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Campaign
for a Commercial Free Childhood: This site focuses on the
problems associated with advertising and children.
Causes
of Poverty: This site provides statistics on world poverty
and strategies to eliminate or reduce poverty.
Climate
Crisis: This website provides details about Al Gore's movie
"An Inconvenient Truth"
Co-op
America: "We work for a world where all people have
enough, where all communities are healthy and safe, and where
the bounty of the Earth is preserved for all the generations
to come. "
Dads
and Daughters: "Dads and Daughters is the national
advocacy nonprofit for fathers and daughters. DADs inspires
fathers to actively and deeply engage in the lives of their
daughters and galvanizes fathers and others to transform the
pervasive cultural messages that devalue girls and women."
Environmental
Defense: Fight global warming. This organization addresses
several environmental problems, providing solutions.
Free
the Children: "Free The Children is the largest network
of children helping children through education in the world,
with more than one million youth involved in our innovative
education and development programs in 45 countries. "
I
Love Pandas: This site is dedicated to Panda awareness and
protection. You can access Panda games, gifts and more.
Make
Poverty History: This site provides statistics on world
poverty and gives strategies to help end poverty.
Media
Awareness Network: This site has a lesson plan to help teens
improve their self esteem.
National
Center for Children in Poverty: The purpose of this organization
is to identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty
in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income
children and families.
Natural
Resources Defense Council: "NRDC works to solve the
most pressing environmental issues we face today: curbing global
warming, getting toxic chemicals out of the environment, moving
America beyond oil, reviving our oceans, saving wildlife and
wild places, and helping China go green."
Oxfam:
"Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations
working together with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries
to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice."
Pennies
for Peace: "The mission of Central Asia Institute focuses
on community-based education, especially for girls. Research
from the developing world reveals that a 5th grade education
for a girl improves not only the basic indices of health for
her and her family, but also helps her spread the value of education
within her community. "
Pinwheels
for Peace: "Pinwheels for Peace is an art installation
project started in 2005 by two Art teachers, Ann Ayers and Ellen
McMillan, who teach at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek,
Florida, as a way for students to express their feelings about
what’s going on in the world and in their lives. The project
was quickly embraced by their students and the entire school
community. "
Pollution:
This site provides information about different types of pollutants
and their effects on the environment. It offers solutions to
problems dealing with pollution.
Sierra
Club: This site focuses on environmental problems and solutions.
St.
Jude Children's Research Hospital: "Discoveries made
here have completely changed how the world treats children with
cancer and other catastrophic diseases. With research and patient
care under one roof, St. Jude is where some of today's most
gifted researchers are able to do science more quickly."
Tolerance:
This site provides information about injustices throughout the
world and steps that can be taken to eradicate those injustices.
Unicef:
United Nations Children's Fund. Unicef is a non profit organization
that works toward the advancement of society by being advocates
of children. Check out the make a difference videos. The award
goes to the video that best captures the mission of Voices
of Youth. You can view the winner
and
semi finalists.
World
Wildlife Fund: The World Wildlife Fund focuses on endangered
species, the protection of endangered habitats and global threats.
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