Community Involvement

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of America– Through our local affiliates, our work impacts youth in communities across the country. By helping children develop supportive relationships with positive role models, we make a direct and lasting impact on their lives.
• Childhelp USA– Childhelp USA® is one of the largest and oldest national non-profits dedicated to the treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect.

 

• Starlight Startbright Children’s Foundation– Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to brightening the lives of seriously ill children and their families.
• The Hunger Site– Give help and hope to those with nowhere to turn by clicking on the Give Free Food button on The Hunger Site. Your click funds food for the hungry, paid for by site sponsors whose ads appear after you click and provided to people in need around the world through the efforts of Mercy Corps and America’s Second Harvest.
• St. Jude’s Ranch for Children– I know that I always send out a reminder about sending the fronts of your Christmas cards to the St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, a home in Nevada for neglected, abandoned and abused children.
  Due to the overwhelming success of past donations they have about a 2 year supply so they have a new program.

  They are collecting Campbell Soup Labels. For every 1 million labels they collect, they get a Van for the ranch & children.

  So, if Campbell’s is a product you buy, please send labels to:
  St. Jude’s Ranch for Children
  100 St. Jude Street, Dept. MN
  Boulder City, NV 89005

  They can use every one of them!

• Global Food– If any or all of you are looking for a place to send support, Please make a donation for the disaster relief effort to FOOD FOR LIFE GLOBAL— A member of the IVU. This is the largest VEGAN/VEGETARIAN relief .org, and your donation will go toward supplying veggie food.
• PRASAD and Direct Relief International– PRASAD and Direct Relief International have worked together since 1990 to provide medicines and equipment to restore vision to thousands of people in PRASAD’s Netraprakash eye camps in the Tansa Valley. PRASAD and Direct Relief International are again coming together to help provide urgent assistance for the millions of people living with the aftermath of this unprecedented natural disaster. To find out more about how you can contribute to the relief effort please visit the PRASAD website www.prasad.org.

Thank you for your support and blessings for the people of South East Asia.

• American Cancer Society– How can you join the fight against cancer? Check out these events and programs to see how you can participate in fundraising efforts, support legislation on a local and national level, and help with activities in your area.
• PAWS (People Helping Animals)– The Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) shelters homeless companion animals, rehabilitates injured and orphaned wildlife, and works to end animal abuse and exploitation. PAWS envisions a world where all people recognize the intrinsic value of animal life and consistently demonstrate compassion and respect. PAWS is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that relies on donations to carry out our life-saving work.
  
• Save the Children– Save the Children is a leading nonprofit humanitarian relief and development organization working in more than 40 countries throughout the developing world and the United States. Their mission is to create lasting, positive change in the lives of children in need.
• Area Pollution– The following web site address allows you to put in your zip code and check for nearby pollution sites. It gives the history of the site…how it became contaminated…whether it is now clear…what has been done about it etc. Quite interesting.
• New American Dream– 85% of Americans say that living in a fair and just society better describes their concept of the American dream.
• BioGems Saving Endangered Wild Places– Each year, NRDC selects 12 BioGems — unspoiled places in the Americas facing imminent destruction from development — and mobilizes citizens around the world to take action to protect them. More than 400,000 BioGems Defenders have joined us in this effort.
• CHADD– Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) is a national non-profit organization founded in 1987 in response to the frustration and sense of isolation experienced by parents and their children with AD/HD.
• Cure Autism Now– Cure Autism Now (CAN) is an organization of parents, clinicians and leading scientists committed to accelerating the pace of biomedical research in autism through raising money for research projects, education and outreach. Founded by parents of children with autism in 1995, the organization has grown from a kitchen-table effort to the largest provider of support for autism research and resources in the country. The organization’s primary focus is to fund essential research through a variety of programs designed to encourage innovative approaches toward identifying the causes, prevention, treatment and a cure for autism and related disorders.
• The Breast Cancer Site– It takes less than a minute to go to this site and click on “donating a mammogram” for free (pink window in the middle). This doesn’t cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.
• The Animal Rescue Site– Millions of animals are rescued by shelters every year. Your daily click provides food for an animal in a shelter or sanctuary.
• The Concerned for Working Children (CWC)– The Conerned For Working Children (CWC) believes that the problems of children who work can be solved withint he present context. The objective of the founding members of CWC was to develop a programme which would have a sustainable impact on the issue.
• Antahkarana Society International– Antahkarana Society International gives direct aid to the Tibetan people of Limi, Nepal to break the cycles of poverty and illiteracy, preserve their Tibetan culture and alleviate the acute suffering for daily survival.
• BookCrossing.com– Commit random acts of literacy! Read & Release
• Got Stuff to Donate?– This site helps people with stuff to donate find organizations that take these kinds of donations. Whatever you’ve got, somebody can use it. Dont just throw it away! Find a good home for it through these organizations.
• A Healing Among Nations– Bonnie S. Mansdorf is the founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for “A Healing Among Nations” – a not for profit organization dedicated to creating “cultures of peace” around the world. Help to end poverty now by supporting the power of love campaign. 20 shawls supports a woman for one year and helps sustain a village. 40 shaws supports their children’s education for one year.
• We, The World– Create the perfect job for yourself!