Charities
BetchaIcan Charity of the Week is NCF
These are the charities that we currently have links to.
To help you decide which charity you would prefer to donate to we have included a brief description and link to their website.
| Charity | Description | Website |
|---|---|---|
| Academy of Achievement | For more than 40 years, the Academy of Achievement has sparked the imagination of students across America and around the globe by bringing them into direct personal contact with the greatest thinkers and achievers of the age. | www.achievement.org |
| American Heart Association | The American Heart Association (AHA) is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. Since the AHA became a voluntary health organization in 1948, we have spent more than $2.7 billion for projects that explore the prevention, detection and treatment of heart disease and stroke. | www.americanheart.org |
| American Hospice Foundation | The American Hospice Foundation (AHF) works to improve access to quality hospice care through public education, professional training, and advocacy on behalf of consumers. | www.americanhospice.org |
| American Lung Association | The American Lung Association (ALA) is the oldest voluntary health organization in the United States, with a National Office and constituent and affiliate associations around the country. ALA is dedicated to preventing lung disease and promoting lung health. | www.lungusa.org |
| American Red Cross | Responding to disasters and helping Americans prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, a global network of more than 180 national societies, the Red Cross helps restore hope and dignity to the world's most vulnerable people. | www.redcross.org |
| ASPCA | The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The ASPCA's mission is to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States. The ASPCA provides national leadership in anti-cruelty, animal behavior, humane education, government affairs and public policy, shelter support, and animal poison control. | www.aspca.org |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of America | Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is the oldest and largest youth mentoring organization in the United States. Big Brothers Big Sisters mentors children, ages 6-18, in communities across the country. | www.bbbs.org |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | Boys & Girls Clubs of America (B&GCA) is a federation of local Boys & Girls Clubs, led by the national organization, which serves more than 4.6 million youth in more than 3,900 club locations. B&GCA works to enable all young people, especially those who need it most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. | www.bgca.org |
| Breast Cancer Research | The Breast Cancer Research Foundation works to achieve prevention and a cure for breast cancer in our lifetime by providing critical funding for innovative clinical and genetic research at leading medical centers worldwide, and increasing public awareness about good breast health. | www.bcrfcure.org |
| CARE | Founded in 1945, CARE fights root causes of poverty in the world's poorest communities. CARE places special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. | www.care.org |
| Children's Defense Fund | The Children's Defense Fund's (CDF) mission is to leave no child behind and to ensure every child a healthy start, a head start, a fair start, a safe start, and a moral start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. | www.childrensdefense.org |
| City of Hope | Compassion was the driving force that led to the founding of City of Hope in 1913. That spirit lives on at City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, which today provides help to millions of people who are battling life-threatening diseases. Here, some of the world's most knowledgeable physicians, researchers, scientists and health care professionals join forces to treat and to one day cure cancers and other life-threatening diseases. | www.cityofhope.org |
| Conservation International | Our mission is to conserve the Earth's living heritage, our global biodiversity, and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature. | www.conservation.org |
| Earth Rights International | EarthRights International (ERI) combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment. We focus our work at the intersection of human rights and the environment, which we define as earth rights. | www.earthrights.org |
| Friends of the WFP | Friends of the World Food Program is a U.S.-based organization that is dedicated to building support for the World Food Program (WFP) and other hunger relief efforts. WFP is the largest international food aid organization in the world and the United Nations' frontline agency in the fight against hunger. | www.friendsofwfp.org |
| Hadassah | Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, was founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold. Since its inception, Hadassah has remained unwavering in its devotion to Judaism, Zionism, and American ideals. As the largest volunteer organization and the largest women's organization in America, Hadassah is committed to strengthening the unity of the Jewish people. | www.hadassah.org |
| HSUS | The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is the nation's largest and most powerful animal protection organization, working in the United States and abroad to defend the interests of animals. | www.hsus.org |
| Mayo Clinic | The Mayo Clinic serves as an overall parent organization to its healthcare subsidiaries in order to support, aid, and advance the study and investigation of human ailments and the causes, prevention, relief and cure thereof through programs of medical education and research. | www.mayoclinic.org |
| Michael J. Fox Foundation | The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research is dedicated to ensuring the development of a cure for Parkinson's disease within this decade through an aggressively funded research agenda. | www.michaeljfox.org |
| National Alliance to End Homeles | The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonpartisan, mission-driven organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States and is a leading voice on the issue of homelessness. | www.endhomelessness.org |
| National Cancer Coalition | National Cancer Coalition's (NCC) mission is to reduce the suffering of cancer patients and their families by meeting their unfulfilled needs. NCC provides medical and financial relief, research and educational programs throughout the world in an effort to improve the cancer patient's quality of life. | nationalcancercoalition.org |
| National MPS Society | The National MPS Society exists to find cures for MPS and related diseases. We provide hope and support for affected individuals and their families through research, advocacy and awareness of these devastating diseases. | www.mpssociety.org |
| NCF | The National Christian Foundation (NCF) exists primarily to support churches and ministries and other charities whose work is not antithetical to the Christian faith. NCF marked 2005 by accepting $361 million in contributions from thousands of donors and making $195 million in grants to charities. | www.nationalchristian.com |
| Orphan Foundation of America | The Orphan Foundation of America (OFA) is a passionate champion of foster youth. Founded in 1981 in a community center basement, OFA has grown to serve thousands of foster teens across the United States. | www.orphan.org |
| Parkinson's Disease Foundation | The Parkinson's Disease Foundation (PDF) is a leading national presence in Parkinson's disease research, patient education and public advocacy. | www.pdf.org |
| PATH | Founded in 1977, PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) is an international organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. | www.path.org |
| Paws with a Cause | Paws With A Cause trains assistance dogs nationally for people with disabilities and provides lifetime team support which encourages independence. | www.pawswithacause.org |
| Samaritan's Purse | Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ. | www.samaritanspurse.org |
| Save The Children | Save the Children, founded in 1932, is the leading independent organization creating real and lasting change for children in need in the United States and around the world. Save the Children's unique self-help approach to relief, recovery and ongoing development has nurtured the seeds of hope for millions of children and their families. | www.savethechildren.org |
| World Wildlife Fund | World Wildlife Fund (WWF) leads international efforts to protect endangered species and their habitats. Now in its fifth decade, WWF works in more than 100 countries around the globe to conserve the diversity of life on earth. | www.worldwildlife.org |
If you have a particular charity that you support and would like us to look into adding them to the list, then please e-mail us at : charities@betchaIcan.com and we will see if it can be added.