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    Broadway. I retained this position throughout my senior year, and when we began to pull things together in the early winter of 2015 for the performance, we received the news from the Make-A-Wish Foundation that we were going to be able to directly sponsor a wish child. I finally got to meet Caitlin, our nine year old wish child, on the night of the performance. She spent the whole night running around the backstage area and hugging every cast member that she came across and telling us how excited she

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    Compassion is very important to me. Compassion means a lot of different things like caring, forgiving, and feeling sorry for something or someone. I show a lot of compassion to my friends and family, they mean a lot to me. An example of an act of compassion is when someone looks upset and you ask if they are okay or if they need to talk. That is caring for another because you can't just care about yourself. An example of forgiveness is when someone does something wrong or hurts you, but you say that

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    of a social media account that outlines what values they promote. Make A Wish Foundation is a very prominent worldwide organization which enhances the lives of sick children with serious conditions by giving them a wish. Looking over their twitter will give a great insight on how they enrich everyday lives by posting tweets and photos which also display the ambition and size of this organization which makes that possible. Make A Wish promotes giving happiness and a sense of life to an unfortunate child

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    a few major areas that the company could focus that would offer opportunities to cut costs. The company’s overall expense continues to rise each year a major part of that being program and service expenses. Due to how the company operates based on wish fulfillment of children there are not a lot of major cost-cutting opportunities for the company when it comes to grants and similar amounts paid. I do think there are a few major areas that they can cut cost specifically those in overhead cost. First

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    Make A Wish In The United States every 37 minutes a wish is granted. Ten of thousand supporters, donors and volunteers of Make A Wish grants the wish of every child who has been diagnosed with lethal medical conditions. The story of Make A Wish is truly wonderful, in this research paper i’ll tell you how it started, how they earned money, and how can we help kids with life treating conditions. It started with Chris Greicius aged 7 who had leukemia. Agent Tommy Austin, Ron Cox, Officer Jim Eaves,

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    Society, Big Brothers Big Sisters club, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Childhelp USA, Children’s Defense Fund, Cure4Lupus, Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, End Hunger Network, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Jane Goodall Institute, JDRF, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Prince’s Trust, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Starlight Children’s Foundation, TJ Martell Foundation, and the United Negro College Fund. (source 2) His donations to these charities helped a lot while he was alive. I think all he did for everyone

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    Purpose of the Evaluation Wish Granting is at the heart of how MAW GLA serves its community of children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. Time then, is a valuable resource to furthering the organization’s mission. The reach of the organization to all eligible participants is also critical in the objective to enrich the lives of as many individuals as possible in the chapter’s target population. Understanding the importance of these elements, the consultant team would like to

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    life you think it's great. The community is really great, you have great friends. Also, you have great health. But what if you didn't? Some kids don't have the life you have. Some kids live in hospitals. They wait to find a cure or something that makes them better. The results of these medical conditions could be fatal. The rate of survival is getting better, but it's not great. so what can it take to help these kids? To think it's unbelievable, but 15,700 kids have had cancer this year (2015)

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    children with disabilities. Make-A-Wish is a well-known nonprofit organization that grants terminally ill children their dream wish. If I could choose any person to room with it would be Tommy Austin. Tommy Austin is the co-founder of Make-A-Wish and a retired U.S. Customs agent. In the spring of 1980, Austin met a child named Chris Greicius who was dying of leukemia. Chris dreamed of becoming a police officer when he grew up. Austin was determined to not only grant this wish for Chris, but to also

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    Roman atwood is my hero, he is a youtuber who is always positive and always creating smiles. He made his own company called Smile More, he made the company on the purpose to make people smile more in life. He’s also involved in the make a wish foundation, and has granted 100’s of wishes for little kids. Roman Atwood is youtuber currently with 13,634,957 subscribers and 4,114,869,761 views. He has been on youtube since 2010 but however started a new channel in 2013. In 2010 he was a pranker and was

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