Charitable Organizations

Updated: 12/27/2005

 
 

If you have it in your heart (and pocketbook) to give to others, please do so to many of these fine organizations listed below and feel the power of sharing with others in need.

Click below for our current selections:

Right now, the US government is making decisions about how much money to spend on humanitarian assistance next year and the UK is poised to lead the world’s wealthiest nations at the G8 summit next July. By joining the ONE campaign, we will show our leaders that we want to do more to respond to the emergency of AIDS and extreme poverty. You can take action by doing one of the following:

  • Sign the Declaration
    Take ONE minute today to sign the ONE declaration and lend us your voice in the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty.

  • Email a Friend
    Send a friend an email and encourage them to sign the One Declaration!

  • Wear a Wristband
    Wear the white band and show your support for the ONE Campaign and the fight against global AIDS and poverty. Worn by teachers, doctors, and homemakers. You've seen them in the pages of People and US Weekly on your favorite stars, get your band now! The white bands are part of a global effort to make poverty history.

WWW.AIDS.ORG 

A non profit worldwide AIDS organization harnessing the power of the Internet in the battle against HIV

America's Promise

To mobilize people from every sector of American life to build the character and competence of our nation's youth by fulfilling Five Promises. . . . 

 
  American Cancer Society

 America's Second Harvest Food Bank

14,812,000 people in the United States are members of working poor families

Charity Watch

http://www.charitywatch.org
Make your donations count more by educating yourself on charitable organizations.

The Doe Fund, Inc.

http://www.doe.org
Ready, Willing & Able is The Doe Fund's holistic, residential, work and job skills training program which empowers, employs and supports homeless individuals in their efforts to become self-sufficient, contributing members of society.

DROP THE DEBT 

www.jubileeusa.org  / www.dropthedebt.org  
Drop The Debt is a short-term, single focus campaign which is targeting the G7 meeting of the world's richest countries in Genoa, Italy this July. Drop The Debt is the child of JUBILEE 2000, a worldwide coalition of churches, trades unions and activists working to cancel the un-payable debts of the worlds poorest countries. The United Nations estimates that 19,000 children die every day because of the huge debts that the poorest countries have to pay to the richest - money they could be spending on health and education for their people.

Drop the Debt
PO Box 5555
London
SE1 0WG 

 GuideStar

The Donor's Guide To The Charitable Universe
GuideStar is a database of more than 640,000 nonprofit organizations in the United States. It's the world's most comprehensive source of information about American nonprofit organizations.

International Committee of the Red Cross
Institute for Global Communications

Their Mission: To expand and inspire movements for peace, economic and social justice, human rights, and environmental sustainability around the world by providing and de veloping accessible computer networking tools.

Just Give - A Smarter Way to Give

http://www.justgive.org/
JustGive is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to connect people with the charities and causes they care about and to increase overall giving.

 www.kennyrogerscenter.org 

Kenny Rogers Children's Center provides a comprehensive range of developmental and therapeutic services for children with special needs from birth through 21 years of age. 

NCIB's mission is to promote informed giving and to enable more contributors to make sound giving decisions. . . . 

Plant A Row For The Hungry

Launched in 1995, Plant a Row for the Hungry (PAR) is a public service campaign of the Garden Writers Association of America (GWAA). Its goal is to help to feed the hungry by establishing PAR networks in every state and province in North America

 Rainforest Action Network

 Tibet Online Resource Gathering

 United Nations Children's Fund

  UNICEF  

Children's Rights


United Way

Webhands.org is a website that puts you in touch with local community agencies that accept donations of goods and services. Webhands.org helps you find a place for that winter coat that has been hanging in your closet for three years, or that extra basket of tomatoes from your garden. It's a website that helps connect people who want to get involved in their community! 

World Vision - Building a better world for children.

http://www.worldvision.org