Tickets are still available for the 2011 Out of the Box auction. We won’t be selling tickets at the door, so you really need to get yours now! This event is going to be so amazing! Preview the live auction items, download a list of all the silent auction items, and register for the online [...]

Sam’s Club, a well-known retail warehouse club with locations nationwide and long-standing supporter of The Salvation Army, has once again generously put forth their efforts at the local level to help us raise money.

Sam’s Club, a well-known retail warehouse club with locations nationwide and long-standing supporter of The Salvation Army, has once again generously put forth their efforts at the local level to help us raise money.

That means if each newsletter subscriber searched five things a day through GoodSearch, LO would earn $99.45 a day! At the end of one year at the same rate, that’s $36,299.25. That’s enough money to fund our LEARN project for the entire year of 2011.

 
Written by Shannon Wong, President of World Action Council, Richmond Hill High School
 

Did you know that text messages are reported to have an open
rate of over 90 percent according to a number of reputable marketing studies? And did
you catch the Pew Research Center’s latest findings, announced this week, revealing
that a third of text, or short message service (SMS), users prefer to be
reached via SMS?

Mark your calendars! On Sunday, October 23, The New Hollywood Women’s Goal Group (TNH) will be hosting an event to raise money for Free the Slaves.
They are asking for a $27 donation in honor of the 27 million people enslaved in the world today.

CNN's Larry King

Our favorite representation of the new FS 250 drilling rig we hope to fund through September Campaign, coming from six-year-old Mackenzie of Cumbernauld, Scotland:

Mackenzie turned six a week ago. His campaign goal was to raise $300 to help fund our new drilling rig — and he’s blown through that to raise nearly $900!

“As a parent of a child with Autism, I know first hand what an organization like Autism Speaks can mean in finding a cure for this terrible disorder.
Therefore, in planning for the creation of this book, the book publishers, the writer of the song Kerry Livgren, and the guys in the band KANSAS, all felt that Autism Speaks would make perfect sense in receiving a portion of the books sales proceeds.
We are honored that AS joins us in commemorating this very special song, in book form.” – Phil Ehart/KANSAS