Disabled Veterans National Foundation Sending More than $112,000 Worth of Goods to Chicago Stand Down Event

The Disabled Veterans National Foundation (http://www.dvnf.org), a non-profit veterans service organization that focuses on helping men and women who serve and return home wounded or sick after defending our safety and our freedom, is sending a shipment of goods worth approximately $112,000 to a Chicago Stand Down event for homeless veterans that will take place on June 15th and 16th. The goods will include thousands of emergency blankets and bottles of water, various assortments of men's and women's clothing, hundreds of boxes of cereal, as well as toothpaste and sunscreen.

"DVNF is thrilled to be able to lend a hand in assisting the veterans in Chicago," said Raegan Rivers, Chief Administrative Officer of DVNF. "It is a sobering reality that around 30% of Chicago's homeless are veterans. With such a vast population of veterans in this area, we hope that these particular goods will be a welcome relief."

The 2-day event is expecting more than 800 veterans. It women's coats is being hosted by the Chicago Veterans Economic Development Council.

About Disabled Veterans National Foundation: The DVNF exists to change the lives of men and women who came home wounded or sick after defending our safety and our freedom. A nonprofit 501c3, DVNF was founded in the fall of 2007 by six women veterans to expand their scope of work within the veteran's community. The DVNF has provided $16.1 million in cash and requested items such as clothing, food, health & hygiene products to tens of thousands of under-served & disabled veterans nationwide. For more information, visit http://www.dvnf.org.

Free People Launches #MyFPDenim Gallery

Free People, a specialty women's clothing brand, today debuts its #MyFPDenim photo gallery featuring personal photos from customers, fans, and followers showcasing the brand's newly expanded denim collection. The collection has grown to over 100 styles this month. Fans can upload photos to the gallery via Twitter or Instagram using hashtags associated with 17 specific styles or to the overall campaign hashtag: #MyFPDenim.

Visitors can browse the gallery for style inspiration surrounding the new collection. Photos will appear in a real-time feed in both the gallery and the product pages and are able to be shared to Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter.

"Our #MyFPDenim gallery is a way for customers to share their passion for the brand and to highlight their personal style," says Je women's coats d Paulson, Director of eCommerce and Marketing for Free People. "We wanted to have one central gallery to see all of the unique ways our customers wear our product, as well as to allow them to interact with each other. This is a great way to celebrate our customers and the expansion of our denim collection, a continued area of growth and innovation for the brand."

Free People's unique collection features denim that is bleached, washed, distressed, and embellished in a variety of silhouettes ranging from slouchy 'boyfriend', to stovepipe skinnies, extreme flares, and the brand's ever popular cutoff shorts. The denim category will also feature corduroy items, a fabrication Free People is highlighting as fashion transitions into the fall season.
Free People's user generated photo content capabilities within the denim galleries are enabled by OlaPic, the premier social photo crowdsourcing service. Free People is the first eCommerce site to officially launch with Olapic. See the #MyFPDenim gallery here fpdenim.freepeople.com.

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About Free People
Styling everything from dresses to intimates, Free People is a specialty clothing brand that features the latest trends and vintage collections for women who live free through fashion, art, music, and travel. Quality women's clothing, shoes, and accessories invoke attributes of femininity, spirit, and creativity with a bohemian design. The brand is a part of Urban Outfitters, Inc., an innovative specialty retail company which offers a variety of lifestyle merchandise to highly defined customer niches.

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Soft Surroundings Opens Two Retail Locations In Boston, Massachusetts

Soft Surroundings, a leading multi-channel retailer committed to providing stylish and comfortable clothing, furniture and home décor, and the latest in beauty solutions and treatments to women of all ages, maintains its dedication to providing an extraordinary shopping experience by announcing the opening of its most recent retail locations in Boston, Massachusetts.

Soft Surroundings is now open at 100 Huntington Avenue, in the distinctive Copley Place shopping destination, in the historic Back Bay neighborhood of Boston. Additionally, Soft Surroundings has opened a second Boston-area location, at 199 Boylston Street, in The Mall at Chestnut Hill.

"We are thrilled to come to one of the best cities in the world! Boston has so much to offer and we are excited to bring our brand to the Northeast," said Vice President of Retail Stores, Danny Boddy. "Soft Surroundings is perfect for the Bostonian woman – we offer a wide array of products and services that truly represent the woman on the go and the need to slow down and take time out for oneself. We offer a retreat from the daily hustle and bustle of life's everyday expectations."

The Boston-area locations not only feature the popular merchandise found in the Soft Surroundings catalog and website, but also offers customers a variety of unique, store-exclusive merchandise to further enhance their shopping experience. Additionally, the Copley Place location boasts a Renewal Room, where customers can experience targeted treatments and product recom women's jackets online mendations, under the care of a professionally-trained, highly skilled esthetician, based on their specific needs.

About Soft Surroundings: Headquartered in St. Louis, Soft Surroundings is an upscale tri-channel retailer of women's apparel, home, and beauty items. Having experienced record growth in its catalog channel, Soft Surroundings opened its first retail location in St. Louis, MO in November of 2005, followed by additional locations in South Windsor, CT, South Barrington, IL, Kansas City, MO, Denver, CO, Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX, Boston, MA, and Chestnut Hill, MA. Soft Surroundings is currently expanding its retail division nationally to meet the needs of its many devoted customers. Visit Soft Surroundings online at http://www.softsurroundings.com

Sahbu, Lifting Liberia, Help Bring Education to Struggling Girls in West Africa

In Liberia, some estimates show that 80 percent of school girls – some as young as 10 years old – resort to prostitution to help their family because of the high unemployment rates in the war-ravaged country. Many of these girls are unable to afford the $120 needed to attend school and end up getting pregnant at a very young age, furthering the cycle of poverty in the country. Utah-based Sahbu and Lifting Liberia, a nonprofit organization in West Africa, have partnered to change that.

"Education is the most powerful way we can help bring young African girls out of poverty and prostitution and put them on a path to a better life," said Mitch Weight, founder of Sahbu. "Starvation, child prostitution, slavery, kidnapping, child labor, war, rape, corruption and AIDS are all part of daily life in Liberia and we need to do something about it."

Click here to view a new infographic from Sahbu that illustrates some of the daily difficulties children in Liberia face.

Sahbu has a goal to help educate 1,000 Liberian youth by the end of 2012. When a student in America searches Sahbu.com for educational information and enrolls in college, Sahbu donates money to Lifting Liberia, which then helps a child in Liberia enroll in school.

Lifting Liberia is working to help eradicate illiteracy, poverty and child prostitution. It has been estimated that AIDS and civil war have orphaned more than 340,000 children in the country.
The Lifting Liberia Girls' Enrichment Program was launched last month to help young women gain the education they need, while helping stop the cycle of teen pregnancy.

Roseleane Kollie is one young woman who will benefit from the help of the Girls' Enrichment Program. Kollie was only able to complete the ninth grade, traveling more than three hours each way just to reach her school. Unable to afford tuition and travel for high school, Kollie dropped out and had two children from different fathers.

The Girls' Enrichment Program has given Kollie a second chance. She will now be able to attend high school, while her sister takes care of her children. The program will move her closer to the high school and take care of her school fees, uniform, supplies, food and housing. In return, she is expected to attend and work hard at school, get good grades and not get pregnant. Kollie dreams of taking her education even further and becoming a doctor one day.

"Over time we are hoping this will change the face of these villages as more and more of the women are educated and not bearing children at young ages," said Karen Mathot, president of Lifting Liberia. "The potential for opportunity and chan women's coats ge is huge here if we can find the resources to make it all happen."

Sahbu contributes to the Lifting Liberia Girls' Enrichment Program as part of the organization's donation.

Representatives from Sahbu, including Weight, will travel from Utah to Liberia on Oct. 12, and will spend a week delivering school clothing and supplies, while meeting with children and parents who cannot afford an education. Weight hopes to gain a better understanding of the hardships faced by West African youth, while sparking the effort to provide education for 1,000 Liberian youth by the end of the year.

About Sahbu

Sahbu serves people looking to further their education. For every person who enrolls in college through Sahbu's education search tool, the company provides a year of education to a child in West Africa. Sahbu also offers essential tools and resources needed for prospective students to prepare for a prosperous educational experience. The company is guided by a mission to raise awareness of the crisis West African youth are experiencing and empower them through education. For more information, visit http://www.sahbu.com or our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/sahbusearch.

NJ National Guard Works throughout the Night to Help GI Go Fund Deliver Thousands of Emergency Supplies to Stranded Residents in Shelters Following Hurricane Sandy

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, residents of New Jersey are struggling to have their basic needs met. The worst natural disaster in the state's history has left its citizens reeling; with millions without power, homes damaged or lost, and families forced to seek refuge in shelters. But the men and women of the New Jersey National Guard are coming through for these afflicted residents, aiding in relief efforts by fellow New Jersey neighbors to help residents as they struggle to stay warm in shelters.

The National Guard provided assistance to the GI Go Fund, a nonprofit organization that helps veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, as the organization was providing relief to people in need following the storm. The Guard troops provided thousands of blankets to the GI Go Fund, who then provided them to people staying in shelters in the cities of Newark and Bayonne, NJ.

Members of the Somerset Armory worked together to store the thousands of blankets into the GI Go Fund's truck, thanks to the assistance of Sergeant First Class Coy and Sergeant First Class McLarty. The organization then took the blankets to the Newark Fire Department at 191 Orange Street and unloaded the blankets with the help of the Newark Firefighters and Newark Police Officers.

"This has been a tough time for us all. Everyone in the state is hurting. But the National Guard is helping us come together," said GI Go Fund Executive Director Jack Fanous. "We have our neighbors working with us to get us through one of the darkest times in our state's history. They were there for us when they volunteered to join the Guard; they were there for us when they deployed to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now they are here for us when we are in need. When people ask me where I'm from, it will forever give me great pride to say that I am from the state that is home to the New Jersey National Guard. We never leave anybody behind; we take care of our friends, our family, and our neighbors, and no storm will ever keep us down."

In addition, the GI Go Fund, along with the staff of Senator Frank Lautenberg, took blankets to residents of Bayonne, NJ who turned the Midtown women's coats Community School at 550 Avenue A into an emergency shelter. The organization also brought gloves, hats, scarves, and carpackages donated by Operation Gratitude.

The New Jersey National Guard has been tremendous in providing assistance throughout the state, helping millions of residents in New Jersey get through this time of unspeakable tragedy. Every resident of New Jersey is eternally grateful for what they have done already, and what they will continue to do to help get this state back on its feet.

"The work that the men and women of our National Guard have accomplished is nothing short of miraculous," said GI Go Fund Executive Director Jack Fanous. "This has been the most dire situation in the state's history. Significant loss of life, millions without power, incredible gas lines, and thousands of homes either damaged or completely destroyed. We are hurting, and in need of strong aid to get through the toughest of times. But these men and women have answered the call masterfully: rescuing people stranded in their homes, clearing roads of huge trees and down power lines, providing food and water to residents in shelters, and now helping us as we try to assist residents across the state stay warm during these hard times. We cannot thank them enough for all they have done when we needed them most."

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