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Olympics fever gives back! 🔥 The father of Italian rower, Luca Chiumento, rode a bicycle (for 12 days!) to the Paris Olympics to raise money for a pediatric hospital. 🙌
https://wsau.com/2024/07/25/olympics-italian-rowers-father-pedals-to-paris-for-charity/
📸: WSAU
Are you onboard for healthy food? If so, take 30 (free) seconds and vote for Slow Food USA to win a grant so that they can continue their impactful work promoting healthy and sustainable food for all. This small, but mighty organization has been working in the U.S. since 2000. Vote for them at 🔗☝️
📸: Slow Food USA
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With the rising costs of everyday essentials, kids (and their families) going back to school can definitely use a boost. Supplies can cost a family upwards of $890! Zappos For Good has partnered with Kids In Need Foundation to give you an easy (and free!) option to donate school supplies you may have sitting at home that you're no longer needing. It doesn't matter where in the U.S. you live. Items like notebooks, crayons, markers, scissors, and pencils are just some of the common items that everyone going back to school needs.
👉 Box them up and ship them (for free!). Get all of the details: https://www.kinf.org/zappos-for-good-campaign/
PS - If you happen to be a family that is needing supplies, please check out our "(Free) School Supplies" opportunity in FEATURED Opportunities.
📸: Kids In Need Foundation
Almost 30 million workers here in the U.S. lack even 1 (paid) sick day, leaving them torn between going to work or recuperating at home. The U.S. is the only developed country that doesn't offer any guaranteed sick leave. The Healthy Families Act would change this, if it can get passed. That's where you come in.
👉 The Health Families Act aims to give workers 7 paid sick days annually. Help get this crucial assistance over the finish line by adding your name in support: https://p2a.co/x89tCis
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These tropical trees may be still on the decline, but it's at a much slower rate thanks to efforts small and large across the 🌎! Plant one (free). Take 30-seconds at 🔗☝️
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Happy Birthday to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)! 🎂 On this date in 1775, USPS was founded. In the early days, the sending of letters between Congress and the armies was the primary goal of the organization. And while we've seen lots of changes in USPS these 200 years, one item hasn't changed very much. Find out when you tap "Culture" ☝️
📸: USPS
Guess who's birthday it is?! The United States Postal Service! 🎂🎉
In an increasingly modernizing world, there's an item in our culture that hasn't changed since its inception about 200 years ago. It's the postage stamp. NOW, before you roll your eyes and move on to other content, you just might get a little excited over the way the postage USED to be utilized.
📬 This tidbit is actually a bit funny. Prior to the mid-1800's, nearly all letters were sent collect. The receiver of the mail would have to go to a post office and see if there was anything there for them. Many times the local post office would have to put advertisements in local newspapers so that people would know that they had mail to retrieve.
🚩 Unfortunately, quite a lot of people didn't want to pay to collect their letters! So, the USPS started off a bit cumbersome (and well, it became expensive for them too).
So, in 1847 the postage stamp arrived in the U.S. and we never turned back! For the initial decades, stamps almost entirely depicted heads of government, much like coins. 1893 became the first year of commemorative stamps, the first ones tied to the World's Fair in Chicago.
🖼 It's rather neat, really, as stamps are a timeline of our history and culture. Curious about the different ways our mail has been transported over these 200 years?! Check out some old photos (PS - I'm a little partial to the furry mail carrier 😃): https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/galleries/gallery-unusual.htm
Source: The Atlantic
📸: The Expert Editor
