Residents from the Orlando area are committed to rescuing Haitian families who call garbage-filled swamps “home.” Central Florida residents interested in Haiti’s rebuilding process are encouraged to attend Food For The Poor’s 12th annual fundraising event, A Celebration of Hope, Nov. 12, at Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa. Proceeds from the annual Orlando gala have built homes for more than 586 families.

No carbs, lo carbs, cabbage soup, lemonade… heck, even princesses have their own diet. But could a food plan that includes bugs be the next big diet fad?

Does your nonprofit or library offer webinars or other online events that you want TechSoup users to know about? Do you want help getting the word out? You can easily expand your outreach efforts to the TechSoup community by submitting your event to the Online Learning Spotlight group on Upcoming (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/).
How Do You Submit Your Event?
Simply follow these steps:
1. Go to Upcoming (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/).

A Somali woman hands her malnourished child to a medical officer of the African Union Mission in Somalia, a regional peacekeeping mission operated by the African Union. (UN Photo by Stuart Price)

Interested in knowing more about web design? Join us on Thursday, October 27 at 11 a.m. Pacific time for our webinar, A Cooperative Approach to Web Design. You can register today.

What a weekend! We couldn’t have asked for better weather for this year’s Austin LIVESTRONG Challenge. The 5k on Saturday went off without a hitch as well as the ride in Dripping Springs on Sunday. (Watch out for those cattle guards). Over 4,300 of you that participated this weekend raising over $2.4 MILLION for the fight against cancer.

Want to hear ITFC on the radio? Excerpts of interviews with Robert, Miriam, Douglas and a local farmer named Benson have been aired by BBC World Service’s Science in Action program. The program is available for the next 30 days as a podcast at the BBC web site here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/scia). It is about 9 MB (look for the one headed 13 Oct 11; our story is the section starting around 8 min and 12 sec).
Let us know what you think!
Miriam

Howdy, Austin! We are so excited to see everyone at the LIVESTRONG Challenge this weekend. We know that the key to a great time is a swift registration and packet pickup, so here’s the “411″ on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

"What are the best ways to foster collaboration?" is a top question we hear at TechSoup from the organizations we serve. Many teams struggle with bringing the best and
brightest together effectively to get more done.
Our Nonprofits Live interactive
series is designed to address such questions and find solutions for the toughest organizational issues.

RSVP now to join us for
this live event on October 25 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time.