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CITIZEN JOURNALISM: True blue well-being

Men's health issues focus of campaign

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Women wear their pink ribbons and red dresses; now men can sport blue pins, hats, caps, mugs and rubber bracelets.

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Family anchored by good deeds

'Hardball' host, wife honored as givers

Sunday, June 21, 2009

You wouldn't guess that a gruff guy who plays "Hardball" harbors such a soft spot.

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Weaving life of giving, learning

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Washington philanthropist Evelyn Stefansson Nef explains the secrets of her 95 years.

Foster parents honored for care

Giving hearts, homes to the District's most vulnerable

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Carolyn Young, a Montgomery County special education teacher, said, "I always knew I wanted to have a lot of children."

Helping Hispanic students

Real estate agent gives time, compassion to D.C. college fund

Sunday, May 24, 2009

He could be pocketing a cool million bucks annually even in today's commercial real estate market, J. Fernando Barrueta says, but he chooses to raise eight times that much helping Hispanic high school students acquire a better future.

High-fashion cancer survivors

Sunday, May 17, 2009

What if you couldn't find a fashionable dress or a form-fitting swimsuit because you had a mastectomy or have been badly disfigured scarred by cancer surgery and radiation treatments? What if you couldn't afford to pay for customized clothing or hair coverings or makeup because you have no insurance, and even if you did, the insurer refused to pay for such "cosmetic" accoutrements?

D.C. mentor honors mothers

Parklands services help parents succeed in Southeast

Sunday, May 10, 2009

She never wanted to be called "Mom" or "Mother" and certainly not "Mother Jones" - just simply "call me Ms. Jones."

Tuition, not a dowry, in India

Fund keeps girls in school

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Rupa Raghunath Das of Italy, aka Pietro Paolinelli, used to spend six months of the year working, usually with a fine-dining restaurant, a cruise ship or a catering business, then six months traveling.

WASHINGTON: Social worker puts nonprofits to test

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Few things are worse than having to give up the thing you love to do most that thing, that innate gift for which you are certain deep in your bones that you were born with special skill sets to do. Sometimes, however, that personal sacrifice is for the greater good.