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The nonprofit group Christine's Hope for Kids has given more than $300,000 in donations and in-kind support to groups in New Jersey and across the country that work with children.
Jean Gianacaci, center, speaks with a youth at a book fair last summer at a Trenton (N.J.) Housing Authority property. She is joined by volunteer Claire King, left. Christine's Hope for Kids hosted a book fair for residents of the property, offering books, fresh fruit, and healthy snacks.
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EnlargeIn January 2010, Christine Gianacaci was visiting Haiti with a team from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., on a trip to help children and the underprivileged when she ? along with five others ? were killed in a massive earthquake that rocked that country.
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When her parents, John and Jean Gianacaci, took on the unimaginable task of planning their daughter?s funeral, they both agreed that they had to find a way to continue their daughter?s good works. They also wanted to find a way to put the money that could be used for flowers to good use.
?At her funeral we decided, in lieu of flowers, we would start a foundation,? Mrs. Gianacaci says. ?We decided to start a foundation to help underprivileged kids and kids with differences.?
Christine?s Hope for Kids was born.
The mission of the organization ? helping to give kids a chance to just be kids ? is significant in a number of ways to the Gianacaci family.
Christine grew up with learning differences and had been diagnosed with Tourette?s syndrome, her mother says.
?She knew what the challenges were for kids like her,? Mrs. Gianacaci says. ?She knew what that was like. She had a very big heart for kids that lived with adversity.?
Christine was able to attend college, and her Tourette?s syndrome waned with age, her mother says.
In college? she became involved with Students for the Poor, a branch of the Food for the Poor organization. That?s where the other motivation behind the family?s foundation comes in.
?The kids went to Haiti to make a difference, and do some good, and they lost their lives doing it,? Jean Gianacaci. She says she felt ?We have to do something to honor this.?
Gianacaci recalled her daughter?s experience on a similar trip in 2009 to Jamaica, and the changed outlook Christine had when she returned home.
?The things she saw, and the poverty she saw, were overwhelming for her,? Gianacaci says. ?When you grow up here, you?re not exposed to poverty at that level.?
But what impacted Christine most, her mother says, were the children she met.
?What touched her heart the most were the kids who lived there,? Gianacaci says. ?The kids were happy. They were in such poverty ? but yet, they were happy.?
Jean and her husband, John, with the help of a part-time assistant and a score of volunteers, have since taken up Christine?s mission. To date, the foundation has given more than $300,000 in donations and in-kind support to organizations in New Jersey and across the country that work with children.
The family has decided to focus on helping children in the United States.
?Kids need help everywhere, but we wanted to stay here because there is a tremendous need right here in our very own country,? Gianacaci says.
Another benefit is the ability to more easily see the results of donations and support.
?I can see where our money goes,? Gianacaci says, adding that she makes sure donations are put to the right uses on behalf of supporters. ?We are very grateful that people are willing ? with all the choices they have ? to donate to Christine?s Hope for Kids.?
From supporting community organizations such as Big Brothers-Big Sisters to partnering with schools to raise money or assembling pajama bags for disaster victims, Christine?s Hope for Kids has teamed with the wider community.
It also supports individual children, sending some to summer camps and providing equipment for others so that they can participate in athletics.
?Kids are shut out of games and activities because of money issues. It is overwhelming to me,? Gianacaci says. ?Where will their memories be if they don?t get a chance to do anything??
The foundation also helped bring a group of New Jersey kids to the seashore ? for the first time.
?We sent kids to the Jersey shore last summer who have never seen the ocean,? she says. ?And they live in Jersey.?
Another project supported youngsters taking a photography course in Florida ? something Gianacaci hopes will be a positive memory for them whether they take up the hobby or not.
The Gianacaci family also aims to help teach kids how to help other kids. Partnering with schools can be a big part of achieving that goal.
?Everybody needs a little help some time,? Gianacaci says. ?Just because you don?t have a brand-new bike doesn?t mean you are less of anything. It just means you don?t have a bike.?
While her formal title with Christine?s Hope for Kids is ?president,? Gianacaci prefers to be called something else.
?I really like ?mom? the best,? she says.
? For more information on Christine?s Hope for Kids, to volunteer or provide support, visit http://www.christineshope.org.
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Ferrari President Luca Cordero di Montezemolo waves to media after the World premiere presentation of the new La Ferrari hybrid model car. Ferrari recently told employees they could not include more than three people per email to curb the deluge of mail workers receive.
Their cars are some of the fastest in the world, but Ferrari is putting the brakes on group emails to more than three people.
Concerned that messages are slowing down their 3,000 employees, the luxury Italian car manufacturer said in a statement that workers will only be able to ?send the same email to three people in-house.?
Stefano Lai, the vice president for communications, said the company was rolling out an application that would block messages when a fourth name was typed in.
?It is not a war or a battle against email,? he said. ?It?s more about making people think than punishing them. It is not a question of productivity, more a question of efficiency.
?Sometimes people are so flooded by e-mail that it is difficult to find what is important,? Lai added. ?If it is important it is better to call rather than wait and see what the answer is??
?We hope people will call or go to the office and say: ?When can we solve this thing,? instead of waiting for an answer.?
Lai refused to confirm speculation in the Italian media that the idea had come from the company?s aristocratic chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, who is also the president of NTV an Italian company which is Europe's first private open access operator of 190 mph high-speed trains.
?Our chairman always says, ?We take a decision at 9 o?clock in the morning and by 9:30 a.m. it is implemented,? he said.
He added that they could not predict whether productivity would increase at their campus in the northern town of Maranello.
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MEXICO CITY, July 5 (UPI) -- U.S. airlines that canceled dozens of flights into Mexico City Thursday due to fears about ash from a rumbling volcano said they restored schedules Friday.
A number of airlines canceled more than 40 flights into the capital when the Popocatepetl volcano, which has been has been rumbling all year, began spewing ash and steam this week, the BBC reported.
US Airways, Delta, United, American and Alaska Airlines canceled flights Thursday before returning to normal schedules Friday.
Flights to Mexico City from Houston, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, Chicago and Los Angeles were affected by the cancellations.
"We are closely monitoring the situation in Mexico City as volcanic ash continues to be emitted from Popocatepetl," American Airlines spokesman Matt Miller said.
Mexican authorities have established a 7-mile no-fly zone around the volcano, 40 miles southeast of the Mexico City airport.
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The current narrative coming from most is that "The Shield" has been tarnished, but that's hyperbole. For every Hernandez, there are dozens of NFL players who spend their free time trying to make society and their communities better places.
Take Minnesota Vikings defensive Jared Allen, a four-time All-Pro who has had his own off-the-field problems. An immature Allen was once arrested for DUI on three separate occasions and suspended by the NFL. His last brush with the law came on Sept. 26, 2006, however.
Since then, Allen has cleaned up his act and turned into one of the NFL's premier pass rushers. Off the field, he's been even more impressive.
These days, Allen is busy teaming up with the Professional Bull Riders in an effort to help his own Homes for Wounded Warriors charity, something the Dallas native started in 2009 to provide handicap-accessible homes and remodels to wounded veterans who served in either Iraq or Afghanistan.
Since 2012, Allen worked with the PBR as the owner of three bulls currently competing on the sport's elite Built Ford Tough Series, and has raised more than $100,000.
"This is a great match," Allen said. "I've attended a few PBR events this year, pulled ropes for a few of the cowboys before their rides and took care of my bulls. It's cool to get back into that world a little bit."
Allen's love for the rodeo stems from his youth while he grew up on a ranch in Morgan Hill, Calif., and he still shows it off virtually every Sunday with his patented calf-roping celebration after his sacks. His deep respect for the military comes form his family ties. Allen's grandfather and younger brother served in the Marines.
"PBR and (my charity) have a natural tie-in; they stand for some of the same principles, God and country," Allen said. "The fact that I can merge my interests to the benefit of both is great."
Allen, who has 117 career sacks, also serves as an advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation which raises funds through his "Sack Diabetes" program, and was among four NFL players sent overseas on a NFL-USO tour to visit with U.S. military troops.
In September 2010, Allen even gave $3,000 to a Downey, Calif., animal shelter's reward fund for information leading to an arrest in connection with a horse being starved and abandoned on a Los Angeles city street.
In today's 24/7 news cycle, which is largely driven by ratings, Allen's kind of philanthropy isn't going to sell, but statistics say it should.
Believe it or not, there really hasn't been a significant spike in NFL player arrests this offseason. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune's exhaustive NFL arrests database, league arrests between the Super Bowl and July 1 are up this year to 27 from 21.
They are also the highest they have been since 2008, when 41 were taken into custody. That said, 27 isn't all that much more than the 25 who were arrested in 2010 or the 23 in 2009. The difference is this year's total is not overwhelming and remains comfortably under the national arrest average by nearly 2 percent, according to FBI numbers.
Among young men between 22 to 34, things look even rosier for the NFL, which has a 3.5 percent arrest rate since 2003 compared to a whopping 9.9 percent national average.
Sometimes the facts get in the way of a good story, though, and news organizations thrilled by the ratings that the Hernandez scandal has generated aren't about to play up numbers that say NFL players as a whole behave better than the rest of society.
That doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.
"One (arrest) is too many," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told USA TODAY Sports when discussing the issue recently.
Aiello's right.
Most crime is directly attributed to poverty, and NFL players certainly don't have that hurdle to clear. There are no logical explanations for any NFL player to be arrested save for the facts that young people make mistakes on occasion and there are a few bad apples in the world.
High profile legal cases often skew perceptions, but don't blame football for Aaron Hernandez, a bad guy who probably would have went off the rails far sooner without the game. Instead, take comfort in the fact there are far more Jared Allens in the NFL.
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