Links

Charity

• A Drink for Tomorrow: Works to raise money for establishing clean drinking water for people who don't have it. (I looked around the website a bit, and it seems legitimate, although little is said about how they establish clean drinking water...)
• Bread for the World: Their slogan is, "Have Faith. End Hunger."
• Catholic Relief Services, serving people who need relief, I suppose. The U.S. Catholic churches sometimes allow spokesmen for this organization to talk about it and request donations at the end of Mass, so I suppose this is a well-known organization.
• Compassion, apparently a Protestant organization that helps children in poverty. I don't know much about it, and they seem kind of hoaky, using phrases like "releasing children from poverty". I get the impression part of what they do is seek to plant Protestant churches, but they seem also to be active in AIDS treatment and prevention, so maybe they're a good organization worth looking into. I dunno.
• Help Us Dry the Tears: Humanitarian endeavors for impoverished children of former-communist Eastern European countries, centered around the Divine Mercy revelations given to St. Faustina
• Kiva: Make microloans to help impoverished people better their situations.
• Learn To Be: Free online tutoring for grades K-8, particularly for those in communities receiving less education than others, according to Wikipedia
• Cam Neely Foundation: Provides support of various kinds for cancer victims and their families, and funds cancer research. (I browsed the site briefly and didn't find any mention of immoral research practices, so I was altogether impressed.)
• Fledgling Wine: Proceeds from wine purchases fund impoverished children's literacy.