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A Nude Birthday Swim To Help End Our Global Water Crisis

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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 ...

Bread Over Bombs Feeding People In Crisis

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Their music is a message in action.  Bread Over Bombs is an activist rock band that uses 100% of profits from music CD, LP and downloads sales to feed people in crisis around the world.  Through their work with the LA Regional Food Bank Bread Over Bombs has already provided more than 10,000 meals.  With the release of their new self-titled  album available on www.amazon.com  and iTunes purchases and support, which translate directly to meals to feed people in crisis, are spreading internationally. CD’s are even available at Tower Records in Japan.  And Glasgow SE Foodbank in the United Kingdom is giving away the album with every donation.  You can check out their album review on AMN- the Australian Music Network.  The music is a blend of timely and relevant messages with great music. The initiative started with Founder Brad Mitchell long ago. He began volunteering at the age of 7 alongside his grandmother in an Arizona charity-fund...