Curious Cat Cool Charity Connections
- Trickle Up - - alleviating poverty one business at a
time. A great charity that helps people help themselves. They provide conditional seed capital grants and
business training to help people start or expand their own businesses.
- Habitat for Humanity - They build simple, decent,
affordable, houses in partnership with those in need of adequate shelter. Former U.S. President Carter is
Habitat's most famous supporter and annually leads the Jimmy Carter Work Project.
- Population Connection - Works to
slow population growth and achieve a sustainable balance between the Earth's people and its resources.
- Charity Navigator - Independent charity
evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the
financial health of America's largest charities.
- Heifer International - "To ?pass on the gift.? As people
share their animals? offspring with others ? along with their knowledge, resources, and skills ? an expanding
network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that reaches around the globe."
- World Wildlife Fund - WWF works to save nature, protect endangered
species, and address threats such as global warming and deforestation.
- Acumen Fund - "a non-profit venture fund that uses
entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty."
- Chronicle of Philanthropy - The newspaper of the
nonprofit world.
- Concord Coalition - A nonpartisan, grassroots
organization advocating fiscal responsibility for the United States Federal government. In other words, they
encourage the government not to spend money, that is planned to be collected from the grandchildren of cur
- American Cancer Society - 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.
- National Public Radio - NPR provides a alternative to for-profit
news-entertainment producers. NPR serves more than 15 million Americans each week via 620 public radio stations
and provides coverage online.