The Daily Tell

The National Network to End Domestic Violence, a leading nonprofit advocate for victims of abuse, recently released the findings of a 24-hour survey that shows that although domestic violence experts answered more than 23,000 emergency hotline calls daily, 9,280 requests for help went unmet. The snapshot study, taken last fall, also shows that in one 24-hour period 65,000 victims of domestic violence and their children received life-saving services. The results were submitted by 1,648 domestic violence programs that participated, which account for 83 percent nationwide. Sue Else, president of NNEDV,...

The National Network to End Domestic Violence, a leading nonprofit advocate for victims of abuse, recently released the findings of a 24-hour survey that shows that although domestic violence experts answered more than 23,000 emergency hotline calls daily, 9,280 requests for help went unmet. The snapshot study, taken last fall, also shows that in one 24-hour period 65,000 victims of domestic violence and their children received life-saving services. The results were submitted by 1,648 domestic violence programs that participated, which account for 83 percent nationwide. Sue Else, president of NNEDV,...

The World Health Organization estimates that 1.4 million children around the world are blind. Perhaps more startling, a report from Unite For Sight says that up to 70 percent of childhood blindness is likely preventable. Unfortunately, health care around the world does not meet the needs of the 135 million visually impaired people on the globe. But Avarind Eye Care System is hoping to change this. Dr. G. Venkataswamy founded Avarind Eye Care System in the 1970s with a mission to offer visitors outstanding eye care. Today, it draws patients from around the world. Avarind doctors perform 300,000...

When people think of Malibu beaches, images of clear blue water and sunny sand come to mind. Unfortunately this pretty picture is just an imaginary image due to of mass pollution that has left parts of the Santa Monica Bay coast in disrepair. The City of Los Angeles used to treat the bay as a daily dump site, and the region is still slowly recovering from the damages. Heal the Bay is a grassroots movement that has been working to improve the bay’s coastal environment. It uses research, education, advocacy initiatives and – as its most recent project demonstrates – community action...

Clean Out Your Office, a Massachusetts company that specializes in the disposal of electronic waste, is donating dozens of discarded computers to an after-school program based in Boston. Through a partnership with Victory Generation, a faith-based nonprofit organization with a mission to build and sustain after-school services in low-income communities, the company delivered nearly 100 PCs to 11 schools and church centers. COYO plans to supply more computers to the after-school sites and has also made the goal of the partnership to give each of the 543 after-school students in the program a computer...

With Haiti continuing to suffer the aftershocks of an earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people, leaving half a million homeless, the nonprofit charity organization UNICEF is working in full force to collect donations large and small to aid the children in the grief struck country. Now, American Airlines has heeded the call, helping UNICEF by taking in a record-breaking $1.2 million for the charity in 2009 through change collections from travelers who choose to donate unused coinage to the Change for Good program. Since the earthquake, all of the Change for Good funds collected have been...

When it comes to marketing a product, companies selling consumer products sometimes aren’t afraid to act a little kooky, whether it be car dealerships yelling at you through the television or seafood restaurants taking advantage of multiple meanings for fresh in their advertisements to fish for a laugh. Now, one brand is using those same strategies to bring benefit to society. Paper towel brand Bounty is giving back to the community – and perhaps trying to promote its brand at the same time – by traveling around the country with an oversized shopping cart holding a six-foot Bounty...

Approximately 192,280 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009. Last year also saw 27,360 prostate cancer-related deaths, according to report from the National Cancer Institute. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports this form of cancer, which usually occurs in older men, has consistently ranked as a top killer of men of all races in the U.S. over the years. To help fight this fatal disease, the Kansas University Cancer Center will establish a clinical high-risk prostate cancer prevention program at the Richard and Annette Block Cancer Care Pavilion. The program is made possible...

More than 70 percent of young Americans start some kind of secondary training or education program within two years of receiving their high school diplomas, yet many never make it to graduation day. According to the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, roughly half of the students who start four-year bachelor degree programs full-time finish in six years. America was once first in the world but now ranks 10th with respect to the percentage of young adults with a college degree, reports the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development. America is quickly slipping...

Intelius, a Bellevue, Washington information broker company, is helping preserve America’s World War II heritage. New York’s Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum offers visitors a unique learning environment – the entire museum is an artifact. The USS Intrepid served in WWII, Vietnam and the Cold War. It was also a NASA recovery vessel during the 1960s space race. The nonprofit institution built on the national landmark is committed to both interpreting the history of the USS Intrepid and showing how this living artifact intersects with global issues and scientific innovation....