Rescue Me star and Mom-to-be, Andrea Roth, who is expecting a baby girl within days, recently talked to Celebrity Baby Scoop about a charity close to her heart: St. Baldrick's Foundation.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
Anita Roddick

When you talk to Mary Ann Wasil Nilan on the phone you can almost feel electricity coming through the receiver. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious and you just want to know what kind of drug she is on and take a double dose of it. Turns out she is not on drugs anymore (Chemo that is). She has been cancer free for more than five years.

The holiday season is officially upon us. The malls are filled with a frenzy of shoppers, looking for the perfect gift for their friends and family. Instead of gifts this year, my family has chosen to go Global – GlobalGiving that is.

There is no greater time than childhood – a time when your job is to truly be a kid – having fun with friends, running around freely outside and letting your imagination take you on wild journeys near and far are all in a day’s work for a child.

The Pajama Program is an incredible organization that works tirelessly to provide new pajamas and books to children in need, many who are waiting and hoping to be adopted.

Jade Sims is the founder of Craft Hope, a volunteer organization that designs, creates, and donates handmade crafts and necessities to those less fortunate.

Fall is around the corner which means exciting things to come – back to school, sports, clubs, PTA meetings and the tremendous amount of opportunity to help others in need.

Dr. Stephanie Farrell’s daughter Phoebe is barely five and, along with French fries and pizza, she loves sushi, Thai and Indian food, and tacos. As a parent, Farrell knows that’s pretty spectacular for a kid who spent two years of her young life on a feeding tube. As an associate professor of chemical engineering at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J., Farrell believes that it’s important to put her engineering skills to work to help other youngsters on feeding tubes.

Once upon a time there was a young woman who was just certain she would change the world. In all of her 25-year-old wide-eyed, free-timed splendor, she signed up for committees, she ladled soup at the free kitchen and she marched the important marches.