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We
hope that in the process of registering your hero, you have enjoyed
the beneficial effects of taking time to think positively and
thankfully about another individual. While you are in this benevolent
mood, why don't you go one step further and donate some money
to a charity in the name of your hero. A link to some charities
is provided. We have no relationship in any fashion with these
listed, other than that they are some of our favorites. If it
makes you feel more secure, just return to their web site later,
after you take the time now to cruise around for a moment and
learn what they are about. Just remember, "God loves a cheerful
giver."
The Sierra Club has over 700,000 members. Our mission statement:
Explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth.
Practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources.
Educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment.
Use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
By giving grants to organizations, championing charitable causes and creating new money for the charity sector, the Fund helps the most disadvantaged people to change their lives.
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a non-profit organization that combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation. Its programs include the Intelligence Project,, Teaching Tolerance and Tolerance.org. The Center also sponsors the Civil Rights Memorial, which celebrates the memory of those who died during the Civil Rights Movement.
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and "disappearances"; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.
Together, the nation's more than 2,400 YMCAs are the largest not-for-profit community service organizations in America, working to meet the health and social service needs of 17.9 million men, women and children in 10,000 communities in the USA. Ys are for people of all faiths, races, abilities, ages and incomes. No one is turned away for inability to pay. YMCAs' strength is in the people they bring together.
The American Lung Association® (ALA) is the oldest voluntary health organization in the United States, with a National Office and constituent and affiliate associations around the country. Founded in 1904 to fight tuberculosis, ALA today fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health.
The YWCA of the U. S. A. is a women's membership movement nourished by its roots in the Christian faith and sustained by the richness of many beliefs and values. Strengthened by diversity, the Association draws together members who strive to create opportunities for women's growth, leadership, and power in order to attain a common vision: peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all people. The Association will thrust its collective power toward the elimination of racism wherever it exists and by any means necessary.
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With a unique ability to achieve changes by its use of direct, non-violent actions and lobbying at international conferences, Greenpeace has become the world's pre-eminent environmental organization.
The NAACP works at the national, regional, and local level to secure civil rights through advocacy for supportive legislation and by the implementation of our Strategic Initiatives. The NAACP also stands poised to defend civil rights wherever and whenever they are threatened.
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community- based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
United Way of America is the national organization dedicated to leading the United Way movement in making measurable impact in every community across America. The United Way movement includes approximately 1,400 community-based United Way organizations. Each is independent, separately incorporated, and governed by local volunteers.
The Cranbrook Peace Foundation is rooted in the concept that conflict is natural. Conflict can provide an important opportunity for change and a violent response is neither inevitable nor necessarily productive. We promote peacemaking and to encourage non-violent conflict resolution.
Mercy Ships brings hope and healing to the poor and needy around the world, primarily through ocean-going vessels, providing medical care, relief, development, and education.
Our mission is to enhance the quality of education by providing financial assistance to deserving students, raising operating funds for member colleges and universities, and increasing access to technology for students and faculty at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUS). Since its inception in 1994 UNCF has grown to become the nation's oldest and most successful African American higher education assistance organization
Since its founding in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller, Habitat for Humanity International has built and rehabilitated more than 100,000 houses with families in need, becoming a true world leader in addressing the issues of poverty housing.
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc. is a community-based, private, nonprofit agency. Our purpose is to alleviate hunger in Indiana by soliciting, storing, and distributing surplus food to charitable agencies serving the needy and to expand public awareness of hunger and its root causes.
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