With about six million children requiring special education services, you may very well be the parent of a special needs child. Your journey may be difficult. How can you be sure you are getting the best care for your child? Are there programs to help your child that you don’t know about? What can you [...]
The world has watched with fascination as 33 miners were pulled to safety yesterday. 1,500 journalists from 39 countries camped out in the desert to cover this story live. Go to the internet news site of your choice and you could have watched it live. Leaders the world over sent messages of congratulations. President Barack Obama held [...]
Looking back at the last 16 years it is amazing and heartwarming to see the unbelievable growth that Friendship Circle has a achieved! To think that a small idea has created something so big is truly amazing. Because of this growth The Friendship Circle International Office was created with the goal to provide resources and support to [...]
On September 5th Friendship Circle held its 5th Annual Walk4Friendship. 5,000 walkers came out to show their support for Friendship Circle and individuals with special needs. Check out the recap of an unbelievable event! Where you at Walk4Friendship? Please take this short survey. » Go Now Photos of Walk4Friendship ’10 » Go Now You can [...]
My husband and I moved to Michigan eight years ago from California. We arrived completely alone, knowing no one. After a few weeks, we met a couple named Yisrael & Devorah Pinson and we immediately became friends. One night, Yisrael invited us to go downtown for a fundraising dinner. We had no idea what the dinner was for, but [...]
There is no shortage of volunteer spirit in America. Over 90 million Americans volunteer more than 20 billion hours a year. I suspect that if the data were available for the Jewish community in isolation, it would be more impressive still. Believe it or not, some folks argue this is not a good thing. They point [...]
