A new display featuring hundreds of missing persons posters is now available for anyone to place on their land. The display lets people click on any missing person’s poster and receive a notecard that gives a URL to learn more about that person and their families.  The notecards also have small gifts in them. This [...]

I approached a CNN reporter about the possibility of doing a story about Jason Jolkowski and his parents, Kelly and Jim, the founders of Project Jason. The reporter said yes, and the story was not only published, it held a spot on the home page of CNN.com for a few hours that day! (The CNN story [...]

Project Jason announced a new fundraiser that kicked off on the nonprofit’s sixth anniversary October 6, 2009. “No Family Left Behind” asks the public to help fund the next Project Jason Keys to Healing Retreat, to be held in August 2010. The first retreat was such a miracle, we want to repeat it, but we [...]

This is a great video by Christina Fontana that expresses very well the sequence of events, the content, and the amazing results.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5609428/14723375

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-265761
Posted by: Eradicator
Missing Persons: The Search Continues in a Virtual World
Most gardens grow into beautiful things when they are nurtured and well-maintained. Within Second Life (an online virtual reality world, where people can freely create objects and express themselves), a special garden exists where as one visitor recently remarked to the owner, “No offense Ronnie, [...]

This is a rather amazing move — collecting DNA from people who have been arrested, but not convicted. It is fantastic that this will help solve other cases unrelated to the current arrest. But it’s also a bit questionable in terms of civil rights. I’ll need to learn more to really form an opinion on [...]

Family InfoSAFE is a unique online resource which allows you to safely store, and then distribute, pertinent information about your loved ones in the event of an emergency.
The InfoSAFE approach was developed by caregivers for caregivers. Our team saw the need to access critical information quickly in the midst of an emergency. In researching ways [...]

If you are making your donation plans for the year, please don’t forget the organizations that support families of the missing.  With more funds, they could be doing so much more.
Here are some links:
Project Jason
CUE Center
The Center for HOPE

This just in from Kelly Jolkowski, president and founder of Project Jason:
Direct link at ProjectJason.org is http://www.projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=4618.msg26880#msg26880
 
 
Hello,  
Most of you have heard of our Campaign for the Missing, a state by state effort to pass legislation which would positively impact how missing and unidentified deceased person cases are handled. (http://www.projectjason.org/legislation.html)
 We’ve been successful mentoring volunteers with [...]

SLIllustrated was kind enough to devote an entre issue of their magazine to altruistic and nonprofit work going on in Second Life. Thank you Ariel and Dadist!
You can read it at:
http://www.slillustrated.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/sept.pdf