Charity Ratings
Canada: Charity Intelligence Canada
(2012:Top Picks, 2013:Environmental Charities)
Facts refuting email blast “Charity and Greed”. This email reports the salaries for some charities: From Charity Intelligence Canada
United States: Charity Navigator
More: Forbes, Give Well (Blog)
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Find A Cause
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Friend Finds ♥gratitude♥
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Architecture for Humanity is a 501(c)3 non-profit, that has been building a better future through the power of design for the past 15 years. At the core of our mission, we believe everyone deserves access to the benefits of good design.
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Catchafire matches professionals who want to volunteer their skills with nonprofits who need their help.
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Direct Relief is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that provides medical assistance to people around the world who have been affected by poverty, natural disasters, and civil unrest.
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A bright future for our world starts with top-notch education. Teachers, we want to help you find the lesson plans you need!
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GoEco was created by experienced volunteers for people who are eager to travel and contribute to the community, wildlife, and environment they visit.
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A Look at the Benefits of Medical Volunteer Work and Key Areas in Need
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Still relatively unknown to most, “Their mission is to work for, and with, communities in need to foster the health of animals, people and the environments that sustain us.”
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Babies
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The Foundation is passionate in its commitment to be the leading provider of funds to support the care of premature and critically ill babies in hospitals across Canada.
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Environment
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Building upon a strong foundation of science, partnership and field demonstration, CI empowers societies to responsibly and sustainably care for nature, our global biodiversity, for the well-being of humanity.
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The Rainforest Alliance works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.
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Your gift will help us build a movement to change the way we make, use, and throw away Stuff. We’ll spark this change in 2013 by running our first-ever campaigns to end corruption in politics, reduce plastic pollution, and grow the sharing economy.
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The Nature Conservancy protects Earth's most important natural places — for you and future generations — through great science and smart partnerships
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The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is a private, non-profit organization working for the direct protection of Canada's biodiversity through purchase, donation or the placement of conservation agreements on ecologically significant lands.
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Tread Lightly! is a nonprofit organization with a mission to promote responsible outdoor recreation through ethics education and stewardship.
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Clean Water
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Abundant Water is a community from all walks of life and continents, working together to facilitate the training of village potters in Lao PDR in the manufacture of clay-pot water filters.
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Almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. Unsafe water and a lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all disease and kill more people than all forms of violence, including war. We're working to change that.
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Waterlution's purpose is to inspire pattern-making and pattern-breaking change towards a healthy and sustainable relationship with water
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Disaster Relief
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Standing together in climate disasters.
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For more than a century, Canadians have had their own Red Cross National Society dedicated to improving the situation of the most vulnerable people in Canada and around the world.
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Pick-a-Project
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Become a Camfed Champion! Run a mile or a marathon. Host a film screening or a bake sale, and raise funds to send girls to school through our new online personal fundraising system.
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GlobalGiving connects you to over 1,000 pre-screened grassroots charity projects around the world. It's an efficient, transparent way to make an impact with your giving.
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Empower an entire community to rise out of poverty. With Fund a Project you take direct action to enable a community struggling for the basic necessities of food, income and education to build a better life.
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This savings and loan program in Burundi is just one example of the direct impact your support can have to help women and families rebuild their lives.
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Loans that change lives.
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Plant a Tree
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Eden Reforestation Projects recreates healthy forest systems that restore hope, alleviate suffering, empower people, and build local economies in impoverished communities.
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Since 1991 we have been engaging Canadians in creating and sustaining dynamic outdoor spaces—in schools, communities and homes.
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Youth
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ArtsCan Circle sends teams of musicians and artists to remote Canadian Indigenous communities to link creative artists with Indigenous youth at risk.
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Plan International’s Because I am a Girl initiative is a social movement to unleash the power of girls and women to claim a brighter future for girls in the developing world.
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To educate and empower children to Bring Back the Wild.
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Through leadership training at home and community development projects abroad, Free The Children empowers youth everywhere to make a difference.
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To improve the lives of children in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the world by using the power of sport and play for development, health and peace.
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The Säjai® Foundation is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to working with local communities to educate children about how to live a healthier life by encouraging them to get outdoors, to get active and to make smart nutrition decisions.
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Seeds of Peace's mission is to help young people from regions of conflict develop the leadership skills necessary to advance reconciliation and coexistence.
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Poverty
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UEnd.org empowers U to END extreme poverty by gifting different. It's simple - just send or ask for an online gift card. Involve friends, family, or co-workers...heck, even your enemies. The recipient then puts that gift card towards a project they choose
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The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.
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World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.
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