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June 2015 edition Featured Articles on: Call for Submissions – Welcome Rob - Homeboy Industries – Creative Visions – Tiger Time – David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation – Not Impossible Labs – The Milagro Foundation – Mouvement – Ocean Conservancy

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Join us and be an Altruist. Please send us your creative work. Be it photos, writing, videos, music or film, this is a great way to create change in our world. Please submit your links or materials in the Contact box below and we will post them in the appropriate place on the site:

http://altruistica.org/call-for-submissions/

 Thank you for your consideration and support.

COVERS + CAUSES

Great Recordings by Great People for Great Causes.

PLEASE stay tuned for our first COVERS + CAUSES CD due out in JULY.

We are featuring one artist, every few months, many great songs, and donating all the profits to our We Recommend Orgs.

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WELCOME ROB

Rob Falsini is one of the most regarded independent singers in the UK at the moment. His performance below was captured by a tourist at the Covent Garden market place has been posted on Facebook and has reached more than 5 million people.

Please check out the video:www.youtube.com/watch?v=edHwDnyoFWw

Please visit:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Robcoventgarden/344397872309300?sk=timeline&ref=page_internal

Thank you Rob for submitting your music and helping to help others.

Please take a listen to:

https://soundcloud.com/rob-music-productions

Thank you for all your help and support.

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HOMEBOY

WHO WE ARE:

Please check our new video out:

http://www.homeboyindustries.org/site/video_frame/

Thank you for all your help and support.

Father Greg speaks internationally, nationally and most often locally in Southern California. Besides these speaking engagements, Father Greg’s time is committed to working with former gang members at Homeboy, visiting youth camps and prisons,’and serving on a myriad of advisory committees and task forces. Click here to invite Father Greg to speak at your event.

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HOPE HAS AN ADDRESS Homeboy Industries provides hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and recently incarcerated men and women, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of their communities. Homeboy Industries serves at-risk and gang involved youth with a continuum of services and programs designed to meet their multiple needs, and runs four businesses that serve as job-training sites. Please Visit: www.homeboyindustries.org

Homeboy Industries is looking for dedicated volunteers in the Educational Services Department.

If you are interested in volunteering with Homeboy and mentoring their trainees, these are some of the immediate areas they could really use your expertise. Please go to this link to fill out the volunteer application.

Thank you for all your help and support.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: "Scary Will Find You" -Father Greg Boyle

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CREATIVE VISIONS

THE DIRT SOCIETYJennifer Garvin

Our Featured Creative Activist Project

The Database for Integrated Resources and Training (DIRT) Society is, in its most elemental truth, an attempt to end hunger in the most sustainable way.The DIRT Society is based on a few basic principles. First; that an education is worthfar more than a handout. Second; that anyone alive deserves a quality education, particularly when that education concerns the health of humanity and of the earth. Finally; that the most constructive way of sharing knowledge is to do so without the desire to capitalize upon it.

The DIRT Society will learn from each participant and merge our various skill sets until everyone is able to develop and advance, without damaging shared natural resources. Only then will the global economy be fair, and each member of the international community equipped with the tools they need to eat, stay healthy, and sustain the ecosystems in which they live.

Please view at http://www.creativevisions.org/cap/the-dirt-society/

CREATIVE ACTIVIST NETWORKThe Creative Activist Network (CAN) is the first step of immersion into the vibrant Creative Visions hub.CAN members receive invitations to educational workshops and a myriad of community and networking events to engage and connect with like-minded artists and professionals. Please join at http://www.creativevisions.org/can/

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THE JOURNEY IS THE DESTINATION

Inspired by the life of Dan Eldon, Creative Visions Foundation inspires and supports creative activists – individuals who use media and the arts to raise awareness of critical issues around the globe and ignite positive change. Creative Visions Foundation provides tools, mentorship, resources and a linked community to help our activists harness the power of media, arts and technology to solve global problems in the areas of: human rights, environment, youth & education, woman empowerment, and global consciousness. Please visit:  www.creativevisions.org

CREATIVE VISIONS is a premiere agency for the use of media and the arts to ignite positive change in the world. Please join the tribe at: http://www.creativevisions.org/get-involved

Thank you for all your help and support.

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TIGER TIME

Keeping Tigers on the Agenda

2015 is an important year for the tiger. Following intense discussions at CITES in July 2014 some very specific recommendations on tigers were adopted:   

         Countries are to ensure that their legislation prohibits domestic trade, including in parts of captive bred tigers

         It requires those who are currently trading to report the scale of that trade

         It requires countries to report on the volume of existing stockpiles

         It requires countries to destroy the bodies of deceased captive tigers

Between now and the next meeting in January 2016 progress will be assessed by a working group being chaired by China.

Help TigerTime demonstrate how important we feel these recommendations are to the survival of the tiger. Please sign up at http://tigertime.info/take-action/sign-up/

Our aim is to deliver over half a million signatures to the Chinese Embassy in London in October 2015 respectfully requesting that China, in its key role as chair of the inter-sessional working group, guarantees the compliance of CITES members to all of these recommendations. Without that compliance, the future of the wild tiger remains uncertain.

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Please be part of it. TigerTime already has over 300,000 signatories – help us reach the 500,000 mark by signing up at www.bantigertrade.com  

David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation   David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation responds to urgent conservation threats by supporting trusted, reputable individuals and organisations operating in the field.

The Founder, David Shepherd, is known internationally as an artist and ambassador for wildlife. In 1960 he became a conservationist overnight when he came across 255 zebra lying dead around a poisoned waterhole in Tanzania. Since then, with the help of supporters across the world, the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) has given away over £5million in grants to save critically endangered mammals in their wild habitat and benefit the local people who share their environment. David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation as an adaptable and flexible, non-

bureaucraticorganisation supports a range of innovative, vital and far-reaching projectsthroughout Africa and Asia, achieving real results for wildlife survival.

The Foundation supports sending undercover agents into the field to investigateillegal wildlife crime, training and supplying anti-poaching patrols. It has helped

establish nature reserves and other protected areas and works with governments to establish conservation laws and regulations.

The Foundation educates wildlife consumers about the plight of the animals they‘use’ and teaches young people about endangered wildlife through art and schoolprojects.

 Please visit: www.davidshepherd.org Thank you for all your help

and support.

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NOT IMPOSSIBLE

THE LATEST

3D-Printed Limbs for Female Vets an Issue of Design

National Making Week took place June 12-18, 2015 in Washington, DC. Culminating with the White House Maker Faire, national attention is focusing in on national issues, like 3D-printed limbs for female veterans. 

Please check out the video at https://youtu.be/1MIsyUttpII

There's been a lot of talk about 3D-printed limbs. And while the models are unisex, a group of female makers are re-thinking the approach, taking up the opportunity to design limbs specifically for unique needs of female veterans.

Stay tuned for a better look at the designs as these makers are scheduled to highlight their innovations via a "Make-a-Thon" and fashion show at the VA Innovation Creation Series and their Prosthetic and Assistive Technology Challenge in late July.

It's important to remember that general functionality is great, but specific design around issues like latching bras or applying makeup is essential, and that design is often what builds confidence and trust and catalyzes the ability of this nation's bravest to live with less limitations.

Thank you for all your help and support.

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NOT IMPOSSIBLE NOWThe People at Not Impossible Now believe in technology for the sake of humanity.While nobody can do everything, everybody can do something, so we crowdsource our solutions to real-world problems. Suddenly, yesterday’s pipe dreams are Not Impossible Now!

By helping one person we can all inspire others to do the same – it’s their “Help One Help Many” philosophy and it breaks down barriers, enabling greater access to all in need.

Access to healthcare, literacy and technology shouldn’t ever be limited by finances, geography or physical ability. 

Listen in on Not Impossible founder Mick Ebeling's conversation on CBC radio's program "Q" right here: http://www.cbc.ca/q/popupaudio.html?clipIds=2476780836

In the book, which is available in stores and online now, Mick discusses how he’s made a difference in people’s lives through technology by assembling teams to help others in need. Here's an excerpt!

Also, we’re thrilled to announce that Not Impossible has received the “Innovative 3-DIY” award at the 2015 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday night, March 17. The award is in honor for Not Impossible’s work on “Project Daniel.”.

“Project Daniel” focuses on a teenager who’d lost both arms in a bomb blast in Sudan. When Not Impossible sent a team there to 3-D print limbs for Daniel, the impact resonated farther than any could have predicted. “Project Daniel” has not only restored hope for a teenager in Sudan, it’s spurred other individuals to take up the charge and make a difference.

Learn more about “Project Daniel” here and by watching the video below:

https://youtu.be/SDYFMgrjeLg Thank you for all your help and support.

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THE MILAGRO FOUNDATION

MILAGRO ON TOURSantana donates 50 cents for every ticket sold to The Milagro Foundation.

Please check out the UPCOMING TOUR DATES:

6/30/2015 Ziggo Amsterdam, Netherlands7/1/2015 Palais 12, Brussels Expo Brussels, Belgium7/2/2015 Stadtpark Hamburg, Germany7/4/2015 Dolina Charlotty Slupsk, Poland7/5/2015 O2 Arena Berlin, Germany7/7/2015 Rockhaul Luxembourg7/8/2015 Oberhausen Arena Oberhausen, Germany7/10/2015 Juan Les Pins Festival Juan Les Pins, France

Please visit www.santana.com for Tickets and more dates.

MILAGRO LATEST GRANTEE

Carlos Santana Arts Academy

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Region: UNITED STATESState: CALIFORNIA [SOUTHERN]Type: EducationAmount: $25,000.00Date: April, 2015

Please visit for the complete list:http://www.milagrofoundation.org/grantees.asp For more information about DONATING, please visit www.milagrofoundation.org. Thank you for your consideration and support.

The Milagro Foundation

Milagro (“Miracle”) is a charitable foundation that supports underrepresented and vulnerable children and youth in the areas of arts, education and health. The Milagro Foundation was started in 1998 by Carlos Santana and his family to benefit children around the world.

Please view the video to learn more at http://www.milagrofoundation.org/movie.asp

THE UNIVERSAL TONECarlos’ book, THE UNIVERSAL TONE, is not just the history of a musician that has sold millions of albums. It is the story of an individual who is ceaselessly creative, spiritually focused and yet fearlessly part of a world that brought him fame and adulation and challenged his dedication to his music and to doing good.

Please read the overview at: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-universal-tone-carlos-santana/1119888283?ean=9780316244923

Thank you for all your help and support.

MOUVEMENT

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THE OM DOME Participants are delighted and surprised by their own curiosity, and the sense of joy and freedom created through play by Mouvement’s educational, rhythmical, co-creative experiential & FUN activities in this unique 30 foot geodesic dome. Please visit  http://studiomouvement.com/en/ or www.facebook.com/studiomouvement for more information and upcoming dates for Summer and Fall of 2015.

MOUVEMENTMouvement is a unique mobile studio that offers cultural-artistic experiences based on rhythm and music, percussion and dance through playshops, performances and activities open to all ages and walks of life.

Thank you for all your help and support.

OCEAN CONSERVANCY

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SAVE THE   RIVIERA   MAYA TODAY: SIAN   KA’AN BEACH RECLAMATION PROJECT  The beautiful coastline of the Sian Ka’an,”The Birthplace of the Sky“, Biosphere Reserve has been polluted by local and global waste. The 64 km stretch of once virgin beachfront is home to dolphins, manatees, endangered sea turtles, and 339 unique bird species.

Please view at http://altruistica.org/save-the-riviera-maya-today-preserve-the-sian-ka%E2%80%99an/

Join us for our Sian Ka’an Beach Cleanups on September 27 in the southern portion and September 28 in the northern portion, respectively. Your contribution will initiate clean up of the beaches, coordinate local organizations, and raise global awareness.  Our project will make an immediate and crucial impact in the following ways: 

Reduce the plastic and other non-biodegradable garbage on the beaches Create responsibility for local and global polluters Foster effective collaborative efforts between local stakeholders Reduce the amount of animals with dangerous toxicity levels and animal

deaths Increase the survival rate of newborn sea turtles, marine birds, manatees,

and dolphins As part of Altruistica’s larger media campaign, SAVE THE RIVIERA MAYA TODAY: PRESERVE THE SIAN KA’AN, these impacts will be leveraged for the present and future well being of these species and their environment. Please DONATE now by clicking the DONATIONS Box on Altruistica’s Home Page, www.altruistica.org

Join Ocean Conservancy in working every day with partners around the world to fulfill the vision of clean water and healthy beaches

Thank you for all your help and support.

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OCEAN CONSERVANCY: Clean Beaches - Clean Water

We have a profound stake in a healthy ocean that is free of trash and marine debris.The ocean sustains us with the basic elements of life—it produces half of the oxygen in the air we breathe, and it is an essential part of the water cycle, helping to provide the water we drink.The world’s beaches, the frontier of this essential resource, support ocean health. They provide habitat and nesting grounds for important ocean wildlife like sea turtles and sea birds, and they attract vacationers from around the world, helping to sustain complex coastal economies.

Please check out: http://www.oceanconservancy.org/healthy-ocean/clean-beaches-clean-water/

Trash Free Seas

Ocean trash ranks as one of the most serious pollution problems of our time. Much more than an eyesore, trash in the water and on the shore affects the health of people, wildlife and economies. For example, trash in the water:injures swimmers and beachgoers;harms wildlife that eat it or get trapped in its mess;drives away tourists—and their wallets; andensnares boat propellers, a costly navigation hazard.

The good news is we can prevent trashed beaches and debris-filled water. Ocean Conservancy has a vision of trash free seas, and we’ve been leading the way for more than 25 years.Ocean Conservancy is creating a world of trash free seas by:

Organizing and executing the International Coastal Cleanup®, the world’s largest volunteer effort to clean up our beaches and waterways, with partners around the globe.

Publicizing data  that help the public and the global science community better understand the problem of ocean trash.

Creating innovative solutions to the ocean trash issue with leaders from the private, public and academic sectors.

Building a movement to help inspire all of us to stop trash before it starts and live cleaner, healthier lives.

Thank you for your consideration and support.

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