Again, The Invisible Children Education Program. I vote for that.

Habitat is a great cause, in fact thanks to your clicks you all donated funds from a J1C campaign on Katrina to them not so awfully long ago. If not for that the team probably would have chosen that for the cause. ((This doesn't mean that it won't be used for a campaign in the future!)) New J1C will be up in a few days.

Habitat would go to a chapter that needs money, it doesn't matter where it goes, because all that money that was raised for Katrina payed for temporary living, by donating to habitat, your helping someone who has a job buy a house.

I like the Invisible Children and the Habitat ideas, but the if we donated to Habitat, it would most likely go to victims of Hurricane Katrina, and haven't we already done a J1C for the victims of Hurricane Katrina?

I like the Invisible Children idea. But everybody else's are good, too.

I don't know if this one has been done yet, but I think the next one should go to the Invisible Children Program. They are helping children in Uganda. I saw the Invisible Children Documentary and it broke my heart. For more information or if any of you guys want to find out more about this click here to go to their website.

two thousand is a roof or a shed, or the concrete pad, or a couple walls... you get the idea

I just wonder how much $1-2 thousand will do for them...

I wouldn't mind doing one month for Habitat, but I think we should also find smaller organizations, for whom the money we raise would be a more significant contribution...also with smaller organizations the money tends to go less towards administrative costs and more towards actually helping people.

I agree with Hydrok (for once). Habitat is a very good organization that was among the top 5 sources of monetary relief for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. I have helped them at least 3 times in the last year or so, and I always leave with a feeling of doing something productive.

Whatever...it's an organization that I have worked with several times in the past and I have heard a lot of great things about it. It's fine if we don't use it, you don't have to shoot it down...I was just giving my 2 cents.

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Originally posted by Meagan87:
I really like Heifer Project International. It gives farm animals to families so that they can earn a living for themselves. Then the animals reproduce and it helps out more people in their towns.

The reason why I really like it is that we would REALLY see where the money goes. Also I like it because it doesn't just hand out food on a silver platter. It gives them a way to help themselves, and provides them with something that will last significantly longer than a cup of rice or beans.

I've been in the livestock business since I was a child, even in Ireland I was in the business. A Heifer or two does not predict an outcome, nor does it help it. To breed an animal requires a license, plus a sire (a steer; male specimen), and the knowledge to breed it. Plus it all has to be registered. It's a very expensiver process and a hard one to earn money on. It takes time and more money to actually complete the process, and you end up paying more than you earn.

Habitat lets someone buy a house, it's not like those houses are given to them, they help build them, and they also have to pay a mortgage, it's not handed on a silver platter, and with all the people who lost houses in the hurricanes they are all rebuilding in San Antonio, and habitat is helping people live well again

I really like Heifer Project International. It gives farm animals to families so that they can earn a living for themselves. Then the animals reproduce and it helps out more people in their towns.

The reason why I really like it is that we would REALLY see where the money goes. Also I like it because it doesn't just hand out food on a silver platter. It gives them a way to help themselves, and provides them with something that will last significantly longer than a cup of rice or beans.

how about habitat?

How bout one of those groups that sends stuff out to our troops (books, games, food that isn't from an MRE and so forth)

or perhaps a veterans support group?

Still waiting on a Habitat for Humanity

Bump! Send in your ideas!

Thank you very much!

PS - I can provide pictures if you would like.

Excellent suggestion! I will pass it along.

This board hasn't been used in a while but I think this is one of those times it should be....

As some of you may know, New England has experienced catastrophic flooding from southern parts of Maine, most of New Hampshire and a good chunk of Massachusetts. There will be heavy financial burdens for the states and local communities, as well as the individuals/families devastated by such an unexpected event. This wasn't just more water - this flood, several feet over the flood mark in most areas, reached historical proportions and swept furniture, cars and large parts of the infrastructure away with it.

As a YNer who has helped others whom I didn't even know by clicking and even now being a person who was not personally effected by the damages, I plead to YN to help our areas out by dedicating the next J1C to the communities to help us out. This was not an earthquake of the West Coast, a hurricane of the Southeast or a tornado of the West. Nor was this a flood of the Mississippi River Valley - it was a natural disaster in an unexpected area. Please, YN, find it in your hearts to do what you can.

Thank you.