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How a 21-Year-Old Design Student’s Sleeping-Bag Coat Could Help Break the Cycle of Homelessness

As a design student in Detroit, Veronika Scott was keenly aware of the increasing numbers of homeless people suffering deeply…

Photo of the Day: Lion Brothers, Australia

Twelve-year-old male lion brothers Tonyi, left, and Tombo lie with each other at Werribee Open Range Zoo, 30 kilometers (19…

Tour L.A.’s Real Art in the Streets

Long before MOCA’s Art in the Streets show opened, Los Angeles’s Downtown Arts District already had more than a few…

Spotlight on ModestNeeds.Org – Small Change. A World of Difference.

What is ModestNeeds.Org? Founded in 2002, Modest Needs is an award-winning public charity with a simple but critical mission: to…

18-Year-Old Gives His $40,000 Scholarship to Other Teens

Allan Guei, 18, was a star basketball player at Compton High School in the Los Angeles area before he graduated…

Study Shows Good Posture Makes You Tougher

Mothers have been telling their children to stop slouching for ages. It turns out that mom was onto something and…

Man Jumps Nearly 20 Feet to World Record

A man wearing a superhero costume unofficially set a new world record for the longest flip. WTVJ-TV’s Ari Odzer reports.…

Recycle Old Cell Phones for Cash, Reduce Waste

You probably already know you should recycle your old mobile phone, for a bunch of environmental reasons. But it’s not…

Medical Students Create Free Medical Translation App, Conquering Language Barriers to Patient Care

Brad Cohn had just finished a long shift at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) during which he had struggled to…

11 of the Greatest Things to Love About America

What makes America great? July 4th, 2011 marked the 235th birthday of the nation’s founding Declaration of Independence. At the…

Beauty in Every Grain: For the First Time Remarkable Photographs Reveal Hidden Charms of Ordinary SAND

When seen well beyond the limits of human eyesight, the miniature particles are exposed as fragments of crystals, spiral fragments…

Monkey Steals Camera to Snap Himself

The primate went to investigate the equipment before becoming fascinated with his own reflection in the lens. It wasn’t long…

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  • A21 We are the abolitionists of the 21st century. We work with you to free slaves and disrupt the demand.
  • African Library Project Increase literacy in Africa by creating and improving small libraries.
  • American Widow Project Non-profit organization dedicated to the new generation of those who have lost the heroes of yesterday, today and tomorrow, with an emphasis on healing through sharing stories, tears and laughter.
  • Animal Defenders International (ADI) To educate, create awareness, and promote the interest of humanity in the cause of justice, and the suppression of all forms of cruelty to animals; wherever possible to alleviate suffering, and to conserve and protect animals and the environment.
  • Animal Rescue Team Rescue.Rehabilitate.Release.
  • Artists for Peace and Justice Fundraising effort founded by Paul Haggis and friends that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty and enfranchisement in communities around the world.
  • Bel Air Rotary Club Helping the world with community service projects.
  • Blood:Water Mission Grassroots organization that empowers communities to work together against the HIV/AIDS and water crisis in Africa.
  • Brene Brown Research professor on vulnerability, courage, worthiness and shame.
  • Brooklyn Grange The leading rooftop farming and intensive green roofing business in the US.
  • Bumi Sehat Foundation International Our mission is to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality.
  • CARE Defending Dignity. Fighting Poverty.
  • Caterina’s Club Feeding nearly 200 children seven nights a week.
  • Change.org Start a Petition, Mobilize Support & Win Change
  • Charity Navigator Your Guide to Intelligent Giving
  • Charter for Compassion Bringing together voices from all cultures and religions.
  • Child Fund International A global force working for children encompassing the globe.
  • Chocolate Bar Book Chocolate Bar was born from the imagination of a child whose hope was that his words and pictures could help change the world, one book at a time.
  • College Affordability and Transparency Center Finding the right college for your budget.
  • College Navigator Find the right college for you.
  • Color My World Project A youth-run organization that raises awareness about the importance of recycling.
  • Do Something Using the power of online to get teens to do good stuff offline.
  • Doctors Without Borders An international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 60 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe.
  • Donors Choose An online charity connecting you to a classroom in need.
  • Early Childhood Development Center Coordinates with jail administrators to rescue children from jail cells throughout urban and rural areas of Nepal. The children receive regular medical check-ups, vaccinations, and are enrolled in a local private school.
  • Elton John Aids Foundation Supports innovative HIV prevention programs, efforts to eliminate stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS, and direct care and support services for people living with HIV/AIDS.
  • Empower Orphans To elevate the well being of orphaned children and empower them to succeed, by helping them help themselves.
  • Enough Project The Enough Project supports peace and an end to mass atrocities in Africa’s deadliest conflict zones.
  • Every Mother Counts An advocacy and mobilization campaign to increase education and support for maternal and child health.
  • Exchange My Phone Exchange Your Phones for Cash
  • Foster Focus The go-to source of foster care news and information for anyone involved in any way with the foster care industry.
  • FranklinCovey Build a Mission Statement
  • Free Poverty Each correct answer donates 10 cups of water.
  • Free Rice Each correct answer donates 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme to help end hunger.
  • Free2Work Be a conscious consumer.
  • Friends of Jaclyn Improving the quality of life for children suffering with pediatric brain tumors.
  • From Death To Life An organization dedicated to ending violence through the facilitation of healing and reconciliation between families of victims and perpetrators.
  • From Harm to Home Meaningful Gifts from the IRC Gift Store (International Rescue Committee)
  • GirlUp A campaign of the United Nations Foundation giving American girls the opportunity to channel their energy and compassion to raise awareness and funds for programs of the United Nations that help some of the world’s hardest-to-reach adolescent girls.
  • Gotta Have Sole Foundation We provide homeless youth with new shoes to call their own.
  • Gottman Institute Science-based relationship help.
  • Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Develops and protects the market by increasing the awareness of the economic, social and environmental benefits of green roofs, green walls, and other forms of living architecture.
  • Gridiron Heroes Emotional and financial support to high school football athletes who’ve sustained spinal cord injuries.
  • Guardian Scholar Giving Ways to Give
  • Guide Star Mission: To revolutionize philanthropy and nonprofit practice by providing information that advances transparency, enables users to make better decisions, and encourages charitable giving.
  • Help Us Adopt Financial Assistance Grant Program
  • Hilde Back Education Fund A Kenyan Charity Supporting the Education of Talented Children
  • ifixit The Free Repair Manuel
  • International Committee of the Red Cross
  • Invisibilia Podcast exploring the intangible forces that shape human behavior.
  • Invisible Children Invisible Children uses film, creativity and social action to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony’s rebel war and restore LRA-affected communities in central Africa to peace and prosperity.
  • Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar Foundation A nonprofit organization, which directs its efforts towards improving the quality of life for teenage mothers and children living in utter misery in the city of Cartagena, Colombia.
  • Kids Company Providing practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children and young people.
  • Kiva Change a Life with a Loan
  • Kliptown Youth Program KYP’s mission is to eradicate the poverty of mind, body, and soul and to fight against the disadvantages imposed on the children of Kliptown, by providing educational support and after school activities.
  • Lifesaver Systems Saving lives around the world by providing safe drinking water.
  • Limbitless Creating Hope With 3D Printed Limbs
  • MAITI Nepal Crusading for the prevention of girl trafficking, rescue, rehabilitation and integration of survivors of trafficking.
  • Make-A-Wish Foundation We grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.
  • Malaria No More Determined to end malaria deaths in Africa by 2015.
  • Mariah's Challenge The Mariah Daye McCarthy Scholarship Foundation is dedicated to education and the prevention of underage drinking and driving in Montana.
  • McGovern-Dole Food for Education The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program helps promote education, child development, and food security for some of the world’s poorest children.
  • Michael J. Fox Foundation Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
  • Millennium Promise A nonprofit organization whose goal is to reduce worldwide extreme poverty within our lifetime.
  • Milo Foundation A non-profit domestic animal sanctuary.
  • Mind Tools Essential skills for an excellent career.
  • Modest Needs Small Change. A World of Difference.
  • Move for Hunger By teaming up with moving companies across the country, Move for Hunger is creating one of the nation’s largest year-round service programs.
  • New Eyes Glasses for Those in Need
  • New York Heartwoods By using wood from storm-downed and urban trees and making timeless, lasting designs, we make objects so that trees can grow.
  • NPR NPR delivers breaking national and world news. Also top stories from business, politics, health, science, technology, music, arts and culture.
  • O+ Festival The art of medicine for the medicine of art.
  • One Simple Wish One Simple Wish empowers you to brighten the lives of foster children and vulnerable youth one simple wish at a time. From shoes to toys to musical instruments and more, you can brighten a life right now.
  • One World Children's Fund Provides free after school programs and access to education, counseling and medical care to about 200 children.
  • OneSight One World. One Passion. One Sight.
  • Operation Freedom Paws Operation Freedom Paws empowers veterans and others with disabilities to restore their own independence.
  • Orangewood Children's Foundation Supporting Foster Youth
  • Orbis Saving Sight Worldwide
  • Pencils of Promise Builds schools in the developing world and trains young leaders to take action at home and abroad.
  • PlantCatching.com Free plants, surplus produce and gardening materials are just around the corner in a garden near you.
  • RAISE Hope for Congo A campaign of the Enough Project, aims to build a permanent and diverse constituency of activists who will advocate for the human rights of all Congolese citizens and work towards ending the ongoing conflict in eastern Congo.
  • Razia's Ray of Hope Razia’s Ray of Hope Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of women and children in Afghanistan through community-based education.
  • Real Food Challenge To increase the procurement of real food on college and university campuses, with the national goal of 20% real food by 2020.
  • Rebuilding Together Rebuilding Together has become the leading national organization rebuilding low income homes and communities.
  • Remote Area Medical Non-profit, volunteer, airborne relief corps dedicated to serving mankind by providing free health care.
  • Richard’s Rwanda Impuhwe A group of American girls who are working together to support Rwandan girls education.
  • Riders for Health Riders is an award-winning social enterprise that works to make sure all health workers in Africa have access to reliable transportation so they can reach the most isolated people with regular and predictable health care.
  • Ripple Enables the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe water and sanitation
  • Seeds of Peace Empowering leaders of the next generation.
  • ShiningHope We bring hope to women because through women, we bring hope to entire communities.
  • Sight Learning Eyeglasses for Students
  • Society for Science & the Public Inform. Educate. Inspire.
  • Southern Coalition for Social Justice Partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities in the South to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights.
  • Sport Relief Fundraisers that do something fun and active to raise cash and help make the world of difference.
  • Stop Hunger Now An international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world.
  • TED Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
  • TEDx TEDx event organized by kids, for kids.
  • The Early Childhood Development Center – Nepal ECDC is dedicated to helping the children of imprisoned parents in Nepal, many of whom were living inside the jails alongside their mothers.
  • The Hunger Site Our impact in the fight against hunger is thanks entirely to people like you.
  • The Jane Goodall Institute A global nonprofit that empowers people to make a difference for all living things.
  • The Josh Project, Inc. Our organization prides itself on providing affordable swimming lessons and water safety training to children and their families.
  • THE PHOENIX MULTISPORT MISSION Phoenix Multisport fosters a supportive, physically active community for individuals who are recovering from alcohol and substance abuse and those who choose to live a sober life.
  • The Sparkle Effect A student-run program encourages teens nationwide to include students with disabilities in high-school cheerleading programs.
  • The Story Exchange Inspiration and information for women entrepreneurs.
  • The Trevor Project Determined to end suicide among LGBTQ youth by providing life-saving and life-affirming resources.
  • TREE The story of TREE began with a dream to combine eco-chic style with a desire to give back to the world
  • UNICEF UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized.
  • Unite the World with Africa dentifying extraordinary-yet-impoverished and marginalized youth across Tanzania and empowering with quality and comprehensive care and education programs to help them launch into successful independent lives.
  • United We Serve A nationwide service initiative that helps meet growing social needs resulting from the economic downturn.
  • Volunteer Match Where volunteering begins.
  • VOSH The voice of optometry in developing nations.
  • Wearable Collections Clothing Recycling
  • Women for Women International Helping Women Survivors of War Rebuild Their Lives
  • World Bicycle Relief Dedicated to providing access to independence and livelihood through the power of bicycles.
  • World Wildlife Fund People Living in Harmony with Nature
  • Wounded Warrior Project To foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded warriors in this nation’s history.
  • X Prize Foundation An educational (501c3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity.
  • YALLA To empower immigrant families and their children, guiding their community through soccer, eco-therapy and education to develop the knowledge and confidence to pursue their physical and intellectual goals.

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