10% donations list for 2010 / Threads of Empathy

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'Entanglement' (detail)

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibres connect with our fellow men; and among those fibres, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." Herman Melville
As part of a vow that is at the heart of my art and life....since 2002...I try to channel 10% of what comes to me back out into the world to nurture positive projects that move me and end uneccessary suffering. Microphilanthropy. Not huge amounts...but small amounts that make a difference in the big picture..given with love and hope...as often as possible.

As the year comes to a close I look back and take stock of all I'm grateful for...I am perhaps almost always most grateful that I was able to do a little something to help support and sustain these wonderful organizations and initiatives that are doing work we need done in the world. It feels really...REALLY good. I hope that 2011 allows me to channel more and more...as there are so many other ones I am looking forward to being able to help in any small (or LARGE!) way..as well as more donations for those I am already connected to.

So here is to the ones of 2010 - follow links to find out more and please join me in supporting any and all of them if you can- may they have all they need onward into the future:

Doctors Without Borders (2x): http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Habitat for Humanity: http://www.habitat.org/default.aspx

The Fistula Foundation (2x): http://www.fistulafoundation.org/

Sobornost for the World (5x): http://www.fairtrademarket.org/

Partners in Health (for Haiti) http://www.pih.org/haiti

Nomi Network: http://www.nominetwork.org/

Catalytic Communities : http://www.catcomm.org/

CARE (Pakistan floods relief): http://www.care.org/emergency/pakistan-floods-monsoon-disaster-relief-efforts/index.asp

Vital Edge ( special project for reducing maternal mortality in Ethiopia) : http://www.vitaledgeaid.org/

Wings Over Haiti: http://www.wingsoverhaiti.org/

ASPCA: American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (for Millie's birthday wish)

Peace Corps Project #517-384 Library resources for Dominican Republic: https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=donate.contribute.donatenow

Sankalpa Journeys (art supplies for art therapy initiative in India) : http://www.sankalpajourneys.com/vision.html

Sara Forrest documentary photography project on Obstetric Fistula in Ethiopia : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/673728100/facing-hope-in-ethiopia-a-photography-project-on-s

Thrangu Monastery Earthquake relief (2x) http://www.thranguemergency.org/ (for Theresa's birthday wish and separately)

One Life Missions for Haiti : http://www.onelifemissionsfoundation.org/onelifemissionsfoundation.org/About_One_Life.html

SightSavers International (this donationof $335 raised from my wonderful friends who donated for my birthday wish on Facebook Causes- thank you SO much!!!!) http://www.sightsaversusa.org/

additional small donations made to: Lupus Walk, Relay for Life, Save Baby (friend's cat surgery),Save Southampton College effort, etc.

"Micro philanthropy affords each of us the opportunity to contribute to whatever need evokes within us a sense of compassion, and as a scalable phenomenon helps us to participate globally in celebrations and appreciations which can be a contagion of love, or an epidemic of health.

Creating an infrastructure which allows a massive amount of small scale interaction can have an explosively powerful effect. A means of supporting micro philanthropy on a global scale could be one of the most powerful uses of Internet technology."- Tom Munnecke on Towards a Model of Micro Philanthropy

Avalokiteshvara requested "If I need to benefit all the sentient beings until samsara ends, may I have one thousand arms, and one thousand eyes. May these one thousand arms manifest as a thousand universal monarchs, and the one thousand eyes manifest as a thousand Buddhas". Buddha Amitabha granted him his wish with one thousand arms and one thousand eyes, each eye in the palm of each hand.
You are part of that wish. thank you.
(image with 1000 hands forming/links: http://www.flickr.com/photos/avadarlene/3882829076/)

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