When you're looking for ways to give back or pay it forward, check out the worthwhile charities listed below! And don't keep this information to yourself! Pay It Forward by e-mailing this page to everyone you know.
The Godmothers Club is proud to promote and connect you to these philanthropic sites. If you know of a worthy cause and it's not on my list, please e-mail me the name and link. Note that the charities are sectioned by categories for ease of use.
Kiva invites donors to make interest-free microloans (as little as $25) to entrepreneurs in poor countries all over the world to alleviate poverty. The appeal of this program is that you can directly see the impact your funds have. Check out this innovative idea.
The Women's Alliance, a national organization of independent, community based members who provide professional attire and career skills training to low income women and their families seeking self sufficiency, accepts gently used professional clothing for their clients. They have locations in 21 states.
Dressing For A Second Chance
Bottomless Closet NYC helps disadvantaged New York City women become self-sufficient through a comprehensive program that begins with professional attire and interview preparation and continues with professional development, financial management and personal enrichment. There are also programs in Chicago and Milwaukee.
Dress For Success promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. The have affiliates in 37 states.
Second Chance Upscale Resale Partners with One Way Out, an organization designed to help women who desire to come out of sexually oriented professions. They reach out to exotic dancers, prostitutes, sex trafficked women and children, women coming out of prison, abused women, and more. They work with them to give them a second chance.The Princess Project and The Glass
Slipper Project collect and make available used prom and other formal dresses,
as well as formal purses, shoes, jewelry, unopened cosmetics and
hosiery for young women who
otherwise would not be able to attend their high school prom or other formal
events.
Environment
Blue Planet Run Foundation, an organization that helps impoverished communities find access to clean drinking water.
Giving hopeful outcomes to those in need, Air Compassion America experts arrange deep discounts off air ambulance flights for seriously ill patient. Good to know because you just never know.
Mastectomy bras, swim wear, and other specialty clothing items are needed by breast cancer survivors who often cannot afford these costly items. Contact your local chapter of the American Cancer Society for information on how you can donate these items in your area.
Remember, our symptoms are quite different from men's when it comes to heart attacks, and the American Heart Association is the place to go for any info about women's heart health.
Breast Cancer Research Foundation awards research grants — $22 million in 2005 alone — to experts seeking new prevention methods and treatments. Its funds have been behind some of the field's biggest discoveries — including the finding that women of African ancestry often have a form of breast cancer that is genetically distinct from that of women of European descent.
Brides Against Breast Cancer accepts donated wedding dresses, veils, and related items and sells them at a discount, then uses the money to fund the wishes of women and men who have metastatic breast cancer.
The Breast Cancer Site is a click-to-give site that donates FREE mammograms to women in need. It's free to you and all of the sponsor money goes to the charity.
Cleaning for a Reason provides free, professional cleaning service to women undergoing treatment for any type of cancer.
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative The world's percentage of HIV-positive adults who are women is rising. Why? In countries with rampant sexual violence and unequal rights, women often don't have the option to abstain from sex or ask their partners to wear condoms. IAVI — which funds research to develop an AIDS vaccine with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, universities, and governments worldwide — stresses that a vaccine could be taken without a partner's permission, thereby giving women more control over their health.
Pretty In Pink Foundation is a North Carolina non-profit organization that provides financial assistance, resources and support to under insured and uninsured women diagnosed with breast cancer to reside in North Carolina.
Susan G. Komen for breast cancer information and support.
A Woman's Choice, located in Kentucky, provides free pregnancy testing, referrals for medical treatment, housing assistance, counseling services, social services and material support for pregnant women. All of their services are free.
WomenHeart is a non-profit patient advocacy organization committed to helpign women live longer, healthier lives. They support, educate and advocate on behalf of the 42 million American women living with or at risk of heart disease.
Heifer’s mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth. With gifts of livestock and training, we help families improve their nutrition and generate income in sustainable ways. The animals are “living loans” because in exchange for their livestock and training, families agree to give one of its animal’s offspring to another family in need. It’s called Passing on the Gift – a cornerstone of their mission that creates an ever-expanding network of hope and peace.
Miracle Mondays is a group that brings fun to hospitalized children, making their treatments and stay more bearable.
TOMS Shoes provides free shoes to children in third-world countries who have none. Buy a pair of TOMS shoes and he'll donate a pair to a child. Keep buying and he'll keep donating. Pass on a Tender Little Blessing.
Leadership
Social Causes
Blue Planet Run Foundation, an organization that helps impoverished communities find access to clean drinking water.
A Family of One's Own A grass-roots effort to support the many single women (and their children) in rural northwest India who have been economically and socially marginalized by virtue of their single status—widowed, divorced, abandoned, abused. A Family of One's Own has organized a new social movement to craft lives of dignity and justice.
Change helps social causes such as women's rights. You can join a cause, take an action or donate, and recruit your friends to do the same. There is also a page for each one of the 1500 or so member nonprofits.
Enchanted Makeovers gives women in shelters a place of possibilities and a second chance at their dreams. Read Terry Gahl's inspiring story.
Hope Runs A youth program in Kenya for orphans that uses the power of running to teach children how to succeed and have healthy, productive and happy lives despite their environment and circumstances. Started by two young American women who were passing through Africa at the end of an eight month journey around the world, Hope Runs was born out of compassion, enthusiasm and belief that these kids can do anything!
Hour Children reunites families after mothers get out of prison and provide a training, support and housing for them to get a new start on life.
In August 1995, when two local
children suffocated while playing in an abandoned car because they didn’t
have anywhere else to play, KaBoom! was born. Their vision
National Partnership for Women and Families Sexually harassed at work? Afraid you'll lose your job because you're pregnant? There are now laws to protect you, thanks in part to the National Partnership. This group has fought for every major policy advancement that has helped women and families in the past three decades. The group fights for national legislation but can help individuals find resources needed for their own battles.
Polaris Project Human trafficking is active in many, many states in America. The Polaris Project, modeled on the grassroots spirit of the Underground Railroad combats trafficking in the U.S. and abroad.
Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network RAINN, the country's largest antisexual-assault organization, runs the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800-656-HOPE). The hotline — which includes a secure Web-based option — provides sexual-assault victims with free, confidential services 24/7. If you buy T-shirts, candles, and jewelry from its Website, all the proceeds will go to stopping sexual assault.
Run for Congo Women raises money, support and sponsors for the Congolese women who are victims of abuse, rape and murder providing them resources to build a better life for them and their children.
Smart-girl provides a prevention and enrichment program that uses positive peer influence to support and inspire adolescent girls to make smart choices and become confident, capable and self-reliant women.
Soroptimist, which means "best for women" is an international women's organization for business and professional women who work to improve the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world. Soroptimists are women at their best, working to help other women to be their best. Use their club search function to locate a club near you.
V-Day Active in 81 countries, V-Day works to end violence against women and girls. Its hallmark? The Vagina Monologues, put on by volunteers to raise funds for local anti-violence groups. In countries where shows aren't possible, V-Day gives grants for programs — such as the V-Day Safe House in Kenya, which helps girls escape female genital mutilation. V-Day has raised over $30
VolunteerMatch Pop in your zip code and a key word that expresses who you would like to help and Bingo! up pops a list of volunteer opportunities in your backyard. Couldn't be easier than that. Their service as become the preferred internet recruiting tool for more than 70,000 nonprofit organizations.
The mission of The Women's Center is to improve significantly the psychological, career, financial and legal well-being of women and families based on their ability to pay.
Women for Women International helps women survivors of war rebuild their lives. With the tools and resources they move women from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies.
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Posted by: gokkasten | Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 06:59 AM