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- America's Second Harvest
America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest hunger relief organization, distributing food to 26 million hungry Americans each year.
- American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
- American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is a not-for-profit, voluntary health organization funded by private contributions. Its mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. These include heart attack, stroke (brain attack) and related disorders.
- American Red Cross
The American Red Cross helps keep people safe every day as well as in an emergency thanks to caring people who support our work in the community. Please support your local Red Cross.
- Americorps
AmeriCorps, the domestic Peace Corps engages more than 40,000 Americans in intensive, results-driven service each year. We're teaching children to read, making neighborhoods safer, building affordable homes, and responding to natural disasters through more than 1000 projects. Most AmeriCorps members are selected by and serve with projects like Habitat for Humanity, the American Red Cross, and Boys and Girls Clubs, and many more local and national organizations.
- Big Brothers, Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has remained the expert in youth mentoring since its founding in 1904. In 1977 the Big Brothers and Big Sisters organizations merged into Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and the national headquarters was established in Philadelphia. Today BBBSA provides one-to-one mentoring relationships between adult volunteers and children primarily from single-parent families in over 500 programs throughout the United States.
- Dress for Success
Dress for Success is a non-profit organization that helps low-income women make tailored transitions into the workforce. Each Dress for Success client receives one suit when she has an interview and a second suit when she gets the job. Since being founded in 1996, Dress for Success has opened in 70 cities in four countries and suited over 60,000 clients!
- Farm Aid
The mission is to provide assistance to poor and needy families in rural farming communities and to draw attention to the needs of such families and to raise funds to relieve those needs.
- Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian housing organization. Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 100,000 houses in more than 60 countries, including some 30,000 houses across the United States. Homeowner families are chosen according to their need; their ability to repay the no-profit, no-interest mortgage; and their willingness to work in partnership with Habitat.
- March of Dimes
Funding programs of research, community services, education and advocacy to prevent birth defects. Four major problems threaten the health of America's babies: birth defects, infant mortality, low birthweight, and lack of prenatal care. The March of Dimes has adopted goals for the year 2000 to bring us closer to the day when all babies will be born healthy.
- Miracle Flights For Kids
Miracle Flights for Kids™ provides free access to health care for families who cannot afford transportation to medical treatment centers all across America. Volunteer pilots and donations needed.
- Peace Corps
Volunteers work with teachers and parents to improve the quality of, and access to, education for children. They work with communities to protect the local environment and to create economic opportunities. They work on basic projects to keep families healthy and to help them grow more food. Their larger purpose, however, is to work with people in developing countries to help them take charge of their own futures.
- Ronald McDonald House
Ronald McDonald House Charities provides comfort and care to children and their families by supporting Ronald McDonald Houses in communities around the world and by making grants to other not-for-profit organizations whose programs help children in need. Ronald McDonald House Charities has a network of over 174 Local Charities serving in 32 countries.
- Sierra Club
Find out what's happening and what you can do to help from the largest national member-driven grassroots environmental organization. Some parts of the website are accessible to members only. Founded in 1892, we are now more than 700,000 members strong.
- The Corporation for National Service
When faced with challenges such as illiteracy, poverty, crime, and environmental problems, our nation has always relied on the dedication and action of citizens. Today, the Corporation for National Service carries on that tradition by working with governor-appointed state commissions, nonprofits, faith-based groups, schools, and other civic organizations to provide opportunities for Americans of all ages to serve their communities.
- The Hunger Site
Sponsors will donate food to the United Nations World Food Program for each person that clicks on the "Donate Free Food" per day. The Hunger Site's Harvest Challenge has raised over 1/2 million cups of food to combat world hunger - and counting! This food is over and above what your daily clicks contribute!
- United Way
United Way is at the forefront of building partnerships, forging consensus and maximizing resources to address critical needs in communities across America. As the leader in performance-based philanthropy, United Way is focused on achieving measurable results. Learn how United Way of America and your local United Way are working together as a positive force for change.
- Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America is a national, nonprofit, spiritually-based organization providing local human service programs and the opportunity for individual and community involvement.
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