. Hooters expects to collect over 100,000 pairs of pantyhose through this effort dubbed, Project Pantyhose, which could ultimately absorb 1 million gallons of oil in the Gulf, if the booms are reused 8 times, the average life of a boom.

June 11th, 2010 | Posted in Causes, Environment | Read More »

Clean Your Bra Drawer! Athena’s Cup Asks LGBTQIA Community to Donate Bras at Select 2010 Pride Events

Clean Your Bra Drawer! Athena’s Cup Asks LGBTQIA Community to Donate Bras at Select 2010 Pride Events

Athena’s Home Novelties, an adult novelty companies, today announced bra collection drives at 2010 Pride Events in support of Athena’s Cup. A national campaign, Athena’s Cup aims to collect and hook together 169,000 donated bras in an effort to raise breast cancer awareness and attempt to break the current bra-chain Guinness World Record. Funds collected at Pride events will support Athena’s Cup, benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

June 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Causes | Read More »

Outfit your groomsmen and save the world!

Outfit your groomsmen and save the world!

Outfitting your bridal party got you stumped? How about these supercute ties and bowties for the groom and groomsmen? Each FIGS tie you purchase donates a school uniform to a child in Africa so that they can attend school.

May 5th, 2010 | Posted in Causes, Weddings | Read More »

Free prenatal vitamins during month of May

Free prenatal vitamins during month of May

To help raise awareness for proper prenatal care, Stater Bros. Super Rx Pharmacy will offer free prenatal vitamins to expectant mothers during the month of May 2010, which is Pregnancy Awareness Month.

May 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Causes, Deals | Read More »

Airline adopts ban promoting humane animal treatment

Airline adopts ban promoting humane animal treatment

German airline, Lufthansa, recently announced a new policy that prohibits the transportation of cats and dogs to laboratories. Not too long before the airline introduced this new policy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) released photographs of more than 50 beagles crammed into crates being flown to Charles River Laboratories. The dogs were being transported from an animal breeding facility in New York.

April 26th, 2010 | Posted in Career, Causes, ♀ Women's News | Read More »

Eat fried chicken for the cure?

Eat fried chicken for the cure?

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has partnered up with Susan G. Komen group to fight breast cancer. However, many people are outraged that a fast food chain, contributing to obesity, is joining forces with the world’s largest breast cancer organization.

April 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Causes | Read More »

Brain cancer survivor kicks off cross-country bicycle journey

Brain cancer survivor kicks off cross-country bicycle journey

Anne Feeley, a 55-year-old mother and brain cancer survivor, began a 3,781-mile ride across the country on April 9 to raise money and awareness for brain cancer research and support. The effort, called Brains on Bikes, kicked off from the University of California, San Francisco Mission Bay campus following a celebration that included remarks by Dr. Michael Prados, director at the UCSF Division of Translational Research in Neuro-Oncology and Russ Pieper, vice chair at the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery.

Feeley is scheduled to ride into Washington, D.C. for a finish-line celebration in early July. She

April 12th, 2010 | Posted in Causes | Read More »