Thanks Again, LLC Launches "Give Green" Consumer Contribution Program

Merchant-funded accolade arrangement Thanks Again, LLC ally with The Nature Conservancy to barrage The Give Green Program. The affairs will acquiesce registered consumers to accord a allocation of purchases fabricated with accommodating merchants to all-around attention initiatives.

-- With apropos about the ambiance advancing added to the forefront, abounding consumers and business are analytic for means to "go green." The appropriately called new abnormality of the Green Economy emphasizes absolute after-effects that account consumers, businesses, and the planet itself.

We are absolutely aflame about axis accustomed chump affairs into investments against the canning of our environment We accept that the Give Green Program is a advocate way for eco-friendly merchants to accompany armament with eco-conscious consumers. The Give Green Program offers environmentally acquainted consumers an simple way to accord to initiatives that advice assure adored habitats. With that in mind, Thanks Again, a merchant adjourned accolade network, announces the barrage of The Give GreenSM Program, which will acquiesce registered consumers to accord a allocation of condoning purchases fabricated at accommodating bounded businesses to all-around attention initiatives. The Nature Conservancy, in accord with Thanks Again, will advance Give Green Program chump contributions to armamentarium land, water, and abode canning projects globally.

This different chump addition affairs allows merchants to action their eco-conscious consumers a hassle-free adjustment to accord a allocation of their accustomed spending to blooming initiatives. As an added benefit, accommodating businesses are able to acuminate their eco-friendly business bulletin in-store and on the Web. Consumers now accept an easy, seamless, and defended way to accord to The Nature Conservancy. A arch attention organization, The Nature Conservancy works about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people.

"We are absolutely aflame about axis accustomed chump affairs into investments against the canning of our environment," said Marc Ellis, CEO of Thanks Again. "We accept that the Give Green Program is a advocate way for eco-friendly merchants to accompany armament with eco-conscious consumers."

The Thanks Again website offers simple acceptance to a advertisement of merchants that participate in The Give Green Program. The website is simple to cross and provides defended and acceptable debit and acclaim agenda allotment for free. Consumers are able to clue their affairs action and the contributions they accept fabricated through their purchases with accommodating bounded businesses nationwide. The Give Green Program is the latest accolade advantage in a growing account of incremental reward/incentive options accessible to registering Thanks Again members.

Sheri Turnbow, Associate Director of Cause Marketing at The Nature Conservancy, added, "The Give Green Program offers environmentally acquainted consumers an simple way to accord to initiatives that advice assure adored habitats."

For added advice on The Give Green Program or how to acquire added Airline Miles, Cash Back, or Gift Cards from purchases with baddest merchants nationwide, appointment www.ThanksAgain.com.

About Thanks Again:

Thanks Again is a merchant-funded accolade arrangement that allows ample National Reward Programs to advanced accolade earning opportunities for millions of their members. The Thanks Again Rewarding MerchantSM arrangement is a bounded merchant bunch with a accepted attendance in 41 of the top 50 markets above 30+ states.

About The Nature Conservancy:

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

NAMWOLF’s Corporate and Public Entities Partnering Program Welcomes Eddie Bauer, Inc.

The National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) is admiring to advertise that Eddie Bauer, Inc. has abutting the Corporate and Public Entities Partnering Program.

Milwaukee, WI -- The National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) is admiring to advertise that Eddie Bauer, Inc. has abutting the Corporate and Public Entities Partnering Program.

Under the Corporate and Public Entities Partnering Program (CPEPP), absorbed corporations accede to set a ambition of eventually expending a minimum of 5% of their alfresco admonition account with boyhood and women-owned law firms. NAMWOLF strives to recruit and accept alone those boyhood and women-owned law firms that accept a clue almanac of apery above corporations and accessible entities.

“NAMWOLF is admiring to acceptable Eddie Bauer, Inc. to our Corporate and Public Entities Partnering Program,” said Yolanda Coly, Associate Director of NAMWOLF. “The company’s charge to acknowledged assortment should serve as an industry-wide example,” she added.

Established in 1920 in Seattle, Eddie Bauer is a specialty banker that sells top above accidental accouterment and accessories for the avant-garde alfresco lifestyle. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Eddie Bauer articles are accessible at about 380 food throughout the U.S. and Canada, through catalogs and on-line at www.eddiebauer.com.

The National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms (www.namwolf.org) was founded in June, 2001. It is a civic barter affiliation comprised of a baddest accumulation of boyhood and women-owned law firms who display arete in the acknowledged profession. The primary aim of the alignment is to advocate for the appliance of boyhood and women-owned law firms by above corporations and accessible entities throughout the United States.

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With So Many Charities Struggling In This Economy, Disabled Veterans Relief Fund Is Thriving With a .99 Cent Fundraiser Program

Disabled Veterans Relief Fund (http://www.disabledveteransrelieffund.org) today appear its .99 CENT Fundraiser Program, through which anyone can agreement just .99 cents per ages to advice disabled veterans and their families--and every being who signs up for the fundraiser will automatically be entered into a raffle for a admirable cost admired at $25,000. Through the .99 CENT Fundraiser Program, we achievement to be able to awning the costs that currently anticipate disabled veterans from accepting a bigger above of life We are accustomed to accord a duke up to our solders and their families that accept been assuredly and always afflicted by the confusion of war. We capital to accept a fundraiser that accustomed anyone to accompany in and abutment our troops We aswell didn't ambition to accountability humans by allurement for big donations that they may not be able to afford. So we absitively to authority our .99 CENT Fundraising Program. Just about anybody out there can acquiesce to absorb .99 cents per ages to advice out addition family.

Highland, Calif. -- As the disabled veterans abiding from the Middle East advance the absolute amount of disabled vets in the U.S. that is in balance of 10s of bags and counting, one California non-profit is authoritative it accessible for every American to advice the men and women who accept abiding life-altering injuries in account to their country by just.99 CENTS at a time.

Disabled Veterans Relief Fund (http://www.disabledveteransrelieffund.org) today appear its .99 CENT Fundraiser Program, through which anyone can agreement just .99 cents per ages to advice disabled veterans and their families--and every being who signs up for the fundraiser will automatically be entered into a raffle for a admirable cost admired at $25,000.

Money aloft will be acclimated to added the Disabled Veterans Relief Fund's mission of accouterment absolute and actual banking abetment to disabled veterans and their accouchement and spouses, as able-bodied as to abate the banking accent families of collapsed soldiers face. To that end, funds from the .99 CENT Fundraiser Program will abetment disabled veterans in charge of reconstructive facial surgery, cerebral counseling, housing, disability-equipped vehicles, specialized prosthetic limbs, abiding affliction in the case of abiding arch injuries, circadian amount of living, rehabilitation costs and reeducation programs offered through colleges and barter schools.

"Through the .99 CENT Fundraiser Program, we achievement to be able to awning the costs that currently anticipate disabled veterans from accepting a bigger above of life," declared Disabled Veterans Relief Fund admiral Ron Young. "We are accustomed to accord a duke up to our solders and their families that accept been assuredly and always afflicted by the confusion of war."

To accommodated their ambition of accepting able to advice every disabled veteran, Young and his aggregation absitively to get creative. They knew they bare abutment from as abounding humans as possible, yet they were acute to the actuality that abounding families are activity the crisis of a apathetic economy. Their solution: Ask for just .99 cents--less than the amount of one fast aliment meal or one latte--per month.

"We capital to accept a fundraiser that accustomed anyone to accompany in and abutment our troops," Young explained. "We aswell didn't ambition to accountability humans by allurement for big donations that they may not be able to afford. So we absitively to authority our .99 CENT Fundraising Program. Just about anybody out there can acquiesce to absorb .99 cents per ages to advice out addition family."

Those absent to advice through the .99 CENT Fundraising Program can assurance up at http://www.disabledveteransrelieffund.org/99CENTSignUpFundraise.asp; Disabled Veterans Relief Fund, which does not appoint alfresco fundraising companies, will again debit the user's acclaim agenda for .99 cents monthly. No donation is appropriate to access the raffle, and those able to accord added can accept to agreement a college aggregate per month. To apprentice more, appointment Disabled Veterans Relief Fund at http://www.disabledveteransrelieffund.org.

Contact:
Ron Young
Disabled Veterans Relief Fund
949-274-5203
http://www.disabledveteransrelieffund.org

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Up-and-Coming Philanthropic Leaders Named 2009 Hull Fellows

The Southeastern Council of Foundations (SECF) has called its 2009 chic of Hull Fellows. The alone affairs of its affectionate in the nation, the Hull Fellows Program was accustomed by SECF in 2000 to nurture, affect and strengthen the Southeast region's arising leaders in philanthropy. The careful affairs recognizes newer foundation agents and axle associates who accept approved able administration in their careers and in their communities.

Atlanta, Georgia -- The Southeastern Council of Foundations (SECF) has called its 2009 chic of Hull Fellows. The alone affairs of its affectionate in the nation, the Hull Fellows Program was accustomed by SECF in 2000 to nurture, affect and strengthen the Southeast region's arising leaders in philanthropy. The careful affairs recognizes newer foundation agents and axle associates who accept approved able administration in their careers and in their communities.

The 2009 chic consists of 17 agents and advisers from SECF affiliate foundations above the region. They are:

Abena Asante, Program Officer, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, Winston-Salem, NC; Jeff Barker, President, St. Marys United Methodist Church Foundation, St. Marys, GA; Kristina Christy, Manager, Corporate Contributions, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Atlanta, GA; Diana Church, Program Officer, The C. E. & S. Foundation, Louisville, KY; Lynn Collingsworth, Program Officer, The Joy McCann Foundation, Tampa, FL; Eleanor Dunlap, Chairman of the Board, Piedmont Health Care Foundation, Greenville, SC; Cynthia Elmore, Director of Development, John Randolph Foundation, Hopewell, VA; Gladys Hairston, Program Associate, The Harvest Foundation, Martinsville, VA; Ivan Hudson, Program Associate, The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Little Rock, AR; Jennifer MacDougall, Program Manager, Healthy Active Communities, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation, Durham, NC; Richard Martinez, Program Officer, Greater New Orleans Foundation, New Orleans, LA; Susan McConnell, Human Resources Director/Program Officer Education, The Duke Endowment, Charlotte, NC; Aisha Nyandoro, Program Officer, Community Development, Foundation for the Mid South, Jackson, MS; Dana Rickman, Director, Research & Data, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Atlanta, GA; Karen Rudolph, Program Assistant, Lyndhurst Foundation, Chattanooga, TN; Najmah Thomas, Sr. Program Officer/Coordinator of Technical Assistance, The Cameron Foundation, Petersburg, VA; Eva Tukdarian, Chief Financial Officer/Chief Investment Officer, The Dr. P. Phillips Foundation, Orlando, FL

"Our 2009 Class of Hull Fellows is an amazing amount of able individuals committed to alms in the South," said Michael R. Howland, CAE, President and CEO of the Southeastern Council. "We're appreciative to accept their activity and activity in this year's class, which will aggrandize aloft one of philanthropy's arch administration development programs."

The Hull Fellows will assemble throughout 2009 to abstraction the celebrated roots and traditions of philanthropy, new perspectives on altruistic issues and the specific challenges and opportunities of Southern philanthropy.

The Southeastern Council of Foundations is a associates affiliation of over 350 grantmaking foundations and programs in 11 states. SECF promotes both arete in the acreage of alms and the conception of new altruistic assets to account the Southeast.

http://www.secf.org

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