Inspirational Encounters

Another Family Helped

As most of you may know, HANDS Team took on a commitment to raise money for a truly inspiring 11 year old girl, Brittany Hartman, diagnosed with a brain tumor. HANDS Team quickly organized events at the University of Akron and online, selling Unity Bands for Brittany Hartman. We focused on Brittany for two weeks and were able to raise an astonishing $1200 to

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Hands Team Radio Debut

If you have been keeping up with the HANDS Team, then you know that we just had our radio debut. Vanessa Carter from WZIP 88.1 FM invited us the University of Akron radio studio and recorded a very inspirational interview for z88′s community concern radio program. The interview debuted on December 31st, 2011 at 12:30pm and was a great success. Vanessa was kind enough

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Unity Bands Gone International

Chris Paulino here everyone, and I just wanted to take a minute out of my day to give a very special shout out to a new Unity Band supporter, @LeahWhitton. With all of our twitter promotion, the #HandsTeam and the #UnityBands have reached another part of the world; taking our movement over seas. Being located in England, Leah is the first international world changer,

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Brookelynn Photography Supports Hands Team

As stated in our prior blog, Vanessa Carter Inspires the HANDS Team, we get to meet new cool people everyday. Brookelynn Harrison of Brookelynn Photography is another one of these cool world changers. With a soft heart and through genuinely wanting to help people, the HANDS Team met Brookelynn through a good friend and hip-hop artist, Nowly. Being a mastermind behind the camera, Brookelynn

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Vanessa Carter Inspires the HANDS Team

With the Hands Team movement, our organization gets to meet new and inspiring people every single day. Today was another one of those days. Through some friends we met at the University of Akron (Jessica Chapman, Kylee Cravens, and Emily Siharath) sending a mass e-mail to the students to help raise money for a local family fighting skin cancer, the HANDS Team met Vanessa

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