Off-Beat Charities: Helping Others in Unusual Ways

The Food for Everyone Foundation is a Non-Profit organization that travels the world teaching people in impoverished areas how to grow gardens which will yield five to ten times more than traditional gardening methods. Perhaps the most beneficial asp...

Vitamin Angels was established in 1994.  Vitamin Angels is the only charitable organization in the world that is solely dedicated to providing basic nutrition to people in need, with no borders and no boundaries. Their strategy is simple: ...

You are invited to get your family, friends, clubs and church groups involved and put together Pencil Case Kits as part of Operation Blessing's Pencil Case Kit project. Building Exitement & Confidence Crossing the dirt floor, a child approached...

The Society for Sustainable Mobility (SSM) is a “borderless” non-profit Automotive Engineering group whose focus is to apply Open Design philosophy to revolutionize the development and deployment of eco-friendly transportation. Establishe...

Welcome to Planet Gumbo--A Super Cool Place to Live! Bill "Sauceboss" Wharton created the 501c3 Non-Profit Foundation, Planet Gumbo, in January 2003, in order to form a group of "Planeteers" who want to provide hope and sustenance...

The very idea seems absurd, but for desperate families in parts of rural Africa, it's an all too common answer to a present-day economic problem. Thus, when a family runs out of food and sees no other solution, they will strike a deal with a neighbor...

What Makes The Smile Train Different:   * Focused on a single problem: cleft lip and palate. * Teach a man to fish: we empower local doctors in developing countries. * 100% of your donations used for programs. * The lowest cost per surgery of a...

Child’s Play is a Seattle based, gamer-run organization that holds an annual toy drive for childrens’ hospitals. Many of the gifts donated by gamers are, as you might imagine, age appropriate videogames and gaming systems - but they are b...

Across the country, perfectly normal people get caught up in the frenzy of competition and the spirit of design with - cans? Move over other food art. These "canstruction" projects deliver not just amazing creations, but also non-perishable...

Dog Tags for Kids is a nonprofit organization created to show support for the troops and their families. They supplying for FREE specially engraved Dog Tags to service members that can be sent home to their children. These Dog Tags can serve a linki...

My baby blue Crocs has been through it all in the two years since I bought them. Traipsing through the sand on a Mexican beach, clomping around my local mall, squelching through the mud in Sudan. As a result, they're starting to look a bit battered a...

About an hour ago I was checking out the Philanthropy blog here on Squidoo and discovered a cool charity called Kiva. They match YOU (and your spare dollars) with people in poorer countries looking for loans to start businesses. So I decided to lend...

The Critter Connection, Inc., is a non-profit group dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of abandoned and neglected guinea pigs. Located in Durham, Connecticut, the rescue was started in Spring 2004 when our founder realized that abandoned guin...

Matter of Trust creates ecological programs that focus on dealing with manmade and natural surplus and providing eco-education. The idea is that Mother Nature will supply what's needed to take care of issues if we just look around for it. I ran acro...

Imagine being a child, and every night the bedtime routine is to just get in bed and fall asleep. Not to put on pajamas, not to read a bedtime story, but to just lift a blanket over the clothes they are wearing and sleep. Thousand of children, here i...

At FreeRice.com you can learn new words, improve your vocabulary at the same time you are donating free rice for the United Nation's World Food Program. When you play the game for each word you get right, FreeRice donates 20 grains of rice to the Un...

My 8-year-old friend Daniel collects pop tabs. Which I figured was just a weird enough thing to make sense for an 8-year-old boy to want to collect. (Have you read the Judy Moody books? 8-year-olds collect all kinds of weird things.) Turns out, he w...

Why do I have a donkey lens, you ask?  While surfing for some good nature webcams that I can share with my grandchildren I happened upon a 'donkey web cam' and quickly learned a few things about the donkey that I never knew before.  So this...

Well, probably for my mom and my husband. But I guess the rest of you won't love me just for existing. So here's more about me, links to my various lenses, thoughts on future lenses and just the general randomness that is Susan. This will forever be...