Beasley Best Community of Caring

Everyone knows that if you want better cardiovascular health, you cut back on salt and exercise. If you want to protect your skin, you apply sunscreen and wear a hat….

When the Beasley Community of Caring first addressed mental health issues, the numbers were steady: one in five Americans has a diagnosable mental disorder each year. That number hasn’t changed,…

The Patriots who first traveled to New England to join the Revolutionary cause came from all walks of life; they were students, farmers, shopkeepers and woodsmen, and their clothes reflected…

Stroll through Upper Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park and you’ll eventually find a plaque dedicated to ‘the first woman to take a soldier’s part in the War for Liberty.’   Her…

The latest research released shows volunteering in America is rebounding from the isolating COVID years. More than 75.7 million people – or 28.3 percent of us Americans – formally volunteered…

Dictionary publisher Oxford Languages defines a Volunteer as ‘a person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task.’ ‘Freely’ doesn’t mean there is no benefit to the…

Volunteering has never been easier. There are plenty of opportunities to reap the benefits of volunteering for you and your community with little or no training or time commitment. You…

What does volunteering do for children? Volunteering teaches kids valuable life lessons such as empathy and social responsibility. They can learn time management and the importance of teamwork, and it…

When Dolly Parton received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2022 it was hard to list all of her efforts; she donated a million dollars to COVID research at Vanderbilt…

Excluding the Bible and the works of Willliam Shakespeare, who are the world’s best-selling authors of all time?  Hint, women dominate the top ten. Coming in at number 1, The…

Women athletes are the big news right now with more than 40 of 2026 US Women Winter Olympians returning home from Milan with at least one medal in hand.  When…

Name a woman chemist. Marie Curie will always be the first name we think of.  Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1866 she studied physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne in…