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SFist Cares ... Educational Funding Sucks

Ok, so perhaps SFist's own Donor's Choose challenge isn't going to break any records (and we're not the best promoter's are we?). But

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SFist Cares ... Give a Kid a Book Already

This fall 3,700 Bay Area/Northern California disadvantaged youngsters, many of whom have never owned their own book, will take part in an innovative literacy program featuring a cast of centuries-old

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SFist Cares ... About Yummy In Our Tummy

Luckily, while we've been working on our tan other people have been working on more important things. Our inbox contains an email from one of our readers who's is

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Interview: Clark Kepler

For any readers who might not know, tell us why Kepler's is so awesome. For me and many others who've been around for a while, growing up in the

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Author Events Roundup: June is Jam-Packed!

Cody's Books - We'll start with the soon-to-close Telegraph Ave location. Wednesday, June 7 - 7:30 p.m. Nando Parrado talks about his experience as a member of

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SFist Cares ... About Getting Your Ride Clean

The AIDS/LifeCycle is coming up and one of the locals riding it sent us a message about a bike/moped/scooter wash this Sunday 11am-4pm on Market & Sanchez to raise

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SFist Cares - DonorsChoose Reader's Challenge

We want to give you the opportunity to contribute to some of the projects of DonorsChoose through the SFist Cares Reader's Challenge. We picked some projects from local schools and hope

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SFist Cares ... About Winning Volunteers

This week, rock dwellers, is National Volunteer Week and to help celebrate it, and encourage people to keep or start volunteering The Volunteer Center is holding a contest. The winner of this content

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SFist Cares ... About Girls, Girls, Girls

Why do we love them? It's right there on the home page: Their mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold. That's frickin' awesome!

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Authors Go On Tour - Why Can't You?

We'll start with SFist Peninsula headquarters in Menlo Park at Kepler's: The kickoff to their travel series comes from Frances Mayes (warning, there's sound at that link)

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SFist Cares: It's a Motherf***ing Walk-Off!

Oh snap! Someone's already done it. The St. Vincent de Paul Society challenged fashion design students from SFSU and FIDM to do just that and the results are really incredible. Take

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SFist Cares: Salute Your Volunteers!

While we celebrate volunteers all year 'round, National Volunteer Week is officially April 23-29th. As part of this, The Volunteer Center will host its annual awards event "Hat's

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The South Bay {Hearts} You

But if you're looking for smoochy, cuddly things to do down in the south bay (and really, who isn't?) we have some ideas for you. Of course, they'

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Kepler's Winter Author Events - Not Too Shabby!

As avowed book lovers SFist was thrilled to see Kepler's com back and they're (almost) better than ever. We'll remove that bracketed condition when they open online

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Cares Cleans Out The Closet

Just our luck, though, is that there are some good options for making better use of our no-longer-needed items. First, Buffalo Exchange is going to get our old mink and fox

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SFist Cares ... About Respect

If you watch any late night television you may have seen a series of commercials jointly produced by the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Comcast. They started airing in mid-November and

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SFist Mary-Lynn Remembers 2005

Politics - Voters rejecting the Governor was awesome but I'm still waiting for something, anything, to take down Bush. What the hell will it take?! Federal Government Department - We know more about

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SFist Cares Holiday Gift Guide: Medical Miracles

The San Francisco AIDS Foundation offers a marketplace/storefront from which you can bounce around to different merchants who'll sell you something and donate part of the proceeds to the Foundation.

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SFist Cares Holiday Gift Guide: Jetsetters

Last week we gave you some ideas for what to get the animal lover on your gift list. This week, we're going international -- looking at various international aid organizations that you

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SFist Cares Holiday Gift Guide: Animal Lovers

Now is not the time to forget the SF/SPCA where you can find all sorts of gifts, many very reasonably priced. We love the advent calendar of doggie treats! You know by

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SFist Cares ... What Do You Want to Do?

Sheya, right! We suck at resolutions. Did you know dental floss can go bad? Yeah, that's how good we are with following through on our resolutions. It helps when you do

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SFist Cares ... About Crafts

So now we're just going to leave it to the experts, many of whom will be exhibiting their work at The Women's Building Celebration of Craftswomen at Fort Mason.

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SFist Cares ... About These Events

For those of you in the east bay: "Beyond Borders: A Benefit for the Victims & Survivors of the South Asian Earthquake". Local performers will be taking the stage Berkeley'

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SFist Cares ... About Your Health

Did you get your flu shot yet? Most of the clinics up to the end of October were reserved for people in high risk groups. Now, anyone can supposedly get one. Of course,

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SFist Cares ... About Your Spare Change

We suppose this change in the entreprenurial charitability of young children explains why we're always sitting around SFist headquarters with a full bag of change at the end of the night