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America's Second Harvest is the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization. Through a network of nearly 200 food banks, we distribute food to 26 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of whom are children. America's Second Harvest |
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Bruderhof Generation Connection It’s no longer possible for every family to care for aging parents or grandparents at home. But there is much that can be done to bridge the gap and bring generations together. To build stronger, healthier and happier communities, we need to encourage more intergenerational interaction. Our website will share stories, experiences and suggestions for action, and will connect old people with young people. Bruderhof Generation
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1% Connecting the Community We are the 1% connection coming together for non-violence, for a safer, fairer, more enlightened society... Our interest is to be a positive force for AWARENESS, FAIRNESS POSSIBILITIES, GOOD WILL, THE SHARING OF IDEAS and CULTURES with OPEN MINDS and HEARTS, BUT MOSTLY TO BE A PRESENCE for all at risk, vulnerable creatures, and environment. 43 Riverside Ave. S-123 Medford, MA 02155 (USA) VoiceMail:(617)-557-3036 (617)-705-4805 E-Mail: nonviolence@1percent.org URL: http://1percent.org |
| CARE International CARE's reason for being is to affirm the dignity and worth of individuals and
families in some of the poorest communities of the
world. We seek to relieve human suffering, to provide economic opportunity, to build
sustained capacity for self-help, and to affirm the ties of human beings everywhere. We
are committed to pursuing our mission with excellence because the people whom we
serve--beneficiaries and donors--deserve nothing less. CARE |
| Food Relief International Food Relief International is a non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian organization dedicated to helping those in disasters or in disastrous conditions. Rytasha,
Founder and President |
| FOOD INDUSTRY CRUSADE AGAINST HUNGER The Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger (FICAH) is a voluntary initiative of the American Food Industry to alleviate hunger and malnutrition in the United States and around the world. In the United States, FICAH supports urban garden programs, youth services, food banks and job training programs, helping our neighbors back into the mainstream. Tracey Taylor, Projects Coordinator |
| Global Children's Organization Children are the most traumatized and
forgotten victims of global, national, community, and family violence.
Reports state that 9
out of 10 casualties of war are civilians, and that 1.5 million children died in war zones
in the past 10 years. Another 4 million children have been permanently injured by weapons
such as bombs, bullets, land mines, chemical weapons and machetes. In addition to this
terrible loss of life, the report noted that millions of children have been traumatized by
the effects of war, 12 million have lost their homes, and 5 million have been forced to
live in refugee camps in the past decade. 4801 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 240 Los Angeles, CA 90010 Phone: (323) 934-8805 FAX: (323) 934-0308 Funding: Judith Jenya Email: jjenya@hotmail.com Volunteers: Erin Tanenbaum Email: erball@earthlink.net URL: http://www.globalchild.org |
| Habitat For Humanity International Founded in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller, Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide and to making adequate, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat invites people from all faiths and walks of life to work together in partnership, building houses with families in need. Habitat has built more than 65,000 houses around the world, providing more than 300,000 people with safe, decent, affordable shelter.
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| Human Kindness Foundation The
Human Kindness Foundation, founded by Bo and Sita Lozoff, is a non-profit organization
which stresses a way of life based upon three common principles taught by the great sages
of all religions: Simple living, a dedication to service, and a commitment to personal
spiritual Human
Kindness Foundation, RR1 Box 201-N, Durham, NC 27705; (919) 304-2220 |
The United Nations World Food Programme is pleased to announce that The Hunger Site, an independent website created to alleviate hunger, has chosen to give the donations it generates via the internet to WFP. Cash donations equivalent to millions of servings of food have been donated since the site opened in June 1999. Email: comments@thehungersite.com |
The aim of this site is to help prevent and eradicate hunger by facilitating the free exchange of ideas and information regarding the causes of, and solutions to, hunger. It contains primary information, made available by the World Hunger Program -- the prime sponsor of this site -- and its partners, as well as links to other sites where information of relevance to hunger can be found. Read the 6
Myths and Facts About Hunger on their website http://www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program/ |
| OneWorld Online OneWorld Online is a partnership: over 100
organisations working for human rights and sustainable development. We are working together to broadcast an alternative world agenda, an agenda for a fairer
world.
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| Points of Light Foundation A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to engaging more people more effectively in volunteer community service to help solve serious social problems 1737 H Street, NW |
| Positive Futures Network Positive Futures Network is a nonprofit
organization dedicated to supporting peoples' active engagement in creating a more
sustainable, just and compassionate world. PFN is the publisher of YES! A Journal of
Positive Futures. YES! |
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"It takes more than food to fight hunger". Share Our Strength (SOS) works to alleviate and prevent hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. By supporting food assistance, treating malnutrition and other consequences of hunger, and promoting economic independence among people in need, Share Our Strength meets immediate demands for food while investing in long-term solutions to hunger and poverty. To meet its goals, Share Our Strength both mobilizes industries and individuals to contribute their talents to its anti-hunger efforts and creates community wealth to promote lasting change. Share Our Strength |
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The Society of St. Andrew is an ecumenical Christian ministry that feeds the hungry all year long by saving fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste and giving it to the needy. Our innovative and cost effective methods enable us to provide food to the hungry at less than two cents per serving! 3383 Sweet Hollow Road, |
| UNICEF Founded in 1946, UNICEF advocates and works for the
protection of children's rights, to help the young meet their basic needs and to expand
their opportunities to reach their full potential. The UNICEF Executive Board reaffirmed
this mandate in January 1996, when it adopted a statement on the mission of UNICEF saying
that UNICEF "is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and strives to
establish children's rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of UNICEF House 3 United Nations Plaza New York, New York 10017 USA URL: www.unicef.org |
| United Nations Development Program UNDP's mission is to help countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable human development by assisting them to build their capacity to design and carry out development programmes in poverty eradication, employment creation and sustainable livelihoods, the empowerment of women and the protection and regeneration of the environment, giving first priority to poverty eradication. URL: http://www.undp.org |
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WFP is the frontline United Nations organisation fighting to eradicate world hunger -- whether it is the hunger that suddenly afflicts people fleeing ethnic conflict in Rwanda or Bosnia or the chronic hunger that affects the hungry poor in countries such as Bangladesh or India. WFP became operational in 1963 and is now the world's largest international food aid organisation. Address: Via Cesare Giulio Viola, |
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