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Note: This is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all World Vision-related media clips ... just a recent sampling.
President Barack Obama articulated that “Just last month, it was inspiring to see thousands of young Christians filling the Georgia Dome at the Passion Conference, to worship the God who sets the captives free and work to end modern slavery. Since we’ve expanded and strengthened the White House faith-based initiative, we’ve partnered with Catholic Charities to help Americans who are struggling with poverty; worked with organizations like World Vision and American Jewish World Service and Islamic Relief to bring hope to those suffering around the world.”
Faradhia Moise, a victim of Haiti's devastating earthquake is lacing up her racing shoes and giving the ING Miami Marathon a run for the money. Moise has teamed up with World Vision, a humanitarian group that's helping rebuild Haiti.
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Romanita Hairston with the Christian humanitarian organization World Vision says they are encouraging Americans to honor the late Dr. King by helping fight childhood hunger. Hairston says, “We are really encouraging people to embrace this federal holiday as a national day of service to embrace the question Dr. King asked and said it was life’s most persistent question and that is, what are you doing for others?”
Mindy Mizell, media relations director for World Vision explains, “One of the big things we are pushing this year is food kits, because the poverty level has grown increasingly worse. We are now up to 50 million Americans who are at the poverty level. That has gone up about 3 million people since the year before.”
Time is running out to make your charitable donations for 2011. If they are not made by New Years Day, you can say goodbye to the potential tax breaks, but before you write out that check you want to make sure you are choosing the best charity. Mindy Mizell is the media relations director for the nonprofit World Vision. She has some tips for us for making the most of your charitable donations.
While the season of giving is generally associated with the holidays, giving to charities is of course welcome all year round, but there is an added incentive to get your donations in before the New Year—tax breaks. How do you ensure you are making the most of your charitable dollars and making the right decisions? For that, we are joined by Mindy Mizell, media relations director of Christian relief organization Word Vision, to give us year-end giving tips.
The evangelical charity World Vision takes potential donors on a virtual visit through its video-laden website and 36-page Christmas catalog. This year's catalog features five water-related projects among hundreds of advertised choices, from $13,700 for a whole well and pump to $50 for water-purifying tablets.
As the first signs of an economic recovery make the news, many of the nation's nonprofit organizations are digging in for another three to four years of financial distress, according to researchers who keep an eye on the charitable world .... That survey, paid for by Federal Way, Wash., based nonprofit World Vision and conducted at the end of October, also found about seven in 10 adults plan to increase their charitable giving once the economy improves. World Vision reports its own donation income is growing, with sales of its holiday gift catalog up every year of the recession, said Traci Coker, director of the holiday fundraiser at the religious nonprofit that focuses on international aid.
World Vision’s Traci Coker interviewed with the Tavis Smiley Show and talked about opportunities to give untraditional holiday gifts.
The West African nation of Sierra Leone was devastated by a brutal war marked by the struggle for blood diamonds and widespread atrocities. Today there is peace and a new focus on controlling malaria, malnutrition and a devastatingly high child mortality rate. The Bay Area is contributing to that effort by training physicians, spearheading ground breaking research, and contributing to the well-being of children and their communities. In a country rich with rivers and rainfall, it is surprising to learn clean water is such a challenge. Thanks to aid organizations like World Vision, safe water is reaching villages that used to be plagued by water-born disease and illness.
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