Comments on: Read-a-thon Charities: Suggestions

By: Michelle G.

Michelle G. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:22:30 +0000

For the Read-a-Thon next April, could you include the charity Room to Read? http://www.roomtoread.org

Thanks!

By: Shanna

Shanna — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:41:57 +0000

I am going to add a link and try to raise some contributions for The Child Upliftment Center in Nepal. This is a really small group of people that I was involved with when I lived in Nepal, and two of my friends started an orphanage for about 20 kids who have lost their parents to Moaist and inter-caste violence in rural regions of Nepal. They rent a house, shelter, feed, buy all the clothes and school supplies for these kids to go to have a chance. They are not affiliated with any major charity organizations and pay for all of the bills out of their own pockets and with local donations. I have just taken on the task of trying to help them get some international aid as well.

http://www.cucnepal.org/index.html

By: Fiona

Fiona — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:02:36 +0000

I’ll be reading for KIVA – not so much a donation as a micro-loan http://www.kiva.org/

By: Grace

Grace — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:37:14 +0000

I know it's a bit late but I have always been a big supporter of the American Diabetes Association. It is a charity that has always been close to my heart because my father suffers from Type 2. http://www.diabetes.org/ Grace

By: Fyrefly

Fyrefly — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:01:41 +0000

I always like Donors Choose – teachers from high-need school districts submit project proposals, and you pick which project you’d like your money to support – and you can see exactly where that money goes, and see photos of your donation in action in the classroom. (Plus there are tons of bookish projects to pick from.)

http://www.donorschoose.org/

By: Alyce

Alyce — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:16:42 +0000

I’ll be donating to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer fund.

http://ww5.komen.org/default.aspx

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:48:59 +0000

In honor of my sister! The Muscular Dystrophy!!!!! (She is still with us, but I love her so much!!!!) We need a cure!!!!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:43:24 +0000

I’m not a reader, but I will be making a donation to Reach out and Read for each person that participates in my mini-challenge this year.

By: tanabata

tanabata — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:15:12 +0000

This time I’m reading for the Book Wish Foundation which provides textbooks to refugees of Darfur so they can attempt to have a better life in the future.
http://www.bookwish.org/

By: Mary Elizabeth Williams

Mary Elizabeth Williams — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:14:28 +0000

If anyone is reading my book, “Gimme Shelter,” for the read-a-thon, please please consider a donation to the National Alliance to End Homelessness — naeh.org.

I’m giving 2% of the money I earn from my book to the Alliance, and I’m extraordinarily proud of the work they’re doing not just to end homelessness in America, but to prevent the root causes of it.

Thank you and keep reading! Go go go!