December 24, 2013
- Charity Navigator offers a holiday giving guide and tools to evaluate charities' ethics and effectiveness.
- The Equal Justice Initiative believes the opposite of poverty is not wealth—it's justice.
- Habitat for Humanity Greater Los Angeles works everyday to fight the affordable housing crisis.
- GiveDirectly will, as its name implies, transfer your donation straight to someone with need in Kenya or Uganda.
- PEN American Center works to defend free expression worldwide.
- TechnoServe works with enterprising women and men in the developing world to develop business solutions to poverty.
- War Child needs support to help thousands of children in war zones.
- See also: Doctors Without Borders.
- The Women's International Fund for Education sends women in developing countries to college.
- The Bowery Mission provides homeless New Yorkers with hot food, a place to stay, and medical care.
- The North Cascades Institutes connects children with the Pacific Northwest, regardless of their ability to pay.
- Dog Habitat helps furry animals find a new home.
- GEMS serves young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation.
- The ACLU—fighting for pretty much any pernicious injustice you can think of.
- The Philipstown Food Pantry is a small organization reducing hunger in its community north of New York City.
- The all-volunteer staff at Walden's Puddle cares for injured wildlife in middle Tennessee.
- Goddard Riverside Community Center is dedicated to urban renewal.
- The Wildlife Conservation Network funds missions to save the world’s most endangered species.
- Do Something makes the world suck less.
- Just Detention International seeks to end sexual abuse in all forms of detention, whether committed by corrections staff or by inmates.