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c Chaos - www.cChaos.org: where Farmers Markets meet the Vitural World

RichardHRoth — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:21:38 -0400

Looking for people interested in great health through access to and consumption of nutritious fresh fruits and vegetables - seeds and nuts, and lovers of farmers markets everywhere.

Mouth of Babes Internet TV Series

HellaDelicious — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:39:41 -0400

I haven't had a chance to look round this site much yet but from the about page this sounds like a brilliant project.

Our internet tv series Mouth of Babes will start filming sortly after Easter. Our mother is due end of April, Ruthie and her son Mikko have agreed to demonstrate simple, nutrient dense foods for us. The show will be broadcast on miro's new food edition in June.

In the meantime check out our trailer, if you like it get more information on our project site on indiegogo.com

Soraya: A Life of Music, A Legacy of Hope

Halokitten117 — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:02:47 -0400

This new English book chronicles Soraya's incredibly interesting life. Artist royalties go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure so the more we sell the more good we do. Please pass the word.

Here is the story behind these memoirs, as we posted it on Amazon.com...there's a lot of stuff in here fans might enjoy reading...

FamilyFarmed.org

erin — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:23:13 -0400

The Second Road - an online support community for those in recovery from addiction

crksing — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:12:35 -0400

Healthcare Blogosphere Survey

eweinb04 — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:11:10 -0500

In July 2006, Envision Solutions and The Medical Blog Network launched the first global survey of healthcare bloggers. They launched the survey because the healthcare blogosphere is rapidly growing in size and importance.

The results of the survey are now available and you can view the full report at http://www.envisionsolutionsnow.com/survey.html.

Here are the findings of the survey that I thought were interesting:

3.3% of the respondents classified their blog as an advocacy org/nonprofit
When asked about the most important reason they started blogging, 19.2% of the respondents stated that they blog to educate others and 8.5% of the respondents blog to advocate for a cause
When asked about the second most important reason they started blogging, 24.9% of the respondents (the majority of the respondents) said they blog to educate others and 11.9% blog to advocate for a cause
55.7% blog about health news, 60.9% blog about personal experiences, and
47.1% blog about disease information

Since not many of the bloggers that participated in this survey blog for a nonprofit, I started thinking about the blogs I have come across that are for health related organizations and the content health organizations could blog about.

Sex Workers at Nonprofit Bootcamp?

Melissa Gira — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:37:25 -0400

I'm considering attending the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp in Berkeley this August, to bring back some skills to St. James Infirmary. We offer free, confidential, nonjudgmental medical and social services for female, transgendered, and male sex workers. We are also the first occupational safety and health clinic for sex workers anywhere run by and for sex workers. Sex workers and craigslist, seems like an obvious fit, and one Mr. Newmark himself is often asked about in the press. The good things I've heard about the Foundation also make me curious to check it out.

Social Marketing University

weinreich — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:37:02 -0400

Social Marketing University
September 18 - 19, 2006
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
UCLA Conference Center
University of California, Los Angeles
Westwood, California

Presented by Weinreich Communications

How do you help people adopt behaviors that will make them healthier and happier? How can you create positive social change?

At Social Marketing University, you will move beyond the usual educational approach to changing health and social behaviors. Using social marketing, you will learn how to persuade individuals to take action for change by addressing the values, needs and desires that motivate them. It's about understanding and connecting with your audience by applying the same effective marketing tools that companies like Nike and Apple use.

Malecare Prostate Cancer Support for Gay Men

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:58:01 -0400

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Supporting organization

Malecare, Inc.

URL

www.malecare.com

Location

New York City

Project Description

www.malecare.com Provides support services and an online community to gay men with prostate cancer. It is the only cancer community for gay men in the world. Being online helps men connect with other men in a supportive, dating neutral environment around life threatening and sexually diminishing cancer treatment. This project began locally in New York City and has quickly expanded worldwide.

Centro Nordestino de Medicina Popular - CNMP

smokinggoat — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:12:58 -0500

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Supporting organization

Centro Nordestino de Medicina Popular - CNMP

URL

http://www.cnmp.org.br/

Location

Olinda, Brazil

Project Description

Founded in 1988, the North-East Centre for Popular Medicine is a Brazilian NGO which trains, organizes, and structures community-based groups to be more effective in advocating for a public health policy, through programmes in:

"The story of the Northeastern Centre for the Peoples’ Medicines (CNMP) begins in 1979, when the founders, Celerino Carriconde and Diana Mores, began to reinvigorate the use of medicinal plants amongst the inhabitants of Casa Amarela, a district within city of Recife.

At this time, there were high levels of infant malnutrition, women’s ill-health, cancers, food insecurity and a series of social ills which were existing side by side with the de-humanising queues at the National Institute of Social Welfare; this discriminatory and exclusionary system considered those with low income to be less deserving. So, after collecting together 100 of the medicinal plants most used by the populace, the couple searched in a scientific manner to record this knowledge of thousands of years, using these plants clinically at their neighbourhood clinic, and publishing facts later in the bulletin “De Volta às Raízes” (Return to the Roots)." more

Fundado em 1988, o Centro Nordestino de Medicina Popular é uma ONG que desenvolve um trabalho de educação popular na área da saúde. O Centro vem se firmando como mobilizador das forças populares, desenvolvendo um trabalho de formação, organização e articulação de grupos comunitários para a efetivação das políticas públicas de saúde, através dos programas de:

"A história do Centro Nordestino de Medicina Popular (CNMP) teve inicio em 1979, quando os fundadores Celerino Carriconde e Diana Mores começaram a resgatar a utilização das plantas medicinais (matos) pela população do Bairro de Casa Amarela, no Recife.

Nesta época, os altos índices de desnutrição infantil, a vulnerabilidade da saúde da mulher, o câncer, a precariedade alimentar e uma série de mazelas sociais andavam lado a lado às desumanas filas do INPS (Instituto Nacional de Previdência Social), um sistema discriminatório e excludente que considerava indigentes os cidadãos economicamente desfavorecidos." mas