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This thread is where you can place links and info about various charitable organizations and benefits you are involved in or care about.

This is the place to "spam" for a good cause you may be involved in or that you would like to help by soliciting donations.
 
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Here is one that I'm trying to promote at the moment. There is a donations tab on the site if anyone feels moved to a donation About Marty

Here's Marty's story

On August 1, 2009 Marty Jordan drowned saving five young children when a rip current swept them out into deep waters in South Haven, Michigan. Marty's expectant wife Maureen, son Jack (9), son Liam (6) and daughter Caroline (4) lost a loving, wonderful, dedicated husband and father.
Marty, the son of Jack and Ann Jordan and second youngest of ten proudly hailed from St. Angela on the west side of Chicago. For generations, great families defined Saint Angela parish and as Marty said "the west side was the best side." Marty learned the values of family, community and concern for your neighbor. He cherished those values and lived them every day along life's journey.
Marty graduated from St. Patrick High School, Illinois State University and earned a masters degree in Human Services from Concordia College. He dedicated his life to helping others, particularly abused and neglected children.
As much as Marty always embraced life, nothing compared to the joy he felt the day he married Maureen Haggerty and started his own family. The Marty Jordan family settled in St. Charles, IL. True to character, Marty and Maureen dedicated themselves to each other and their children. Marty embodied the devoted, caring, and nurturing ways of a loving husband and father.
Still, Marty found time for his friends and organized numerous fundraisers and benefits for friends and worthy causes. His life story exemplifies what Marty held sacred and his spirit will forever guide us to choose the path of compassion, service and brotherhood.
We hope you will join us in honoring, supporting and paying tribute to one of our own heroes and his family.
 
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Re: New Charities thread

only takes $0.50 to save a childs life for a year from Neglected Tropical Disease

Who We Are | Global Network

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of 13 parasitic and bacterial infections that affect over 1.4 billion people, most of whom live on less than $1.25 per day. NTDs stigmatize, disable, and inhibit individuals from being able to care for themselves or their families—all of which promote poverty. These diseases are found in Africa, Asia and Latin America, with up to 90% of the total NTD disease burden .

With public-private partnerships, the integrated control of NTDs can be implemented at marginal costs - approximately 50 cents per person per year.
 
Re: New Charities thread

There is always a need for an adult to advocate for the rights of children. CASA = Court Appointed Special Advocates.

Each year, approximately 780,000 children in the US are caught up in the court and child welfare maze because they are unable to live safely at home. Imagine what it would be like to lose your parents, not because of something you did, but because they can’t—or won’t—take care of you. Now, into these children’s lives come dozens of strangers: police, foster parents, therapists, social workers, judges, lawyers, and more. Hopefully, one of these strangers is a CASA volunteer.

CASA volunteers are appointed by judges to watch over and advocate for abused and neglected children, to make sure they don’t get lost in the overburdened legal and social service system or languish in an inappropriate group or foster home. They stay with each case until it is closed and the child is placed in a safe, permanent home. For many abused children, their CASA volunteer will be the one constant adult presence—the one adult who cares only for them.

Last year, more than 68,000 CASA volunteers served more than 240,000 abused and neglected children through 1,018 program offices. CASA volunteers have helped more than two million abused children since the first program was established in 1977.

I had volunteered for CASA for a little over a year. It's a wonderful experience and I would recommend volunteering.
 
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There is always a need for an adult to advocate for the rights of children. CASA = Court Appointed Special Advocates.

Each year, approximately 780,000 children in the US are caught up in the court and child welfare maze because they are unable to live safely at home. Imagine what it would be like to lose your parents, not because of something you did, but because they can’t—or won’t—take care of you. Now, into these children’s lives come dozens of strangers: police, foster parents, therapists, social workers, judges, lawyers, and more. Hopefully, one of these strangers is a CASA volunteer.

CASA volunteers are appointed by judges to watch over and advocate for abused and neglected children, to make sure they don’t get lost in the overburdened legal and social service system or languish in an inappropriate group or foster home. They stay with each case until it is closed and the child is placed in a safe, permanent home. For many abused children, their CASA volunteer will be the one constant adult presence—the one adult who cares only for them.

Last year, more than 68,000 CASA volunteers served more than 240,000 abused and neglected children through 1,018 program offices. CASA volunteers have helped more than two million abused children since the first program was established in 1977.

I had volunteered for CASA for a little over a year. It's a wonderful experience and I would recommend volunteering.
 
At the Running Store we work with Shoes4Souls. We collect donations of old and lightly-worn shoes from customers and we donate them to be given to needy families in the Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel-Hill, North Carolina).


https://www.myoldshoes.org/Home_Page.html
 
This is one I give money to regularly :

Kids with Cameras Home

Kids with Cameras was founded in 2002 by photographer Zana Briski out of her work teaching photography to children in Calcutta's red-light district. We believe that photography is an effective tool in igniting children's imagination and building self-esteem. We believe in the power of art to transform lives, for both the artist and the viewer.

I know it sounds ridiculous but these kids have proven that creativity can flourish in pretty much any part of the world.
 
I'm a big fan of these 3:

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Official Website of Shriners Hospitals for Children

"Shriners Hospitals for Children is a one-of-a-kind health care system dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing pediatric specialty care, innovative research and outstanding teaching programs. Every year, the Shriners Hospitals for Children provides care for thousands of kids with orthopaedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate, in a family-centered environment at no charge. It's how Shriners Hospitals has been helping kids defy the odds since 1922."

Can't say enough good things about these guys, they provide a valuable service and don't expect anything in return.


Ronald McDonald House Charities

"Services for Families

At every House, families can enjoy:

* Home-cooked meals
* Private bedrooms
* Playrooms for children

The generosity of volunteers and donors make it all possible. In return, families either stay at no cost or are asked to make a donation up to $25 per day, depending on the house. The RMHC Global Policy is that families are never turned away; if its not possible to pay, the fee is waived.


Again, another group that is just awesome.
 
☛ Aid Haiti

☛ Text HAITI to 90999 = $10 to Red Cross billed to Cell account


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I just give my blood to the Red Cross and my mum works there.

If you've got some money to give them, do it, each blood donation costs around 50€
 
Saving People thru many specific diseases, hunger and other charities is a good idea.

But poverty/hunger/famine/disease is a Hopeless Cause when the planet can barely handle the amount of people we have now.

China's [brutal] One-child policy has in fact saved Hundreds of Millions from misery.. but China ALONE builds the equivalent of One Coal Power Plant every two weeks.
It now sells more automobiles domestically than tthe USA
Combine that with india and others... and this planet cannot take another 2 billion consumers (China and india alone) like the the USA's three hundred million.

The Biggest 'exports' of some countries (Haiti, Mexico, Pakistan etc) is People!
People that are doomed to a life of poverty unless and until they fill up other countries.

Stop the madness and the Source, or at the very least, contributor to all the world's problems.
Urge our New President to Get the UN back in the Family Plannning business that Bush gutted.

http://www.unfpa.org/public/ UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
http://www.iheu.org/node/2093
Planned Parenthood
(and any other suggestions Welcome and I may add some in subsequent posts)

Haiti aid is a merciful, but a Joke.
They are the new Easter Island, having consumed their countryside. A Microcosm of things to come.

Gates Foundation is saving tens of Millions in Africa and Asia... who Will Have to cut down the rest of the Rainforest for Farmland and Firewood.
Condoms etc, are 10,000 times cheaper and better for the Planet.

"Save Polar Bears" for what? Zoos?
I laugh when I see that myopic advertisment.
It's their vanishing Habitat and human encroachment that is wiping out many species.
Eventually we will be the victims of our 'success'.
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Children's hospitals, all over the country....
My granddaughter has seen the inside of Phoenix Children's hospital a lot more than we care for...but there is no cure for her, just treatment and hope...
 
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