Photo by: Sully PixelThe CAEAR Foundation, one of the largest national HIV non-profit organizations, is changing its name to HealthHIV and launching a new website. The announcement on World AIDS Day coincides with the start of a campaign to promote the organization’s new vision and expanded capabilities and reach.“HealthHIV clearly, quickly and easily states our mission and reason for being,” said HealthHIV Executive Director Brian Hujdich. “HealthHIV’s logo reflects the evolving healthcare environment and the essential integration of HIV into the primary care setting, significantly changing and broadening the way we approach HIV as a chronic disease. Our new website (www.healthhiv.org) will integrate HIV-related information available to professionals and consumers, provide numerous educational programs, and centralize HIV technical assistance offerings.”To read the entire article, please follow the hyperlink to the Earth Times web-page.

Photo by:  mechanikatNon profits from all 50 states, Canada, Puerto Rico, and 10 Latin American countries have come to together to donate shoes to children who are in need.  In total more than $1.2 million in shoes will be given to children and families who have a need for them.  This program was launched last year by Payless in response to the economic crisis.  They say that it was a huge hit and that was part oft he reason it was kept going for this year.To read the entire article, please follow the hyperlink to the prnewswire.com web-page.

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A nonprofit organization focused on fighting local child abuse launched a holiday gift drive this week to benefit abused, abandoned and neglected children.

Promises2Kids has placed more than 300 bins at office buildings, schools, grocery stores and restaurants throughout San Diego County to collect new unwrapped gifts. The collection will run through Dec. 14, culminating with a gift drive at Walmart on Shawline Street in San Diego from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. that day.

The nonprofit said 12,000 gifts were delivered to foster children across the county last year.

To read the entire article, please follow the hyperlink to the Sign on San Diego web-page.

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Things are changing in the nonprofit world along with the change in times and the economy that we have experienced in the past few years.  Have you ever found that you are going to have to go through some big changes and are not sure how to keep everyone together.  Well Melany Brown of Executive Alliance has some suggestions to help you out.  She says, rather than thinking of it as a negative, think of the change as growth.  It is inevitable, but how you deal with that change is completely up to you.  So you need to try and think of things in a good way and help push on and not in a bad way that will bring you down. To read the entire article, please follow the hyperlink to the seattlepi web-page.