Do You Have A Favorite Non Profit Cause?

Partners In Health
What If Foundation?
Grameen Foundation
Full Belly Project
Paradis Des Indiens

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One very important non profit cause is illiteracy in the world.
Here is a great organization called "Room To Read", founded by John Wood

Hitting Another Room to Read Milestone: 10 Million Reasons to Celebrate

Today, in the Tien Giang Province of Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Room to Read celebrated a milestone eleven years in the making.

Floating MarketAt a ceremony held at Ngu Hiep 2 Primary School, founder John Wood and the Room to Read Vietnam team delivered a brand new box of books to the school's library, symbolizing the 10 millionth book donated to our network of over 12,000 libraries in nine developing countries.

Room To Read

PIH was founded in 1987, two years after the Clinique Bon Sauveur was set up in Cange, Haiti, to deliver health care to the residents of the mountainous Central Plateau. PIH co-founders had been working in the area for years. The Clinic was just the first of an arc of successful projects designed to address the health care needs of the residents of the poorest area in Haiti. In the 20 years since then, PIH has expanded its operations to eight other sites in Haiti and nine additional countries and has launched a number of other initiatives.

The Giraffe Project is a national nonprofit organization, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3), incorporated in New York, with a staff of six in offices on an island north of Seattle, and trainers located across the US. The Giraffe Board & Staff are here.

Why giraffes?
Because they work with the motto "Stick your neck out," because they make people smile and look again, because they're a great way to sneak up on you with a serious message.

What's your mission?
To foster the citizen courage and know-how that are essential to a just, ethical and compassionate world. We achieve that by finding and commending real heroes, by creating and delivering Giraffe workshops, books & speeches, curricula & trainings for schools, a database of heroes around the world, OpEds, blogs, & a monthly e-zine, Heads Up. (A delightful fallout of the honoring-heroes process is finding how inspired the Giraffes themselves often are, telling us that being acknowledged has given them the boost they need to keep going.)

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Californian Margaret Trost from "What If Foundation" has been reconized as a
Newly Honored Giraffe.

Quite an honor. Congratulations Margaret on a well deserved reward.

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Please meet Jorge Munoz and his family from New York city.

Since 2004 ,they have provided more than 70,000 meals to the hungry in the evening so they won't go to bed starving.

They do it all on their own with a little help from some decent folks who give a few dollars and clothes.

Jorge has been selected in the 10 finalists of CNN Heroes and I gave him my vote with all my heart.
Excellent Video to see Jorge in action