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ASPCA – Help, save, sponsor and adopt animals (also look for
local shelter listings or look online under animal shelters or animal adoption
in your local area) – www.aspca.org
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – health and literacy – www.gatesfoundation.org
Buddhist studies – The Nechung Foundation – www.nechungnyc.org or for outside NYC go
to www.nechung.org
Buddhist studies – Tibet
house – www.tibethouse.org
CARE – aiding poverty and empowering people globally – www.care.org
Civil rights – American Civil Liberties Union – www.aclu.com
Darfur – aid and support – www.savedarfur.org
Dress for Success – helping women enter the workforce – www.dressforsuccess.org
Dreamchange Coalition – Dreamchange Coalition's mission is to: Inspire sustainability and earth-honoring changes in consciousness; to conserve rainforests and the world's natural places; apply indigenous wisdom in ways that foster environmental, economic, and social balance; and facilitate access to expanded levels of awareness. – www.dreamchange.org
Elephant Sanctuary – adopt an elephant! – www.elephantsanctuary.org
Energy Medicine – Donating to the certification scholarship fund helps bring more healers into our global community. Both these organizations are linked and list global practitioners for Donna Eden's form of energy medicine. Seeing a practitioner is amazing but learning some essential techniques is probably the best way to really take control of your health and happiness – www.energymed.org
and www.innersource.com
Green Chimneys – Celebrating over 50 years of selfless work, this amazing nonprofit organization reaches out to kids who have nowhere else to turn. They bring together abused and injured animals with abused and injured kids so that together they can begin the healing process, not only for the children and their families, but also for the community – call 914-279-2995, ext.200 or 718-892-6810.
Food safety – www.centerforfoodsafety.org
Habitat for Humanity – building homes for people in need – www.habitat.org
Heifer international – ending world hunger – www.heifer.org
Jane Goodall Institute – you can sponsor a chimp! – www.janegodall.org
Human society – Helping to stop animal cruelty (watch the videos if you can
stomach it! – www.hsus.org
Meals on Wheels – Brings food to disabled and the elderly – www.mowaa.org
NRDC (National Resources Defense Council) – We live in a very fragile world and we must honor our planet. I've found this organization to be very diligent in their efforts and donation dollars and they also make it really easy for you to get involved – www.nrdc.org
National Literacy – www.nifl.govv
and the International Literacy Institute – www.thiln.org
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) – Do
your part in saving the lives of our fellow spirit friends. For more
information and to find out how to help call 1-888-546-CCIC and contact a target="new" href="http://www.peta.org">www.peta.org. The nation's seven largest animal
protection groups have joined to form the CCIC (Coalition for Consumer
Information on Cosmetics). Please support the companies that adhere to their
corporate standard of Compassion for Animals, the only international standard
of its kind.
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest
National Network) – This nonprofit
organization, founded in 1994 by Tori Amos, offers America's only national
toll-free hotline for survivors of sexual assault. The hotline offers callers
confidential support 24 hours a day at 1-800-656-HOPE.
Save the Children – If the children are our future, we'd barter start taking that statement seriously. Unfortunately, we have a serious education problem on a global level – a target="new" href="http://www.savethechildren.com">www.savethechildren.com
Taking It Global – grassroots social change – www.takingitglobal.com
UN Refugee Agency – www.unhcr.org
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