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Charity Song of the Month:

JULIAN TAYLOR BAND, "Be Good To Your Woman," 2014

Toronto’s Julian Taylor Band is donating $2 from every copy sold of their latest album, Tech Noir, to the Canadian Women’s Foundation, whose mandate is to “empower women and girls in Canada to move out of violence, out of poverty and into confidence.” When the Jian Ghomeshi scandal made headlines last fall, it sparked open conversation about sexual violence and harassment of women and the Julian Taylor Band decided to create the Be Good To Your Woman challenge, named after their soulful song. The idea is to create and share a video talking about what it means to be good to your woman. Go here for instructions. — Karen Bliss

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Cause Song of the Month:

GLEN CAMPBELL, "I'm Not Gonna Miss You," 2015

Rhinestone cowboy Glen Campbell doesn’t know his very last recording, “I’m Not Gonna Miss You,” won Best Country Song at the 2015 Grammy Awards. The 78-year-old, whose 70-plus albums have sold more than 45 million copies, has Alzheimer’s disease, a form of dementia. “I'm still here, but yet I'm gone ,” the lyric begins. Co-written by Campbell and producer Julian Raymond about the personal effects of the disease, and featuring famed session musicians The Wrecking Crew (of which Campbell was once a part), the song appears in the Oscar-nominated film, Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me, which documented his 2012 “Goodbye Tour.” The song appears on the soundtrack, which comes out Feb. 17. Buy it here. — Karen Bliss

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Product of the Month

If you’re close to a Starbucks — and who isn’t? — and need to grab a bottle of water, why not make a point of purchasing Ethos Water, whose mission is “helping children get clean water” and raising awareness about the water crisis? For less than $2 for a 700ml bottle, 5-cents in America, or 10-cents in Canada, will go to the Ethos Water Fund, a subsidary of the Starbucks Foundation (the coffee retailer purchased the for-profit company from its founders in 2005). To date, “more than $7.38 million has been granted to help support water, sanitation and hygiene education programs in water-stressed countries – benefiting more than 430,000 people around the world,” it says on the web site. — Karen Bliss

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"We started to raise money and to define what we wanted to accomplish — to help young people dealing with various teenage problems, facing illness — cancer is close to our hearts—and to promote the use of music to help them find a passion in life. Every year since then it’s been growing, more than we ever expected and the reaction has been amazingly positive." — Simple Plan drummer Chuck Comeau tells Samaritanmag's Liisa Ladouceur, in 2013, about the Simple Plan Foundation.

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