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April 16, 2012 @ 9:31 am
Charity Johnson…she was so hot in high school!
April 17, 2012 @ 5:06 am
ARTS: A Reason to Survive! An amazing organization that serves kids and young people battling cancer, poverty, difficult environments, etc…
Through Arts, crafts, poetry, music, etc….Love, love, love them!!!
April 17, 2012 @ 5:09 am
The Pearl Foundation, a scholarship fund founded by Janis Ian, in honor of her mother, Pearl. They provide scholarship money for women wishing to return to school.
April 17, 2012 @ 5:21 am
The beggar on the street
Learned it with the family at 5 y.o.
on the Streets of Manhattan
April 19, 2012 @ 2:05 am
KIVA – I love that I can be a part of microloans to help people build or begin their own businesses.
April 19, 2012 @ 2:54 am
My favorite charity is the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, headquartered in NYC, but gives grants to organizations world wide. They have always prioritized projects geared toward and/or run by lesbians of color. They also support other LGBTQI projects and artists and arts organizations.
April 20, 2012 @ 11:50 pm
I give to a lot of groups, like Kiva and Donors Choose, but one of my favorites is Woman Earth & Spirit (http://womanearthandspirit.org/), a small nonprofit that helps women and lesbians. They helped me enormously by acting to catch and disburse the money we raised in an online auction for a friend who desperately needed a liver transplant (she had insurance, but there were many many costs that aren’t covered by insurance, like the transportation of her live donor across the country!). I’ve given when they’ve run small fundraisers for women in need so those women could afford their medications, or electricity, or to take a beloved animal to the vet, or when WE&S’s copy machine broke down. They work miracles with small amounts of money.
April 21, 2012 @ 12:17 am
Help Our Women (H.O.W.) in Provincetown, MA.
April 21, 2012 @ 3:13 am
I like a lot of them but want to talk about a new one I discovered a few days ago. I saw a picture of a poor barefoot girl and thought, “Why can’t we at least give flip flops to people who don’t have shoes?” They’re so cheap and durable. So I did a quick internet search and sure enough – there is a new non-profit charity called flip flops for families. Their website is http://www.flipflopsforfamilies.org/ So at the moment they’re my favorite.
April 29, 2012 @ 12:25 pm
Thank you Jane for taking interest within Flip Flops For Families. We like to surf the web to make sure we acknowledge those whom mention us as well as address any issues if there just so happens to be any. We hope you find great interests within Flip Flops For Families and thank you very much for spreading the word about us.
We’re here for you, we’re here for everyone.
Damon Scott
President
Flip Flops For Families Organization, Inc.
April 21, 2012 @ 4:59 am
Lots of great charities out there, but my favorite right now is the ELEPHANT SANCTUARY in Tennessee. (Elephants. com.) It’s the largest elephant sanctuary in the U.S., takes in abused, ill or misplaced elephants from around the world: the girls (yes, all are female; it’s better that way)don’t entertain, perform labor, cavort for the public or do anything but heal and grow healthy on 2700 the sanctuary’s 2700 acres. This is a small step in the right direction, considering the horrors humankind has perpetrated on this endangered species.