Participate - Change the World

The week of October 19^th the major networks, ABC, FOX, CBS, and NBC will air community service plotlines on their shows. The Entertainment Industry Foundation’s I Participate campaign will promote volunteering in America.  Stars and entertainers have been outspoken for charities for years. Virginia Madsen supports charitywater.org, a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.  Charity Water has more than a million followers on Twitter. Josh Charles is a musician/Activist/ piano playing/song writer living in Brooklyn, N.Y. He’s trying to make the world a better place starting in New Orleans with his song Healing Times . Besides being a sports fan, Alyssa Milano supports global public health, neglected tropical diseases that threaten millions throughout the developing world each year, but for just 50 cents.

The everyday people, who are stars in the eyes of their family and friends, help to Change the World. Homeless Tales, Home of the Street Voices project where homeless and formerly homeless persons discuss the issues and tell their stories.

12 for 12 - 12 months, 12 charities, 12 ways to make a difference.

Hardly Normal is a one man’s mission against homelessness. You can follow his journey and see the picture diary of people across America which he started in July 2009.

Alex’s Lemonade fights childhood cancer, One Cup of Lemonade at a Time.

It Starts With Us broadcast stories about people who are making a positive impact in the lives around them. Just everyday people out to change the world.

According to Barefoot Books, they give back by partnering with Books for Africa. Books for Africa work with publishers, book stores, and the community to bring books to needy children in schools and libraries across Africa. To support BFA, Barefoot Books reduced the cost of selected books with African themes. When you purchase a book from their Books for Africa Collection, they will send it directly to a child in need.

Angel Food Ministries is a non-profit, non-denominational organization dedicated to providing food relief and financial support to communities throughout the United States. There are no qualifications, minimums, income restrictions, or applications. Everyone is encouraged to participate. Becoming a host site for Angel Food Ministries has many benefits. It will enrich your ministry, your volunteers and your community in remarkable ways.

All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. -Edmund Burke

Southern Poverty Law Center has a map of hate groups in the United States. WOW – what a sad reputation for the “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave!” With all the poverty, homelessness, sick, hungry, abused people in the United States, we still find time to hate! According to the Southern Poverty Law Center website, racism is a grim crisis in America. Fueled by immigration suspicions, the economic catastrophe and the election of a Black president (who’s actually biracial), racist hate groups enlarged their membership again in 2008. The Law Center wants the people of the United States of America to Take A Stand against racism and intolerance attacking communities, schools and political debate (infamous town hall meetings). You can sign up on the website.