#20DaysOfKindness
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Supported 20 charities over 20 days with a $20,000 donation to each
Girls Who Code
Girls Who Code is an international non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a programmer looks like and does. With their 7-week Summer Immersion Program, after school Clubs, and College Loops program, they are leading the movement to inspire, educate, and equip young women with the computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities. Girls Who Code has reached 300,000 girls to date through its programs and 500 million people through campaigns, advocacy work, and New York Times best-selling series. To join the movement or learn more, visit girlswhocode.com. Follow the organization on social media @GirlsWhoCode.
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Team Rubicon
Team Rubicon is a 501c3 non-profit that serves communities by mobilizing veterans to continue their service by leveraging their skills and experience to help people prepare, respond, and recover from disasters and humanitarian crises. Founded following the Haiti earthquake in 2010, the organization has grown to over 130,000 volunteers across the United States and has launched over 700 operations both domestically and internationally.
Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, Team Rubicon has continued to deliver disaster response and rebuild services in core mission areas in response to Hurricanes Laura, Sally and Delta and the West Coast wildfires. The organization has also expanded its scope of missions to meet community needs brought about by COVID.
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Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society is a leading national animal welfare organization dedicated to saving the lives of dogs and cats in America’s shelters. In addition to running lifesaving programs in partnership with thousands of animal welfare groups across the country, Best Friends has lifesaving hubs in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Houston and Bentonville, Arkansas, and operates the nation’s largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals. Founded in 1984, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals dying in shelters nationwide from 17 million per year to around 625,000. But that’s still too many lives being lost every day. Working collaboratively with shelters, rescue groups, other organizations and you, we will Save Them All.
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Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society is a leading national animal welfare organization dedicated to saving the lives of dogs and cats in America’s shelters. In addition to running lifesaving programs in partnership with thousands of animal welfare groups across the country, Best Friends has lifesaving hubs in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Houston and Bentonville, Arkansas, and operates the nation’s largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals. Founded in 1984, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals dying in shelters nationwide from 17 million per year to around 625,000. But that’s still too many lives being lost every day. Working collaboratively with shelters, rescue groups, other organizations and you, we will Save Them All.
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Teach For America
Teach For America is a diverse network of leaders working to confront educational inequity through teaching and at every sector of society to create a country free from this injustice. Together, we are driving impact across the country to achieve our vision that one day all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.
Teach For America recruits outstanding and diverse leaders to become TFA “corps members.” Corps members commit to teaching for two years in a low-income community, where they’re employed by local schools and confront both the challenges and joys of expanding opportunities for kids.
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Conservation International
People need nature to thrive. Conservation International (CI) works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity. Since our inception in 1987, CI has helped to protect more than 6 million square kilometers of land and sea across more than 70 countries. Currently, Conservation International has a head office in the USA and offices in 29 countries, a staff of over 1,000, and 2,000 partners worldwide. Our reach is truly global. Building upon a strong foundation of science, policy, field demonstrations, and partnerships with businesses, local communities and civil society groups, CI empowers societies to sustain nature responsibly, conserve our global biodiversity, and care for the well-being of humanity.
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World Central Kitchen
WCK is working across America to safely distribute individually packaged, fresh meals in communities that need support – for children and families to pick up and take home, as well as delivery to seniors who cannot venture outside.
Traditional safety nets like school feeding programs, city services, and food banks are struggling to meet basic needs. Seniors, who are isolated for their safety, are unable to access meal services. Meanwhile, the country’s hospital workers are more stretched than ever before.
WCK is also partnering with restaurants to help meet this demand by providing jobs for their staff and meals for those in need. #ChefsForAmerica is making a key connection between people who need meals and restaurant workers and drivers who need to earn a living.
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American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Established in 1987, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization that gives those affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered by research, education and advocacy to take action against this leading cause of death.
AFSP is dedicated to saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide. AFSP creates a culture that’s smart about mental health by engaging in the following core strategies: funding scientific research, educating the public about mental health and suicide prevention, advocating for public policies in mental health and suicide prevention, and supporting survivors of suicide loss and those affected by suicide in our mission.
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Human Rights Campaign
By inspiring and engaging individuals and communities, the Human Rights Campaign strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. HRC envisions a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people are ensured equality and embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.
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Feeding America
Feeding America® is the largest domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. Through a network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs, the organization provides meals to one in seven Americans each year. Feeding America also supports programs that prevent food waste and improve food security among the people we serve; educates the public about the problem of hunger; and advocates for legislation that protects people from going hungry. Hunger impacts every community in our country. Prior to the pandemic, 35 million Americans, including 10 million children, faced hunger. Now, more than 13 million more people may face hunger. This pervasive issue is too daunting to fight alone, which is why your support is so important. Join us in the fight to end hunger.
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Step Up
Step Up believes all girls should have the opportunity to fulfill their potential. As a mentorship nonprofit, we support and inspire girls of color ages 14-18 on their way to confidence and careers. Step Up envisions a world where everyone has a seat at the table, and works to create a pipeline of diverse young women to confidently and skillfully enter the workforce with the support of their woman mentors.
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Joyful Heart Foundation
When Mariska Hargitay started playing Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims’ Unit, the content of the scripts, as well as the work she did to prepare for the role, opened her eyes to the staggering statistics about sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse in the United States. She received hundreds, then thousands of letters and emails from survivors disclosing their stories of abuse, many for the first time. She wanted to answer—really answer—those letters, to address the suffering they described, and honor acts of courage they represented.
Her response was to create the Joyful Heart Foundation. Founded in 2004, Joyful Heart is a leading national organization with a mission to transform society’s response to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse, support survivors’ healing, and end this violence forever.
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Together We Rise
Together We Rise is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming the way youth navigate through the foster care system in America. Our vision is to improve the lives of children in foster care, who often find themselves forgotten and neglected by the public. We collaborate with individuals,companies, and community partners to bring resources to foster youth and use service-learning activities to educate volunteers on issues surrounding the foster care system.
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National Coalition for the Homeless
The National Coalition for the Homeless is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community- based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission: To end and prevent homelessness while ensuring the immediate needs of those experiencing homelessness are met and their civil rights are respected and protected. We advocate for increased public investment in affordable housing, services, and resources for housing stability.We combine the expertise of those who know how to end homelessness with the voices of those who have experienced homelessness to educate the public and guide better federal, state and local policies.
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Exodus Cry
Exodus Cry is committed to abolishing sex trafficking and breaking the cycle of commercial sexual exploitation while assisting and empowering its victims.
Our international work involves uprooting the underlying causes in our culture that allow the industry of sexual exploitation to thrive and helping those who have been sexually exploited.
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The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) young people. The organization works to save young lives by providing support through free and confidential suicide prevention and crisis intervention programs on platforms where young people spend their time: a 24/7 phone lifeline, chat, and text. The organization also runs TrevorSpace, the world’s largest safe space social networking site for LGBTQ youth, and operates innovative education, research, and advocacy programs. The Trevor Project estimates that more than 1.8 million LGBTQ youth between the ages of 13 and 24 in the U.S. seriously consider suicide each year and could benefit from our services.
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Habitat For Humanity
Driven by the vision that everyone needs a decent place to live, Habitat for Humanity began in 1976 and has since grown to become a leading global housing nonprofit working in local communities across all 50 states in the U.S. and in more than 70 countries. Families and individuals in need of a hand up partner with Habitat for Humanity to build or improve a place they can call home. Habitat homeowners help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage. Through financial support, volunteering or adding a voice to support affordable housing, everyone can help families achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. Through shelter, we empower. To learn more, visit habitat.org.
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Common Sense Media
Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century. Since 2003, Common Sense has been the leading source of entertainment and technology recommendations for families and schools. Every day, millions of parents and educators trust Common Sense reviews and advice to help them navigate the digital world with their kids.
Our work continues to evolve because we believe that every child should have access to a quality education, to technology, and to diverse representations in media. This is critical for all kids to become empathetic, engaged learners and citizens who are supported by media and technology.
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Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood is a trusted health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide.
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Movember Foundation
Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men’s health on a global scale, focusing on mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. The charity raises funds to deliver innovative, breakthrough research and support programs that enable men to live happier, healthier and longer lives. In addition to tackling key health issues faced by men, Movember is working to encourage men to stay healthy in all areas of their life, with a focus on men staying socially connected and becoming more open to discussing their health and significant moments in their lives. The charity’s vision is to have an everlasting impact on the face of men’s health. To donate or learn more, please visit Movember.com.
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No Us Without You
No Us Without You is a 501c3 providing food security to the most disenfranchised hospitality workers affected by the pandemic. Donations have enabled the foundation to provide dry goods and fresh produce to undocumented back-of-house staff such as dishwashers, bussers, line cooks, and porters. Launched in mid-March 2020 with a goal of feeding 30 families a week, No Us Without You is now feeding over 1,300 families per week.
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Helping Others and Giving Hope
Helping Others And Giving Hope's mission is to provide our citizens through our communities with cost-saving home improvements and beautification; provide them compassion; advocate for their needs within local government, building leadership skills and appreciation to public service. Today, more than 1500 people have been served throughout the world by Helping Others And Giving Hope. We are proud that we work through churches, businesses, government agencies, and other nonprofits to provide help and hope to those who are impoverished, hungry, and hurting.
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International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee helps people whose lives have been shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and rebuild. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, we now work in over 40 crisis-affected countries as well as communities throughout Europe and the Americas. We help people in some of the toughest and most remote places on Earth and are also the largest refugee resettlement agency in the United States. Every day, we deliver health care, help children learn, and empower individuals and communities to become self-reliant, always with a focus on the unique needs of women and girls. No matter what, we put the people we serve at the heart of everything we do. Join us at Rescue.org.
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