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The NDC Good Causes Thread

lamb83 12-24-2009, 7:18 PM
I had been thinking about starting a thread where we could all post links to charitable organizations that help people or animals in some way,and since then daniel625 has created a list of good causes for the NDC Twitter page http://twitter.com/NDCforum/good-causes,so maybe more website and/or Twitter page links can be posted here to help spread the word about these organizations.These are sites that are posted in the Links section of NoDoubt.com and have already been added to the NDC Twitter page:

http://www.nodoubtfoundation.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKrtG724Cek

Gwen Stefani has joined forces with (RED) to lend her voice to the cause of spreading the word about an upcoming HBO film entitled The Lazarus Effect, which documents an inexpensive AIDS treatment which can bring those dying of the disease back to a healthy state within forty days of treatment. Also signed on to help spread the word about the film are Penelope Cruz, Orlando Bloom, Iman, Hugh Jackman, and Don Cheadle. The Lazarus Effect, which will debut on May 24th on HBO, is directed by Lance Bangs and executive produced by Spike Jonze. (RED) is a charitable effort spearheaded by U2’s Bono and others aimed at encouraging corporations to offer special red versions of their existing products with a portion of the sales going to charitable causes. http://www.joinred.com/

No Doubt held an ebay charity auction-all of the proceeds from the auction went to these four charities which were personally chosen by the band members:

Animal Acres - Paradise for Farmed Animals & the People Who Love Them

charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations.

The ALS Association encourages scientific research to find a cure for ALS (also known as "Lou Gehrig's disease")

Children's Hospital of Orange County is a regional pediatric health care hospital which provides preventive medical care, education, and state-of-the-art pediatric biomedical research.

http://www.healthebay.org/ Heal the Bay

http://www.hrc.org/ Human Right Campaign

http://www.pcrf-kids.com/ Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation

http://www.raincoast.org/ Raincoast Conservation Society

http://www.rainn.org/ Rape,Abuse and Incest National Network

http://www.surfrider.org/ Surfrider Foundation

http://www.preventsuicide.us/hopeline-new/ The National Hopeline Network

http://www.choc.org/ Children's Hospital of Orange County

http://doctorswithoutborders.org/splash.cfm Doctors Without Borders

http://www.charitywater.org/ Charity Water
Tips to conserve water http://globalgreen.org/water/whatyoucando
http://weboc.alsa.org/site/PageServer?pagename=OC_homepage ALS:Orange County Chapter

Gwen rocks these accessories that help impoverished women-and so can you http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/kate_hudson_gwe.php ;)

http://www.handsupnothandouts.org/index.php

Some great charity and volunteer links,thanks to the ladies of thingsweheart:http://things-we-heart.blogspot.com/2010/01/bueno-lending-hand.html

These are a few other worthy causes-again,please add any more you know about,guys:

35 Little Acts of Kindness :)

http://www.boostup.org/The statistics are alarming: four out of every ten students in the US don’t graduate from high school. BoostUp is a resource that aims to get people talking and thinking about graduation.It allows people (family, friends, strangers) to email or text words of encouragement and wisdom about graduation.

http://www.dontalmostgive.org/ Don't Almost Give, Give. Visit this site for information and resources on charitable causes, volunteer opportunities and acts of kindness.

Pepsi is giving away millions each month to fund refreshing ideas that change the world. The ideas with the most votes will receive grants.Please visit this site to vote for the funding of refreshing ideas that can change the world-you can vote for 10 ideas daily and it only takes a few seconds to vote :) http://www.refresheverything.com/

http://www.redcross.org/ One of the main sites to help out earthquake victims in both Haiti and Chile

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34835478/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/?ns=world_news-americasList of organizations active in Haiti to help earthquake victims there

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/27/chile-earthquake-relief-h_n_479426.html List of organizations to help with earthquake relief in Chile(many of these are the same organizations helping Haiti)

http://twitter.com/NDCforum/help4haiti-Twitter pages that help earthquake victims in Haiti,thanks to daniel625 for setting it up

Linkin Park, Dave Matthews Band, Slash and a whole lot of talented folks want you to help out the people of Haiti, and all you have to do is download exclusive music you would want to buy even if it wasn't for a good cause! Head in to listen to the tracks and find out how you can help.

Download to Donate for Haiti features previously unreleased tracks graciously donated by Alanis Morissette, The All-American Rejects, Dave Matthews Band, Enrique Iglesias, Hoobastank, Kenna, Linkin Park, Lupe Fiasco, Peter Gabriel, and guitar legend, Slash.

"We're encouraging people to give what they can," Slash says. "There's no right or wrong amount. The people of Haiti are in desperate need of food, fresh water, shelter and medical supplies and every little bit helps." http://www.musicforrelief.org/

http://www.whatyoucando.ontheleesh.com/about.html

What You Can Do 365 is a series that gives viewers the power to take small steps to solve big problems. Each episode illuminates a pressing social issue and then shows what viewers can do about it, even if they only have one minute of time to give.

http://toysfortots.org/default.asp Toys for Tots,which provides toys to underprivileged kids in the US

http://www.wish.org/ Make-A-Wish Foundation,which grants wishes of seriously ill children

http://feedingamerica.org/,the United States' largest hunger-relief organization

http://www.stjude.org/waystohelp St Jude's Research Hospital,which helps children afflicted with cancer and other illnesses without regard to the family's ability to pay

http://www.standup2cancer.org/ Find out ways to help the fight against cancer

http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf The Salvation Army

http://www.afsp.org/ American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

http://www.joinred.com/Splash.aspx Bringing people and brands together to help fight AIDS in Africa

http://singgforacure.webs.com/ raising money for cancer awareness & research

http://keepachildalive.org/ Keep A Child Alive,which is a donor-provided antiretroviral (ARV) therapy program for children and their families with HIV/AIDS in Africa and the rest of the developing world.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3 The Animal Rescue Site-Click for FREE to feed Rescued Animals in need

http://barkingmad.co.za/ site similar to The Animal Rescue Site,where you can click every day for FREE to help provide food for animals in South Africa(thanks to love_angel for the link)

Also,this facebook group,Feed a Child With Just One Click, has a bunch of links similar to the animal ones where one click can help feed poverty-stricken children around the world http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?v=info&ref=ts&gid=6324544002

http://www.aspca.org/ American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Please ReTweet #LiftUpEllie to raise awareness of childhood cancer
Ellie's story:http://www.liftupellie.com/
http://twitter.com/LiftUPEllie

http://www.dressforsuccess.org/Non-profit organization that provides interview suits, confidence boosts, and career development to low-income women in over 75 cities worldwide

Visit this site for information and resources on charitable causes, volunteer opportunities and acts of kindness http://www.dontalmostgive.org/

http://www.vh1savethemusic.com/ The VH1 Save The Music Foundation was founded in 1997 as a public affairs initiative of the VH1 network. The Foundation’s core mission is to restore instrumental music education programs, ensuring that every child has access to a complete education that includes the benefits of music instruction.

http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1024.html Free way to thank our troops for their service by sending an e-card-thanks to Raquelface for the link

http://www.marchofdimes.com/ dedicated to improving the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality

http://www.peta.org/ People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Help raise awareness of cruelty to animals-thanks to Maxi for the linkhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Lanus/ESCRACHE-PARA-EL-Q-PRENDIO-FUEGO-A-BENET/300652005327

http://www.unicef.org/UNICEF

http://www.opusa.org/Operation USA is an international relief agency that helps communities at home and abroad overcome the effects of disasters, disease and endemic poverty by providing privately-funded relief, reconstruction and development aid.

Thanks to the always-amazing HellaGoose for these links:
http://www.kiva.org/Loans that change lives

unitedprosperity.org United Prosperity is a non-profit organization that helps you combat extreme global poverty powerfully by multiplying the impact of your money through loan guarantees.

http://www.liveunited.org/United Way is a worldwide network in 45 countries and territories, including nearly 1,300 local organizations in the U.S. It advances the common good, creating opportunities for a better life for all, by focusing on the three key building blocks of education, income and health.

http://www.bbbs.org/site/c.diJKKYPLJvH/b.1539751/k.BDB6/Home.htm Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest, largest and most effective youth mentoring organization in the United States.

http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html Click to save land for free! On the home page there is a tab that says "Save Land". Go into it and further down the page will be 3 different red buttons which say "Save Land" click each one to contribute! Works just like the Animal Rescue Site :)Thanks to love_angel for the link

There's a website, care2.com which has many petitions one can sign for various, but very important causes. There are also 'Click to Donate' buttons where you can donate for free. Please take a look. It's so quick, no trouble and you are part of making a big difference - saving people, animals and the environment from much suffering which the world can't take too much more of. Give a little bit of your love to the world. PLEASE. To happiness and peace! :-) Thanks to love_angel for the link

http://www.kidsinneed.net/ The Kids In Need Foundation's mission is to ensure that every child is prepared to learn and succeed by providing free school supplies nationally to students most in need.

http://www.unitedway.org/worldwide/ The United Way

http://www.unitedthroughreading.org/ United Through Reading Our mission is to unite families facing physical separation by facilitating the bonding experience of reading aloud together

If you feel you or someone you know is suffering from an eating disorder,please visit http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/get-help-today/

http://www.something-fishy.org/

http://www.anad.org/

Watch and learn how you can help fight Multiple Sclerosis even if you only have 1 minute of time. http://bit.ly/9NK2XG

Many Hearts – Many Causes members are caring individuals from around the world who are coming together to support those charitable non-profit organizations who are doing admirable work in the area’s of humanitarian, environmental and children’s welfare. http://newenglanderprops.webs.com/manyheartsmanycauses.htm

Many Hearts –Many Causes is not a charity and we do not collect or receive contributions. We are a community of caring individuals who decided to come together to make at least a $1.00 contribution monthly with the hopes that others from around the world will join us. Together our contributions can grow into a substantially larger amount of much needed funding for the charities and causes that are near to our hearts.

For every pair of shoes you buy through http://www.toms.com/(international online store here http://www.toms.com/international/),a pair of new shoes will be donated to a child in need.

http://www.dosomething.org/Using the power of online to get teens to do good stuff offline.

http://www.autismspeaks.org/ Autism is the fastest growing serious developmental disability in the U.S., affecting every 1 in 110 American children.

http://www.birthdayblessings.org/

Birthday Blessings is a 501c(3) non-profit organization bringing birthday joy and support to homeless children and their families. We operate on the belief that every child's life deserves to be celebrated, regardless of circumstance.

Each of our programs provides a positive emotional experience for needy children and their families by lifting spirits, promoting self worth, broadening horizons, and supporting basic needs.

Please take a moment to browse our site and learn how you can get involved. Whether it's volunteering at a party, delivering a Blessing Basket, or contributing supplies and gifts, your participation is sure to make a positive impact in the lives of needy children.

Room To Read http://www.roomtoread.org/Page.aspx?pid=209 Today, there are more than 770 million illiterate people in the world, over 300 million children who are not enrolled in school, and hundreds of millions more lack access to books and libraries. Ninety-eight percent of these children live in developing countries, where extreme poverty prevents them from gaining an education. As members of a global community, we must recognize that illiteracy is a major hurdle in improving the quality of life around the globe. Room to Read believes in the power of education and is proud to introduce our most ambitious initiative in our nine-year history – the Room to Dream Campaign. In Room to Read's first eight years of operation, we have helped more than 3.1 million children in the developing world by constructing schools, establishing libraries, providing long-term girls' scholarships and publishing new local language children's books.

Sites like these have information on how to help the environment: http://www.earthday.org/
http://www.epa.gov/earthday/

http://takebackthetap.org/(thanks to NoDoubtisawsome37 for the link)

Every minute of every day, a child is born with HIV. We must stop this and we can. Treatment is now available to help a mother prevent the transmission of HIV to her child. All nations need to be united behind the goal to provide access to this treatment for every mother so that by 2015 virtually no child will be born with HIV. The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is the main channel for funds to achieve this breakthrough. If the Global Fund gets enough resources for the coming three years, the world can succeed in this goal. If the world cannot find the money necessary to finance the Global Fund, this and many other goals in global health will fail.

Please sign this petition and join a global call to provide the funding necessary to achieve the goal of an HIV-free generation by 2015. http://bit.ly/ccQvpd

Go to FreeKibble.com to play trivia, and in one click, help feed shelter dogs and cats for free. Answer the Bow Wow Trivia/Meow Trivia question daily, and regardless of whether you answer correctly or not, 10 pieces of kibble will be donated!(thanks to love_angel for the link)

http://www.girleffect.org/ There are 600 million adolescent girls living in poverty in the developing world. By giving one of these girls a chance, you start the girl effect. When girls have safe places to meet, education, legal protection, health care, and access to training and job skills, they can thrive. And if they thrive, everyone around them thrives, too.

Another good(and life-saving) cause-thanks to http://twitter.com/thingsweheart for raising awareness of it:

http://www.marrow.org/Thousands of patients hope for a bone marrow donor who can make their life-saving transplant possible. They depend on people like you. You have the power to save a life. Take the first step today.

Some ways to help the Gulf oil spill crisis:
Text WILDLIFE to 20222 and donate $10 to the National Wildlife Federation(http://www.nwf.org/)

http://whatyoucandoseries.blogspot.com/2010/06/gulf-week-list-of-resources-to-get.html

Designer Kenneth Cole has opened an online custom t-shirt store-all of the proceeds from the selling of the shirts will got towards Gulf Coast relief-more information here :http://www.facebook.com/KennethColeProductions?v=app_10467688569&ref=ts
nature.org

Most of these organizations have info on their websites on several ways you can help,so if you don't have money to make a donation,you can maybe volunteer your time at a local branch of one of them,or just post about them on your social networking sites to help raise awareness.Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread. :)

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bigDEE 12-24-2009, 8:45 PM
Great thread rosie! Merry christmas! :)

BIG G MEET LIL G

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JustAGirlWalkingIntoSpiderwebs 12-24-2009, 8:46 PM
that is a super amazing idea rosie! :)

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daniel625 12-25-2009, 9:13 AM
Rosie what an amazing idea!!! Thanks for taking the time to do this =)

http://ocdtetris.wordpress.com/ -http://twitter.com/NDCforum

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harajukujane 12-25-2009, 12:48 PM
such a good idea for a thread, thanks for putting this together rosemarie Yes [Y]

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lamb83 12-25-2009, 1:42 PM

daniel625 wrote:
Rosie what an amazing idea!!! Thanks for taking the time to do this =)

Thank you for making the NDC Twitter list :)

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aw shuck! 12-25-2009, 6:23 PM

~BUMP~

where is Gwen Stefani?

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gwennodoubtrock 12-26-2009, 4:22 AM

bigDEE wrote:
Great thread rosie! Merry christmas! :)

Thanks everyone!

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lamb83 12-27-2009, 2:16 PM
bump for any local,national or international charities or worthy causes you guys know of.

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lamb83 12-28-2009, 3:10 PM
Please ReTweet #LiftUpEllie to raise awareness of childhood cancer
Ellie's story:http://www.liftupellie.com/
http://twitter.com/LiftUPEllie

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lamb83 01-01-2010, 12:53 PM
bump

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lamb83 01-03-2010, 9:25 AM
http://www.dressforsuccess.org/Non-profit organization that provides interview suits, confidence boosts, and career development to low-income women in over 75 cities worldwide

Visit this site for information and resources on charitable causes, volunteer opportunities and acts of kindness http://www.dontalmostgive.org/

http://www.vh1savethemusic.com/ The VH1 Save The Music Foundation was founded in 1997 as a public affairs initiative of the VH1 network. The Foundation’s core mission is to restore instrumental music education programs, ensuring that every child has access to a complete education that includes the benefits of music instruction.

http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1024.html Free way to thank our troops for their service by sending an e-card-thanks to Raquelface for the link

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lamb83 01-07-2010, 1:34 PM

lamb83 wrote:
bump for any local,national or international charities or worthy causes you guys know of.

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lamb83 01-12-2010, 5:52 PM
redcross.org The Red Cross is currently accepting donations to help provide relief for the victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti-more info here http://redcrosschat.org/2010/01/12/earthquake-in-haiti/

http://www.marchofdimes.com/ dedicated to improving the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality

http://www.peta.org/ People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

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bad technique 01-12-2010, 6:47 PM
my goodness! you're a saint rosie! Yes [Y]

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