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October 2005 Newsletter
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Bring Philantropy into
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Looking for the Perfect Gift?
How about a Charity Gift Certificate - Your friends and loved ones can redeem it for their favorite cause.
JustGive offers 1 million charities for them to choose from.
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Gift Cards for Charity
If you're going to buy cards anyway, why not support charity at the same time? These nonprofit organizations sell greeting cards to help support the work they do.
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Donate Your Old Cell Phones
Your local domestic violence organization can benefit from cell phone donations Shelter Alliance will donate $30 (or more) per donated phone to help stop domestic violence.
Click here to learn about other ways to donate goods.
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Hurricane Katrina Relief Donations reach almost $1 billion
Americans have so far contributed over $833-million to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The American Red Cross has raised $653.4-million which was far more than any other charity.
By comparison, the Red Cross raised $173-million during the tsunami catastrope of South Asia.
"It's overwhelming," says Sarah Marchetti, a spokeswoman for the Red Cross. "People are
just pouring their hearts out, and making a donation is an expression of that."
Although donations came in quickly immediately after
the catastrophe, some nonprofit executives worry how
the economic repercussions of the hurricane will affect
the overall amount of donations to the long term recovery effort.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE: http://www.philanthropy.com/free/update/2005/09/2005091201.htm
Charitable Giving Rises 5 Percent to Nearly $250 Billion in 2004
Estimated charitable giving reached $248.52 billion for 2004, a new record for philanthropic giving in the United States, the Giving USA Foundation announced. Individual giving, the single largest source, rose by an estimated 4.1 percent in 2004 to reach $187.92 billion. Contributions made in 2004 for relief after the December 26 tsunami that devastated the regions surrounding the Indian Ocean are a very small portion of the estimated total, less than one-half of 1 percent. Much of the tsunami relief giving will appear in 2005.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE: http://www.givingusa.org/
| CAUSES IN THE SPOTLIGHT |
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Deadly Earthquake hits South Asia
With a magnitude of 7.6, the earthquake jolted Pakistan, India and parts of Afghanistan. Tens of thousands are dead and the death toll is expected to rise. Millions are homeless, and countless are injured.
Food, water and shelter are desperately needed. Victims are pleading for help to dig survivors from the rubble, take them to hospitals and begin repairing the country's shattered infrastructure.
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Protect our Kids - Reject New Mercury Proposals
Many Americans are exposed to unsafe levels of mercury from environmental sources, power plant emissions, and contaminated fish. EPA scientists have estimated that over 600,000 infants are born each year overexposed to unhealthy mercury levels in utero. According to widely accepted scientific research, mercury is a potent neurotoxin that can cause developmental and learning disabilities, reduced IQ, impaired motor skills and in adults, cardiovascular disease. Our government now wants to loosen the regulation of this hazardous neurotoxin by allowing power plants to make fewer reductions than is required by the Clean Air Act, and encouraging trading that is likely to lead to local mercury hot spots.
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Lung Cancer is Number One Killer
Peter Jennings’s death and Dana Reeve’s diagnosis has brought to the public’s attention how common and serious a disease lung cancer can be. More than 80,000 cases of lung cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year. Patients and doctors have had few advances in lung cancer treatment to celebrate and survival rates for lung cancer are still low. In 2005, lung cancer will take about 163,500 American lives and will maintain its place as the number one cancer killer, outpacing deaths from the second, third, fourth and fifth most common causes of cancer deaths combined.
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Help Create a Solid Foundation for Tomorrow's Leaders
Remember those days of your youth; the hiking, camping, and swimming with friends?
Learning the value of personal responsibility, goal-setting and teamwork,
while having fun at the same time are what today’s young men and women need to develop into tomorrow’s
successful leaders. Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of the United States learn skills that allow them to contribute to the improvement of society.
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