Hi All -

USA Weekend magazine is looking for inspring volunteers to feature in its annual "Parents who Care" issue.

Details below:

See the examples used last year with respect to the eclectic and uniqueness of what each parent did. They include:

* A doctor who gives free physicals to high school athletes who can't afford them, so they can play scholastic sports

* A mom who gets young childrens' school day off to a spirited, energized start by providing aerobic classes for first-graders, as well as introducing them to healthy diet concepts
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* A mom who helped connect high school seniors to literally millions of dollars in scholarship opportunities that were otherwise not being taken advantage of.
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* A dad who launched a 'learning garden' at an elementary school.

Please, please please: Let's get our intentions out to as many of your members and associated communities as possible. Have them email me direct with their summaries of what a parent is doing out there. I don't need anything formal or lengthy. Many of these parents were brought to my attention with a simple, one-paragraph email that started with, 'You should know about what this parent is doing ..."
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Yes, we do tend to get lots of leads about elementary school parents and we welcome those. But middle and high school parents are very much of interest to us as well, for variety's sake.
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For background: USA Weekend is the nation> '> s second-largest magazine, distributed in more than 600 American newspapers, with 22.7 million in circulation and 50.4 million readers each week. (The circulation is larger than that combined of Vanity Fair, ESPN, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Oprah, Newsweek, People, Time, Sports Illustrated and US News & World Report.) It is carried in more than 605 newspapers, including the New York Daily News, the Arizona Republic, Indianapolis Star, the Denver Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Detroit and San Francisco combined newspapers and the Los Angeles Daily News.

Have an idea? email Dennis McCafferty, the writer, at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Good luck.

Tim