Healthy communities are like healthy business. None survive when the community does not contribute to its collective health. Our belief is that wealth gives you the opportunity to make a difference whether that allows you the freedom to travel and use your fingers to save an elephant from a poacher or help a doctor inoculate children in a suffering region or help drive a nail and paint a house for the elderly here in the United States. Maybe your fingers do great good by simply writing a check to help others accomplish the goal.
300 Acres Project
www.300acres.com
300 Acres of ancestral land in the Northern Amazon supporting the school of Guayusa and the Amazanga community. The 300 Acres Project sprung from the Google Earth Outreach/Indigenous Mapping Summit at Google headquarters in Mountain View.
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Home Solutions Institute
www.homesolutionsinstitute.org
501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to helping seniors, veterans, and the disabled build personal home based businesses.
Home Solutions supports the traditionally disadvantaged get exposure to tools and business opportunities to help them towards entrepreneurialism.
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Valley Churches United
http://www.vcum.org
The Valley Churches United Missions is a coalition of community and church volunteers coming together to perform humanitarian acts by providing direct aid assistance in the form of food and emergency rent and utilities to the San Lorenzo Valley and Scotts Valley residents in their time of crisis.
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Rebuilding Together
http://www.rebuildingtogether-sv.org/
What we do: Rebuilding Together is a national nonprofit with a network of nearly 225 affiliates across the United States. Our mission is to preserve affordable housing by bringing volunteers and communities together to rehabilitate the homes of low-income homeowners. There are 24-million low-income homeowners in America. That number is predicted to grow to an astonishing 28.5 million by 2010. More and more families are placed in the position of choosing between vital necessities over essential home repairs and modifications.
Rebuilding Together believes the disabled and elderly should be allowed to remain in their own homes whenever possible. We believe that homeowners displaced by natural disaster will get back into safe housing with help from the community. We believe that our nation’s veterans who return with disabilities deserve a helping hand so they may return to their own homes in basic comfort.
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Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
http://www.lls.org/hm_lls
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. The Society’s mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Since its founding in 1949, the Society has invested more than $550.8 million for research specifically targeting blood cancers.
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Samaritan’s Purse
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/
Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan’s Purse has helped meet thee needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God’s love through His Son, Jesus Christ.
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