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whatgives365.com That answer to changed Adam's life. Pencils Of Promise asks a simple question, “Can you imagine note being able to read this sentence?” And then points to the fact that 250 million children cannot.   In other words, 250 million children of primary school age lack basic reading, writing and math skills.   The organization was founded by Adam Braun. He recalls that while traveling he asked a young boy begging in the streets of India. “What do you want most in the world?” Adams recalls the boy replied, “A pencil.” And Adam reached into his backpack and gave the boy his. A smile erupted and his eyes brightened. Adam said it was then he saw the profound power and promise brought through something as small as giving a pencil to just one child. Over the next five years, he backpacked through more than 50 countries, handing out thousands of pens and pencils across six continents. In 2008 Pencils Of Promise was founded. The nonprofit builds schools and provides q...

  greatnonprofits.org The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) helps communities speak out for clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet. Public interest lawyers from 10 countries founded ELAW in 1989. These lawyers were working together at a public interest law conference at the University of Oregon School of Law. They realized that if they could share strategies and legal and scientific information across borders, they could protect communities and the environment more effectively. ELAW became a pioneer in wiring the grassroots. Today, more than 300 public interest advocates from 80 countries work together through the ELAW network.   ELAW advocates play key roles in helping communities pursue environmental justice. They help citizens participate effectively in decisions about the environment, challenge environmental abuses, and enforce environmental laws. They publish guides to citizen participation, train community "paralegals" to represent community intere...

  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 ...