You and Who’sDay – Launching in Austin, DREAMing in Dallas, I Wear Your Shirt All Over
By Dan Gigante, President, You and Who
We’re back from Fashion Week in New York, but there’s no slowing down for us. We’ve picked a date for the launch of our new brand, new website, and the first designs from our 2012 line of shirts, “Moving Forward” – Monday, March 12th, in Austin during SXSW Interactive Festival! It’s going to be a big week at SXSW for You and Who, as we’ll be there all week not only for the launch, but also participating in a few music showcases with The Good Neighborhood around the Music Festival. Come down to the SXSW Sendoff party at Nietzsche’s on Friday, March 2nd, featuring Son of the Sun, the Albrights, and the Tins, to learn more!
In addition to working around the clock over the next few weeks leading up to our launch, we also will be making a jaunt to Dallas next week for D.R.E.A.M., Achieving the Dream’s 2012 Annual Meeting on Student Success. Achieving the Dream, Inc. is a national nonprofit that is dedicated to helping more community college students, particularly low-income students and students of color, stay in school and earn a college certificate or degree. We recently conducted a design contest with Achieving the Dream in which Read more
UB Arranges “Alternative Winter Break” on the Bayou – One Student’s Amazing Account
From Seamus Gallivan: Recently, UB Green Environmental Educator Jim Simon shared his fulfillment over their recent “Alternative Winter Break” trip to the Louisiana Bayou with 17 students to do community service and ecological restoration. Asked to corral an account from one of the students, Simon sent this story that has an amazing and unexpected twist at the end…
By Nichole Bochman, Junior Psychology Major, University at Buffalo
It is easy to become part of the crowd at the University at Buffalo. There are so many great students here that sometimes, students fall between the cracks and go unnoticed. Until last September, I was one of the students who just “went with the flow”— Read more
You and Who’sday – Quick Hello from NYC Fashion Week and the Funniest YouTube Clip Ever
As the folks from You and Who are immersed in NYC’s Fashion Week, president Dan Gigante sent a quick video for this week’s post. To learn more about the NYC homeless services organizations that are working with You and Who as reported during Dan’s documenting of his 30 Cities in 90 Days work trip, check out Grand Central Neighborhood Social Services Corporation and NYC Rescue Mission. Read more
Tonight: Rockin for a Miracle with Jony James Band – Past Perspective on the Miracle League
By Seamus Gallivan/photos by Jack Newton
Tonight we continue our monthly Rockin’ for a Miracle series supporting the Miracle League of Western New York with two sets of Survival Blues from the mighty Jony James Band at Pearl Street Brewery (76 Pearl St, 9:30pm, $4, all ages), and on this occasion, I’m compelled to again on this site go to bat for this cause so close to my heart.
Since a search here of Miracle League already offers a long string of stories, it seems wise to throw a changeup in the form of a different perspective, courtesy of a 2008 article by Minor League Baseball beat writer Benjamin Hill at www.milb.com. Hill was kind enough to pick up on my pitch to profile the league and the fine folks in Texas who introduced me to it, and he hit it out of the park, bookending the piece with quotes from me that are quite fun to read again because I still say them today. Read more
Daemen’s Students Without Borders Fund Medical Mission to Dominican Republic
By Seamus Gallivan/photos provided by Virginia Kaufman
Some of the same good neighbors who traveled with the Hope for Tomorrow Foundation to Haiti last year to meet medical needs of the less fortunate were at it again earlier this month, this time in the Dominican Republic and representing Daemen College’s Students Without Borders (SWOB) program.
Founded in 2001 by students in the Physician Assistant graduate program at Daemen, the annual SWOB trip to the Dominican is made possible by Read more
Sunday Sermon – Catholicism, Castro, and Cuba: Part Two
This is the second of a two-part story about Msgr. Gallivan’s 1985 trip to Cuba with a delegation of American bishops during his tenure as director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Latin America. Read part one here.
By Msgr. David M. Gallivan, Pastor, Holy Cross Church
During my first visit to Cuba in 1985, the fervor and enthusiasm at two public liturgies in packed churches surprised me. The music and singing were wonderful. The events were the best-organized Masses I had ever attended in Latin America. I hasten to add that they were also very rare events in Cuba.
The organizers and participants, mostly young adults, participated in church life at great personal cost. Read more
Sunday Sermon – Catholicism, Castro, and Cuba: Part One
By Msgr. David M. Gallivan, Pastor, Holy Cross Church
As Pope Benedict XVI prepares for a visit to Cuba in early February, I recall my own first visit to that island nation. In January 1985, I was the director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Latin America. The bishops of Cuba had invited a delegation of American bishops for a church-to-church visit. I went to assist with arrangements and translation. Upon arrival at Jose Marti Airport, I overheard a conversation between Cuba’s Papal Nuncio (the pope’s ambassador) and the press, hinting that our delegation would probably meet with President Fidel Castro. Read more
Haiti Earthquake Two Years Ago Today – Here’s a Way to Help While Helping Your Own Cause
By Seamus Gallivan
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 250,000 people and made more than two million homeless, leaving an already dysfunctional nation in utter disorder.
While there is certainly still a long way to go in establishing the kind of stability in Haiti that in truth didn’t exist before the earthquake, this two year anniversary offers an opportunity to look at some hard numbers and learn of a simple way to support the cause while doing the same for your own at home. Read more
