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  whitefeatherfoundation.com Let’s start by saying you have to checkout Sarah Peck’s risqué fundraising campaign, She swam naked from San Francisco to Alcatraz upon meeting her donation target for Charity: Water.    The nonprofit is bringing clean safe drinking water to people in developing countries.Sarah's birthday swim was featured on huffpost.com, consumingcultures.net and a ton of other places. She raised $29,000. Surely you can come up with something equally spectacular to help out this worth cause!   After a decade of indulging his darkest vices as a nightclub promoter, Scott Harrison declared spiritual, moral, and emotional bankruptcy. He spent two years on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia where he saw the effects of dirty water firsthand. He came back to New York City in 2006 on a mission and set up a core group in his tiny Manhattan apartment.   Since its founding in 2006, Charity: water has had one goal: ending the global ...

Sierra Leone Rising, formerly known as The Kposowa Foundation, is a 501c3 non-profit organization that was formed in 2006 by co-founders, Sarah Culberson and Hindo Kposowa to  build and restore much needed educational facilities, provide safe clean drinking water, solar electricity and agricultural development in the village of  Bumpe Sierra Leone. The nonprofit’s plans have grown broader over time. Bumpe  was selected because Sarah, adopted and raised by a white family in the U.S., traced her natural family and heritage there. Visiting Bumpe to trace her roots Sarah discovered human suffering and need that she could not turn her back on. The Bumpe high school, once a renowned boarding school with an enrollment of over 600 students from as far away as Nigeria, was destroyed by R.U.F. rebels during Sierra Leone's 11-year-long civil was from 1991-2002. The Civil war also caused serious and grotesque human rights violations to...