Select Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet

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Nonprofit Listings

• Alternet, a national news and information service supporting the alternative press. Their Culture Wars Projects highlights right wing censorship efforts.

• The American Civil Liberties Union is the nation's foremost advocate of individual rights -- litigating, legislating and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States.

• The Center for World Indigenous Studies is a research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations.

• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility's mission is to provide the public and policymakers with realistic assessments of the power, promise, and problems of information technology.

• The Concord Coalition is a grass roots movement to eliminate budget deficits. We are educating and mobilizing citizens and members of Congress to do something before it is too late.

• The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a civil liberties organization working to protect your rights on-line.

• The Economic Democracy Information Network is a project dedicated to expanding the voice of community organizations on the Information Superhighway.

• FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) is a national media watch group offering well-documented, objective criticism in an effort to correct media bias and imbalance. Their magazine EXTRA! is available on-line.

• The Foundation Center is a nonprofit service organization dedicated to building public understanding of the foundation field by maintaining a comprehensive database on foundations and corporate giving programs and the grants they give. The Center makes this and other funding information available to the public at no charge at more than 200 libraries.

• The Foundation for National Progress was founded in 1973 to educate and empower people to work toward progressive change. The nonprofit FNP publishes Mother Jones magazine, administers Mother Jones Reporting Internships, manages the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography and oversees the activities of Mother Jones Interactive.

• Free Burma is dedicated to raising awareness of the fact that the people in Burma have been living under martial law since 1962. Free Burma aims to collect and serve any information which educates or serves other educators of this reality.

• The Freedom Forum is devoted to promoting free press, free speech and free spirit for all people.

• The Global Fund for Women is an international grant-making organization supporting groups that are committed to women's well-being and full participation in society.

• Greenpeace is one of the world's largest environmental organizations. Greenpeace embraces the principle of non-violence, rejecting attacks on either people or property.

• Human Rights Web contains up-to-date information about human rights and links to human rights organizations.

• HungerWeb is designed to be both a general education platform and a research resource on hunger related issues. Highlights include an interactive Hunger Quiz and an email gateway to the President and Vice President of the United States.

• INFACT's purpose is to stop life-threatening abuses of transnational corporations and increase their accountability to people around the world.

• The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) Networks - PeaceNet, EcoNet, ConflictNet, and LaborNet - serve individuals and organizations working toward peace, environmental protection, human rights, social and economic justice, sustainable and equitable development, health, and nonviolent conflict resolution.

• The International Service Agencies is a federation of 55 premier American voluntary organizations which, last year, assisted more than 159 million impoverished people in virtually every developing country worldwide.

• Lead... or Leave is the largest Generation X political organization in the United States, and a leading force in the effort to put generational issues on the national political map.

• The League for Programming Freedom is a grassroots organization that opposes software patents and interface copyrights.

• The National Child Rights Alliance believes that civil rights apply to all people - including children and youth. NCRA seeks to change economic, social, legal, medical, cultural and parental practices that harm youth.

• The National Coalition for the Homeless is a national advocacy network of homeless persons, activists, service providers, and others committed to a single goal: to end homelessness.

• The National Organization for Women (NOW) has grown into the largest feminist organization in this country. For nearly 30 years NOW activists have been at the forefront of every issue relating to full equality for women in our society.

• N|USA is a coalition of prestigious, national charitable organizations providing direct services in thousands of local communities; N|USA provides employers with a choice of charities to present to employees recognizing the importance of charitable choice and diversity.

• OneWorld Online is a dynamic meeting place and information resource centre on issues of global justice and human sustainable development.

• ORT was founded in 1880 in St.Petersburg to provide basic trades and agricultural skills. ORT today is a non-political, not-for-profit making organisation which meets the education and training needs of contemporary societies around the world.

• The Peregrine Foundation is a charitable, educational and research organization created to network people living in or exiting from experimental social groups. We also publish newsletters and books.

• The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, part of The Center for Public Interest Law, empowers consumers to take action to control their own personal information by providing practical tips on privacy protection.

• Project America is a non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire and teach people across the country to take positive steps to improve their own communities, and to facilitate partnerships between volunteers and the organizations that need them.

• The Queer Resources Directory is an electronic research library specifically dedicated to sexual minorities -- groups that have traditionally been labelled as "queer" and systematically discriminated against.

• ReliefNet is a non-profit corporation dedicated to helping humanitarian organizations raise global awareness and support for relief efforts via the interent. ReliefNet is sponsoring ReliefRock, the first online benefit concert, to help participating relief organizations.

• The Sierra Club is an environmental protection organization dedicated "To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth."

• Stop Prisoner Rape is dedicated to combatting the rape of prisoners and providing assistance to survivors of jailhouse rape.

• Who Cares, a quarterly magazine covering community service and social activism.

• World Game Institute is a non-profit, non partisan research & educational organization, originated by Buckminster Fuller.

• World Neighbors is a small US/Canada based development organisation that works with the poorest of the poor in Asia, Africa and South America, helping improve health, nutrition and well-being through training and community action.

• The Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide alerts the public to the dangers of DHMO and the government's shameful inaction against DHMO.

• People for the Ethical Treatment of Software