Each year the holiday season arrives, bringing with it a feeling of warmth and raising spirits. Smiles reach eyes and sincere greetings are exchanged more often. The season also evokes a time for counting blessings, sharing, gift giving and charitable donations. Want to extend that feeling of good cheer year round? Crystal Coding Concepts invites you to take a look at one way for doing just that.

Consider one of our favorite organizations - Kiva . We feel a corporate responsibility to assist other small businesses to grow. For years, Kiva has allowed us to fulfill our responsibility, on a global level, through small loans - as small as $25.00. Each loan is a hand up, not a hand out; plus, when repaid, that same investment can be reloaned. The experience is gratifying.

A provider of cost-free health education in Spanish and Englsh to a community in need, Olive View - UCLA Medical Center Foundation was founded two decades ago, in 1986. It does not fund medical care but rather health education for common, but harmful diseases, like asthma, breast cancer, and diabetes. Within the hospital, they also sponsor the "Comfort Care Room" for terminally ill patients.

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