Giant List O' Donation Sites
Hope everybody is having a good holiday season! Since it's the time for this sort of thing, I thought I might post a list of cool donation sites, for anyone on my f-list who might be interested. (You can even contribute to some of these sites without spending money, supposedly.) I'll list the site, what it supports, a dump of all the information I know about it, and helpful links. Behind an LJ cut because this will murder f-lists otherwise...
The Pulitzer Center
General, Journalism
This is a really great site period. It's an non-profit independent journalism organization that specializes in international crisis reporting. It's a good place to start if you're looking for information on how to help just about any international relief cause you can imagine. Or you can donate to the Pulitzer Center itself.
Home
Donate
Invisible Children
Africa, Children
Invisible Children started with a documentary released semi-recently about children affected by the civil war in Uganda, with an emphasis on child soldiers. It's a good movie (although the filmmakers are kind of annoying if you ask me, haha; but they show some really powerful stuff). It turned into an entire organization working for aide for Uganda. The site is obviously aimed towards young people, but there are a lot of neat things you can do. Their Bracelet Campaign is cool -- they teach particularly needy individuals how to make bracelets and provide them with supplies, so that they can start their own business out of it. You can buy these bracelets online and they come with a short DVD documentary on a certain child in Uganda. Part of the money goes to the bracelet-makers and part goes to helping children in Northern Uganda. There are a lot of other cool products in their store, the proceeds of which go to different causes. They cover a lot of things, from AIDs to child soldiers etc. All centered on Northern Uganda
Home
Store
Donate
The Napalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF)
Children, Women, Asia
A relief organization based in Nepal. What brought this organization to my attention was a cool article I read about "Olga's Girls". In Nepal there's this phenomenon of "kalmaris," where young girls are, basically, sold into slavery by their impoverished families to earn money. The girls work as domestic slaves (kalmaris) and in the worst cases may be beaten or raped. A woman named Olga Murray came up with a program that has freed a lot of these girls by giving the girls' families goats or pigs (which they can raise to earn more money than they'd receive from selling their daughters) and offering to fully pay their school expenses. It's been pretty successful. She was the founder of NYOF, which is a broader organization focusing on children.
The "Olga's Girls" article
Home
Donate
GUA Africa
Africa
This organization was founded by a guy named Emmanuel Jal, who was a child soldier in Sudan (when he was seven, holy crap) and managed to escape. He's now a rapper and an activist, bringing awareness to the issue of child soldiers and war etc through his music, which is pretty cool. GUA Africa is a basic charity working in Kenya and Sudan, with goals to spread into other areas of Africa.
Home
Donate
A couple of Jal's music videos:
We Fall
War Child
Women For Women
Women (norly?)
I actually don't know much about this organization. I stumbled across it while getting links for these other sites, and it seems to have a good reputation. It's focus is, obviously, on women and helping them to build lives for themselves through poverty and war. It has a crapload of information and volunteer opportunities.
Home
Get Involved US
Get Involved UK
Donate
Amnesty International
General
It's Amnesty International. I don't know. It's for everything! Human rights around the world in all shapes and sizes etc
Home
Donate
Coalition to stop the use of child soldiers
Children
Pretty self-explanatory. It was formed by a bunch of big human rights organizations like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, etc, and works to prevent the use of children as soldiers worldwide. It has a lot of interesting ways to get involved. You can donate normally, or you can do a nifty little thing where you agree to use a certain search engine or a certain online shopping system that garners money for the coalition at no extra cost to you. Or you can write letters petitioning government action, or a slew of other things.
Home
Get Involved/Donate
GoodShop
General
This seems kinda cool. Apparently with this nifty doodad you can shop online at a number of different stores (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, J.C. Penny's, a whole bunch) and a percentage of your purchase will be donated to an organization of your choice. Organizations range from cancer research to animals to disaster relief, the environment, the disabled, just about anything you could want. The percentage donated is pretty small I've noticed, but it might be an easy way to donate a little if you haven't finished your Christmas shopping yet.
Home
List of organizations you can donate to - it's hella long...
Iams Home for the Holiday Program
Animals
This little holdiay doodad has an accesible way to donate to any animal shelter of your choice. If you click "Donate Now" it provides a list of tons of shelters in different states in the U.S. and a couple in other countries. You'd probably have to do your own research on those individual shelters, but there you have it. (I'm a little suspicious of some animal shelters, but that might just be my nature XD) There's also some helpful volunteer information.
Home
Donate
Become a Volunteer
One-Click Donations
General
I saw these links on daegaer 's profile (I don't think I've even spoken to daegaer before but I love her fanfiction... I need to stop stalking people's LJs) and they seem cool. You don't have to spend money--just click a button and it provides a little bit of funds for specific causes. Super easy. I'm not sure of the particulars, but it seems like no harm done either way.
Causes:
Feeding the hungry
Free mammograms
Child healthcare
Free books
Animal rescue
Environment
Aand that's all I've got >< Hope this might've been helpful to somebody-or-other. Carry on
The Pulitzer Center
General, Journalism
This is a really great site period. It's an non-profit independent journalism organization that specializes in international crisis reporting. It's a good place to start if you're looking for information on how to help just about any international relief cause you can imagine. Or you can donate to the Pulitzer Center itself.
Home
Donate
Invisible Children
Africa, Children
Invisible Children started with a documentary released semi-recently about children affected by the civil war in Uganda, with an emphasis on child soldiers. It's a good movie (although the filmmakers are kind of annoying if you ask me, haha; but they show some really powerful stuff). It turned into an entire organization working for aide for Uganda. The site is obviously aimed towards young people, but there are a lot of neat things you can do. Their Bracelet Campaign is cool -- they teach particularly needy individuals how to make bracelets and provide them with supplies, so that they can start their own business out of it. You can buy these bracelets online and they come with a short DVD documentary on a certain child in Uganda. Part of the money goes to the bracelet-makers and part goes to helping children in Northern Uganda. There are a lot of other cool products in their store, the proceeds of which go to different causes. They cover a lot of things, from AIDs to child soldiers etc. All centered on Northern Uganda
Home
Store
Donate
The Napalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF)
Children, Women, Asia
A relief organization based in Nepal. What brought this organization to my attention was a cool article I read about "Olga's Girls". In Nepal there's this phenomenon of "kalmaris," where young girls are, basically, sold into slavery by their impoverished families to earn money. The girls work as domestic slaves (kalmaris) and in the worst cases may be beaten or raped. A woman named Olga Murray came up with a program that has freed a lot of these girls by giving the girls' families goats or pigs (which they can raise to earn more money than they'd receive from selling their daughters) and offering to fully pay their school expenses. It's been pretty successful. She was the founder of NYOF, which is a broader organization focusing on children.
The "Olga's Girls" article
Home
Donate
GUA Africa
Africa
This organization was founded by a guy named Emmanuel Jal, who was a child soldier in Sudan (when he was seven, holy crap) and managed to escape. He's now a rapper and an activist, bringing awareness to the issue of child soldiers and war etc through his music, which is pretty cool. GUA Africa is a basic charity working in Kenya and Sudan, with goals to spread into other areas of Africa.
Home
Donate
A couple of Jal's music videos:
We Fall
War Child
Women For Women
Women (norly?)
I actually don't know much about this organization. I stumbled across it while getting links for these other sites, and it seems to have a good reputation. It's focus is, obviously, on women and helping them to build lives for themselves through poverty and war. It has a crapload of information and volunteer opportunities.
Home
Get Involved US
Get Involved UK
Donate
Amnesty International
General
It's Amnesty International. I don't know. It's for everything! Human rights around the world in all shapes and sizes etc
Home
Donate
Coalition to stop the use of child soldiers
Children
Pretty self-explanatory. It was formed by a bunch of big human rights organizations like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, etc, and works to prevent the use of children as soldiers worldwide. It has a lot of interesting ways to get involved. You can donate normally, or you can do a nifty little thing where you agree to use a certain search engine or a certain online shopping system that garners money for the coalition at no extra cost to you. Or you can write letters petitioning government action, or a slew of other things.
Home
Get Involved/Donate
GoodShop
General
This seems kinda cool. Apparently with this nifty doodad you can shop online at a number of different stores (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, J.C. Penny's, a whole bunch) and a percentage of your purchase will be donated to an organization of your choice. Organizations range from cancer research to animals to disaster relief, the environment, the disabled, just about anything you could want. The percentage donated is pretty small I've noticed, but it might be an easy way to donate a little if you haven't finished your Christmas shopping yet.
Home
List of organizations you can donate to - it's hella long...
Iams Home for the Holiday Program
Animals
This little holdiay doodad has an accesible way to donate to any animal shelter of your choice. If you click "Donate Now" it provides a list of tons of shelters in different states in the U.S. and a couple in other countries. You'd probably have to do your own research on those individual shelters, but there you have it. (I'm a little suspicious of some animal shelters, but that might just be my nature XD) There's also some helpful volunteer information.
Home
Donate
Become a Volunteer
One-Click Donations
General
I saw these links on daegaer 's profile (I don't think I've even spoken to daegaer before but I love her fanfiction... I need to stop stalking people's LJs) and they seem cool. You don't have to spend money--just click a button and it provides a little bit of funds for specific causes. Super easy. I'm not sure of the particulars, but it seems like no harm done either way.
Causes:
Feeding the hungry
Free mammograms
Child healthcare
Free books
Animal rescue
Environment
Aand that's all I've got >< Hope this might've been helpful to somebody-or-other. Carry on