Last week Connecticut experienced a gut wrenching tragedy
that affected the entire world. You know
the details of what happened, I won’t go into it. Well those events coupled with the recent
shopping mall shooting, the fiscal crisis, impending doomsday, fighting
overseas, and labor disputes in the Midwest left me searching for something
GOOD to write about. I wanted to turn
the spotlight away from the dark reports that we hear about everyday, and bring
a good story to the foreground.
I reached out on Facebook and asked people to shed some
light on individuals or organizations that have done a lot of positive,
selfless acts over the holiday season.
There were other people out there that were tired of the
ugliness in the world as well, because the response was almost immediate. From the suggestions I got on Facebook and
email I compiled a simple list and links to some great organizations that are helping
people and making each day a little bit better!
v
Operation
Peanut Butter, Link
– The Hosea House is participating in this cause which collects food for the
less fortunate. They acknowledged that
some kids will not have adequate lunches over Christmas break with the schools
being closed. With this in mind they
collected food to keep the kids well fed over the holidays.
v
Lifelineofnky.org, Link – This is a volunteer organization that is dedicated to helping people in
need. They take donations of food,
clothes, and furniture and distribute to people all across Northern Kentucky.
v
Fidelity
Investments “Holiday Heroes” giving program – Fidelity employees partner
with 20 non-profit organizations in Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati on
hundreds of projects. These
organizations include but are not limited to: Ronald McDonald House, Senior
Services of Northern Kentucky, Women’s Crisis Center, Brighton Center, Project
Connect, Faces Without Places, Freestore Foodbank, Redwood Rehabilitation
Center, Covington Partners in Prevention, Cincinnati Youth
Collaborative, Hoxworth Blood Center and Dress for Success.
v
Brighton
Center / Newport Optimist Club – These organizations partnered up and are
doing amazing things. For instance, they
pair chaperones with young children and take them shopping at Target for
Christmas items, and basic essentials that they desperately need.
These are all fantastic organizations that deserve to be
recognized for all of the great things they do.
As the news programs report another shooting, or another “plan” to avoid
a fiscal demise, be reminded of the good that is going on in Northern Kentucky
right now! Buy a stranger’s coffee, pay
for the car’s food behind you in the fast food line, volunteer for a cause, or
drop come cents in the red pale at the grocery… remember, “kind words
& actions may be short, but their echoes are forever endless”.
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