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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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Edwin Shneidman (left) at his home in Los Angeles, California with Maurizio Pompili, who was the recipient of the 2008 Shneidman Award. In October 1998, the first National Suicide Prevention Conference was held in Reno, Nevada. Agencies from within the U.S.

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Cisco Strengthens Three Square Food Bank's Network

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Last year, the organization provided the equivalent of more than 27 million meals to food insecure people in Southern Nevada. Feeding a Need in Southern Nevada. and a top destination for tourism, Southern Nevada is home to a lot of people in poverty. Connectivity is core to its mission. People there are still recovering.

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Try Eating for $4 a Day. Join The Hunger Challenge

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Last year, 6 food bloggers and recipe developers tried to eat 3 meals on $3 per day during the 2008 San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. Or that 34 million people in the United States live on a food stamp budget? I didn't, until I read about the San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge.

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Open Government: A Recap of TransparencyCamp - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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This article was written by Tracy Viselli , an online media strategist, blogger, political activist, entrepreneur , and co-founder of Nevada Interactive Media and Summit. March 19, 2009 | Kristin Wolff Copyright © 2008, Care2.com CommunityCounts : To nudge political discourse away from soundbites and towards substance.