Groups that throw birthday parties for homeless, design clothes for disabilities receive NBCUniversal grants
Every child deserves to have a happy birthday. The nonprofit organization Birthday Wishes helps ensure that by providing birthday celebrations for families experiencing homelessness. “Everybody celebrates a birthday, so everybody can identify with this,” said Denell Nuese, executive director of Birthday Wishes. The organization, one of 80 nonprofit organizations awarded a Local Impact Grant from NBCUniversal on Wednesday, began in 2002 when three women in Newton, Massachusetts, learned that their children’s classmate, who lived in a shelter, was not having a birthday party. They arranged to th
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