- The Danny Federici Melanoma Fund is dedicated to the research and development of new and effective treatments for melanoma through funding for additional clinical trials based upon Danny's melanoma treatments and other methods headed by Dr. Paul Chapman of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Our other objective is to raise awareness for this aggressive disease.
Donate (be sure to enter Danny's name under "Tributes and Special Occasions")
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 Kristen
Ann Carr Fund
- The Kristen Ann Carr
fund's central task in to endow a fellowship for the study of soft tissue
sarcoma at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Donate
Kristen Ann Carr
Fund
39 West 32nd Street
Suite 1403
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-501-0748
Fax: 212-268-3544
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 World
Hunger Year
- World Hunger Year (WHY),
founded by Harry Chapin in 1975, seeks to end hunger and poverty by addressing
their root causes and promoting self-reliance. WHY tells the stories of empowerment
and community building, and works in partnerships to support effective programs
and policies.
Donate
World Hunger Year
Inc. (WHY)
505 Eighth Avenue * 21st Floor
New York, N.Y. 10018-6582
(212) 629-8850 / (800) 5-HUNGRY
EMail: whyear@aol.com
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- Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded by Iraq war veterans in 2004 to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war.
Donate
IVAW
P.O. Box 8296
Philadelphia, PA 19101
Tel: 215.241.7123
Fax: 215.241.7177
Email: ivaw@ivaw.org
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 Parkinson's
Disease Foundation
- The Parkinson's Disease
Foundation, Inc. is a national, non-profit organization, dedicated to supporting
and promoting the highest-quality research world-wide into the cause(s) and
cure of Parkinson's disease, and for better symptomatic treatments.
Donate
Parkinson's Disease
Foundation
1359 Broadway, Suite 1509
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212.923.4700 or 800.457.6676
Fax: 212.923.4778
send email
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- The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic's mission is to sustain Louisiana's musicians in mind, body and spirit by developing access to primary care and preventative health services and by addressing the health care needs of the musicians and their families.
Donate
New Orleans Musicians' Clinic
3600 Prytania St. #35
New Orleans, La 70115
Phone: 504-895-5748
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-
 Give US Your Poor
- The Give US Your Poor mission is to create a revolution in public awareness, dispel myths and inspire action towards ending epidemic homeless in the United States. It works to affect change at the policy level, engage volunteerism and contributions at the individual and corporate levels through media, technology and education; and to funnel support to partner homeless organizations.
donate
Give Us Your Poor (checks to "UMass Foundation - Give Us Your Poor")
c/o McCormack Graduate School
UMass Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125
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Phone: 617-287-5532
Fax: 617-287-5544
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 Second
Harvest
- Founded in 1979, Second
Harvest is the largest domestic hunger relief organization in the United States,
providing nearly a billion pounds of food each year to those in need.
Donate
Second Harvest
116 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 4
Chicago, Illinois 60603-6001
Phone: (312) 263-2303
Fax: (312) 263-5626
send email
FoodBank of Monmouth/Ocean Counties,
NJ
Food Bank of South Central Michigan
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-
 Bob Woodruff Family Fund
- The Bob Woodruff Family Fund assists service members injured while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Special emphasis is placed on the "hidden signature injuries" of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – traumatic brain injury (TBI) and combat stress injuries including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
donate
The Bob Woodruff Family Fund
P.O. Box 731
Birmingham, MI 48012-0731
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 Musicians
on Call
- Musicians on Call, originally
founded as a division of the Kristen Ann Carr Fund by Michael Solomon and
Vivek Tiwary, uses music and entertainment to promote and complement the healing
process for patients in the interest of improving quality of life and creating
a better living and healing environment.
Donations
Musicians on Call
555 West 57th Street
Suite 1500
New York, New York 10019
telephone 212-259-0717 fax 212-262-6350
E-mail: info@musiciansoncall.org
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 The Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the A.L.S. Association
- The mission of the ALS Association, Greater Philadelphia Chapter, is to help people live with ALS, to advocate for ALS patients and caregivers and to support research into the cause, cure and treatment of ALS.
Donate
The ALS Association
Greater Philadelphia Chapter
321 Norristown Road, Suite 260
Ambler, PA 19002
telephone 877-GEHRIG-1 (1-877-434-7441) fax 215-643-9307
EMail: alsassoc@alsphiladelphia.org
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 The
Community Food Bank of New Jersey
-
The Community
FoodBank of New Jersey
31 Evans Terminal Road
Hillside, N.J. 07205
Phone: (908) 355-3663
Fax: (908) 355-0270
EMail: netguy@njfoodbank.org
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 Hungry
for Music
- "Music will heal when
all else has really failed" -- Judy Collins
Hungry for Music (HFM) began as an annual homless benefit concert on April
15, 1992. HFM's primary mission is to aid in cultivating the self-esteem of
disadvantaged children through music education.
To order Diamond Cuts: A Compilation of Baseball Songs and Poetry,
call (888) 843-0933.
Donate
Hungry for Music
2020 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Suite 384
Washington, D.C. 20006
(703) 521-4361
Executive Director: Jeff Campbell
E-mail: hungryformusic@worldnet.att.net
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 Vietnam
Veterans of America Foundation
- Established by a dedicated
group of Vietnam veterans in 1980, VVAF has transformed the experience of
war suffered by America's Vietnam veterans into a program of service to others
who have suffered the scourge of national and international conflict. VVAF's
programs focus on the reconciliation of war-torn societies and providing assistance
to the innocent victims of those wars.
Vietnam Veterans
of America Foundation
2001 S St, NW 7th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20009
202-483-9222 (o) 483-9312 (f)
E-mail: banminesusa@vi.org
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- The Fallen Patriot Fund
of the Mark Cuban Foundation was established to help families of U.S. military
personnel who were killed or seriously injured during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Donations
Fallen Patriot
Fund
c/o Bank of America Private Bank
TX1-492-19-09
P.O. Box 832409
Dallas, TX 75283-2409
214-748-3900 (o) 214-696-6310 (f)
E-mail: info@fallenpatriotfund.org
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 Special
Olympics
- Let me win. But if
I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.
Special Olympics, founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1968, provides year-round
sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports
for individuals with mental retardation, thus giving them continuing opportunities
to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate
in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special
Olympics athletes and the community.
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Donate
Special Olympics
International
1325 G Street, NW
Suite 500, Dept. DD
Washington, D.C. 20005
Phone: 202.628.3630 / Fax: 202.824.0200
send email
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- "Almost all children
respond to music. Music is an open-sesame, and if you can use it carefully
and appropriately, you can reach into that child's potential for development."
-- Dr. Clive Robbins
The Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Foundation has aided autistic and physically
disabled children through music therapy since 1988.
Nordoff-Robbins
Music Therapy
730 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017
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 City
of Hope
- City of Hope, inspired
and supported by a philanthropic volunteer movement, is dedicated to the prevention,
treatment and cure of cancer and other life-threatening diseases through innovative
research and patient care.
Donate
National Medical
Center and Beckman Research Institute
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte, California 91010-3000
(626) 359-8111
send email
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 T.J.
Martell Foundation
- The T.J. Martell Foundation
for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS Research was founded by record executive Tony
Martell in 1975 as a result of a promise he made as a father to his dying
son. T.J., who when dying of leukemia at age 19, asked his father to help
those with this terrible disease. The Foundation has since added cancer and
AIDS research to its program and has raised over $110 million for its laboratories
in New York, Los Angeles and Nashville.
TOGETHER . . . WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Donate
Email: foundation@tjmartellfoundation.org
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- Special
People United to Ride (SPUR)
- Special People United
to Ride (S.P.U.R.) is a nonprofit organization of Monmouth County, New Jersey
area citizens established in 1981. Members assist the Park System in serving
individuals with physical and mental disabilities through horseback riding
lessons conducted at the Huber Woods Park Equestrian Program Center in Middletown
Township, New Jersey.
S.P.U.R.
654 Newman Springs Road
Lincroft, N.J. 07738
Phone: (732) 872-2928
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- The
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund
- Established by Buckingham
Palace on September 2, 1997, the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund at
Kensington Palace will allocate funds to the charities with which Princess
Diana worked.
US dollar donations: http://www.natwest.com/worldpay
The Diana, Princess
of Wales Memorial Fund
c/o/ Fleet Bank
PO Box 30596
Hartford, CT 06150
Phone: (800) 533-0183
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- The Smithsonian Institute
acquired Folkways Records in 1987. To raise money for Folkways, several artists,
including Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Willie
Nelson, and others recorded A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly: Folkways:
A Vision Shared.
To order the recording or video, call (800) 828-0229 (Catalogue Number:
CD, 3063B; Cassette, 3063C; Video, 3063A).
For more information about gifts to the Smithsonian, please contact:
Office of Development
1465 Arts & Industries Building, MRC 411
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560
Phone: (202) 357-4300
Fax: (202) 786-2516
For Smithsonian membership information:
Smithsonian
Information
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560
202/357-2700 (voice; 202/357-1729 (TTY for callers with communication impairments)
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 The
Pediatric AIDS Foundation
- The Pediatric AIDS Foundation,
cofounded by Elizabeth Glaser, Susan DeLaurentis, and Susie Zeegen in 1988,
is the only national nonprofit foundation that identifies, funds, and conducts
pediatric AIDS research worldwide. The foundation's primary objectives are
to find effective methods for blocking the transmission of HIV from infected
mothers to newborns, and to develop treatments for prolonging and improving
the quality of life for HIV-infected individuals.
Donate
Elisabeth Glaser
Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Dept #0096
Washington, D.C. 20055
Phone: 202-448-8446
Email: info@pedaids.org
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 Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center is a world leader in cancer care, research, and education. Their
mission is leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through
excellence, vision, and cost-effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs,
research, and education.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center
Box E
1275 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Send email
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 Amnesty
International
- Founded in 1961, Amnesty
International is an independent worldwide human rights movement working impartially
for the release of all prisoners of conscience, fair and prompt trials for
political prisoners, and an end to torture and executions.
Donate
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Amnesty International
USA
322-8th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
(800) AMNESTY
Email from the USA: admin-us@aiusa.org
Email from outside the USA: amnestyis@amnesty.org
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- The
Rainforest Foundation
- Founded in 1989 by Sting,
Trudie Styler and Menkragnoti Kayapo Indian Chief Raoni, The Rainforest Foundation
supports indigenous peoples and traditional populations of diverse rainforest
areas in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfill their rights.
Donate
The Rainforest
Foundation
32 Broadway, Suite 1614
New York, NY 10004
Phone: (212) 431-9098
Fax: (212) 431-9197
Email: rffny@rffny.org
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- The
Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives
- The Woody Guthrie Archives
was created in 1995 to preserve Woody's vast legacy of songs, writings, artwork
and correspondence.
Donate
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The Woody Guthrie
Archives
250 W. 57th St., Suite 1218
New York, NY 10107
Phone: 914-241-3844
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 The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- For membership information:
The Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame + Museum
Attn: Membership Department
1 Key Plaza
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
1-800-349-ROCK (7625)
Email:member@rockhall.com
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