Gift Collections
Select a Gift Collection featuring four charities that support a specific cause. Is your aunt passionate about environmental causes, while your dad leans toward hunger issues? Does your officemate love children? A Gift Collection is a perfect way to introduce them to more charities that work in the areas they care about most.
Inspire Children & Change Their Lives
Empower children with art, music, and literature while providing them a safe place to grow.
First Book
First Book is a national nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. First Book works with existing community-based tutoring, mentoring, and family literacy programs nationwide, offering them the opportunity to select their own free books.
Classroom Inc.
We engage students in productive learning experiences that will help them in their transition from school to the external world. We also provide teachers with the support necessary to enhance their effectiveness in developing and fostering these experiences.
Create Now
Our mission is to provide creative arts mentoring to institutionalized at-risk and high-risk children and youth, ages 2 to 21, who have been abused, neglected, abandoned or are involved in the juvenile justice system.
DrawBridge: An Arts Program for Homeless Children
DrawBridge is an innovative expressive arts program for homeless and at-risk children.
Feed & Empower the Hungry
These organizations provide food for the hungry but also work to identify the root causes of hunger and ultimately eliminate it.
Children's Hunger Fund
Our mission is to provide products that will assist in the care of needy children locally, nationally and internationally. We distribute food and other items in 36 states across America and in 60 different countries around the world.
Food for Life Global
Operating in over 60 countries worldwide, Food for Life Global is a project for bringing food and life to the needy of the world through the liberal distribution of healthful, nutritious, plant-based meals. Foods for Life's volunteers serve more than 100,000 free meals daily from their many free food restaurants, mobile kitchens, and emergency services.
Bread for the World
We seek justice for the hungry. We focus on policies that address root causes of hunger and poverty such as strengthening food stamps and raising the minimum wage.
World Hunger Year
WHY identifies, supports and replicates the very best community-based organizations nationwide that empower people, build self-reliance and offer long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.
Provide Mentors to Children
Nothing enriches a child's life more than a stable, loving relationship with a caring adult. Make a real difference in children's lives and help build meaningful relationships.
Girls, Inc.
Our mission is to provide products that will assist in the care of needy children locally, nationally and internationally. We distribute food and other items in 36 states across America and in 60 different countries around the world.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Big Brothers/Big Sisters (BBBSA) is a national federation of more than 500 affiliates specializing in youth mentoring. It serves hundreds of thousands of children in 5,000 communities across the country. It's goal is to provide "Bigs" to 400,000 children by 2004, the year of its 100th anniversary, and to one million children by 2010.
Student Sponsor Partners
Our mission is to provide at-risk students with the opportunity to receive a quality non-public high school education, through the financial support and one-to-one guidance of a sponsor. Students are placed in academic environments that have high expectations, provide personal support, and the structure needed for students to be successful.
I Have a Dream Foundation
The "I Have a Dream" Foundation provides long-term personal support and guidance to children from low-income communities from their elementary through high school years, with an assured college or vocational opportunity.
Protect Animals & Prevent Cruelty
Organizations such as these provide a voice for the voiceless and advocate on behalf of animals to offer them protection and to help end violence against them.
Animal Protection Institute
We are a national animal advocacy organization, dedicated to protecting animals from cruelty and exploitation. Whether in the courts, the legislatures, or in the ballot box, API's team of experts work closely with individual advocates and form coalitions with other national or state animal advocacy groups to focus national attention on the abuse of animals anywhere in the country.
Animal Legal Defense Fund
We are an animal law organization working nationally to defend animals from abuse and exploitation. As pioneers in the field of animal law, we've blazed the trail for tougher laws, tougher enforcement, and more humane treatment of animals in every corner of American life.
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
We are dedicated to the conservation and protection of gorillas and their habitat in Africa and committed to promoting continued research on their threatened ecosystems and education about their relevance to the world in which we live. In collaboration with government agencies and other international partners, we also provide assistance to local communities through education, training and economic development initiatives.
Fund for Animals
The Fund for Animals was founded by renowned author and humanitarian Cleveland Amory. Our motto, 'We speak for those who can't,' illustrates a mission of speaking out against egregious forms of animal cruelty. With regional offices and qualified and dedicated personnel, we focus on education, legislation, litigation, and hands-on care.
Support Women of the World
Help advance opportunities for women, improve women's health, and support women's rights in the U.S. and all around the world.
Global Fund for Women
We are a grantmaking foundation supporting women's human rights organizations around the world working to address critical issues such as gaining economic independence, increasing girls' access to education, and stopping violence against women.
MADRE
MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, provides resources and training to women in conflict zones worldwide to promote peace, justice, and human rights.
National Organization for Women (NOW)
NOW's goal is to take action to bring about equality for all women and it seeks to win economic equality and secure it with an amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing equal rights for women; champion abortion rights, reproductive freedom and other women's health issues; oppose racism and fight bigotry against lesbians and gays; and end violence against women.
Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW)
We achieve economic independence and equality of opportunity for women and girls. We have helped women learn to earn with programs emphasizing literacy, technical and non-traditional skills, welfare-to-work transition, and career development. We have trained more than 10,000 women for well-paid work.
Create Peace for All
Dedicated to creating a peaceful world, where conflict is resolved without violence, these organizations work to support disarmament, ban landmines, and foster communication rather than combat.
American Friends Service Committee
We are an organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service. We hold to the Quaker belief in the worth of every person and faith in the power of love to overcome violence.
Peace Development Fund
Provides grants, training and technical assistance to strengthen a broad-based social justice movement to create new systems and institutions essential to building a peaceful, just and equitable world.
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) brings together over 1,300 humanitarian, peace, disability, veterans, medical, development and other groups of all kinds in over 80 countries who work locally, nationally, regionally, and internationally to ban antipersonnel (AP) landmines.
World Learning
World learning is an international organization dedicated to promoting international education, social justice, and world peace. World Learning emphasizes distinctive educational methods, based on experiential learning and the integration of theory and practice, to build knowledge, create leaders in education and management, and contribute to global development.
Plant Trees
All together, these organizations have planted millions of trees, which reduce pollution, provide homes for wildlife, provide food for people, and restore the natural balance.
American Forests
American Forests' mission is to improve the environment with trees and forests through science, education, and action. American Forests is the oldest national citizen conservation organization in the U.S. We were established in 1875 by a group of individuals who wanted to ensure for the future all the benefits of trees and forests.
Trees for Life
Trees for Life empowers people by demonstrating that in helping each other, we can unleash extraordinary power that impacts our lives. We do this by enabling people around the world to help plant fruit trees in developing countries. Each tree protects the environment and provides a low-cost, self-renewing source of food for a large number of people. Our activities include three elements: education, health and environment.
Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Action Network's mission is to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
National Arbor Day Foundation
The purpose of the foundation is to engage in educational and charitable activities including officially promoting the annual observance of arbor day; creating an awareness and appreciation of trees as a fundamental, renewable natural resource; and stimulating a world-wide program of tree and horticultural planting and care.
Provide Shelter for Animals
Whether they have rescued animals from the circus, the zoo, a factory farm, or an abusive home, these organizations provide lifelong sanctuary to animals of all kinds.
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
We are the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for abused and abandoned companion animals. The overall purpose of Best Friends is embodied in our program "No More Homeless Pets." Working cooperatively with shelters, SPCAs and animal control and welfare agencies nationwide, we seek to bring about a time when there will be no more homeless pets, and every dog or cat ever born can be guaranteed a good home with a loving family.
Chimp Haven
Chimp Haven's mission is to provide a permanent home to the hundreds of chimpanzees no longer needed in biomedical research, entertainment or as pets. Chimp Haven is built on the expertise of individuals devoted to the most professional and humane care and management of chimpanzees.
Performing Animals Welfare Society
PAWS believes that captive wildlife and exotic animals used for human entertainment need protection from abuse and cruelty. PAWS provides temporary and permanent shelter for mistreated, abandoned and retired performing and exotic animals. PAWS also strives to educate the public about the abuses of animals in the entertainment world, circuses, zoos, theme parks, and fairs.
Animal Place
Animal Place is a nonprofit sanctuary for abused and discarded farmed animals founded in 1989. Rescued individuals and indigenous wildlife share 60 acres of forest, meadow, pasture, hills and small lake.
Create Homes & Jobs
By supoprting these organizations, you help provide jobs and training, support shelters, and build homes, reversing homelessness and joblessness.
Habitat for Humanity
Our goal is to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. We invite people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need.
Partnership for the Homeless
We work with neighborhoods, religious community, and government to assist homeless and formerly homeless people and families obtain housing and other basic needs.
Doe Fund
The Doe Fund's mission is to help formerly homeless individuals achieve lives of independence by providing the job skills training, support services and paid employment experience that are necessary to obtain permanent employment and private-sector housing.
Jobs for Homeless People
Our mission is to help people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to seek, obtain, and retain employment and secure permanent housing. The purpose of JHP is to provide individuals and heads of households who are homeless, reliant on welfare, or at risk of becoming homeless with the tools they need to secure ongoing employment and permanent housing.
Save the Earth
Protect the earth and all of its inhabitants by supporting these environment organizations dedicated to cleaning our air and water, protecting our forests and wildlife, and reversing global warming.
Earth Island Institute
Earth Island develops and supports projects that counteract threats to the biological and cultural diversity that sustains the environment, and promotes Global CPR -- conservation, preservation and restoration for planet Earth.
Environmental Defense
Environmental Defense Fund is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air, clean water, healthy, nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem.
Greenpeace International
Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organization that uses non-violent creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and force solutions for a green and peaceful future.
Earth Force
We are youth for a change! We provide opportunities for young people to change their communities and care for our environment now, ranging from "getting out spoke'n" for bicycle friendly communities to monitoring water safety in our rivers to testifying before Congress.
Respect our Elders
Show our elderly population you care by helping them live independently, and by supporting programs that support their care and treatment.
Delta Society
Delta is a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve human health through service and therapy animals. Over 5,500 nationally trained volunteer therapy animal teams helped over 900,000 people in 2001.
Elderhostel
Elderhostel is a concept in lifelong learning that has been embraced by millions of older learners since the first programs were offered in 1975. Elderhostel appeals to people who wish to enrich their minds, explore new ideas and geographic regions, and interact with peers who share their love of learning.
Chimes, Inc.
We serve and support thousands of people with barriers to independent living, who are of all ages and many levels of abilities. The Chimes emphasizes job achievement and the satisfaction of becoming a productive member of the workforce.
National Alliance for Caregiving
We are a national advocacy organization for family caregivers for the elderly. In addition to promoting legislative change, we conduct research on the needs of caregivers in the workplace and the impact of caregiving on the lives of women.
Promote Human Rights
Protect the rights of all who live by supporting these organizations and the work they do to end human suffering.
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, and people with HIV/AIDS through impact litigation, education, and public policy work.
Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit organization that combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation and is known for its precedent-setting legal victories against white supremacist groups, its sponsorship of the Civil Rights Memorial, its tracking of hate groups and its national tolerance education programs.
Global Exchange
Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting political, social and environmental justice globally. Since our founding in 1988, we have been working to increase global awareness among the U.S. public while building partnerships around the world.
Transfair USA
As the only independent certification agency for Fair Trade practices in the US, TransFair USA has a two-fold mission: educating consumers about the importance of Fair Trade, and monitoring trade from crop to cup to guarantee that products bearing the Fair Trade Certified label are produced by farmers who receive a fair price.
