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The Hunger Site enables you to donate toward ending world hunger with just the click of a button.
Breast Cancer Site click to donate to fund free mammograms.
Animal Rescue click to donate to feed rescued animals
Children's Health Site click to donate to help fund Mercy Corps and other charities to help children.
The Bible Site click to donate bibles.
Poverty Fighters click to donate to help adults, and families work their way out of poverty
Solve Poverty click to donate educational materials and books
Ecology Fund click to save rainforest and reduce pollution |
Animals
SPCA and the National Breed Rescue Network work to place unwanted animals in new homes, and prevent the inhumane treatment of all animals. Please help them by having your pet spayed or neutered! If you are looking to adopt a pet these are wonderful places to start your search.
Want to have fun and help save dolphins? Play the Starlight the Dolphin game, and a donation will be made to the World Wildlife Fund. http://www.helpsmile.com/
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Finding a Cure
The American Lung Association has many programs that help you and your neighbors breathe easier. Across the country they offer school-based asthma programs and asthma camps for children, support groups for people with chronic lung disease and those trying to quit smoking.
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Helping Kids
BookEnds is a grassroots nonprofit organization that collects books for schools and youth organizations that either do not have an operating library or have a library so depleted that it cannot adequately provide all its students with books to read.
Big Brothers/Big Sister of America is the nation's oldest and largest youth mentoring organization. They have been helping America's children since 1904.
Project Linus is a nonprofit organization that delivers the blankets made by its volunteers to children in need. For those of you who knit, crochet, quilt or sew, here is a way you can help bring warmth and comfort to child who is seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gift a of blanket or afghan.
NARHA is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote the rehabilitation of individuals with physical, emotional and learning disabilities through equine-facilitated activities. They do this through our worldwide network of member therapeutic riding centers. For individuals with disabilities, therapeutic riding has been shown to improve muscle tone, balance, posture, coordination, motor development as well as emotional well-being. And it’s fun!
Using the visual, performing and media arts as an educational tool, Art Start's Arts in the Shelters Program, Media Works Project and Hip-Hop Project have helped over 3,500 "at-risk" young people creatively express themselves and share their work and ideas beyond shelter, classroom, and prison walls.
hugsandhopes.com a site for terminally ill children and their families with a SUPER support group plus elves and chemoangels,etc.
Second Harvest Kids Cafes The primary goal of the Kids Cafe program is to provide free and prepared food and nutrition education to hungry children.
Save the Children helps children and their families and communities around the world.
Toys for Tots Prefer to donate directly to Toys for Tots? Or do you know of a family in need of help to make this a merry Christmas? |
Helping Adults
The National Family Caregivers Association represents the more than 25 million family caregivers in this country. NFCA's mission is to improve the overall quality of life of America's family caregivers. NFCA provides information and education, support and validation, public awareness and advocacy as the means for meeting its mission.
NARHA is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote the rehabilitation of individuals with physical, emotional and learning disabilities through equine-facilitated activities. They do this through our worldwide network of member therapeutic riding centers. For individuals with disabilities, therapeutic riding has been shown to improve muscle tone, balance, posture, coordination, motor development as well as emotional well-being. And it’s fun!
Donate a Phone Do you have a wireless phone you don't need anymore? Donate a Phone is a national wireless phone collection drive designed to help domestic violence. You can donate your phone by place the phone, battery, and charger if you have one, in the mail. Send to:
CALL to PROTECT
c/o Motorola
1580 E. Ellsworth Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
For more information, visit their site.
Second Harvest is the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization. Through a network of over 200 food banks and food-rescue programs, we distribute food to 26 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of whom are children.
The World Food Programme was set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. In 2000, WFP fed 83 million people in 83 countries, including most of the world's refugees and internally displaced people. Maybe you can help? or do you know a business that can?
Bookcrossing.com Now this is too cool. The idea is to take books you have read and share them with the world by leaving them somewhere someone will find them to read. You put a sticker or bookmark in the book that explain the read and pass it along idea. Then people can go to the website and track where the book has been. What a wonderful way to share books and how interesting to see where they are going!
WITNESS advances human rights advocacy through the use of video and communications technology. In partnership with non-governmental organizations and human rights defenders, WITNESS strengthens grassroots movements for change by providing video technology and assisting its partners to use video as evidence before courts and the United Nations, as a tool for public education, and as a deterrent to further abuse.
USS Comfort: Bring a little sunshine to our soldiers aboard the USS Comfort. Send get well cards, stationary, cute fuzzies, gloves, socks, scarves or other care package items. Please no food items! Mail to:
USS Comfort
In Care Of Chaplin
T-AH 20
FPO AE 90566-4008 (That is all you need, no city names or anything.)
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Become a Volunteer
Impact Online -Want to volunteer, but not sure what to do or where to go? Impact Online is a free service that matches volunteers with nonprofit organizations. Check it out! You can make a difference in your community.
Netaid.org offers a way to use your skills to help others without ever leaving your computer! They need all types of people from creative writers to computer specialists to online tutors... something for everyone!
Global Volunteer Network is a non profit organization. They place volunteers in community projects in Alaska, China, Ecuador, Ghana, Nepal, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam and El Salvador. Our vision is to support the work of local community organizations in developing countries through the placement of international volunteers.
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