Birthday Wishes

Okay. It’s too darn difficult to pick one non-profit to support. One year, I posted an organization a day for a week and I thought about doing that again this year, but what if I just post an entry that sort of serves as one-stop shopping?

So here goes; some of these orgs are small and fly outside the radar; others are higher profiled and may not need the bump-up, but I’m rather convinced that what helps one, helps all.


Essentially, the foci of these organizations fall generally between human right and environmental rights. Climate advocacy could fall under either heading because, let’s face it, the more dire the climate, the more humanity is going to suffer. 


Human Rights


Human Rights Watch: https://hrw.org


Physicians for Human Rights: https://phr.org/about/


Doctors without Borders: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org


Oxfam:  https://www.oxfamamerica.org


Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.splcenter.org


Legal Defense Fund: https://www.naacpldf.org


Amnesty International: https://www.amnesty.org/en/


The Malala Fund: https://malala.org


American Civil Liberties Union: https://aclu.org


Centro Presente: https://cpresente.org/?v=ae551853b692


Students for Free Tibet: https://studentsforafreetibet.org


Campaign for a New Myanmar: https://www.newmyanmar.org


ROKPA: https://www.rokpa.org


Karuna-Shechen: https://karuna-shechen.org/en/about/


Lord Buddha Charitable School: https://www.facebook.com/lbwfchoraha/


Farhad’s Charitable Works: https://www.facebook.com/FarhadsCharitableWorks/?ref=page_internal





Environmental 


The Nature Conservancy: https://www.nature.org/en-us/


The Rain Forest Alliance: https://www.rainforest-alliance.org


Greenpeace: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/


The Environmental Working Group: https://www.ewg.org


Clean Air Task Force: https://www.catf.us


Natural Resources Defense Council: https://www.nrdc.org


Friends of the Earth: https://foe.org


The Houston Arboretum: https://houstonarboretum.org/

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