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With 1 in 5 NYC residents living in poverty, Camino client Yorkville Common Pantry (YCP), New York City’s largest community-based food pantry, is revolutionizing the current food pantry model to expand access and empower clients by launching two new programs, YCP Direct and Choice Pantry. The YCP Direct program incorporates the latest technology into the ...

It is imperative that we recognize cyberbullying for what it is – a symptom of the larger problem of relational aggression. -       Teenager Dominique Napolitano, Girl Scouts USA   I’ve been trying to remember the first time I was bullied at school.  Experts say bullying starts in about the second grade but my memory only ...

Even pirates are in the PR business. The “PR Play of the Week” – as designated by PR Week’s Tonya Garcia – was awarded to the pirates earlier this month. In fact, the PR Play Rating was “ingenious”, which beat the “savvy” rating that myself and colleagues received a few years ago for our Free ...

Recently, a second grader sparked a whirlwind of conversation on the blogs and cable media when she asked First Lady Obama whether it is true that President Obama wants to send back all the people without papers, including the young girl’s mother. Check out the video here: Her story is a reminder of the real-life ...

Almost every day New Yorkers pass by someone asking for money, in the subway, on the sidewalk, in the park. Homelessness, hunger and persistent poverty are so visible we sometimes literally trip over the poor. Most of us look the other way not because we don’t care, but because solutions to these problems seem overwhelming. ...

Mexico City pays for early abortion for any women who seeks it. Contrast that to the U.S. healthcare reform efforts, which have devolved into a debate over how best to reassure taxpayers that federal funds will not be used to pay for women to access abortion. We can learn a lot by studying the communications ...

Inevitably we would leave the Camino PR starter office. Our basement office was once a stable for the work-horses that carted baked goods through Manhattan. In the first weeks we hauled out debris and installed large bamboo mats and oversized desks to create a comfortable but frugal workspace. We sanitized everything, but still I was ...

Senator Ted Kennedy was deeply engaged in civil rights and equal rights. As a man of immense privilege, he uniquely saw the struggles of those whose lives were very different. Senator Kennedy voted against the nomination of John Roberts as Supreme Court Chief Justice because he was not convinced that Roberts fundamentally understood the role ...