Girls on the Run is a life-changing, non-profit prevention program "to educate and prepare girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living."
Go to the Girls on the Run Home Page
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a new initiative of United Way of Southwest Michigan aimed at increasing early childhood literacy. Children enrolled in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library will receive a free new, age-appropriate, hard cover book mailed to them each month from birth through their fifth birthday. Through this great program, children can look forward to new and exciting reading adventures that will foster a love for reading and help them learn.
In May we asked the community to help by sponsoring children for a year of reading for just $30. Many people responded in honor of a special woman in their lives.
The FamilyWize prescripion drug card was brought to our community 2 years ago by United Way of Southwest Michigan. Since that time, Berrien and Cass County Residents have saved more that $400,000 using this service. Berrien County is ranked #1 in the state in savings using the FamilyWize card and #1 in the number of claims.
Through this program, families without prescription drug coverage are able to get discounted prices on most prescription medications. The program does not require enrollment and there is no monthly premium to worry about. All major pharmacies in the area participate in the program making it easy to get discounts. One card is good for an entire household and does not expire until 2014. The cards are available at all United Way funded agencies and through the Department of Health and Human Services and the Berrien County Health Department.
Last year, United Way launched 2-1-1, an easy-to-remember number for resource and referral in our community. Through 2-1-1, community members can get direct access to the services they need in one simple phone call. United Way of Southwest Michigan was a driving force to bring this service to Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and Allegan counties.
Nonprofits like United Way and various government agencies provide excellent programs to support people in need. The problem: The people who need these programs often don’t know they exist.
This is why United Way supports the Calling for 2-1-1 Act. The bill would create a national social service hotline, 2-1-1, to help people find organizations that can help them.
There are already 240 active 2-1-1 call centers in 46 states, but they lack the resources needed to build an adequate telecommunications infrastructure, provide appropriate staff levels and training, establish or maintain 24-hour-a-day service, ensure complete and accurate informational databases, and reach rural populations. The Calling for 2-1-1 Act would provide funding necessary to meet these needs.
While there is significant support for the bill, we need your help to ensure that legislators view passage of the bill as a priority and get it done.
In September 2002, Winer released a major new version of the format, RSS 2.0, that redubbed its initials Really Simple Syndication. RSS 2.0 removed the type attribute added in the RSS 0.94 draft and added support for namespaces. To preserve backward compatibility with RSS 0.92, namespace support applies only to other content included within an RSS 2.0 feed, not the RSS 2.0 elements themselves.[15] (Although other standards such as Atom attempt to correct this limitation, RSS feeds are not aggregated with other content often enough to shift the popularity from RSS to other formats having full namespace sup
This would be Netscape's last participation in RSS development for eight years. As RSS was being embraced by web publishers who wanted their feeds to be used on My.Netscape.Com and other early RSS portals, Netscape dropped RSS support from My.Netscape.Com in April 2001 during new owner AOL's restructuring of the company, also removing documentation and tools that supported the format
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RSS (most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.[2] An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed",[3] or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.
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