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It’s Pinktober – Female athletes unite against breast cancer

Organizations everywhere are kicking off month long breast cancer awareness programs. At least half of you know someone who has or had breast cancer. Whether a mom,  aunt, grandmother, neighbor, or family friend, breast cancer strikes over 200,000 wome...more

Have an Idea to Green Your Community? Ford & Green Festival Could Make it Happen.

If you've been thinking green lately, you're in good company here on the AskPatty Blog, but your thinking could pay off for you to the tune of $5000. Ford and the Green Festival have teamed up to help improve five US cities, and they're asking you for yo...more

AskPatty Reviews: AutoTex PINK Wiper Blades

AskPatty has been enjoying a partnership with AutoTex PINK for a while now, so of course when my own wipers began letting me know it was time for them to retire, I went to AutoTex PINK for my replacements.  They arrived recently, and I, your dutiful blo...more

Fresh Air Fund looking to book host families for Summer 2011

Chances are you’re already looking forward to summer.  You may be going to camp, taking a vacation with your family, or playing in a summer sports league. But not all kids are as lucky. Each summer, the Fresh Fund provides New York City kids a chance t...more

Amnesty International honors Joan Baez for a lifetime of Human Rights Advocacy

Amnesty International turns 50 this year, and closely linked to Amnesty’s legacy of championing human rights is that of folk legend Joan Baez. Baez was an active supporter of Amnesty from the start, stuffing envelopes at their first home office in San ...more

NYC high school sprinting star in desperate need of bone marrow donor

I started my running "career" as a sprinter, way back in the day. (Actually, my first running was from the batter's box to first base, but that's a story for another day.)Today, when I write feature articles about runners, one of the questions I often ask...more

National Women’s Law Center’s Blog to Rally for Girls’ Sports Day

Are you a female athlete? Do you have a blog, Facebook or Twitter account? Do you have a great story about how sports positively impacts your life? For the first time, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) is hosting Blog to Rally for Girls’ Sport...more

Girl Up Pep Rally

More than 400 girls and (and some boys) from all over LA joined gathered at the Marlborough School in Hancock Park a few weeks ago to support the United Nations Girl Up campaign and learn about the lives of girls in Malawi, Liberia, Guatemala, and Ethio...more

Hot to (Turkey) Trot

It’s that time of the year again when turkey lovers who love to run gather for an appetite-inducing morning of good-natured competition.  So, what exactly is a Turkey Trot? On Thanksgiving Day, or very near it, runners across the nation lace up th...more

Run for Congo Women

This is pretty good. A few weeks ago, the New York Times Magazine highlighted a number of individuals as part of a series about grassroots work being done worldwide to help others in need. One of the women profiled, along with her mission, caught our at...more

Ralph Lauren launches Pink Pony Auction for Cancer Research

To mark the 10th anniversary of Pink Pony, Polo Ralph Lauren is launching its first Pink Pony Online Auction in partnership with luxury charity auction site charitybuzz. The auction will showcase more than 200 unique, once-in-a-lifetime experiences offe...more

It’s Pinktober – Female athletes unite against breast cancer

Organizations everywhere are kicking off month long breast cancer awareness programs. At least half of you know someone who has or had breast cancer. Whether a mom,  aunt, grandmother, neighbor, or family friend, breast cancer strikes over 200,000 wo...more

Australians set record for fastest stiletto race

In the wake of last week’s LIVE’s  High Heel-a-Thon to benefit the Heart Association, four Australian women have just nabbed the world record for the fastest relay race in stiletto heels. The quartet from the Australian capital of Canberra complet...more

LIVE’S High Heel-a-thon

The 2010 Regis and Kelly LIVE! High Heel-A-Thon is set to take place on Wednesday, September 22nd. The High Heel-A-Thon is a fun 150-yard dash in support of The Heart Truth®. Although this is simply a fun event in heels, a lot of serious athletes als...more

Fresh Air Fund looking for runners for NYC Marathon

The Fresh Air Fund is looking for runners and sponsors to join our Fresh Air Fund-Racers team for the NYC Marathon on November 7th.  This is a great way to participate in NYC’s premier race while helping Fresh Air Fund children. Over the past four yea...more

Another Great Feature of Project Pink

  For all the Twitter-ers out there, you’re probably quite familiar with the #projectpink hash tag that signifies $1 donated to the fight against breast cancer. The Project Pink partnership between PUMA and WPS also supports specific breast cancer ...more

Megan Fox Donates Music Video Earnings To Battered Women Shelter

I just decided to like Ms. Fox a tiny bit more today. Turns out the money she earned working on Eminem's Love the Way You Lie music video was donated to a shelter for battered women. With the recession and federal funding down across the country for wom...more

PUMA launches Project Pink

On the heels of the biggest soccer event in the world (do you remember a little tournament in South Africa this summer called the World Cup?), sports brand PUMA is excited to announce a new initiative that links women’s soccer with a well-deserving caus...more

Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Fran Drescher

The star of The Nanny (I’m still waiting for her next sitcom) took her focus on health care and cancer (she is a uterine cancer survivor) to Capitol Hill yesterday to get Senators on board of the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010.  The bill will eliminate c...more

Back in Black to battle breast cancer

When you think about southern California, Los Angeles is probably first in mind. Along with the city of Angels you may think of Disneyland, the Salton Sea in Imperial Valley, The Oceanside Pier, the summits of the San Gabriel Mountains, the Colorado and M...more

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