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Act For Change (a division of Working Assets) , San Francisco, California E-Mail: info@wafs.com ActForChange allows individuals to speak out on urgent issues of the day found on our news site such as gun violence and environmental degradation. We give you a direct link to the decision-makers who can make a difference on these issues-free of charge. Visit ActForChange or contact us for more information.	Visit our website

Affirmagy 415 Mercer Street, Ste 101, Seattle 98119 Phone: 206-624-6018 Fax: 206-381-9055 E-Mail: info@affirmagy.com This is the best fundraiser we have ever done! Organizations across the country are exceeding their fundraising goals selling Affirmawraps. You can too! Imaging your group raising hundreds, even thousands of dollars within weeks. It's possible. Our original wraps are cuddly fleece silk screened with positive affirmations. Your price: $17.50 (suggested retail $30)	Visit our website

Central Asia Institute PO Box 7209, Bozeman, Montana 59771 Phone: 406-585-7841 Fax: 406-585-5302 E-Mail: cai@ikat.org CAI Mission: To promote and provide community-based education and literacy programs, especially for girls, in remote mountain regions of Central Asia. Places: Remote Underserved Mountain Communities Central Asia Institute community projects are in remote mountain villages of northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and the steppes of Mongolia. The terrain varies from the highest consolidation of high peaks in the world to miles of high desert plateau. Most of our community-based projects are in the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan, and the Pamir and Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. Very few organizations serve the remote areas where we work. FYI: IKAT is the fabric they make. Check it out!	Visit our website

Clear Awakening Massage Center , Bellevue Phone: 425-495-5848 E-Mail: clearawakeningmassage@gmail.com WE are a new company in Bellevue, WA, with a strong desire for change. We envision a planet that is balanced and sustainable and we are seeking others to join our cause. Heal Yourself, Heal the World is a program that will allow individuals utilizing the power of alternative healing to impact more than just their own well-being. As of today we offer massage therapy, meditation and other resources for a balanced life. Our dedication to healing the mind, body and soul can only go so far. In order to make a difference for the whole world, we donate 10% of our proceeds to select organizations that we identify with and our clients help us choose those organizations.	Visit our website

Common Ground Relief (Katrina Grass Roots Relief Movement) PO Box 741801, New Orleans, Louisiana 70174-1801 Phone: 504-361-9659 E-Mail: commongroundvolunteers@gmail.com WHO WE ARE: Common Ground Collective formed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to provide immediate aid and long-term solidarity along the Gulf Coast. We are a local, community-run organization offering mutual aid and support to New Orleans communities that have been historically neglected and underserved. Common Ground's teams of volunteers include: medical and health providers, aid workers, community organizers, legal representatives and people from all over with broad skills from all walks of life.	Visit our website

FareStart 1902 Second Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101 Phone: 206-443-1233 Fax: 206-443-7543 E-Mail: info@farestart.org An amazing non-profit that trains the homeless as prep chefs. A full culinary certificate is issued and job placement. The Life Skills Program, originally created by our own Tawn Holstra, has made FareStart one of the most effective job training programs in the world. It costs approximately $3500 per student for this extraordinary program. PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY	Visit our website

Flowers for Change (Working Assets) , Global Organic Flowers that can be delivered anywhere and support Oxfam and other poverty orgs. Great Idea, Great deal.	Visit our website

Free Kibble - Donate Free Animal Food Here are two websites to click on to quickly donate free kibble to feed dogs and cats in animal shelters. Be sure to answer the fun daily trivia question which automatically generates the donation. As of today, 82,775,640 pieces of kibble have been donated just since April 1, 2008. It is donated to freekibble.com by the pet food company Castor and Pollux CLICK HERE TO DONATE FREE DOG FOOD CLICK HERE TO DONATE FREE CAT FOOD	Visit our website

House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chair: John Boehner (R-OH 8th) 202-225-2095, Ranking Minority: George Miller (D-CA 7th) 202-225-2095 Legislation to establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence, HR 3760 and S. 1756 have been referred into four committees in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate. These members will be important people to get on board with this legislation. Each committee will have to first vote to move it out of the committee and onto the floor before it can go to a vote with the whole House and Senate.	Visit our website

House Committee on Government Reform Chair: Tom Davis (R-VA 11th) 202-225-1492, Ranking Minority: Henry Waxman (D-CA 30th) 202-225-3976 Legislation to establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence, HR 3760 and S. 1756 have been referred into four committees in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate. These members will be important people to get on board with this legislation. Each committee will have to first vote to move it out of the committee and onto the floor before it can go to a vote with the whole House and Senate.	Visit our website

House International Relations Chair: Henry Hyde (R-IL 6th) 202-225-4561, Ranking Minority: Tom Lantos (D-CA 12th) 202-225-3531 Legislation to establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence, HR 3760 and S. 1756 have been referred into four committees in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate. These members will be important people to get on board with this legislation. Each committee will have to first vote to move it out of the committee and onto the floor before it can go to a vote with the whole House and Senate.	Visit our website

House Judiciary Committee Chair:James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-WI 5th) 202-225-5101, Rankiing Minority: John Conyers (D-MI 14th) 202-225-5126 Legislation to establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence, HR 3760 and S. 1756 have been referred into four committees in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate. These members will be important people to get on board with this legislation. Each committee will have to first vote to move it out of the committee and onto the floor before it can go to a vote with the whole House and Senate.	Visit our website

Ideal Bite www.idealbite.com E-Mail: info@idealbite.com A sassy, green website stock full of tips and outstanding information for greening our planet. Don't get mad at the SUV driver, but have the SUV be as efficient as it can be. Organic tips, transitioning tips, greener back to school tips.	Visit our website

Oceana 2501 M Street NW Ste 300, Washinton, District of Columbia 20037 Phone: 202 833 3900 Fax: 202-833-2070 E-Mail: info@oceana.org OCEANA CAMPAIGNS TO PROTECT AND RESTORE THE WORLD'S OCEANS. Our teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life. Global in scope, Oceana has campaigners based in North America (Washington, DC; Juneau, AK; Los Angeles, CA), Europe (Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Belgium) and South America (Santiago, Chile). More than 300,000 members and e-activists in over 150 countries have already joined Oceana. MORE ON THEIR SITE	Visit our website

People Over Profits E-Mail: actionnetwork@peopleoverprofits.com People Over Profits is committed to fighting back against the well-organized and well-funded assault on the civil justice system, and protecting American civil rights and trial by jury. When someone you love has been seriously injured or killed by a careless medical error or a defective product or drug, shouldn't you have the right to hold the wrongdoers accountable?	Visit our website

Planetary Prayers To support the momentum from the worldwide response we received at PrayerForBarackObama.com, we have chosen to continue the workings of this website. It is now called www.Planetary Prayers.com. and it will strive to bring spiritual attention to the serious problems that humanity will be faced with in the future. These would include occurrences ranging from natural disasters, to crimes against any group of people throughout the world. In addition, we would like to give equal attention to the positive and more inspirational accomplishments occurring across the globe. We hope you take the time to visit us in the future, and perhaps assist the world with your prayers and meditations as we all reach for the greater good in our planetary future.	Visit our website

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chair: Susan M. Collins (R-ME) 202-224-2523, Ranking Member: Joseph I Leiberman (D-CT) 202-224-4041 This is the Senate Committee for the Legislation to establish a Department of Peace. Legislation to establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence, HR 3760 and S. 1756 have been referred into four committees in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate. These members will be important people to get on board with this legislation. Each committee will have to first vote to move it out of the committee and onto the floor before it can go to a vote with the whole House and Senate.	Visit our website

Take Back Your Time Phone: 206-293-3772 E-Mail: gretchenburger@prodigy.net Founded by John de Graaf , author of Affluenza TAKE BACK YOUR TIME is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment. October 24th Is Take Back Your Time Day	Visit our website

The Association for the Development of Pakistan , PO Box 381628, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238 Fax: 603-917-0247 E-Mail: contact@developpakistan.org Association for the Development of Pakistan was founded by a group of young Pakistani professionals in Boston in May 2003. United by a common desire to make a meaningful contribution, the founders sought ways to engage and support promising development efforts in the Pakistan. ADP aims to serve as a platform to support and promote a generation of active participants who understand and are inspired to tackle the many problems that afflict Pakistan.	Visit our website

The Humane Society - International 2100 L Street NW, Washington, Washington 20037 Phone: 202-452-1100 Supporting the international organizations that are committed to the well being of all animals. The current mission is Protect The Seals, committed to ending the baby seal hunts in Canada	Visit our website

Transformation of Education Foundation Phone: (360)915-8408 E-Mail: info@transformationofeducation.org Transforming Education starts with reconsidering what it is to be educated in the 21st century. Is it enough to have right answers and pass tests? Not really. Our future leaders and citizens of the world will need to know how to think and respond to uncertainty and constant change. They will need to be innovative and compassionate. Nelson Mandela once said that education is the single most powerful leverage we have to address the needs of our future. TOE is dedicated to making this quality of education available to all schools, community groups, home-schoolers, and individuals anywhere and everywhere. TOE offers innovative curriculum for almost nothing; offers programs to empower and encourage teachers to explore new ways of teaching and a communication program called Mastering The Student/Teacher Partnership. TOE also provides Rapid Response Classrooms for emergency relief areas and Seed Schools for low technology areas. Also available are programs to bring organic gardening, team building, nutritional programs, and positive discipline programs to any school in the world through the world wide web. TOE is a grassroots organization that is meant to empower all people to have a voice in our educational system. For More Information Please Visit Our Website	Visit our website

Washington Virtual Academy Phone: 253-964-1068 E-Mail: info@washva.org A complete virtual public school program for grades K-8. It is free, includes materials Participate in sports and music through local school Students work at their own pace Test into grade levels Easy online registration Certified Teacher oversees work online What a gift!	Visit our website

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