Jaunted - Tag: Charity Travel

Colorado: Help Build the Continental Divide Trail in Colorado Next Year

cmb — 2011-12-21T14:31:35-05:00

Volunteers in Colorado are helping to build a completely new hiking trail, called the Continental Divide Trail (CDT), that stretches from Mexico to Canada and across Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Volunteers with the Continental Divide Trail Alliance (CDTA)—based in Golden, Colorado—dig out the trail, clear vegetation and move huge boulders and trees from the established route.

If forging a new trail sounds like a New Year's resolution you'd like to make, CDTA is already lining up volunteers for next season, which runs from April to October. Volunteer trips can last from one day to one week and include trail building, maintaining the existing trail, helping the crew chefs prepare meals, and participating in educational outreach programs. Trip leaders provide all gear, food and water, while volunteers bring their own tents, sleeping bags and day packs.

How to Send a Holiday Card to Troops Overseas This Holiday Season

cmb — 2011-11-16T13:59:12-05:00

You might not be able to make it to an overseas military base to thank a soldier in person this holiday season, but there is still time to send the troops a holiday card through the Red Cross Holiday Mail For Heroes program.

The American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes are partnering for the fifth time to ensure all Americans have the chance to send "a touch of home" to U.S. military members who are far away from their homes during the holidays.

To send a holiday card to a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, all you need to do is write out a card using the salutation "Dear Service Member," include a note of gratitude, and send it to the address below by December 9, 2011:

This Airplane Has a Movember Mustache

JetSetCD — 2011-11-15T13:35:18-05:00

In the only bit of positive news from Qantas this month, the airline has painted a mustache on one of its Boeing 737s. The mustache is to show Qantas' support for Movember and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. "Movember" has, over the last few years, become more and more popular around the world as a time for guys to grow a mustache to draw attention to prostate cancer. It's essentially the male version of women wearing pink during Breast Cancer Awareness month (which was October).

The Movember cause hits close to home for Qantas, as CEO Alan Joyce is a survivor of prostate cancer. His was discovered and treated, but he notes: "if it weren't for early detection, there is every chance I would have been dead within 10 years."

Cannes: Finally, a Star-Studded Cannes Film Fest Event You Can Attend (If You've Got the Cash)

cmb — 2011-05-10T14:02:15-05:00

AmfAR, the foundation for AIDS Research, is preparing for their Cinema Against AIDS Gala, which is held annually during the Cannes Film Festival.

This year the star-studded event will be held at at the Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France, and will include a formal dinner and a live auction, with proceeds benefiting amfAR.

Chicago: Why You Should Take a Dip in Chicago's Freezing Lake Michigan This Weekend

Jennifer Kester — 2010-03-05T09:05:01-05:00

If someone offered you $100 to jump into Lake Michigan in frigid March, would you do it? Last year, more than 1,200 crazy people took the cash and went for a wintertime dip in Chicago's North Avenue Beach for the Polar Plunge, the main fund-raising event for Special Olympics Chicago.
Those who want to test the waters and help a good cause can put on their bathing suits and head to the lake on March 7 at 9 a.m. for the 10th annual Polar Plunge. The event works similar to a walkathon. Polar Plungers have to raise at least $100 in donations, but instead of walking a certain amount of miles, they have to brave the cold-as-hell water.

Berlin: Feted At Charity Ball

egw — 2008-12-10T09:20:28-05:00

George Clooney's mustache popped up this weekend in Berlin at the Ein Herz fuer Kinder gala, where its owner received the Golden Heart award for his work with the Not On Our Watch charity. No shaving before a black-tie event -- really?
It seems like these mustaches are popping up everywhere these days, from Clooney himself on his New Mexico movie set to Brad Pitt sporting one at the premiere of his new movie "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button." Let's face it, we may have a pandemic on our hands.
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Charity Travel: Order A Whitney Houston Of Your Very Own

egw — 2008-03-07T09:30:02-05:00

Want to have Whitney Houston perform at your next birthday party or office function? Better look under the couch cushions; the singer was just paid nearly $2.8 million for an hour-long show to benefit a London charity.
Just think, for the price of Houston's May 8 appearance at the Caulfield Children's Legends Ball, you could buy "I Will Always Love You" over 2.8 million times from iTunes... although, really, once would do the trick.
We here at Jaunted would like to see a Whitney Houston comeback as much as the next bunch, but man, we really need to raise our appearance rates.
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