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Our Staff Picks...
- Buy a mini red soccer ball from Right To Play and help children threatened by HIV/AIDS or suffering from the effects of conflict. Right To Play uses specially designed sport and play programs to improve health; build life skills; and foster peace for children and communities affected by war, poverty, and disease.
- The United Way has teamed up with the NFL for the Fan-Challenge for Fitness – an effort to raise awareness and inspire action to improve childhood health across the country. Contribute to United Way youth fitness in your favorite NFL community, and the community that raises the most gets an additional $25,000 for youth fitness.
- Idealist.org, a project of Action Without Borders, is an interactive website where people and organizations can exchange resources and ideas, locate opportunities and supporters, and take steps toward building a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives.
- Buy three bed nets through Malaria No More and help protect three children from malaria -- the leading cause of death for African children under the age of five. Your gift will go to the African country where it is needed most and provide the education and support needed to help make malaria a disease of the past.
- Feed a hungry child by supporting Share Our Strength. The nonprofit works with successful local organizations to help families surround every child with nutritious food in the places they live, learn, pray, and play. Share Our Strength is committed to ending childhood hunger in America
- Through Pact’s WORTH program tens of thousands of poor women in Africa and Asia are discovering they can be successful bankers, entrepreneurs, and community activists, tackling tough problems such as ending spousal abuse, child marriage, the dowry system, and gender disparity. Their new-found worth is enabling them and their families to thrive.
- Treat 2,500 people with parasites by contributing to the Millennium Promise program focused on ending extreme poverty in Africa by 2015. Millennium Villages empower the poorest of the poor, demonstrating that it's possible to escape the cycle of extreme poverty, hunger, and disease throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
- The LEAGUE is a school-based system that combines state standards-based lesson plans with community service events that teach students the value of giving and recognizes them for their efforts.
- The Youth Policy Action Center is a website that engages young people (and adults) in democracy and in changing policies that change young people's lives.
- The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation helps people imagine and act for the public good. Through a donation to the Harwood Institute's Public Innovators Labs, you can help ensure that public innovators around the country gain access to the tools, frameworks, and support they need to make hope real in their community.
- The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national nonprofit organization working to eradicate hunger and under-nutrition in America. FRAC works with nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and corporations to address hunger and its root cause – poverty.
- Search Institute provides positive experiences for young people and helps develop the personal qualities they need to grow into healthy, caring, and responsible adults. The institute generates and communicates new knowledge, and brings together community, state, and national leaders.
- Become a member of America’s Promise Alliance and help at-risk youth build a strong future. Ensure that more young people experience the Five Promises needed for success in life -- caring adults, safe places, healthy starts, effective education, and opportunities to help others.
- Support Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) Fellows in organizing their college campuses to build mutual respect and pluralism among young people from different religious traditions. IFYC provides leadership training, project resources, a connection to a broader movement, and a platform to inspire others.
- Send a gift certificate in any amount (minimum $10) from GlobalGiving. You decide how much to give, the recipient decides which project to give to -- from protecting the environment from climate change, to healing communities ravaged by HIV/AIDS, to bringing clean water to remote villages.
- Give access to clean water to 10 people who are affected by HIV/AIDS by supporting PlayPumps International. The innovative PlayPump® water system delivers clean water to people all over Africa by leveraging the power of children playing on a merry-go-round.
- Help Project Mercy care for orphans in Ethiopia who lost parents to HIV/AIDS. Project Mercy not only cares for physical well-being but promotes education, health care, and community development to create economically independent communities with high ethical and social values.
- Religions for Peace - USA promotes multi-religious cooperation for peace and justice; builds on the spiritual, human, and institutional resources of its communities; enhances mutual understanding; and acts for the common good.
- Your donation to the Calvert Foundation unlocks $2,000 in new loan activity for community investment. This capital enables individuals to live in affordable housing, expand their small businesses, and rise above the cycle of poverty.
- Provide a park bench so that parents can rest, talk with neighbors, and watch their children play in one of 100 playgrounds restored in hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast communities by KaBOOM!
- Civic Ventures reports on the growth of the experience movement and brings together older adults to use their talents to advance the greater good – helping America realize an experience dividend.
- Give an Hour is dedicated to meeting the mental health needs of U.S. troops by connecting mental health professionals who give an hour of their time each week to provide free services to military personnel and their families.
- Unlock the secrets of your genetic history through National Geographic Society’s five-year Genographic Project. Proceeds support the Genographic Legacy Fund, which aims to empower indigenous peoples trying to revitalize their communities and to raise awareness of the challenges facing traditional communities around the world.
- Donate to the Taproot Foundation and help apply the time and skills of business professionals toward the greater good. Every $100 you contribute is translated into about $1,000 worth of pro-bono professional services for promising nonprofits.
- Give a young person a life-changing experience of service through City Year, where they dedicate one year of service in inner cities as tutors and mentors to school children, help reclaim public spaces, and organize after-school programs.
- Help support a 21st Century town meeting and a forum for giving public officials substantive feedback on key issues through AmericaSpeaks. To date, more than 65,000 people have participated in more than 50 forums in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
- A donation to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BCGA) will help teach young people the skills they need to succeed in life. BGCA engages youth in programs focused on education, the environment, health, the arts, careers, alcohol/drug and pregnancy prevention, gang prevention, leadership development, and athletics.
- Support an interfaith event among people of different cultures and religions through The Buxton Initiative, which uses faith and friendship as a vital bridge to establishing deep understanding.
- Youth Service America (YSA) is a resource center that partners with thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people, ages 5-25, to serve locally, nationally, and globally.
- Network for Good can help diversify your donations this season. They’ve created “Gift Baskets” filled with unique giving ideas such as aid for animals, hurricane recovery, feeding the hungry, and saving the earth.
- Provide one complete cleft surgery, giving a child a smile and a new start on a healthy, happy life. A major problem in developing countries, unrepaired clefts affect millions of children. Through a Smile Train surgery, each of these children can be helped.
- Buy an oilseed press to help a family in Kenya KickStart a small business. These and other tools create new jobs and wealth, enabling the poor to climb out of their poverty forever.
- Donate to Mobilize.org and help educate, empower, and energize young people to increase their civic engagement and political participation. You can sponsor a young person’s participation in Mobilize.org’s upcoming Party for the Presidency project.
- Provide speakers for Aspen Institute initiatives to ensure that the nonprofit organization continues to foster enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue. The Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry and an appreciation for timeless values.
- Communities in Schools helps young people stay in school and prepare for life by ensuring their access to the "Five Basics": a one-on-one relationship with a caring adult; a safe place to learn and grow; a healthy start and a healthy future; a marketable skill to use upon graduation; and a chance to give back to peers and community.
- The National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) increases the capacity of schools and communities to engage youth in active learning and service. Help support youth scholarships for the National Service-Learning Conference and the NYLC youth leadership camp.
- Through Amachi, faith institutions work with human service providers and public agencies to identify children of prisoners and match them with caring adults, helping improve a child’s academic performance, behavior, family/peer relationships, and self-concept.
- Help the Volunteer Center Disaster Recovery Fund of the Points of Light Foundation & Hands on Network support volunteer centers affected by the hurricanes of 2005, both in the Gulf Coast Region and across the nation. The fund will also be used for any future disasters that arise.
- Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure is a not-for-profit organization with a for-profit mindset and a singular focus -- to hasten the discovery of a cure for brain cancer. Its vision is of a day when all patients who are given a brain cancer diagnosis are told they have a manageable disease.
- Social Venture Partners is working to catalyze significant, long-term positive social change in their communities by educating individuals to be well informed, effective, and engaged philanthropists, and investing time, expertise, and money in innovative nonprofits. Join or launch a Social Venture Partnership in your community.
- Investors' Circle works to galvanize the flow of capital to entrepreneurial companies that enhance bioregional, cultural, and economic health and diversity. Become a member today and learn how your investment can yield extraordinary financial and social dividends.
- The Social Enterprise Alliance is working to build stronger, more effective nonprofit organizations by mobilizing a community of practitioners and investors to advance earned income strategies. Whether you're just starting to explore earned income strategies or you lead a well-established social enterprise, membership in SEA provides the tools to help you succeed.
- MissionFish, a service of the Points of Light Foundation, helps support your favorite causes through trading on eBay. Sell your stuff for good or raise money for your nonprofit today.
- IFC Private Enterprise Partnership for Africa partners with donors, governments, and the private sector to improve investment, mobilize private-sector resources, and enhance the competitiveness of small- and medium-sized businesses.
- The Study Circles Resource Center is a national organization that helps local communities develop their own ability to solve problems by exploring ways for all kinds of people to think, talk, and work together to create change. Learn how you can start a dialogue-to-action meeting in your community today.
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