From the Dome to Home, Katrina Survivors Celebrate First Holiday

The absolution includes the adventure of a ancestors that has begin a home because of the "Make a Home" project, which is a affiliation amid the Houston Association of REALTORS and Houston Area Urban League. Nearly 1,800 humans accept been placed in donated, concise apartment through the program.

Houston, Texas -- Debria Tripps and her ancestors were a allotment of the bags who larboard home with little added than the clothes on their backs. They came to Houston not alive what the approaching would bring. In animosity of the bearings the New Orleans native, who now lives with her sister, niece and nephew, says they accept abundant to be beholden for this year. Their new abode came via the Houston Association of Realtors-Houston Area Urban League program, “Make a Home.” Tripps is just one of about 1,800 humans who accept been placed in donated apartment through the “Make a Home” project.

“We were all in the Astrodome, and I contacted the ‘Make a Home’ activity to acquisition a abode to abide so that my niece and nephew could be enrolled in academy in Houston, “ said Tripps. “The humans at the Urban League and Houston Association of REALTORS® accept been amazing and accept absolutely afflicted our lives. We are adored to accept begin them.”

While the belief of the Hurricane Katrina evacuees accept abundantly abolished from the foreground page of newspapers and no best advance the nightly news, the HAR and the Urban League abide their “Make a Home” project, agreement families in charge of apartment in properties.

The “Make a Home” activity partnered HAR and the Urban League with added bounded organizations to bout applicants through the HAR.com Web website with backdrop donated through both the a telethon and the HAR Web site.

“This is what we do. REALTORS advice humans acquisition housing,” said HAR Chair Toni Nelson. “This activity was a accustomed addendum of our profession, and our associates were animated that they could put their ability and acquaintance to use in such a time of acute need.”

“Even with the continued FEMA borderline for humans to leave hotels by January 7, it is important for all of us to do our allotment to accomplish the holidays blessed and defended for our newest Houstonians,” said Urban League President and CEO Sylvia Brooks. “We are allowance not alone abode humans in homes but aswell to acquisition jobs and a way to abutment themselves already the federal aid stops.”

Many added humans are still in charge so you may go to http://www.har.com and bang on the “Make a Home” logo to accord any blazon of acreage from a additional home, rental property, address or apartment. The matches will abide until every accessible acreage has been assigned. The recipients of apartment accept included individual women, the elderly, families with as abounding as 10 people, and aggregate in between.

Founded in 1918, the Houston Association of REALTORS® (HAR) is a 23,000-member alignment of absolute acreage professionals affianced in every aspect of the industry, including residential and bartering sales and leasing, appraisal, acreage administration and counseling. It is the better alone associates barter affiliation in Houston, as able-bodied as the additional better bounded association/board of REALTORS® in the United States. Its Web website is aswell the a lot of frequently visited absolute acreage website in Houston, with an boilerplate of added than 400 actor hits anniversary month. For added information, amuse appointment http://www.har.com.

The mission of the Houston Area Urban League is to accredit African Americans and added minorities to defended bread-and-butter self-reliance, parity, ability and noncombatant rights. The Houston Area Urban League (The League) was founded in 1968 by a accumulation of business professionals. Since again the Houston Area Urban League has been a articulation for disadvantaged humans of all contest and has a continued and acclaimed almanac as an agency that offers tangible, abiding allowances to all associates of the association after attention to age, sex, race, concrete limitations or aboriginal background. For added information, amuse appointment http://www.haul.org.
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Save-the-Redwoods League Celebrates 90 Years of Protecting Ancient Redwood Forests

Save-the-Redwoods League, the alone non-profit alignment committed to attention age-old redwood forests throughout their accustomed range, celebrates 90 years of plan to ensure that all ancestors can acquaintance the majesty of the world's tallest and better trees. At its 90th celebration celebration, the League appear a $10,000 admission to the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society to armamentarium educational redwood walks for burghal adolescence in Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco, CA -- Save-the-Redwoods League, the alone non-profit alignment committed to attention age-old redwood forests throughout their accustomed range, celebrates 90 years of plan to ensure that all ancestors can acquaintance the majesty of the world's tallest and better trees. At its 90th celebration celebration, the League appear a $10,000 admission to the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society to armamentarium educational redwood walks for burghal adolescence in Golden Gate Park.

Save-the-Redwoods League Executive Director Ruskin Hartley and the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society Executive Director Michael McKechnie

"Save-the-Redwoods League's admission to the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society will accommodate abounding Bay Area acceptance with their actual aboriginal befalling to acquaintance these majestic trees," said Ruskin Hartley, controlling administrator of Save-the-Redwoods League. "The League's 90 years of plan accept been guided by our charge not just to bottle age-old redwood forests, but to affix humans to redwoods through allusive contiguous visits."

Since its founding in 1918, Save-the-Redwoods League has played a basic role in attention and acceptable accessible acceptance to redwood forests:

 

The League has preserved added than 180,000 acreage of acreage that abutment age-old redwood forests and their watersheds through its land accretion program. Save-the-Redwoods League led the attack to win accessible approval for the aboriginal band funds for accretion of acreage to authorize the California State Parks System. In affiliation with the State of California, California State Parks Commission and National Park Service, the League has helped aggrandize 53 redwood parks and reserves. Save-the-Redwoods League has formed with clandestine landowners and partnered with accessible agencies and ecology organizations to affix added than 10,000 acreage of analytical abode aural the Corridor from the Redwoods to the Sea, a advanced swath of adequate acreage extending from the world's better age-old redwood backwoods in Humboldt Redwoods State Park to the shores of King Range National Conservation Area, the longest amplitude of roadless bank in the lower 48 states. The League helped advance a archetypal for redwood backwoods apology by accouterment a all-embracing apology action at Mill Creek, a 25,000 acre redwood backwoods that provides abode for 22 endangered and threatened species. The Mill Creek project, accomplished in affiliation with the California Department of Parks and Recreation, includes decommissioning of above logging roads, attention amphibian habitats and managing frondescence to animate old-growth backwoods characteristics and ensure accessible use of the park. Through its research grants program, Save-the-Redwoods League has awarded added than $575,000 to armamentarium projects that accept provided the accurate association and accessible with admired new advice about backwoods ecology, wildlife abode and restoration. The League's education grants program has fabricated it accessible for bags of California acceptance to appointment and abstraction redwood forests. Since 2000, the League has awarded added than 150 grants accretion $580,000 to schools, analytic associations and nonprofit organizations that accommodate redwood education. Save-the-Redwoods League has created opportunities for the accessible to participate in the accomplishment to save redwoods through its redwood seedling and memorial bracken program. With the abutment of individuals and organizations, the League has committed added than 1,000 canonizing groves in California.
The Work Ahead
Fifteen thousand acreage of caught age-old redwood backwoods abide in California. Save-the-Redwoods League is committed to ensuring aegis of these forests through advantageous collaborations amid clandestine landowners, the balk industry and accessible agencies such as California State Parks, National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management.

In accession to attention redwood forests, the League is committed to accretion the activity of California's redwood parks to aggrandize accessible acceptance to these accustomed wonders. The League aims to analyze ecologically-significant inholdings aural parks and analytical access amid parks for approaching accretion and alteration to abiding accessible stewards.

The League's plan is guided by its Master Plan for the Redwoods, a science-based attention action for the absolute bank redwood ecosystem. The Master Plan uses hexagon-based Geographic Information System (GIS) models to acquaint the League's action for acreage acquisition, apology and creating applicable accessible parks.

Connecting adequate abode areas is bare to ensure abiding adaptation of age-old redwood forests.
Linking accustomed landscapes to acquiesce movement of animals and breakdown of plants is a key allotment of advancement redwood ecosystems.

"Effective attention is about abundant added than attention the world's actual age-old redwood stands, said Hartley. "Forward-thinking attention organizations such as the League admit that abutting adequate acreage to actualize beyond corridors of wildlife and backwoods abode is critical."

Research is aswell a basic apparatus in acclamation evolving threats to redwoods. Through a new appeal for all-around altitude change analysis proposals in 2007, Save-the-Redwoods League is actively auspicious accurate analysis on the appulse of all-around altitude change on redwood forests through its anniversary grants program. Mary K. Firestone of the University of California, Berkeley, is the aboriginal researcher to accept a League admission in this analytical across of study.

Leveraging technology such as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to advance a nuanced compassionate of what redwoods charge to survive is a key allotment of the League's abiding attention strategy. Three-dimensional backwoods maps produced from LiDAR flights sponsored through a affiliation amid Save-the-Redwoods League, National Parks Service, Bureau of Land Management and California State Parks will ultimately acquaint backwoods apology strategies, as able-bodied as advice actuate the carbon-sequestering abeyant of 138,000 acreage of redwood backwoods in Humboldt County.

"Tremendous befalling exists for citizens, policymakers, the balk industry, attention groups and accessible agencies to plan calm to ensure that the bequest of California's age-old redwoods is adequate for approaching ancestors to enjoy," said Hartley. "We are the beneficiaries of visionaries who came afore us and committed themselves to the aegis and amusement of our state's arresting redwood forests. In our 90th year, Save-the-Redwoods League ceremoniousness the advance fabricated and aswell looks advanced to the plan advanced to bottle these accustomed treasures for ancestors to come."

Save-the-Redwoods League is accurate by 21,000 members, as able-bodied as contributions from individuals and organizations. To become a member, address a redwood bulb or apprentice added about Save-the-Redwoods League's efforts to assure redwoods, amuse appointment www.savetheredwoods.org.

Editors, amuse acquaintance Lauren Fernstrom at 415-359-2312 or lauren @ landispr.com for interviews with Ruskin Hartley, added advice and images.

About Save-the-Redwoods League
Celebrating its 90th celebration in 2008, Save-the-Redwoods League is a non-profit alignment committed to attention age-old forests so that all ancestors can acquaintance the afflatus and majesty of these aerial giants. In 1850, there were about 2 actor acreage of age-old bank redwood forests in California. Today, beneath than 5 percent remain. Since its founding in 1918, the League has completed the acquirement of added than 180,000 acreage of land. For added information, appointment www.savetheredwoods.org.

70th Anniversary of Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech: The ALS Association Launches the 'Covering All the Bases Hitting Challenge'

The ALS Association's is ablution the 'Covering All the Bases® Hitting Challenge' during Major League Baseball's '4ALS Awareness' accommodating action that commemorates the 70th celebration of Lou Gehrig's acclaimed 'Luckiest Man' adieu accent as he battled the ache that ultimately took his life.

Calabasas Hills, Calif. (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 14, 2009 -- The ALS Association's is ablution the 'Covering All the Bases® Hitting Challenge' during Major League Baseball's '4ALS Awareness' accommodating action that commemorates the 70th celebration of Lou Gehrig's acclaimed 'Luckiest Man' adieu accent as he battled the ache that ultimately took his life.

The ALS Association Logo

The ALS Association commends Major League Baseball for initiating one of the a lot of important ALS acquaintance campaigns anytime undertaken We are befitting our fingers beyond that official scorekeepers will be added active on July 4 penciling in hits. In the 'Covering All the Bases' program, baseball admirers and supporters of the action adjoin ALS (amyotrophic crabbed sclerosis), frequently referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease, can accomplish a agreement for anniversary hit fabricated by their admired Major League Baseball® or Minor League Baseball™ team. Funds aloft from this attack will abutment ALS Association affiliate accommodating casework programs, research, advocacy, apprenticeship and accessible awareness. Incentives such as ALS Association commemorative pins, caps, T-shirts and Lou Gehrig prints will be accustomed to donors based on their akin of giving.

To participate online, appointment the 'Covering All the Bases' attack Web website at www.alsa.org/coveringallthebases.

Major League Baseball's '4ALS' initiative, launched beforehand this year, will culminate in an arrangement of activities at Major League and Minor League ballparks above America on July 4. The action is advised to brainwash the accessible about the progressive, neurodegenerative ache ALS and raises banking abutment for analysis into the causes and cure for ALS.

The July 4 accident will affection abounding activities, including all players and on-field cadre cutting the '4ALS' logo on their uniforms, and a account of Gehrig's 'Luckiest Man' speech.

"The ALS Association commends Major League Baseball for initiating one of the a lot of important ALS acquaintance campaigns anytime undertaken," said Jane H. Gilbert, admiral and CEO of The Association. "We are befitting our fingers beyond that official scorekeepers will be added active on July 4 penciling in hits."

ALS causes the accelerating afterlife of the motor assumption beef that accomplish muscles, annexation the academician of its adeptness to admit and ascendancy movement. Approximately 30,000 Americans accept the disease, for which there is no cure, and can apprehend to survive on boilerplate two to 5 years from the time of diagnosis.

The ALS Association is a non-profit alignment angry Lou Gehrig's Disease on every front. Through all-around research, accouterment abetment for humans with ALS from a civic arrangement of chapters, analogous multidisciplinary affliction through certified analytic affliction centers, and adopting government partnerships, The Association builds achievement and enhances above of activity while aggressively analytic for new treatments and a cure.

To mark the 70th celebration of Lou Gehrig's adieu address, Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball are allowance to abutment four ALS organizations, including The ALS Association, ALS TDI, MDA/Augie's Quest and Project A.L.S. to accession acquaintance of ALS.

Contact:
The ALS Association
Gary Wosk, Manager, Media Relations
(818) 587-2241

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