Guide Dogs

http://MiraUSA.org

mirafoundationusa@yahoo.com

Help them help people--

Art + Healing

www.rxart.net

RxArt is a non-profit organization that is committed to fostering artistic expression and awareness through the challenging yet rewarding task of engaging patients through contemporary art in healthcare facilities. By curating installations in hospital settings, we provide a creative surrounding that helps to relieve stress and anxiety, while increasing appreciation for contemporary art.

Stop Diploma Mills

An interesting kind of fraud:

People buying diplomas and working in jobs they are not trained to do.

http://www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/higher_education.html

George Gollin's work as brought many things to light.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2005/12/07/dg.terror.diploma.cnn

Fair Housing

Know your rights!

Especially students-- many property management companies prey on students. Beware of "one month free" scams.

Research the company fully before you even go look at an apartment. Don't be taken advantage of. Remember- no landlords can give you "fines".

Call an inspector from the city if anything goes unfixed.

This non-profit helps: http://www.fhcsfv.org/ Fair Housing Council

Learn more about fair housing at the following sites:

Government

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
www.hud.gov

California Department of Fair Employment and Housing
www.dfeh.ca.gov

Fair Housing Information

Fair Housing Act
http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/progdesc/title8.cfm

National Fair Housing Alliance
www.nationalfairhousing.org

John Marshal Law School
www.jmls.edu

National Fair Housing Advocate
www.fairhousing.com

Tenant & Landlord Information

California Tenants: A Guide to Residential Tenants' and Landlords' Rights & Responsibilities - California Department of Consumer Affairs
www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/index.shtml

What Should I Know Before I Rent? - State Bar of California
calbar.ca.gov

New Faith the Dog video

Get inspired to stand up for yourself and others.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqplI66cHsI

Women- Don't Overpay

http://cbs2.com/tv/Consumer.Reports.Women.2.1368848.html

Women are marketed to and get charged more for the exact same product for men.

Fundred Dollar Bills!

New Orleans is rich w/ creativity- fundred dollar bills all over by local schools-

http://www.fundred.org/

Green with a Heart of Gold

I donated and got my Kermit pin. Did you?


http://www.varietychildrenscharity.org/


http://www.varietychildrenscharity.org/variety_programs/gold_heart_pin.php

The Girl Effect

Education is key.

www.girleffect.org

Boys can help too:

Jonathon Prince runs to inspire change in the world. He’s run across North America twice, and in October, he left for his third trek. This time, one of the causes he’s chosen to raise funds for is the Girl Effect. He’s hoping to raise more than $120,000. Jonathon and his team plan to reach Washington, D.C., by March 2010.

See their inspiring stories on facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/girleffect?ref=mf

Breast Cancer Awareness Video

Pink gloves = party time. See Cancer fighters in action.

Women Teaching Women

http://womenteachingwomen.blogspot.com/

Great job by Ellen Rose Singer who works as a strategic planner.

Vote for Your Favorite Charities

Chase is giving away 5 Million:

http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/

Got a bag to brag about?

http://www.bragaboutyourbag.com/

trade in 5 plastic bags for a cool re-usable one and win lunches & trips




Hey LA area---

No need for a designer bag when you can get one of these + prizes-

Project Orange Thumb Grants

Get green gardening goods for your organization!

http://bit.ly/4yUzzR

Ghandi Controversy

Would Ghandi have wanted this?

His great grandson consented to use of his image.

Only 1,000 out of a $25,000 pen goes to a foundation:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2009-10-02-mont-blanc-india_N.htm

Charity Event in LA for Animals

http://www.barknbitches.com/event_dcups.htm


Tonight @ 505 North Fairfax Avenue

Tennis Players Do Good

Andre Agassi and Steffi Graff created a K-12 charter school in Las Vegas with the goal of getting kids in the inner city to go to college.

http://www.agassiprep.org/

See his story on 60 Minutes, as reported today on CBS.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/05/60minutes/main5537569.shtml

Event in Ventura County

Wherever There’s a Fight
How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, andPoets Shaped Civil Liberties in California

When: Thursday, November 5, 2009
From 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Where: Goebel Senior Adult Center, 1385 Janss Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362

The Ventura County Chapter of the ACLU presents an evening with the book’s authors, Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi, civil rights advocates.

The authors will speak about the first-ever account of the struggle to develop and protect rights in the Golden State.

Copies of the book will be on sale for $25 (exact change only please.)

DIRECTIONS FROM MOORPARK/SIMI VALLEY AREA: Take 118 West to the 23 South towards Thousand Oaks. Exit at Janss Road and turn left. The Goebel Center is on the left.

DIRECTIONS FROM VENTURA AREA: Take 101 South, merge onto 23 North towards Fillmore. Exit at Janss Road and turn right. Make a u-turn at El Monte Drive. The Goebel Center is on the right.

DIRECTIONS FROM AREAS SOUTH: Take 101 North, merge onto 23 North towards Fillmore. Exit at Janss Road and turn right. Make a u-turn at El Monte Drive. The Goebel Center is on the right.

Presented by Southern California ACLU Ventura County Chapter
For more information contact R. Henry at (805) 578-0563or e-mail aclu.vc@verizon.net

Clever Fundraising Ideas @ Lincoln Park Zoo

http://www.lpzoo.org/sup_ind_wish.php

Check out the WISH LIST the animals have! lend them a paw, foot, ...

Incorporate Volunteerism into TV

http://philanthropy.com/tv_contest/index.htm#Philanthropy.com

Win money for your charity. Write a 250 word essay or make a video to enter!

For NYC Non-Profit Friends

http://www.epicthemovement.org/

Event on October 29. 9 East 13th Street, 3rd floor @ The Double Cross Lounge, 7 to 9 p.m.

Zero Tolerance Weapons Policy in Elementary School

Grade schoolers was to be suspended for up to 45 days for carrying a Boy Scout eating utensil device to class. Excessive?

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977851321&grpId=3659174697244816

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Bike and Build!

http://bikeandbuild.org/

Pedal to end poverty housing.

Feel the freedom of the ride, and help others along the way.

Exclusive Chat with the VP of the Valley Artists Guild

This was shot @ The VIVA Gallery in Sherman Oaks-

Denying communication is un-American

http://ga1.org/campaign/signAB1510/step1

A few years ago, an 11th grader in California was on the brink of being expelled from school. His mother, a Chinese immigrant still struggling with English, scheduled a meeting with school officials to discuss the problem, and asked her son's former teacher to accompany her and serve as her interpreter.

Although the teacher agreed, the school prohibited this young man’s mother from bringing her own interpreter to the meeting, claiming that the school would provide its own.

This person was not a certified interpreter and provided a vague translation of this extremely important conversation about her son’s life.Compelled by this disturbing incident, the ACLU is working to make sure no parent is denied the right to bring his or her own interpreter to any meeting with school officials.

Parents deserve to have someone who is competent and whom they can trust when dealing with important decisions affecting their child’s education. Take Action NOW and urge the governor to sign AB 1510 into law.

This bill will allow parents Limited in English Proficiency (LEP) to bring an oral language interpreter to parent meetings.Parents given language access are stronger advocates for their children, who may otherwise fall through the cracks.

A child’s education and future are too important to leave parents lost in translation. Urge Governor Schwarzenegger to sign this bill into law today.

Grant Money to make a documentary for Social Change

http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org/documentary/about/17275484.html

Goodwill returns donation worth .5 Million

http://cbs4.com/watercooler/goodwill.miami.ballerina.2.1172567.html

In Rememberance of 9/11

http://www.servicenation.org/

Dove Campaign for Real Beauty

More brands get behind causes.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=549997458733&ref=mf

Dove works to raise self esteem in girls and women.

www.campaignforrealbeauty.com

Campaign Against Human Trafficking

http://www.thebodyshop-usa.com/beauty/stop-sex-trafficking

The Body Shop started their own campaign to help.

Non-Profit Email List

Hi everyone-

If you work for a non-profit and would like to have your events added to Ms. Johansson's new list, please contact her here:


Erika Johansson
(213) 925-6157
erika.johansson@mac.com


She says it will be like dailycandy.com for non-profits

Ice Cream in Honor of Gay Marriage

B & J have done it again.

Now, as they say, this is something to sink your teeth into--



http://tinyurl.com/mb4qgc

More Women needed for Wikipedia

Wikipedia is run by a non-profit--- out of all the contributors, only 13% are women. Do you hear that ladies?

http://bit.ly/2LzYs2

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Call for Papers

http://www2010.org/www/authors/cfp

•• C A L L F O R P A P E R S <2>•<0>•<1>•<0>
19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010)
April 26-30, 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina USA

Key dates for authors: 2009/10/10 --
Workshop proposals due 2009/10/26 --
Abstracts due for papers and demos 2009/11/02 --
Papers and demos due 2009/11/15 --
Tutorial proposals due

Main topics of interest:

-- Search
-- Data Mining and Machine Learning
-- Bridging Structured and Unstructured Data
-- Social Networks
-- Semantic Web
-- Security and Privacy
-- Internet Monetization
-- Software Architecture and Infrastructure
-- Performance, Scalability and Availability
-- Networking and Mobility
-- Users Interfaces and Rich Interaction
-- Rich Media

Unethical E-Waste Recycling

http://tinyurl.com/nxqzow


Shame on Executive Recycling in Denver, CO and other western states in the US. They got a government contract to expand their private recycling business. 42 other American recycling businesses are guilty of the same thing.


Chinese killing their own children for profit, again.

UCI has programs cut

http://www.newu.uci.edu/main/article?slug=uci_cuts_five_sports195

Five athletic programs are being cut from The University of California at Irvine, including its NCAA Division I swim team.

The UCI phD in Social Ecology has also been done away with.

Stop Child Abductions

http://thejoyfulchild.org/

- founded by a mother of a little girl who was abducted and murdered.

Children learn self defense and self preservation.

Help Music Education, Get Free Airline Tickets

http://www.vh1savethemusic.com/node/5000

Take the money (just $300.00) you would be spending for a plane ticket, donate it to VH1's Save the Music Foundation, and get the roundtrip ticket for free from Jet Blue (good for one year)!

This is a major WIN/WIN for everyone.

Keep music in our schools.

From Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon

The amazing story of the amazing Dr. Q!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0303/03.html

World Food Programme

Schools stayed open in Kenya this summer to provide children their only meal of the day, which they would bring home to share with their families.


http://www.wfp.org/

Tweeting from Space!

Jose is a true inspiration. He began his astronaut training at age 41. He is the son of migrant field workers, who are very proud of him. He has a master's degree in Engineering and an honorary doctorate from University of The Pacific in Stockton, CA.

@Astro_Jose
www.twitter.com/Astro_Jose

The Center for Media Change

http://www.crimeaftercrime.com/

This documentary is a project of The Center for Media Change, a 501c3 non-profit.

It is about an abused woman, the murder of her abuser, and the justice sytem.

Nau Grants

please vote for Peace Tiles for The Nau Grant!

http://www.nau.com/collective/grant-for-change/lars-hasselblad-torres---peace-tiles-964.html

An Inspiration

http://tinyurl.com/mp2k3b

From the projects, onto the stage, to Cornell to advising young people--

Roxanne Shante, the first queen of hip hop music.

Ending Generational Poverty

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94977387


Parents go to 'Baby College', learn to educate their children.

How in the private industry, leadership and policy will affect your constituents (customers)--

Think again before you buy*


Case Study: Fiji Water
http://bit.ly/1GLCNT

affected: human rights, prisoners rights


Case: Rock Star Energy Drinks
http://bit.ly/7XMRX

affected: gay rights

Embedded Giving--

http://philanthropy.blogspot.com/2008/07/embedded-giving20.html




Rounding up from a bigger purchase gives donors way to give, on top of an existing purchase.

Healthy School Lunches poster

interesting debate over posters:

'President Obama's children get healthy school lunches. why don't I?'

http://www.healthyschoollunches.org/

Fundraiser for Sri Lanken NGO

Artists and film makers give a show to support Sri Lanken civil war survivors.

July 2nd @ www.space1520.com