December 23, 2011: Holiday
By The Morning News
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- The GI Rights Hotline provides free information services to military members confronting confusing policy matters.
- Season of Sharing provides one-time grants to Bay Area residents in critical need.
- Doctors Without Borders—apolitical, international health organization for a world that still has cholera outbreaks.
- The Innocence Project—dedicated to exonerating wrongly convicted individuals through DNA testing and legal reform.
- Free the Slaves works with on-the-ground liberators to free people around the world.
- And may we remind you with a winsome video, giving feels great.
- Support Magdalene/Thistle Farms, a residential program for women who have survived violence, prostitution, and addiction.
- Stand with Planned Parenthood and protect women's health.
- Find your local food bank.
- Boise's Learning Lab: Helping people apply for jobs, balance checkbooks, learn English, and read to their children.
- Girls Write Now: Pairing at-risk teenage girls in NYC public schools with women mentors.
- Fisk University, top producer of minority Ph.D.s in science and technology, faces losing accreditation if it doesn't raise funds.
- Lamda Legal Defense performs concrete, powerful work by addressing gay rights as civil rights.
- The British Heart Foundation—because heart disease is a bitch.
- The Environmental Working Group employs experts to identify and attack threats to public health and the environment.
- The Animal Legal Defense Fund—"winning the case against animal cruelty."
- The National Immigration Law Center works for low-income immigrants, showing them the good side of the U.S. justice system.
- Remember when you used to hide under your bed and get lost in a book? Room to Read.
- Learn how these and other groups use your donations at Charity Navigator.
- Good Intents: Facts for wise aid-giving.
