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Campus Initiative National Council members named
The vision of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF Campus Initiative is to build life-long supporters who will work until no children die of preventable causes by educating, advocating, and fundraising for UNICE...
More grassroots volunteers and resources
Our grassroots volunteer program continues to grow. Since we launched the Online Volunter Center in April 2006, tens of thousands of volunteers have registered as volunteers. Here on this bl...
Denver and Chicago: Volunteer leaders still needed
A few weeks ago, I blogged about our call for Tap Project Volunteer City Coordinators in seven cities. We’ve had a great response form many of the cities and are excited to be building our t...
Throw a "spooktacular" party
Although volunteers come in all ages, our registered grassroots volunteers (over 15,000 in number) are a bit older than the average Trick-or-Treater for UNICEF. We have heard that they remember Tric...
Be part of the Campus Challenge
I'm excited to announce that UNICEF has just launched a new partnership with the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) and the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF to promote a fundraising ch...
The 2009 Tap Project is underway
It's hard to believe it's that time again, but the 2009 Tap Project is just around the corner. Here at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, we have been celebrating last year’s success and getting ready for ne...
Summer is nearly over
We can always tell that summer is nearly over when the temperatures start falling, the sun sets a little earlier, and our summer interns wrap up their work and say goodbye. Tomorrow is the last day fo...
Advocacy results are in
You’ve read our advocacy requests and updates here before. But does anyone notice if you actually advocate for UNICEF? Yes! Congress reviews many issues and makes important decisions that will affe...
Jazz musicians use their talents to make a difference
Local jazz musicians raise $3,718 for Iraqi children Philip Crawford of Monterey, California recently coordinated his third fundraising effort for UNICEF. He recruited musicians from Monterey and San...
Key Clubbers catch the Halloween spirit
At this year’s annual Key Club International Convention in Denver, Colorado, our four new ambassadors dressed up in Halloween costumes that mirrored the characters on the new Trick-or-Treat for UNIC...
Have a party and help UNICEF
You may have read about CNN's special broadcast, “The Survival Project: One Child at a Time,” to air on July 6 at 8 and 11 pm (ET). We encourage volunteers and supporters to not only watch th...
Departing for Japan: The Junior 8 Summit is next week
Four rising high school juniors from California, their teacher, and Rachael Swanson from the U.S. Fund for UNICEF are preparing this week to travel to Japan to participate in the Junior 8 Summit. Held...
Students get ready to meet with world leaders
Last week I blogged about Key Club members coming to New York. This week, I’d like to tell you about another group of four high school students In California who are getting ready for an amazing opp...
Key Club, HIV/AIDS and Swaziland
Last week I blogged that four Key Club representatives were traveling to New York for a weekend of training about the program that they support: the Swazi Children Care Project. Pictured here are Abig...
Key Club visits New York in support of the Swazi Children Care Project
© US Fund for UNICEF/Burnham A Swazi child has a meal while visiting a Neighborhood Care Point. This weekend I will be meeting with 4 teenagers: Abigail, Lance, Anna and Jared, who are member...
Zack helps children of Myanmar
Since Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar earlier this month, we've been getting reports from across the United States of people moved to action. Here's one that especially inspired us: Five-year-old Zack, w...
Volunteers taking action
Last week we asked our volunteers to participate in UNICEF's Unite for Child Survival: Advocacy Week. From learning about the issues, to sending letters to Congress, to continuing the conversat...
Suggested reading for volunteers
There are many ways you can stay up to date on UNICEF's work on behalf of children. Our recommendation for the last day of Unite for Child Survival: Advocacy Week is for volunteers and supporters to...
Continue the conversation: Discussion questions
We’ve been discussing the issues all week, and we’d like to use these same questions to guide a discussion with your friends, family or community groups about the issues. We’ve posted these d...
Click three times, send three letters
From UNICEF's 2008 State of the World's Children Report It is time to rally behind the goals of maternal, newborn and child survival and health with renewed energy and sharper vision, and to positi...
Learn about the issues
© U.S. Fund for UNICEF/TelfordWhile there are many issues before Congress that our Office of Public Policy and Advocacy monitors, this week we're focusing on three in particular: the U.S. Governmen...
Why advocacy is important to UNICEF
In celebration of National Volunteer Week we’re not only celebrating our volunteers, we are showing the power that their actions can have! Last year, UNICEF supporters contacted their congressional...
Get ready, get set... advocate!
Next week we will be asking all our registered U.S. Fund for UNICEF volunteers to participate in UNICEF's "Unite for Child Survival: Advocacy Week." For five days, registered volunteers can learn a...
New look for the Online Volunteer Center
As you can tell by looking at the unicefusa.org website, we have a whole new look. We also have a new and improved Online Volunteer Center. Our volunteers received an email asking them to be among ...
Some thoughts about getting involved
Today I’m responding to some of the comments I received on my original child survival post (with thanks to all of you who commented). A number of commenters want to get involved and help. We alway...
Year-Round and Upcoming Volunteer Activites
We enjoyed great support from our Tap Project volunteers this year during World Water Week, and we want to keep that momentum going. U.S Fund for UNICEF volunteers can participate in programs year-ro...
Hats off to 2,203 Tap volunteers
© U.S. Fund for UNICEF/Monica ChangTwo Tap Project Volunteers explain how to implement the Tap Project to the manager of a New York City restaurant. Twenty two hundred and three volunteers signed up ...
Hats Off to 2203 Tap Volunteers
© U.S. Fund for UNICEF/Monica ChangTwo Tap Project Volunteers explain how to implement the Tap Project to the manager of a New York City restaurant. Twenty two hundred and three volunteers signed up ...
UNICEF Campus Initiative at IMPACT
Over 800 students and attendees gathered this weekend at the IMPACT Conference in Boston, and UNICEF was there. The IMPACT conference website states, “The IMPACT Conference is historically the ...
[Tap Project] Reeling In the Restaurants
It was soooo easy! In less than an hour, I recruited three restaurants in my New York City neighborhood to participate in the Tap Project. All I did was explain how simple it is to join, the free pu...