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Fairchild Air Force Base is a military instillation located in Airway Heights, WA. There are a variety of units and missions conducted through this base, but their main focus is the air refueling mission. The base is home to Active Duty Members, Reservists, and a National Guard squadron. There are also a number of other units including the survival, evasion, resistance and escape school, medical units, and a weapons squadron.
The purpose of the Crayola ColorCycle program is to reduce the amount of plastic that that goes into landfills each year. Crayola accepts any brand of plastic markers including: highlighters, Expo markers, Vis-A-Vis and more! The program is currently available to K-12 schools in the contiguous 48 United States (excludes Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico) and some areas in Canada. Crayola hopes to roll out the program to include home schools, daycares and preschools in the future.
The purpose of Coats for Kids is to provide winter coats for every child across the country. This organization provides children in America with brand new coats throughout the fall and winter months. They also deliver a new pair of gloves and a hat to each child when they are available.
The purpose of this organization is to provide a smile on hospitalized kids across America, through heartfelt handmade cards. Anyone can get involved it doesn’t matter where the person lives, because you are going to mail these cards and then they will be distributed. This organization has provided smiles for over 100,000 kids in hospitals through cards.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of America is an amazing organization that’s mission is to enable all young people to reach their full potential. This group works with young people to get the ready to be productive members of society by providing them with several resources to help keep them on track in life and in school. They have a vision to support young people in their journey to living a healthy lifestyle and demonstrating good character.
Books For Africa is the largest shipper of donated educational materials to the African continent in the world. They have shipped more than 34 million books to 49 different African nations since they were founded in 1988! Not only do they ship donated books but with the donation money they buy educational supplies and ship that to Africa, as well.
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