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Positive Charities
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Here you will find
organizations that specialize in teaching people how to fish for
themselves instead of just providing fish. Which means they usually
offer some educational and vocational opportunities in addition to the
other services they provide their clients.
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Love In Action |
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CharityFocus is an
experiment in the joy of giving. It is an experiment that is working.
Our idea is to create small miracles, to be an instrument of that
inspiration, and to celebrate the gift of service.
Our tool is the world wide web. CharityFocus
volunteers build websites for nonprofits. To learn more please visit www.charityfocus.org
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Easter
Seals
For
more than 80 years, Easter Seals
has been providing services that help children and adults with
disabilities gain greater independence. Our primary services — medical
rehabilitation, job training and employment, inclusive child care, adult
day services, and camping and recreation — benefit more than one
million individuals and their families each year at one of 400 centers
nationwide.
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Love One Another |
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Covenant
House relies almost entirely on gifts from friends across North
America to help over 50,000 kids who come to us each year for care. We
provide food, clothing, shelter, medical attention, educational and
vocational training and counseling to kids who literally have nowhere
else to turn.
We are open 24-hours-a-day, 7 days a week, 365
days a year. No kid is ever turned away. Never, ever! Without your
support we would simply be unable to care for these kids. Please, please
help if you can. Their lives depend on it!
You can help in a number of ways including making
a donation, volunteering your time, attending our events, even shopping
in our on-line store!
You might also enjoy reading about our donors,
volunteers, and fundraising events in our Family News newsletter.
Please visit Covenant
House online today!
PS Click here to read this important letter
from Sister Mary Rose
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Love One Another |
Habitat for Humanity International |
Since 1976, Habitat has built more than
95,000 houses in more than 60 countries, including some 30,000 houses
across the United States.
Habitat houses are purchased by the
homeowner families. Three factors make Habitat houses affordable to
low-income people worldwide:
- Houses are sold at no profit, with no
interest charged on the mortgage.
- Homeowners and volunteers build the
houses under trained supervision.
- Individuals, corporations, faith
groups and others provide financial support.
Habitat for Humanity's work is organized
at the local level by more than 1,900 affiliates worldwide. Affiliates
coordinate house building and select partner families.
Homeowner families are chosen according to their need; their ability to
repay the no-profit, no-interest mortgage; and their willingness to work
in partnership with Habitat.
Habitat for Humanity does not discriminate according to race, religion
or ethnic group. Please visit us online www.habitat.org
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Love One Another |
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Goodwill
Industries is about people working.
We have witnessed the power of work to transform
lives. Work helps build self-confidence, friendship, independence,
creativity, trust, empowerment.
Everyone deserves a chance to have these things in
life.
Goodwill
Industries provides people with the tools they need to succeed in
working. We are one of the world's largest nonprofit providers of
employment and training services for people with disabilities and other
disadvantaging conditions such as welfare dependency, illiteracy,
criminal history and homelessness.
Goodwill was founded in 1902 in Boston by Rev.
Edgar Helms, a Methodist minister. Helms collected used household goods
and clothing in wealthier areas of the city, then trained and hired poor
people and immigrants to mend and repair the used goods.
The goods were then resold or were given to the
people who repaired them. The system worked, and the Goodwill philosophy
of "a hand up, not a hand out" was born.
To Locate a Goodwill near you
please visit www.goodwill.org
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Love One Another |
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