Charitable Giving

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The holiday season is not just about showering our family and friends with gifts. Our focus, attention, and love is required throughout the world…not just during the holidays but every day. People are buying gifts that give back and many families are adopting new family traditions in the spirit of volunteering and charitable giving.

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When we help others we help ourselves by making the world a better place. There are many charitable and/or random acts of kindness that you and your family can do in your community or through existing organizations (you can even start a charitable organization). It’s better to give than receive.

Charitable Giving Ideas for Givers at Heart:

1. Volunteer at a Homeless Shelter.
2. Go Christmas Caroling at a Nursing Home.
3. Pay it Forward with random acts of kindness.
4. Create a Random Act of Kindness website

Charitable Organizations for Givers/Volunteers:

1. First Book is a nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books.

2. Modest Needs is a not for profit organization dedicated to helping people with unexpected financial emergencies.

3. Project Angel Food cooks and delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love to men, women, and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illnesses.

4. The Hunger Project is a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger.

5. Children for Children promotes hands-on youth volunteering and giving programs which teach and instill the value of community involvement and civic engagement in children from all backgrounds beginning at a young age, with an emphasis on providing resources to under-served schools.

6. The Camel Bookmobile operates from Garissa in Kenya’s isolated Northeastern Province near the unstable border with Somalia. Initially launched with three camels on Oct. 14, 1996, the library now uses 12 camels traveling to four settlements per day, four days per week. The camel library is now operating also in Wajir, Kenya, even further to the northeast. The camels bring books to a semi-nomadic people who live with drought, famine and chronic poverty. The books are spread out on grass mats beneath an acacia tree, and the library patrons, often barefoot, sometimes joined by goats or donkeys, gather with great excitement to choose their books until the next visit.

7. New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity is mobilizing for an unprecedented rebuilding effort and welcomes volunteers from to help with ongoing recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans.

8. Global Citizens Network sends short-term teams of volunteers to communities in other cultures where participants immerse themselves in the culture and daily life of the community. Each volunteer team is partnered with a local grassroots organization active in meeting local needs. Global Citizens Network creates a worldwide network of people and organizations committed to addressing global issues.

9. Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust supports physical and psychological rehabilitation programs, meets the special needs of veterans with specific disabilities such as amputation and blindness, and aids and shelters homeless veterans.

10. The Midnight Mission is one of the oldest continuously operating human services organizations in the Los Angeles region. Centered in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, the Midnight Mission offers a bridge to self-sufficiency for homeless people through counseling, education, training and job placement. We also make available the necessities of life to homeless people: food, shelter, clothing, personal hygiene needs, and medical care. The Mission serves homeless people with empathy and respect, without sermonizing.

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