Bridge Causes

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Organizations actively working to make a difference in the world

Bridge Causes

A HEALTHY WORLD: Keep A Breast

The Keep A Breast Foundation is a unique non-profit organization creating plaster forms of the female torso, customized by fine artists and auctioned to raise funding for breast cancer. Keep A Breast's mission is to produce art events that increase breast cancer awareness among young people and benefit breast cancer education, prevention and treatment programs in communities around the world.

www.keep-a-breast.org

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CARING FOR THE HOMELESS - Stand Up For Kids

Stand Up For Kids is an organization that helps homeless and street kids. Their volunteers go to the streets in America to find, stabilize and otherwise help homeless and street kids improve their lives. In addition to the street outreach, Stand Up For Kids also provide deterrence and resource programs in schools and over the internet. Volunteers are committed to caring about kids and proving it.

www.standupforkids.org

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CLEAN WATER FOR THE WORLD: Healing Waters International

Healing Waters International works to reduce water-related illness and death in developing countries by building self-sustaining projects that make safe drinking water accessible to the poor and empower local churches to bring physical, social and spiritual healing to their communities.

www.healingwatersintl.org

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DISASTER AND CRISIS RELIEF: World Vision

World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty. They serve the world's poor— regardless of a person's religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.

www.worldvision.org

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EDUCATION FOR ALL: Unicef

UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. Specifically they promote girls’ education – ensuring that they complete primary education as a minimum – because it benefits all children, both girls and boys. Girls who are educated grow up to become better thinkers, better citizens, and better parents to their own children.

www.unicefusa.org

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ENDING THE AIDS PANDEMIC: YouthAIDS

YouthAIDS, an HIV/AIDS education and prevention initiative of Population Services International (PSI*), targets at risk youth between the ages of 15-24 with positive, upbeat messages of abstinence, consistent and correct condom use for sexually active young adults and delayed sexual debut.  YouthAIDS uses media, pop culture, music, theatre and sport to reach 600 million young people in more than 60 countries with life-saving messages, products, services and care.

http://projects.psi.org

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FEEDING THE HUNGRY: 30-Hour Famine

The 30 Hour Famine is a World Vision program that allows young people to make a significant impact on the problem of world hunger. By pledging to go without food for 30 hours, participants not only raise money to help alleviate this type of suffering, but also gain an understanding of how it feels to experience hunger. Over the years we've learned that this experience, combined with a greater awareness of the suffering taking place in many parts of the world, will inspire young people to compassion and a greater desire to make a difference in the lives of others.

www.30hourfamine.org

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HELPING THE POOR: Make Trade Fair

Make Trade Fair is a campaign by Oxfam to educate and mobilize people to change unfair trade practices. When people are blocked from opportunity, they often need to change laws, customs, and policies. Without these changes, real progress against poverty cannot be achieved. Oxfam's economic and political analysis helps them change the minds of powerful decision makers.

www.maketradefair.com

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PREVENTING SUBSTANCE ABUSE: Natural High

Natural High is a campaign by Sundt Memorial Foundation. Their mission is to change the hearts and minds of young people by encouraging them not to do drugs and to inspire them to make healthy choices. Natural High does this by using cutting-edge multimedia to deliver this message through the cultural leaders and heroes of today's youth.

www.drugfreewave.com/

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PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS: Save Darfur Coalition

The Save Darfur Coalition is an alliance of over 100 faith-based, humanitarian and human rights organizations. Our mission is to raise public awareness and to mobilize an effective unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of two million people in the Darfur region.

www.savedarfur.org

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PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT: Surfrider Foundation

The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's oceans, waves and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism, research and education.

www.surfrider.org

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SAVING CHILDREN: Invisible Children

Invisible Children, Inc. is dedicated to providing financial resources to the invisible children of Northern Uganda by documenting their true, untold stories in a creative and relevant way, resulting in positive change.These resources will provide health, safety and education for the children of Northern Uganda who are affected by the 20-year-long war.

www.invisiblechildren.com

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