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Charity,
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Charitable Giving: How much did you give? Japan town embraces volunteer who stayed after tsunami (12/6/11) 7-year-old collects over 7,000 kid-food items for community pantry (2/14/2017) Pragmatic Afghan Woman Educates Thousands (6/14/11: The Seattle Post Intelligencer) Don't dump your old stuff — donate it! Give your old stuff new life by contributing it to worthy organizations (11/27/09) | |
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Featured Pages | |
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Pitbulls and Parolees The "Sleeping Bag Project" |
The Spring - The charity: water story Go Fund Me is the world's largest crowd funding web page. |
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Choosing a Charity | |
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Beliefnet Charity Navigator |
Charity
Governance Volunteer Match lets you search by area, interest, schedule, etc. |
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Volunteer
Solutions is another service that matches you with opportunities in
your area. SERVEnet: "the premier website for service and volunteering" lets you search geographically to find organizations in your area that need help. Guide Star is the leader in providing comprehensive data on more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations, connecting them with donors, foundations, businesses, and governing agencies in a nationwide community of giving. Charity Watch (The American Institute of Philanthropy), a national charity watchdog to help citizens make informed decisions on giving donations of all sizes offers giving tips, methods for grading charities, a list of top-rated foundations, and more. | |
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The Troops | |
| Adopt A Platoon | Armed Forces Relief Trust |
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Operation ShoeBox
is like the program to the right; but is more individualized. At USO-Operation USO Care Package, for $25.00 you can sponsor a care package that will be sent to a U.S. Service person working in the campaign to fight terrorism. | |
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The Animals The ASPCA | |
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Pet Shelter Network The Animal Defense League King County, Washington Animal Control Center The Puppy Cam lets you see puppies at shelters in your area. |
PAWS The Humane Society Seattle Animal Control The Humane Society for Seattle/King County |
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Hospice | |
| Search the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization | Database to find a hospice in your area. |
| Dannion Brinkley's Compassion in Action has a links and a chapters page. - great for people wanting to do hospice work. | |
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Miscellaneous Doctors Without Borders | |
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Another
Way to Help the Homeless The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Joni And Friends The World Wide Orphans Foundation We Prevent The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Texas |
K9s for Cops Operation Respect The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Friends of the World Food Program World Concern |
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Peter Pan Children's Fund
"benefits 36
children's hospitals in 17 states." Second Harvest "is a nationwide network of food banks and food rescue organizations." Shoes For Orphan Souls "distributes shoes to needy children in the U.S. and 25 other countries." Roots of Peace uses their collected money to remove land mines from mine fields in Afghanistan. Stripes Spotlight: Army reservist does it for the children showcases Spc. David McCorkle and his new charity American Aid for Children of Nineveh, Iraq. grid.org has a downloadable screensaver, like the SETI@home one, that sifts through millions of molecular combinations in hopes of finding one that fights smallpox after infection. Molding tigers into good citizens (5/28/04: NBC Video) - Jorge Pupo, a bell boy in Havana, Cuba, uses his off time to teach homeless children martial arts. | |
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