1 in 8 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) was founded by breast cancer survivor Janelle Hail, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1980 at the age of 34. As a result of early detection, she survived the disease and has devoted her life to educate women about early detection and provide mammograms for women in need. NBCF’s mission is to save lives by increasing awareness of breast cancer through education and by providing mammograms for those in need. To help fullfil it’s mission, NBCF [...]

charity: water started five years ago with a simple idea: they’d share their story with the world, ask others to join them, and use 100% of the money raised to fund clean water for people in need. With your help, they’ve had explosive growth. Their partners in the field are working at capacity to implement their projects. The only way to keep fighting the water crisis at this rate is to buy the equipment their partners need to get the job done faster. Charity:water’s goal for the 2011 September Campaign is to fund a brand new drilling rig and other [...]

Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors. WWP seeks to assist those men and women of our armed forces who have been severely injured during the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations around the world. Wounded Warrior Project began, in 2003, when several veterans and friends, moved by stories of the first wounded service members returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq, took action to help others in need. What started as a program to provide comfort items to wounded service members has grown into a complete rehabilitative effort to [...]

Fighting hunger worldwide! The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Whether refugees are fleeing war or drought is destroying farmland, hunger is often the first emergency. The hungry look to the World Food Programme for the first response. On average, WFP feeds 100 million people each year in 77 of the poorest countries. Now the WFP and the people of the Horn of Africa need our help more than ever. The Horn of Africa encompasses Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Kenya. It’s one of the most food insecure regions in the world, characterized by [...]

Lung cancer gets a bad rap. It has the reputation of being entirely a smokers’ disease, and, thus, doesn’t get the attention and funding it deserves. But the truth is anyone can get it. In fact, 20% of women diagnosed with lung cancer each year — about 21,000 in 2010 — have never smoked. The Bonnie J Addario Lung Cancer Foundation is working hard to erase this stigma and increase the Lung Cancer survival rate. Since its birth in 2006, the BJALCF has grown into the first international collaborative entity of its kind and raised over $6 million for lung [...]

Founded in March of 2009, Mercy’s Village International is an organization dedicated to fighting poverty through the education of children and the empowerment of girls and young women. For most of Africa’s children, education represents the only way out of a life of poverty. Across the continent, millions of families currently subsist on less than $1.00 a day. Only children who can read, write and do arithmetic can hope to get better paying jobs when they grow up. But education is about much more than just providing job skills. It’s playing an increasingly vital role in helping children protect themselves [...]

Herbert Hoover once famously wrote, “Children are our most valuable resource.” The Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Monica understand this better than anyone. Established in 1946, The Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Monica provides youth a safe and productive place to go when they need it most; after school and on non-school days. Their mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as caring, responsible and productive citizens. We help youth ages 7 – 18 build confidence, gain valuable academic, social and ethical skills – while [...]

To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. Over the four years since TWLOHA was founded, they have responded to 150,000 messages from people in 40 different countries. They’ve had the opportunity to bring this conversation, and a message of hope and help, to concerts, universities, festivals and churches. They’ve learned that these are not American issues, not white issues or “emo” issues. These are issues of [...]

Pencils of Promise was founded in October 2008 in hopes of building just one school by creating a movement of people who saw themselves as global citizens, regardless of age or status. Since starting with a $25 deposit, Pencils of Promise has built 20 schools providing more children with access to education — a problem affecting over 75 million children worldwide. Pencils of Promise has become a global movement of passionate individuals committed to creating a world with greater educational opportunities for all. How? Pencils of Promise partners with local communities to build schools in the developing world and trains [...]