Since its opening nearly three decades ago, San Diego’s Ronald McDonald House (RMHC) has provided more than 120,000 nights of lodging for more than 12,000 families whose children are receiving treatment at area hospitals for life-threatening illnesses. However, with only 12 rooms, it turns away 100 families each month. So RMHC is now in the…
Help end world hunger and improve your vocabulary at www.freerice.com. For every set of synonyms you match correctly, the Web site’s sponsors donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. All those correct answers add up to make a big difference — since its beginning in late 2007, the site has…
She lives the kind of glamorous, high-profile life that one can only imagine, married to Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens with a heart-shaped diamond (a gift from her husband) roughly the size of Gibraltar. But Madeleine Pickens’ own heart is considerably larger, especially when it comes to protecting animals. She and her husband airlifted thousands…
The Peckham and Viterbi families have donated a combined $16 million to support cancer programs and the new Patient Care Pavilion now under construction at Rady Children’s Hospital. Nancy and Peter Peckham’s long commitment to Children’s Hospital began more than 40 years ago, but became even more personal when grandson Matthew was diagnosed with cancer.…
Kris Hedges abides by a no-nonsense mantra. “You always have two choices,” she explains. “You do something about it and you stop bitching. Or you do nothing and you stop bitching.” A few months ago, when the single 42-year-old looked in the mirror, she didn’t like what she saw. Hedges wasn’t quite as naturally…