Archive for the 'Information' Category

New Missing Persons Poster Display Now Available!

Friday, December 18th, 2009

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 [...]

Project Jason Featured on the CNN.com Home Page!

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

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 [...]

No Family Left Behind: You Can Help Families of the Missing

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

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 [...]

Project Jason Keys to Healing Retreat Video

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

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

New Article About The Garden for the Missing and Project Jason on CNN’s iReports

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

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, [...]

F.B.I. and States Vastly Expand DNA Databases

Friday, May 1st, 2009

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 Launches Online Information Storage System

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

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 [...]

As You Make Your Donation Plans, Don’t Forget the Missing

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

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

An Opportunity to Help Missing and Unidentified Persons - You Can Act Now!

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

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 Magazine Features Garden for the Missing, Project Jason and Nonprofit Commons

Monday, October 13th, 2008

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