Off-Beat Charities: Helping Others in Unusual Ways

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Making the World Better, One Weird Way at a Time

I like the unusual, the off-beat, the different. And I noticed that charities I tended to lenses about were fitting that pattern. So I went to look for other lenses that featured unusual charities. I was looking for charities that had unusual ways to give, provided solutions to unusual problems, developed unusual solutions to usual problems, anything that appealed to me. Here's what I found!

Food For Everyone Foundation 

Vitamin Angels 

Operation Blessing 

Los Angeles Nonprofit to design a 100 MPG car 

Planet Gumbo 

Asante Foundation 

Smile Train 

Child's Play Charity 

Canstruction 

Dog Tags for Kids 

Soles United 

Kiva 

The Critter Connection 

Matter of Trust 

Pajama Program 

Free Rice 

Ronald McDonald House 

Adopt a Donkey 

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Let's hear about your unusual charity or giving opportunity. Or just your thoughts on the ones you found here!

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    Miss Bonnie Miss Bonnie Oct 20, 2009 @ 2:20 pm
    I have an unusual charity. http://www.boobiesplease.com - it's a site to help me raise money for my boobies. Please donate! I'm donating 15% to breast cancer research too. But I really like all of these charities - especially Kiva and Free Rice.
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    badmsm badmsm Jun 16, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
    Great Lens, thanks for including The Smile Train! 5 stars & a Squid Angel Blessing!
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    Amy Amy May 31, 2009 @ 9:13 pm
    Check out leprosy.org that's the webite for American Leprosy Missions. Yes, leprosy. it affects nearly 300 times the number of those diagnosed w/ polio each year worldwide.
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    Danali Danali Aug 3, 2008 @ 5:01 pm
    I love your lens. There are so many wonderful and interesting charities out there that I never discover so it's good to find a few more. 5*'s and I lensrolled it to my Kiva lens.
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    Starving_Artist Starving_Artist Jun 12, 2008 @ 11:52 am
    This is a wonderful lens...I love it and I'm so glad you are putting the information out there. 5 *'s

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