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The Wetlands Initiative
The Wetlands Initaitve is dedicated to restoring the wetland resources of the Midwest to improve water quality, increase wildlife habitat and biodiversity, and reduce flood damages. Our vision is simple: Wetlands should be more valuable wet than dry. For years, many believed that wetlands were more valuable dry than wet. In Illinois, nearly 90% of the wetlands present 200 years ago are now drained, tiled, dammed, or leveed. Today, the value of wetlands needs to be understood in both environmental and economic terms. Wetlands remove pollutants and control sediments to provide cleaner water. They offer food and shelter to a vast array of plants and animals. They store floodwaters to reduce the cost and misery from flooding. They moderate climate change by sequestering carbon. And, importantly - but often overlooked - their vital ecosystem services are essential for healthy economies. Our work seeks to bring those environmental and economic benefits to life. We combine two basic strategies: restore more wetlands and innovate fundamental changes in how we finance large-scale wetland restoration.
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Malaria No More
Malaria No More is determined to end malaria deaths in Africa by 2015 – and we're helping the world get it done. Malaria No More leverages high-impact awareness campaigns to engage the world, global advocacy to rally leadership and strategic investments in Africa to accelerate progress, build capacity and save lives.
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www.malarianomore.org
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Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
The mission of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation is to raise money and awareness of childhood cancer causes, primarily research into new treatments and cures; and to encourage and empower others, especially children, to raise money for childhood cancer by holding their own Alex's Lemonade Stands.
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www.alexslemonade.org
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Keep America Beautiful
Engaging individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community environments.
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www.kab.org
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Save the Children
Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating immediate and lasting change in the lives of children in need in the United States and around the world.
For information concerning Save the Children Federation, Inc., including financial, licensing or charitable purposes(s), visit: www.savethechildren.org/legal
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Dress for Success Worldwide
The mission of Dress for Success is to promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.
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www.dressforsuccess.org
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Action Against Hunger
Intervening in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster, and chronic food insecurity, Action Against Hunger | ACF International saves the lives of malnourished children while providing families with sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger. Action Against Hunger has pursued its vision of a world without hunger for 30 years, assisting nearly 5 million people a year in some 40 countries across the globe.
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www.actionagainsthunger.org
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Heifer Project International
Heifer is different. Heifer works. Heifer International is a global nonprofit with a proven solution to ending hunger and poverty in a sustainable way. Heifer helps empower millions of families to lift them out of poverty and hunger to self-reliance through gifts of livestock, seeds and trees and extensive training, which provide a multiplying source of food and income. Heifer's mission to end hunger: Heifer envisions a world of communities living together in peace and equitably sharing the resources of a healthy planet. Heifer's mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth. Heifer's strategy is to pass on the Gift. As people share their animals' offspring with others along with their knowledge, resources and skills and expanding network of hope, dignity and self-reliance is created that reaches around the globe. Heifer's history: this simple idea of giving families a source of food rather than short-term relief; a cow not a cup caught on and has continued for more than 65 years. Today, millions of families have been given gifts of self-reliance and hope.
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www.heifer.org
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Hope for Haiti
Hope for Haiti is a US-based charitable organization operating in Port-au-Prince and southern Haiti. Serving in the remotest areas, Hope for Haiti helps the poorest of the poor, who cannot easily afford food, basic medical care or to educate their children. Hope for Haiti's mission is to improve the quality of life for the Haitian people, particularly children, through education, nutrition, and healthcare.
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Homes for Our Troops
Homes for Our Troops is a national non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that was founded in 2004. We are strongly committed to helping those who have selflessly given to our country and have returned home with serious disabilities and injuries since September 11, 2001. It is our duty and our honor to assist severely injured Servicemen and Servicewomen and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and to coordinate the process of building a home that provides maximum freedom of movement and the ability to live more independently.
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www.homesforourtroops.org
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Scholarship America
Scholarship America is a national education service organization that mobilizes support for students getting into and graduating from college. Scholarship America has distributed more than $2.5 billion in scholarship assistance to more than 1.7 million students over the last 50 years. Scholarship America's programs, which include Dollars for Scholars, help fund both entry-level and multi-year scholarships, as well as emergency financial grants. More information is available at scholarshipamerica.org.
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Teach For America
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. In the 2011-2012 school year, 9,300 corps members will be teaching in 43 regions across the country. They are joined by nearly 24,000 Teach For America alumni working from inside and outside the field of education for the fundamental changes necessary to ensure educational excellence and equity. Some of the regions in which Teach For America operates include Connecticut, Baltimore, Mid-Atlantic, New York, Chicago and Greater Newark.
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www.teachforamerica.org
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Americans for the Arts
Americans for the Arts is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
Since our founding in 1960, Americans for the Arts has led the national effort to ensure that every American has an opportunity to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Championing the cause of the arts and arts education in communities across the country, we dedicate ourselves each year to providing programs that help: 1) foster an environment in which the arts can thrive and contribute to the creation of more livable communities; 2) generate more public- and private-sector resources to support the arts and arts education; and 3) build individual appreciation of the value of the arts. Our motto: National vision. Local tools.
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www.artsusa.org
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