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ATLANTA, GA — The Captain Planet Foundation recently announced the launch of the 2026 Green Heart STEM Challenge, welcoming its largest cohort to date with nearly 5,000 students, 132 educators, and 71 schools across 11 states participating. 

The Green Heart STEM Challenge is delivered through a hybrid model, with in-person programming in metro Atlanta, Houston, and Miami, alongside virtual participation that enables schools in additional states to engage fully. This structure supports deep, place-based learning in core communities while expanding national access.

Designed for students in grades 6–9, the Challenge blends STEM learning with real-world problem solving, guiding students to identify environmental challenges in their communities and develop practical, implementable solutions. It follows a rotating, four-year cycle focused on EARTH, WIND, FIRE, and WATER, ensuring students explore a broad range of environmental systems and solutions over time.

The 2026 Challenge features EARTH, with students exploring issues such as soil health, tree canopy, composting, and food waste. Educators onboard students to the Challenge platform, where teams form, research, and begin building solutions rooted in local needs.

“What sets this Challenge apart is that students are mentored and funded to implement their winning ideas,!” said Leesa Carter-Jones, President and CEO of Captain Planet Foundation. “They’re not just learning about environmental challenges, they’re designing solutions and being held accountable for real outcomes.”

Since its launch, the Challenge has shown growing, measurable impact. In recent cycles, hundreds of student teams have progressed from ideas to formal project plans, with an increasing percentage advancing to implementation. Past winners have secured additional funding, expanded beyond their schools, and built long-term community partnerships, including teams in Atlanta and Houston continuing work well beyond the Challenge timeline. Across cohorts, student-led projects have tackled composting and food waste, erosion control and reforestation, water quality, repair-and-reuse systems, and circularity efforts reducing fast fashion and single-use waste.

The Challenge is supported by Accenture, Amazon, Delta Air Lines, Georgia Natural Gas, Green Mountain Energy, and Susan J. Klein, among others. Accenture employees also serve as volunteer mentors and project managers, helping student teams refine ideas, develop budgets, and prepare for implementation through the Challenge’s Idea Incubator.

Entering its fourth year, the Green Heart STEM Challenge continues to show what’s possible when students are trusted with real responsibility, and supported to turn ideas into action.

About Captain Planet Foundation
Captain Planet Foundation is an award-winning U.S.-based nonprofit that empowers young people to be problem-solvers for the planet. Over the past 35 years, more than 1.7 million children have directly participated in CPF programs, supporting more than 3,700 projects and impacting 11.4 million young people worldwide. Founded in 1991 by Ted Turner and Barbara Pyle, CPF advances environmental education through programs including Project Learning Garden, Planeteer Alliance, and the Green Heart STEM Challenge. Learn more at www.captainplanetfoundation.org.

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Isabel Sanford (right, with Roxie Roker) as Louise Jefferson on “The Jeffersons,” Norman Lear’s long-running spinoff of “All in the Family.”Credit…CBS, via Associated Press

Amid the 1970s television landscape selling obvious sex and youth, Norman Lear understood the magnetism of older everyday women.

Mr. Lear, who died on Tuesday at 101, has long gotten credit for being the first to train the television spotlight on issues of racism and class, war and poverty, to create plots centered on hot-button feminist issues such as equal pay or abortion. He deserves all of those accolades. But little has been said about the much quieter feminism expressed simply through his choice of leading ladies and the characters they limned.

Mr. Lear made stars out of gifted midlife actresses, without requiring them to look 20 years younger than they were. Instead, he made these women the focal points of important conversations, granting them dignity and gravitas and humor that was never cruel or at their expense.

Amid the 1970s television landscape of sexy pinups (Farrah Fawcett, Suzanne Somers), beautiful superheroes (Lynda Carter in “Wonder Woman,” Lindsay Wagner in “The Bionic Woman”), and relatable-but-thin-and-gorgeous heroines like Mary Tyler Moore, Mr. Lear’s leading ladies stood out for their sheer everyday-ness.

Bea Arthur as Maude Findlay, the outspoken main character in Mr. Lear’s show “Maude,” with Bill Macy, who played her husband, Walter Findlay.Credit…CBS, via Getty

Esther Rolle, far right, played Florida Evans on “Good Times,” seen here with, from left, BernNadette Stanis (as Thelma), Jimmie Walker (as J.J.) and John Amos (as James Evans Sr.).Credit…CBS, via Getty

Cast members from “All in the Family.” From the top: Sally Struthers as Gloria, Rob Reiner as Michael, Jean Stapleton as Edith and Carroll O’Connor as Archie.Credit…CBS

Edith Bunker, Maude Findlay, Louise Jefferson and Florida Evans were all middle- or working-class middle-aged women — attractive, but hardly supermodels. Over the years of their series, the actresses who played these roles ranged in age from their 40s to late sixties. They wore regular clothes on their regular bodies, simple dresses with tie belts, housecoats or tunic pantsuits (varied slightly to reflect their characters’ social status) — outfits any audience member might find in a department store. Their hair and makeup were unobtrusive.

Yet within these parameters lay real power. In their unflashy outfits, they had a commanding appeal different from and more enduring than that of all the bikini- and evening-gown-clad glamour girls of the era. (In her floor-length vests, Bea Arthur as the feminist suburbanite Maude could at times resemble a Roman senator.)

Mr. Lear’s characters held our attention, making us care about their struggles and joys, marriages and children, their money or work woes. They made us laugh. What’s more, these women had romantic lives. Sometimes, they would hint at having actual sex, despite the serious handicap of being over 40.

Esther Rolle was 53 when she began playing Florida Evans on “Good Times” (spinning off from her role in “Maude”) — 19 years older than John Amos, the handsome actor who played her husband, James. Yet they were depicted as having a vital, erotic relationship. In one episode, James whisks Florida off to a snowbound cabin for a second honeymoon, carries her across the threshold and murmurs that he wants to “get it on.”

Even the demure and innocent Edith Bunker — played by Jean Stapleton from age 47 to 56 — referred on occasion to her still-active bedroom activities. In an episode titled “The Joys of Sex,” Edith consults a sex manual to spice up her marriage. “Ain’t I always there when you’re in the mood?” asks a wounded Archie. “Yeah, Archie, and even when I ain’t,” Edith replies.

Mr. Lear’s heroines also confronted feminine reproductive issues: Edith endured a rocky menopause — replete with crying, rage and mood swings. On “The Jeffersons,” Louise Jefferson (played by Isabel Sanford from age 57 to 67) tries some marriage therapy techniques on her recalcitrant husband, George (Sherman Hemsley), trying gamely to get him to talk about sex. Most dramatically, Maude had a late-life abortion (when the character was 47 and Arthur was 50). In other words, these female characters had female bodies, and those bodies got to be part of the story: not as jiggling eye candy, objects of leering jokes or fashion plates, but as the flesh-and-blood, complex, flawed and sexual entities that bodies actually are — and that all women have, whether they’re 25 or 60, supermodels or not.

Norman Lear (1922-2023)

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Elisa English’ Counseling in Schools’ “Measures of Hope” Benefit to be held on 5/19 at the NY Society for Ethical Culture Honoring Legendary Jazz Maestro Ron Carter and featuring a special appearance by 11-time 2022 Grammy-Award Nominee Jon Batiste. For tickets please click on the link below.

When a child awakens to possibilities in their lives, hope, purpose and determination flourish.

Implementing strength-based counseling programs for children and families; building strong relationships with community leaders; partnering with school administrators to improve outcomes; and a range of professional development services make Counseling In Schools a vital resource for the whole school community.

Counseling In Schools – 2022 “Measures of Hope” Ron Carter Quartet Spring Benefit Concert (networkforgood.com)

(http://www.counselinginschools.org)

Hope to see you at this special event for a most worthy cause.

Warmly,

Lorraine C. Silvetz, MSW

Executive Director

Global Stress Initiative

www.globalstressinitiative.org

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George Floyd Olympic Bowling training program for children in and around New York City

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Good day, this is Major Carter Executive Producer of the GEORGE. FLOYD. memorial fundraiser CD. With the knowledge and acceptance of the Floyd family lawyer Ben Crump this CD sales will help to develop the George Floyd Olympic Bowling training program for children in and around New York

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As the producer and song writer i would be honored to appear on Good New Broadcast along with singer and music composers Dwayne Burt of North Carolina and music composer Peter Joseph Paul of New Jersey.

Thank you in advance for allowing us to appear on Good News Broadcast and we appreciate your support concerning this fundraiser CD.
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Who: The Association of Fundraising Professionals, the largest community of charitable fundraisers and charities in the world, celebrating philanthropy with the following special guests:

National Philanthropy Day Chair T. Denny Sanford, who has given over $1 billion to charity so far and intends to “die broke.”
Educator, innovator and activist Geoffrey Canada, former president of Harlem’s Children Zone
Nonprofit leader and award-winning filmmaker Maria Cuomo Cole, the AFP New York City Chapter’s 2014 Outstanding Philanthropist

Along with our six honorees for the year:

Outstanding Philanthropist: Macon and Joan Brock, Virginia Beach, Va.
Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser: Peter Ferrantelli, San Diego, Calif.
Outstanding Corporation: The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Ga.
Outstanding Foundation: The Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation, Winter Park, Fla.
CARTER Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy, Individual: Kinsey Morrison, Louisville, Ky.
CARTER Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy, Group: Youth Making a Difference, Pratt, Kan.

When: Nov. 12, 2015, Reception: 6:30, Event: 7:30 – 9:00 p.m.

Where: Kaufman Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y, New York City

Why: National Philanthropy Day, celebrated by thousands of charities and individuals across North America, is the day set aside to remember and commemorate the impact that philanthropy—and those involved in the philanthropic process—has made in our communities and our world.

The honorees in each category were voted upon by AFP members and the general public. More information about each honoree, as well as about National Philanthropy Day, can be found at www.npdlove.com

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Since 1960, the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) has advanced effective and ethical philanthropy by providing advocacy, research, education, mentoring, collaboration and technology opportunities for the world’s largest network of professional fundraisers. AFP’s 33,000 members raise more than $115 billion annually. For more information, go to www.afpnet.org

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