As part of our ‘Walk the Walk’ Program, we have identified some worthy causes we’d like to help. Every shirt Auntie Fashions sells generates a dollar for one of the below charities. In case you wanted to learn more about these fine organizations we’ve included this page of info and links to their web sites.
Auntie Fashions hopes to soon be donating thousands of dollars to each one, but that depends on us selling thousands of shirts. Even if you don’t feel like making a purchase from us today, we strongly urge you to make a tax-deductible contribution to one or more of these organizations. Better still, if you find a cause here that sounds like something you’d like to personally help with, contact them and tell them Auntie sent you. You’ll feel good and you’ll be DOING good.
If you know of a charity that you think Auntie Fashions should be working with, please feel free to contact us. We’re not just here to make money and have fun, we’d like to make this a better world.
Southern Poverty
Law Center
Development Office
400 Washington Avenue
Montgomery, Alabama 36104
The Center began as a small civil rights law firm in 1971. Now it is internationally known for its tolerance education program, its legal victories against white supremicist groups, its tracking of hate groups and its sponsorship of the Civil Rights Memorial. Located in Montgomery, Alabama -- the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement -- the Center was founded by Morris Dees and Joe Levin, two local lawyers who shared a commitment to racial equality. Its first president was civil rights activist Julian Bond, who continues his involvement in the Center's work today as President Emeritus.
Native American
Rights Fund
1506
Broadway
Boulder,
CO. 80303 USA
The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is the non-profit legal organization devoted to defending and promoting the legal rights of the Indian people. NARF attorneys, most of whom are Native Americans, defend tribes who otherwise cannot bear the financial burden of obtaining justice in the courts of the United States. NARF has unique role in America: It focuses on guaranteeing that national and state governments live up to their legal obligations mainly through work in the courtroom. Here, NARF invokes laws enacted by these same government bodies to give strength and substance to promises that have been empty for too many years. the staff of NARF use their understanding of Native American legal issues to assist tribes in negotiating with individuals, companies, and governmental agencies, and to help draft and promote beneficial legislation. One major focus of the organization is to restore the rights guaranteed by existing laws and treaties. This emphasis helps Native Americans in all 50 states advance toward controlling their own destinies and assuring their own survival. Cases are accepted on the basis of their breadth and potential importance in setting precedents and establishing important principles of Indian law.
World Wildlife Organization
World Wildlife
Fund
1250 Twenty-Fourth Street, N.W.
P.O. Box 97180
Washington, DC 20077-7180
1-800-CALL-WWF
Known worldwide
by its panda logo, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is dedicated to protecting the
world's wildlife and wild lands. The largest privately supported international
conservation organization in the world, WWF has more than 1 million members
in the U.S. alone. Since its inception in 1961, WWF has invested in over 13,100
projects in 157 countries.
WWF directs its conservation efforts toward three global goals: protecting endangered
spaces, saving endangered species, and addressing global threats. From working
to save the giant panda, tiger, and rhino to helping establish and manage parks
and reserves worldwide, WWF has been a conservation leader for more than 38
years.
Habitat for Humanity International
Partner Service
Center
Habitat for Humanity International
121 Habitat St.
Americus, GA 31709
USA
Telephone: (912) 924-6935, ext. 2551 or 2552
E-mail: public_info@habitat.org
Since its founding
in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller, Habitat for Humanity International has
built and rehabilitated some 80,000 houses with families in need, becoming a
true world leader in addressing the issues of poverty housing.
The concept that grew into Habitat for Humanity International was born at Koinonia
Farm, a small, interracial, Christian farming community founded in 1942 outside
of Americus, Ga., by farmer and biblical scholar Clarence Jordan. The Fullers
first visited Koinonia in 1965, having recently left a successful business in
Montgomery, Ala., and all the trappings of an affluent lifestyle to begin a
new life of Christian service. At Koinonia, Jordan and Fuller developed the
concept of "partnership housing" -- where those in need of adequate shelter
would work side by side with volunteers to build simple, decent houses.
The houses would be built with no profit added and no interest charged. Building
would be financed by a revolving Fund for Humanity. The fund's money would come
from the new homeowners' house payments, donations and no-interest loans provided
by supporters and money earned by fund-raising activities. The monies in the
Fund for Humanity would be used to build more houses.
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org
Amnesty International
USA Section
322 8th Avenue,
New York,
NY 10001,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and "disappearances"; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.
Amnesty International has around a million members and supporters in 162 countries and territories. Activities range from public demonstrations to letter-writing, from human rights education to fundraising concerts, from individual appeals on a particular case to global campaigns on a particular issue.
Amnesty International is impartial and independent of any government, political persuasion or religious creed. Amnesty International is financed largely by subscriptions and donations from its worldwide membership.
Doctors Without Borders
11 East 26th Street,
Suite 1904
New York, NY 10010
United States of America
Tel: (212) 679-6800
Fax: (212) 679-7016
E-mail: dwb@newyork.msf.org
URL: http://www.dwb.org/
Doctors Without Borders USA (DWB) is the U.S. affiliate of an international organization known around the world by its French name, Medecins Sans Frontieres. DWB volunteers offer assistance--primarily medical--to victims of armed conflict or natural disasters, and to residents of refugee camps. DWB observes strict neutrality and demands absolute freedom in performing its mission. The kinds of assistance DWB provides include: medical care, from surgery to vaccinations to nutrition and health education; logistical assistance in setting up shelter, communications, water processing and sanitation, power supplies, and transportation; and medical and food supplies.
Thousands of volunteers serve annually, in about 60 countries around the world. In 1993 and 1994 MSF sent volunteers to Tajikstan to respond to civil unrest there and the resultant refugee flows. MSF has also been active in Russia providing preventive health services to the homeless, offering hygiene services, tuberculosis examinations, inoculations against diphtheria, etc. The organization has been active in advocating for the rights of the homeless. In November 1993, the association protested against the Moscow government's actions to close the medical and social aid facilities at some Moscow railway stations.
DWB volunteers include general practitioners, surgeons, anesthesiologists, pediatricians, obstetricians, nurses, and tropical medicine and public health specialists. The average length of service is 6 months for most physicians, but sometimes shorter for surgeons and anesthesiologists. The Volunteer Recruitment Department is based in the Paris office. Address: Medecins Sans Frontieres, 8, rue Saint Sabin, 75544 Paris Cedex 11.
Project Underground
Project Underground
1847 Berkeley
Way
Berkeley
CA 94703, USA.
http://www.portal.org/ProjectUnderground/
Project Underground exists as a vehicle for the environmental, human rights and indigenous rights movements to carry out focused campaigns against abusive extractive resource activity. We seek to systematically deal with the problems created by the mining and oil industries by exposing environmental and human rights abuses by the corporations involved in these sectors and by building capacity amongst communities facing mineral and energy development to achieve economic and environmental justice.
In general we work to provide informational, technical, legal and scientific support to communities facing oil, gas and mining operations; as well as to campaign in support of communities adversely affected by these industries. More specifically Project Underground serves those communities threatened by the mining and oil industries by:
Informing
communities of the environmental impacts of oil and mining activities;
Informing communities of their rights under international and national law;
Supplying corporate data, history, and examples of best-practice to communities;
When requested Project Underground helps communities resist unsustainable
activity through a variety of avenues including, but not limited to, networking
with other communities of resistance, helping seek national and international
legal redress, publicity, access to international fora, with a range of
tactics involved in our own brand of nonviolent, strategic campaigning and
by building their organizational capacity.
American Friends
Service Committee
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: (215) 241-7000
Fax: (215) 241-7275
E-mail: afscinfo@afsc.org
(a 501(c)3 organization, all contributions are tax deductible
at 1-888-588-2372 ext 1)
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.
Founded in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian victims during World War I, today the AFSC has programs that focus on issues related to economic justice, peace-building and demilitarization, social justice, and youth, in the United States, and in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Disabled American
VeteransDAV
National Headquarters
P.O. Box 14301
Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301
Phone: (606) 441-7300
Treaties are signed and the battles of nations end, but the personal battles of those disabled in war only begin when the guns fall silent. These men and women must struggle to regain health, reshape lives shattered by disability, learn new trades or prof essions, and rejoin the civilian world. At each step, they need help to help themselves. For three quarters of a century now, that aid has come from the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), a nonprofit organization of more than one million veterans disabled during time of war or armed conflict.
Formed in 1920 and chartered by Congress in 1932, the million-member DAV is the official voice of America's service-connected disabled veterans -- a strong, insistent voice that represents all of America's 2.1 million disabled veterans, their families an d survivors. Its nationwide network of services -- free of charge to all veterans and members of their families -- is totally supported by membership dues and contributions from the American public. Not a government agency, the DAV's national organization receives no government funds.
Nature Conservancy
Founded in 1951,
The Nature Conservancy is the world's leading private, International conservation
group. We preserve habitats and species by saving the lands and waters they
need to survive.
Our 1-million-plus members have helped us protect more than 11 million acres
of habitat in the United States and nearly 60 million acres in Canada, Latin
America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. We currently manage 1,340 preserves,
the largest system of private nature sanctuaries in the world.
Our results-oriented, nonconfrontational approach allows us to forge partnerships
with landowners, corporations, and governments. And our commitment to working
with local people gives us an on-the-ground presence in communities around the
world.
Sound science, partnerships, and innovation are the hallmarks of our work. But
even as we seek to expand the boundaries of conservation, we remain true to
our original mission: saving the Earth's Last Great Places for future generations.
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