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Hasbro Brings Holiday Joy to Children in Need

Hasbro Brings Holiday Joy to Children in Need

As families worldwide celebrate the holiday season, Hasbro, Inc. is helping to ensure that children in need experience the joy of the season, too. The company hosted Tuesday its third annual Global Day of Joy, a day when Hasbro empowers all 5,000 of its employees to become ‘elves’ and engage…
UNICEF Kid Power Band to Help Children in Need

UNICEF Kid Power Band to Help Children in Need

The U.S. Fund for UNICEF is encouraging holiday shoppers to put children first by giving gifts that save lives this holiday season. The newest offering is the UNICEF Kid Power Band, which gives kids the power to get active and save lives. By getting active with the world's first wearable-for-good,…
Share-A-Haircut Program to Benefit Children in Need

Share-A-Haircut Program to Benefit Children in Need

Hair Cuttery, a family-owned and operated chain of hair salons in Vienna, will be donating back-to-school haircuts to children in need this August. From August 1-15, for every child up to age 18 who purchases a haircut at one of Hair Cuttery's almost 900 salons, one free haircut certificate will…
Kellogg’s Breakfast for Children in Need

Kellogg’s Breakfast for Children in Need

Kellogg's is making a difference by sharing breakfast with children in need. The company says moms and dads know that it is essential to giving kids the start they need to help unlock their potential. But not every child gets this important start to their day. In fact, nearly one…
Actor Orlando Bloom Meets Displaced Children in Niger

Actor Orlando Bloom Meets Displaced Children in Niger

English actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom this week travelled to Diffa, south-east Niger, to highlight the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad Basin where Boko Haram violence has caused huge population displacements. Hundreds of thousands of children across the region have been forced from their homes, are…
UNICEF Kid Power to Help Students Stay Active

UNICEF Kid Power to Help Students Stay Active

The U.S. Fund for UNICEF announced Thursday the launch of the 2016 UNICEF Kid Power school program, expanding to 13 cities across the country and empowering more than 70,000 elementary school children to get active and save lives. More than 3,200 teams of third through fifth-graders in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago,…
Program to Improve Reading Proficiency Among K-3 Students

Program to Improve Reading Proficiency Among K-3 Students

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), a children's literacy organization, announced Wednesday the introduction of Read for Success, a program intervention designed to improve reading proficiency among K-3 students. Tested over a two-year period as part of an Innovative Approaches to Literacy grant from the U.S. Department of Education, RIF's evidence-based model…