Happy Friday! We’re looking forward to a bit of extra rest during the long weekend and we know a few grantees who could use a day off after all their hard work. Read & Discuss
Playground Built In LaVergne Tennessee: School Principal Slides With Glee
Dr. Polly Pewitt sent this video postcard from the site of the new Roy Waldron School playground. Who says principals don’t know how to have a good time? Read & Discuss
By: Refresh Team of GOOD | September 3rd, 2010 Video Games For Good On O’ahu (VIDEO)
The community service-based Mililani High School Video Game Club in Hawaii recently secured $5,000 to send forty students to a leadership camp designed to deepen their commitment to community improvement. What started as a bunch of kids united by a passion for gaming has evolved into offline engagement in the real world, from organizing recycling drives to leading Wii exercise clinics for seniors. Read & Discuss
By: Hannah Simone of GOOD | September 3rd, 2010 
Nursery School For Tucson’s Neediest
Like many parts of the country, Tucson, Arizona’s working class Pueblo Gardens neighborhood is feeling the effects of the economic downturn. Unemployment is up and increasing numbers of moms and dads are pounding the pavement looking for work. So who’s minding the kids while parents are out job hunting? For too many impoverished families who can’t afford childcare, the answer is no one. Fortunately, Pepsi Refresh Grantee Tucson Nursery School is stepping up and using its $50,000 grant to subsidize childcare costs for the area’s neediest families. Read & Discuss
By: Liz Dwyer of GOOD | September 3rd, 2010 Impact Snapshot: You And 11 Million
That’s how many people have joined the Pepsi Refresh Project- sharing great ideas and helping them become reality in communities large and small. Thanks for joining the movement.
By: Dylan Lathrop of GOOD | September 2nd, 2010 
Collecting Seniors’ Stories For Extra Credit
Janet Ballelos is not your average twenty-five year old. The recent Pepsi Refresh grantee and creator of the program Sketches of Memory is a woman on a mission. Barely two years after she was diagnosed with a deadly virus similar to West Nile, Ballelos has made a remarkable recovery and discovered an affinity and empathy for the elderly that few people her age can claim. “I understand what it’s like to feel vulnerable,” she said. That empathy along with her fierce ambition is propelling her forward. Read & Discuss
By: Kyla Fullenwider of GOOD | September 2nd, 2010 
Walking to School Helps Kids Cope With Stress
By: Monique El-Faizy, Parentdish
Walking to school in the morning can help children respond better to stress during the day, a new study shows. Forty children between the ages of 10 and 14 made a morning visit to the Behavioral Medicine Research Laboratory at the University at Buffalo. Half of them sat in a comfortable chair and watched a 10-minutes slide show of pictures of a suburban neighborhood-simulation of a bus ride and the other half walked a mile on a treadmill wearing a book bag and looking at similar suburban images-simulation of a walk to school. Read & Discuss
By: Rentedspaces of AOL 
Lobster Bake And Summer Symphony In Redlands
It’s for good reason Redlands California is known as the “Jewel of the Inland Empire.” Established as a hub for the citrus industry in 1888, the area was a wildly popular winter vacation destination for wealthy Easterners well into the early 1900s. Today, much of the stately Victorian architecture remains, but historic homes and civic landmarks aren’t the only celebrated holdovers from an erstwhile era. Read & Discuss
By: Rebecca McQuigg Rigal of GOOD | September 1st, 2010 
How To: Get On The 6′oclock News
By: Carla Fernandez, Pepsi Refresh Grant Manager
So your project is rounding the bend of a major milestone- your fundraising gap is nearly closed, ground will be broken this weekend, your one millionth golf ball is waiting to be packed and delivered to troops overseas- and you want your whole community to hear the news. How can you cook up an event to celebrate your milestone that brings local news stations running to cover your story? Read & Discuss
By: Refresh Team of GOOD | August 27th, 2010 
Community Gardens: Hot and Under Attack
By: Katie McCaskey, Rented Spaces
Is New York City the “greenest” American city? Not if you consider the recent two-steps-back the city and state have taken concerning community gardens. TreeHugger reported recently on testimony that reveals that New York State has weakened rules that were set in 2002 to protect community gardens from development. Read & Discuss
By: Rentedspaces of AOL
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