Alopecia Areata is a non life threatening auto immune disease where the body mistakenly attacks a person's hair follicles. The hair falls out and cant continue to grow. In many people, this just happens in small patches, but it can affect the entire scalp.

The Children's Alopecia Project (CAP for short) give support to the children and families that are affected by this autoimmune disease.

CAP is devoted specifically to children living with the incurable autoimmune hair loss disease, Alopecia. The Mission of the Children's Alopecia Project (CAP) is to help any child in need who is living with hair loss due to all forms of alopecia. We build self-esteem, provide support and raise awareness. We would like our CAP Kids to grow in confidence and become stronger teens and productive adults, maybe even the advocates of the future dealing with alopecia. -CAP

I once again teamed up with Christine from Following Phubie and Pure Joy Events and photographed the CAP Thanksgiving Potluck she helped host. Her son has Alopecia, and I was able to meet several other amazing children who also have the disease.

Anyway, here are some of the photos!

-Becca

At the beginning of this month, I worked with iMADdu to help sponsor the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour at George Mason University. EET is about helping young entrepreneurs understand how to start their own business and giving them some of the tools to become successful.

iMADdu=I make a difference, do you? Mona Olsen, the founder, created iMADdu to help give college students a way to find internships in areas where their studies and the internship go hand in hand. In all honesty, they explain it much better than I do:

To empower the next generation of entrepreneurs, iMADdu provides students with hands-on entrepreneurial experience and mentorship, bridging the gap between the academic and the practical, between learning and doing, between thought and action. The sum being so much greater than the parts alone. In a different time we called it apprenticeship. -iMADdu

The entire event had an all star cast of keynote and panel speakers. Alan Merten (Mason's president) and Rick Corcoran (Senior Adviser of US Chamber's Campaign for Free Enterprise) kicked off the event. Megan First, Jason Duff, Tracy Foster, Tora Matsuoka, Tom Moore, Arel Moodie, and Mona Olsen also were keynote speakers and part of the panel.

Here are some of the photos from the event:

-Becca