Fundraisers

The Lordeman family’s Christmas gifts had changed over the years as the grand children got older. They had always been a family of list makers. If you didn’t get your wish list out by Thanksgiving you were nagged until you did. In recent years, most of the wish lists were being dominated by items such as donations to food banks, blood donations in the recipient’s name, or coupons for services – in other words, fewer and fewer commercial items were exchanged.

Twenty-one year old Jack Sisson recently completed an inline skating excursion across the country to promote Action Against Hunger’s life-saving programs, and to undertake a thrilling adventure. Setting off from Yorktown, VA on June 10th, Jack’s solo journey took him through 10 states and 5 sets of wheels, which had to be replaced when he wore through them.

Action Against Hunger inspired me to help out. We got pledges for the Race, which was sponsored through my school, The Ancona School. I felt proud to have participated in helping others.

Jack Sisson embarked on a cross-country excursion on June 10th, armed with nothing but the backpack on his back and the rollerblades on his feet. Inline skating from Yorktown, Virginia to San Francisco, California, Sisson is taking this three month sojourn from the day-to-day life of a Dartmouth junior to benefit the international humanitarian group Action Against Hunger /Action Contre la Faim (ACF).

Marc Goldfuss founded Sigsaly Transmissions in 2007 as a way to express his devotion Electronic Body Music (EBM), a genre of music originating in the 1980s comprised of mechanized electronic punk sounds and also known as “Industrial” music.

Pre-school students are generally not the first group that comes to mind when discussing philanthropy. But the students and teachers at The Riverside Church are working to change that notion with their recent Community Caring Initiative.

Twenty-one year old Jack Sisson will undertake a solo trans-America Inline skating trip to increase awareness of global hunger and to raise funds for Action Against Hunger. Sisson will make the 3,800 mile trek from Yorktown, VA to San Francisco, CA over the course of 100 days.

For most middle school students, lunch hour is a time to blow off steam between classes. For the students of the Cross Creek Charter School’s Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society, lunch time is Snack Shack time!

"I have all my fingers and toes!" exclaimed Sophie Denis upon finishing her ascent of one of the most daunting climbs on planet Earth. Along with her Sherpa Jinpa, Sophie reached the top of Mount Everest on Wednesday, May 21st at approximately 9:00 am local time, 5:15 pm Paris time, 11:15 pm New York time, after a final 12 hour climb.

When Troop Leader Mrs. Hargreaves asked her ten Girl Scouts what they wanted to do with their earnings from cookie sales, she expected them to suggest one of the ideas that the group had discussed earlier in the year -- a trip to a local water park or a sleepover night at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Instead, the nine and ten year olds were focused on one thing: using the money to help children around the world.