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Lawyer's Volunteer Work Helps Those With Chronic Diseases Plan
Ashlea Ebeling Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:00:00 -0000
Estate planner Marty Shenkman has learned you can be charitable at what you know best.
Lobbyist Funneled Wall Street Funding Through Harvard Unit
Asher Hawkins Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:49:03 -0000
Jeffrey Peck denies lobbying for nonprofit.
It Takes a Business
Megha Bahree Wed, 20 May 2009 22:00:00 -0000
A Swiss foundation saves children by building villages full of microentrepreneurs.
Saving The World, One Chocolate Bar At A Time
Kiri Blakeley Thu, 14 May 2009 22:00:00 -0000
With a recession in full swing, the CEO of Divine Chocolate has her work cut out for her.
The Volunteer Organization That Finds You A Job
Tara Weiss Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:09:56 -0000
JobAngels, a grassroots online group, doesn't even have its own URL yet, but it has gathered thousands of volunteers.
End Of Rowed In Atlantic Charity Crossing
Steven Bertoni Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:02:40 -0000
American Paul Ridley completes transatlantic row to raise money to fight cancer.

 

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Active 20/30 International - Membership-based service organization for young adults between the ages of 20 and 39. Provides young adults with an opportunity for personal growth, friendships, and leadership development while improving the quality of life for the special needs children in its community.
Meta Description: [ Active 20-30 USA & Canada ]

Aid to Southeast Asia - Aid to Southeast Asia is a people-to-people, international aid project contributing to world peace and respect for human rights.

Aid Workers Network - Practical advice for field workers in development and relief.
Meta Description: [ Practical advice for aid workers by aid workers. Free membership for field staff working in international relief and development. ]

ALNAP: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action - An international interagency forum working to improve the quality and accountability of humanitarian action.

500 Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) - Community organization which aims to win power for low and moderate families. Its aims are to gain better housing for first time homebuyers and tenants, securing living wages for low-wage workers, more investment in communities from banks and governments, and better public schools.

Cabrillo Civic Clubs of California - Founded by Californians of Portuguese ancestry in honor of compatriot, John Rodrigues Cabrillo, discoverer of California. The Clubs have many charitable activities including blood drives, fund raising for polio and cancer research, assisting candidates for U.S. citizenship, and, providing college scholarships for students of Portuguese descent.

Canstruction - A national charity of the design and construction industry created by the Society of Design Administration.
Meta Description: [ Canstruction.com The official site of the national charity organization Canstruction. Canstruction is a foundation of the Society for Design Administration. ]

Catholic Institute for International Relations - A charity working to eradicate poverty and injustice internationally.
Meta Description: [ Development news, events, jobs and comment from Progressio, an international organisation working for sustainable development and the eradication of poverty. ]

CFC Today - News and information about the Combined Federal Campaign, a workplace giving network of US federal government employees which supports local, national and international charities.
Meta Description: [ CFCToday.org provides information to federal employees interested in the Combined Federal Campaign and workplace giving, and shows how the CFC supports local, national and international charities. ]

Christmas Connection - Volunteer organization bringing clothes, food and toys to needy Oklahoma County, Oklahoma residents at Christmas time. Contains donation form, event listing and contact information.
Meta Description: [ Christmas Connection is a non-profit organization serving the less fortunate of Oklahoma County, providing toys, clothing, food and more to 1700 families and senior citizens. ]

Citizens Memorial - Dedicated to the average citizen, whether rich or poor, who has performed some heroic deed.
Meta Description: [ Honoring the heroic citizen and helping the less fortunate. The spirit of America lives in the lives and heroic actions of these our fellow citizens who have bravely cared, sacrificed and gave beyond the call of duty. They should be remembered and honored. ]

Daniel Pearl Foundation - Promotes cross-cultural understanding through journalism and music. Provides overviews of current initiatives, projects, and events along with organization leadership information.

Dialogue on Diversity - Mission is the social and political advancement of women and men from diverse cultural, ethnic, and national traditions.

Emmaus International - Secular international movement of solidarity for justice based on communities that take in people who are marginalized or wounded by life. Multilingual english/french/spanish.
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Farm Aid - The mission is to provide assistance to poor and needy families in rural farming communities and to draw attention to the needs of such families and to raise funds to relieve those needs.
Meta Description: [ Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on their land. ]

Foundation For A Better Life - A foundation working to communicate the ethical values that it believes make a difference such as such as honesty, caring, optimism, hard work, and helping others.

Global Giving - Enables individuals and companies to find and support high-impact, grassroots social and economic development projects around the world.

InGratia.org - Site for people to thank those that have helped. Read stories of heros and give to charities that help them. Let us all receive gratitude!
Meta Description: [ Stories of Gratitude, Memorials, Thank you's, and Charities that make the world a little better. ]

Journal of Humanitarian Assistance - Features articles on early warning and emergency provision, as well as post-conflict peace-building and the transition to development.
Meta Description: [ The purpose of the Journal is to facilitate communication between the many diverse practitioners and analysts who comprise the community of humanitarian actors. ]

Light-a-Candle Foundation - A charitable foundation devoted to feeding, clothing and blessing those organizations and individuals in need.

MGM MIRAGE Voice Foundation - Information about a foundation enabling opportunities for emloyeees as volunteers in the community. Site also has information on a programme to give grants to organizations who have employees who have given over a certain number of hours of voluntary time.
Meta Description: [ The Voice program is everything MGM MIRAGE employees do to build a stronger community and make it a better place to live, work and support their families. ]

National 211 Collaborative - The national 2-1-1 initiative seeks to reserve these three digits nationwide as quick, easy to remember telephone number for finding human services answers.

NGO Global Network - Site with links to non-governmental organizations associated with the United Nations.

NGOnews.org - An online venue for NGOs and NGO professionals around the world to provide equal opportunity to publish their news and discuss related issues.
Meta Description: [ An online venue for NGOs and NGO professionals around the world to provide equal opportunity to publish their news and discuss about related issues. ]

Northwestern University Settlement Association - A social service organization serving the northwest side of Chicago. Emergency services offered are energy payment assistance, food pantry, and holiday gifts. Other services include after-school youth programs, AmeriCorps, fine arts, resident camping, and a charter high school.

Online Volunteers Collective - Volunteers collective using virtual space for collaborative voluntary projects on social justice issues worldwide.
Meta Description: [ Online collective of volunteers promoting social justice. Gujarat Carnage - Hindutva Agenda : Seeking justice, relief and rehabilitation for victim of violence. ]

Pak Human Resources Development Organization - Aimed at socio-economic uplift of poor and disadvantaged people, especially women, from backward rural areas in Pakistan, through their technical education, skill development and vocational training.
Meta Description: [ PHRDO is a NOT-FOR-PROFIT Organization aiming to reduce the poverty of disadvantaged people, especially deprived women, through technical education, skill development and vocational training. ]

ReliefWeb - United Nations website providing information to humanitarian relief organizations. Updated daily. There is also a directory of non-governmental organizations. The website is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Royal Humane Society of Australasia - Nominates awards for acts of bravery and provides funds to those disadvantaged or physically handicapped by their gallant actions.
Meta Description: [ Royal Humane Society of Australasia - awards, medals for bravery within Australia; clarke, gold, silver, bronze, posthumous medals, certificate of merit, rupert wilks trophy. ]

Sarvodaya Organization Homepage - A movement in Sri Lanka involved in development and reconstruction, active in thousands of villages in all regions of the country, commanding the services of hundreds of thousands of volunteers and trained workers.

500 Save Juarez Project - Organization requesting donations to provide female factory workers in Mexico's Killing Fields with safety items self-defense at the maquiladoras where missing women used to work.
Meta Description: [ NonProfit�Save Juarez Project A National Heritage Foundation saves female factory workers in Mexico's serial 'killing fields' with safety kits, self-defense training, & overnite safehouses ]

SecretSmiles - Organization in New York for helping families to overcome hardship by giving gifts.

Share With The Other L..A. - Hunger emergency is a consortium of poverty relief groups and public officials whose goal is to mobilize the public to end the poverty crisis in L.A. County.
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Society of Singers - Non-profit foundation offering food, medical and financial help to professional singers. Donation levels, awards, notable members.

The Karen Hilltribes Trust - A Thai registered charity, and called in Thai Ruamkanpattana Foundation was established 1985 to provide a vehicle for the Karen hill tribes of Thailand participate and manage their own socio-economic development. work covers following areas: Provision pure drinking water Trust working with the Karen people of north west Thailand to help them develop their own social, educational and economic infrastructure.
Meta Description: [ The Karen Hilltribes - about us., ]

Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund - U.S.-based organization which funds poverty alleviation programs in rural Tibet.

WorkerAnts - Directories of health, development, environmental, volunteering, education and other charity/activist causes. Includes links to resources.
Meta Description: [ Charities, volunteer, animal rights, the environment, health foundations & abortion. We're dedicated exclusively to charities, volunteers & activist causes. We connect people to non-profit causes., Charities, volunteer, animal rights, the environment, health foundations & abortion. We're dedicate... ]