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Food Bank of New York
Food Bank For New York City works in partnership with more than 1,000 food programs located throughout the city's five boroughs, to help get food to New Yorkers at risk of going hungry. Their network of programs includes soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, low-income daycare centers, Kids Cafes, and senior, youth, outreach and rehabilitation centers.
They currently serve food programs in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. Their member agencies work in partnership with the Food Bank to help provide nutritious and balanced meals and groceries to families, elderly, homebound, homeless and the working poor who are at risk of going hungry in these communities.
They urgently need your support, be it food, money or your volunteer services.
www.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=138575
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Friends of the High Line
Friends of the High Line a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and reuse of the High Line, a 1.5-mile-long historic elevated rail structure on the West Side of Manhattan. Founded in 1999, FHL is supported by nearly all the elected officials representing the High Line neighborhoods, numerous civic organizations, and thousands of preservationists, open-space advocates, design professionals, and civic-minded individuals and businesses from New York and across the United States.
www.thehighline.org
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EDUN
EDUN is a socially conscious clothing company launched in Spring 2005 by Ali Hewson and Bono with New York clothing designer Rogan Gregory. The company's mission is to help increase trade and create sustainable employment for developing areas of the world with an emphasis on Africa, providing a business model that others can replicate and follow.
www.edun.ie
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TreeHugger
Our environment is currently facing huge obstacles that have the potential to seriously disrupt our future and the future of all our fellow flora and fauna friends. Keeping that in mind, TreeHugger also sympathizes with the fact that most people aren’t willing to compromise their current lifestyle in order to improve our shared environment, so they have created a place where you can discover how to maintain or improve your quality of life while reducing your harmful impact on the earth. Make TreeHugger.com your homepage and have all the knowledge of a greener way of life, from travel & transporation to fashion & beauty, design & architechture, food & health, business & politics and science & technology, at your fingertips. TreeHugger offers all the resources you need to lead a more ecologically responsible lifestyle.
treehugger.com
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MoveOn
The MoveOn family of organizations brings real Americans back into the political process. With over 3.3 million members across America they work together to realize the progressive vision of our country’s founders. MoveOn is a service – a way for busy but concerned citizens to find their political voice in a system dominated by big money and big media.
www.moveon.org
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Act Now NY
ACT NOW is one of New York's largest progressive volunteer mobilization organizations. Their mission is to enlist, train, and deploy New Yorkers in grassroots activities designed to effectively influence our nation's most critical elections and issue debates.
www.actnowny.org
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American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU needs your help to defend our most basic freedoms! The Bush Administration is rolling back our rights in the name of homeland security...extremists on the Christian Right have the ear of the White House...and the federal judiciary is increasingly hostile to civil liberties.
The need has never been greater for freedom-loving people to join the ACLU and take a stand against the growing threats to our most cherished Constitutional liberties. Click on the link below to become a card-carrying member of the ACLU. Or, if you're already a member, please consider making an extra contribution to help ensure they have the resources needed to turn back the widespread assaults on liberties that are now underway.
www.aclu.org
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Peace Games
Peace Games imagines a world where every child has the skills, knowledge, supportive relationships, and opportunities to prevent violence and build safer communities. A world where individuals and institutions believe in the power of young people and that violence – in all of its forms – can be prevented. Peace Games believes that this goal is best achieved by building the capacity of schools and community groups to implement holistic, peace and justice education programs.
www.peacegames.org
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Music for America
Music for America stands for the belief that our generation is smart enough, and capable enough, and big enough to be the dominant force in American politics. But we have been ignored by politicians and disgusted by politics to the point where many of us just stay away. 50,000 people, mostly 17-24 year-olds, have joined up at shows all across the country. In the last two years they’ve worked with over 200 bands and had well over 2000 shows. 10,000 people have created user accounts on their website, which receives 5 or 6 thousand visits every day. The power to change our country is here.
www.musicforamerica.org
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The Democratic Party
For more than 200 years, the Democratic Party has represented the interests of working families, fighting for equal opportunities and justice for all Americans. Today, Democrats continue that fight with a firm commitment to the values that we all share as Americans: a secure nation that leads the world, strong economic growth and new jobs, affordable health care for all Americans, and a better education for our children.
www.dnc.org
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The National Resources Defense Council
The NRDC is an organization which seeks to educate citizens on issues regarding ecology and the environment. Here you'll find all the tools, tips and information you need to help protect the earth's extraordinary wealth of natural treasures including everything you need to know about clean air & energy, global warming, clean waters & oceans, wildlife & fish, parks, forests & wildlands, health & the environment, nuclear weapons, waste & energy, cities & green living, US laws & policy and international issues.
www.nrdc.org
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The Civil Rights Coalition For The 21st Century
Home to socially-concerned, issue-oriented original audio, video, and written programming, civilrights.org is committed to serving as the online nerve center not only for the struggle against discrimination in all its forms, but also to build the public understanding that it is essential for our nation to continue its journey toward social and economic justice.
www.civilrights.org
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Justice For Immigrants
Since the founding, the United States has received immigrants from around the world who have found opportunity and safe haven in a new land. The labor, values, and beliefs of immigrants from throughout the world have transformed the United States from a loose group of colonies into one of the leading democracies in the world today. From its founding to the present, the United States remains a nation of immigrants grounded in the firm belief that newcomers offer new energy, hope and cultural diversity.
www.justiceforimmigrants.org
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