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Circle K International Service Partners

Circle K International Service Partners. March of Dimes. What is it?. T he leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. F ounded in 1938 B y Franklin D. Roosevelt It was originally known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

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Circle K International Service Partners

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  1. Circle K InternationalService Partners

  2. March of Dimes

  3. What is it? • The leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. • Founded in 1938 • By Franklin D. Roosevelt • It was originally known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. • The mission is "To improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality."

  4. What can you do to help? • Make and sell baby blankets and give the money to March of Dimes. • Sell paper baby bottles to students, teachers, and staff at your school and put them up around your school. • Have a table with information about March of Dimes and ask for donations. • For more information: http://www.marchforbabies.org/

  5. Students Team Up to Fight Hunger (STUFH)

  6. What is it? • Began in 1999 • At Cornell University • Dedicated to linking food banks with local colleges and universities for two purposes: • To collect food for those who need it most. • To raise awareness of these needs upon the local student population. • The main focus comes at the end of a school year when students move out of apartments and dorms. • Rather than discarding unopened non-perishable foodstuffs into trash bins as they leave, STUFH supplies food bins for students to donate these unwanted items.

  7. What is it?(cont.) • The mission is to increase this gathering of food at college campuses throughout the country. • Which will link the hearts and souls of college students with their less fortunate hungry neighbors. • Since the program began more than 1 million pounds of foodstuffs have been raised for food banks to feed the hungry.

  8. What can you do to help? • The best way you can help this organization is by donating the food you do not want to take home to STUFH. • For more information: http://www.stufh.org/

  9. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

  10. What is it? • Created after World War II • To provide emergency aid to children in Europe and Asia. • Today, UNICEF works in more than 150 countries and territories, supported entirely with voluntary contributions. • Across the globe UNICEF is there with medicine, vaccines, clean water, and nutrition. • Over the years, UNICEF has saved more children’s lives than any other humanitarian organization in the world. • The U.S. Fund for UNICEF supports UNICEF’s mission through education, advocacy, and fundraising in the United States.

  11. What can you do to help? • Participate in Trick or treat for UNICEF. • For more information: http://www.unicef.org/

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