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Small Ways To Make a Big Impact This Summer
For many of us, the biggest challenge we’re up against in August is figuring out how to extend summer. It’s a month used to savor the final, fleeting weeks of the season. While you might be able to...
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Would You Hike in 120 Degree-Heat to Help a Hidden Stranger?
Can you remember a time when the Mexican-American border wasn’t a mainstay on the nightly news? For decades, you’ve turned on the television only to hear politicians bickering back and forth about the...
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Easy and Impactful Ways to Give Back on 9/11
It’s hard to believe that this month marks the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As the first generation of young people born after the tragedy reaches adulthood, it’s...
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What Does It Mean to Be Latinx, Anyway? Find Out Why This Gender-Neutral Term...
Let’s be honest: “X” is one of those strange, outcast letters shoved to the back of the alphabet. So perhaps it’s fitting that in recent years, this letter has been breaking new ground by taking on an...
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How To Make the Most of October’s Opportunities To Give Back
As the weather (finally) begins to cool and thoughts turn to pumpkin spice and apple picking, the days can fill up fast. Whether you’re shuttling your kids to and from school and after-school...
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Have Your (Feminist) Cake and Eat It Too: How a Texas Baker Is Destigmatizing...
“Abortion isn’t a bad word.” “You don’t have to justify your abortion to anyone.” “Abortion is abolition.” These are just a few of the messages gracefully piped onto creamy cakes by Austin-based...
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7 of Katie’s Favorite Causes To Support This Giving Tuesday
With everything going on in the world, it’s easy to feel helpless and removed from all of the hardship we’re seeing day in and day out. I love that Giving Tuesday encourages us to celebrate the...
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Meet the Wildlife Photographers on a Mission to Save Our Seas
Anyone remember when Katie and John went on that once-in-a-lifetime whale-watching expedition with famed wildlife photographers Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier? As John noted in his essay on the...
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The Benefits of Giving Back During the Holidays
I was raised Ukrainian Catholic by hard-working immigrant parents. Christmas was a big deal in my childhood home, but not in the way many American families celebrate the holiday. It wasn’t about...
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The Story Behind Oppressive Book Bans in Prisons
Ezekiel Caligiuri is an author, editor, and co-founder of the Stillwater Writer’s Collective. And, having served 22 and a half years in a Minnesota Correctional facility, he’s also a seasoned expert...
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