Organizations, causes, and just plain passions?
I was browsing the site a bit more and I came across the section where you can donate to a cause by purchasing personal checks. I'm not surprised (I've been sheltered, what can I say?), but some of them are organizations I've never heard of. The list was huge!
I could bet money that PETA is a popular one around these parts, but what other organizations and causes do you spend your time and/or money to support?
Of everything listed there, I found the National Parks Conservation Association really struck me. I've been to some national parks and would love to see them all in my lifetime. A hidden fear of mine is that one day everything will be urbanized and parks, forests, mountains, rivers, and beaches will all be totally populated. Wildlife will be something my great-great grandkids will read about in books and you'll have to pay out the nose to see a field that hasn't been planned right down to the last blade of grass.
This has the potential to spur some majorly long posts from you fine people, but I will endeavor to read them! I would love to know what your passions are, outside of tofu!
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http://www.rainn.org/
Proud to be a member, as of yesterday.
FYI - If you become a member of the Yosemite Association, let's say, you'll get discounts in the other national park book stores. They honor each other's memberships.
Hi, Stars - I haven't seen you lately, but it could just be that we don't read the same threads.
Most of these charities are completely NVR, but...
I donate regularly to several Brain Cancer research charities. (My grandmother passed away from a brian tumor last winter and one of my best friend from college has a brian stem tumor, although he's been doing VERY well.)
I have been donating monthly to Unicef for years.
My dad has done work with Habitat for Humanity to build houses, which he really enjoyed, and also United Way.
I've given some money to PETA, but I'm not a regular donor to them right now.
Other than that, I give money here and there to different causes, especially if my friends are raising money for them or something.
I've given money to Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and Unicef, but I'm mainly hoping to concentrate on joining Habitat for Humanity for the first time this year! I'm so excited about it :)
And in the distant future of three years from now I can only hope to be joining the peace corps
Causes excite me!
I'm mainly hoping to concentrate on joining Habitat for Humanity for the first time this year!
See if they have any Women Built teams. It's an entirely female group that constructs a house. You get to use more power tools that way. I learned tons about how a house goes together when I did it, which is really helping me out now as a homeowner.
FYI - If you become a member of the Yosemite Associate, let's say, you'll get discounts in the other national park book stores. They honor each other's memberships.
So knowledgable!
So knowledgable!
Awww... shucks, mame. It tain't nothin'.
(Really, it wasn't - Yosemite Associate is supposed to be Yosemite Association. ::) )
I donate to the ASPCA, our local United Way, and I volunteer for the Red Cross (But haven't become a donor there, yet).
I'm mainly hoping to concentrate on joining Habitat for Humanity for the first time this year!
See if they have any Women Built teams. It's an entirely female group that constructs a house. You get to use more power tools that way. I learned tons about how a house goes together when I did it, which is really helping me out now as a homeowner.
That's such a good idea! I was kind of afraid showing up at the first site and being the only one not knowing anything
my passion = sustainable living... not an organization or cause but i just try to live my life more and more in a more sustainable way day by day.
I came across a thread started by laurenmisplaced (http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=14287.0). A mad chemist (in training) stored chemicals in his apartment's refrigerator and ended up blowing up a part of the complex. The linked news article stated that Miami fire-rescue dug a trench in which to place unidentified chemicals found in the chemists apartment.
One of my passions is the environment. I haven't been to Miami, but I'd expect it's a modern city. Why wouldn't they have the chemicals hauled off as hazardous materials and disposed of properly? They buried them, like it the 18th century. Zachariah, betake thy spade and diggeth a modicum deeper.
my passion = sustainable living... not an organization or cause but i just try to live my life more and more in a more sustainable way day by day.
ditto ditto ditto
Charities we donate financially to: St. Jude's, Easterseals, Breast cancer awareness (I've also participated in a couple of 3day events), and Shriner's.
Charities we volunteer time to: a local pet shelter, hospice, Make a Wish (Keith and I host a huge 3day event to raise money every year). And I donate blood to Red Cross, Keith can't because has had a transfusion in the past year.
This year we have not been as active as we usually like because of his accident but plan to do more in the year to come. We have also become a disgruntled by Make a Wish this year so we are planning to fund a different cause next year.
This is a fraction of the causes I would like to help but it's what I can do right now.
my passion = sustainable living... not an organization or cause but i just try to live my life more and more in a more sustainable way day by day.
ditto ditto ditto
Ditto squared
I would love to donate blood at least once a year (probably more) but I have had mild anemia since I was in high school. Of course, it is so mild that when they tested me, I was only a teeny bit low on my red blood cells, and they let me donate without telling me why it was important anyway.
I ended up passing out and had to spend the rest of the day laying down.
Any other time I've gone my iron has been low, so I can't, but I'm hoping maybe being vegetarian will help that. I certainly am eating a lot more spinach! ;)
I am going to look into volunteering opportunities around this area. Maybe there will be something that's near and dear to my heart that I can help out with when I have the time (slightly easier to come by than money).
Besides getting my hands dirty saving animals (which takes up a great deal of my personal time, money, as well as my blood, sweat, and tears), I donate to many charities. Somebody must have sold my name to the "Animal Rights/Environmental Sucker List" years ago. :o
Here's the list of charities I have donated to so far this year (or that I am a member of):
Farm Sanctuary
Animal Legal Defense Fund
PCRM
Catskill Animal Sanctuary
In Defense of Animals
The Elephant Sanctuary
D.E.L.T.A. Rescue (this guy is incredible)
Best Friends
The Humane Farming Association
Natural Resources Defense Council
The Cancer Project
Please if you can...check out the groups you donate to on this list of humane charities. I know a lot of us have been touched by the loss of a friend or loved one to cancer (I lost my Mom to it this year). The American Cancer Society does an unthinkable amount of animal testing. Most of these tests are done over and over, year after year, producing the same results. Thousands upon thousands of animals die and are tortured every year by tests that the researchers already know the outcome to before the testing begins.
Here is a list of Humane Charities:
http://www.humaneseal.org/search.php?ap=y
You can also do a search to see if the charity you donate to, or want to donate to is on the "bad" list (such as the American Cancer Society).
Thanks for the list site Dave!! There were a few on there that were a surprise for me. The only one that I give to is Shriners :(
I was happy to see that all the other charities that I give to are animal friendly. I try to do my home work. I understand what you mean about having an issue that is close to home like cancer (I also lost my mom). I gave to Susan G. Komen fund for a few years until I found out that they fund animal 'research' I felt truly betrayed. This is just another reason to give to charities that do local work. I like being able to see where my money is going.
Donating time is also a great way to see that your efforts are being put to good use.
Dave, you are a wonderful example. :)
I for got I also donate time and money to Miracle Flight: www.miracleflights.org
Planned Parenthood
I've given to lots of charities in the past such as Farm Sanctuary, One By One Animal Rescue, United Way and PETA. Right now I'm still giving to One By One (it's a local no-kill shelter where I volunteered for five years) as well as Disabled American Veterans, Women for Women International, and Austism Society of America.
compasssion international (the little girl i sponsor is from uganda) and some friends and i are actually planning a trip over there next year to volunteer in the center.
also, peta (of course)
amnesty international
st. jude
the local homeless mission
the loal domesti violence center
www.compassioninternational.com
PAWS Chicago
ASPCA
PETA
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