Children Miracle Network Hospitals

"More than 10 million kids enter a children’s hospital like your local children's hospital across North America every year. To provide the best care for kids, children’s hospitals rely on donations and community support, as Medicaid and insurance programs do not fully cover the cost of care. Since 1983, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals has helped fill those funding gaps by raising more than $5 billion, most of it $1 at a time through Miracle Balloon icon campaigns. Its various fundraising partners and programs support the nonprofit’s mission to save and improve the lives of as many children as possible."

You can help in various way, check this link to learn more (put the mouse over the photos):
https://childrensmiraclenetworkhospitals.org/how-to-help/#events

Animal Welfare League Queensland (AWLQ)

"Animal Welfare League Queensland (AWLQ) focuses on the care and rehoming of abandoned, stray and surrendered animals in South East Queensland.  We provide affordable veterinary care through our Community Vet Clinics as well as delivering community awareness, outreach and education.  As a charity, not for profit, DGR registered organisation which receives no government funding for our welfare work, we rely solely on donations, sponsorships, bequests, grants and the support of our community."

You can help by donating, money, food, goods to be sold in the AWLQ shops, and volunteering.

For more information check the site:
https://www.awlqld.com.au/donate

The Blood Bag Project

"The Blood Bag Project, a craft project that aims to raise awareness of the rare blood condition Diamond Blackfan Anaemia.

The project has been set up by textile artist Leigh Bowser, whose young niece Chloe suffers from Diamond Blackfan Anaemia and wants to encourage people to donate blood. Chloe’s main source of help is through blood donation. However, Leigh is unable to give blood herself and understands she’s not alone. This project is for those who want to help the blood cause by donating in another way.

The Blood Bag Project is about raising awareness and is not a charity, but does hope to raise a little money along the way!"

You can help by making textile bags to raise awareness, donating and by donating blood.

Check this site for more information:

https://thebloodbagproject.com/make-a-textile-blood-bag/

The Children's Inn at NIH

"The Children’s Inn at NIH is a residential “Place Like Home’’ for families with children participating in leading-edge research studies at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. The NIH Clinical Center is the nation’s premier biomedical research hospital, providing an opportunity for our residents to be partners in advancing medical discoveries and improving the health of people all over the world. While the NIH takes care of the child’s medical needs, The Inn tends to the child’s heart, soul and spirit."

You can help by volunteering, running the Marine Corps Marathon Runinn4kids, donating money  and items and by crafting things.

Check this site for more information:
http://childrensinn.org/get-innvolved/

Adopt-A-Pet

"Adopt-A-Pet is an all-volunteer not-for-profit animal shelter and adoption agency dedicated to saving the lives of lost, abandoned or otherwise homeless dogs, cats, puppies and kittens. We were founded in 1981, and have since saved the lives of over 15,000 animals. All Adopt-A-Pet animals remain with us for as long as it takes to find them suitable permanent new homes."

You can help in many ways, you can help by: volunteering, donating of money and items especially shredded paper, fostering or adopting, buy from affiliated sites and by using Goodsearch, which is an internet search engine.

Here is the site:
http://www.adoptapet-il.org/index.php

Craft Hope

"Craft Hope is a love-inspired project designed to share handmade crafts with those less fortunate. It is our hope to combine our love for crafting and desire to help others into a project to make a difference around the world."

If you love doing crafts and love to help out then maybe this charity site is for you.  The have lots of projects.  You can help out by doing the current project.

Here is the link for more information:
https://crafthopetogether.com/about/

Right 2 Smile

"Right 2 Smile is a Maltese NGO (VO/0583 ) that brings together responsible volunteering with community development projects all over the world. We began our journey in Kenya in 2012, taking up the first groups of volunteers to visit our project on the Masai land. Together with the local community, we discussed their needs and found ways to respond to them in a sustainable way. We took this same approach with our local partners in India, Cambodia, Colombia and Malta. Our ultimate aim is to empower locals with the skills, belief and facilities to become self-sustainable."

You can help out by volunteering and donating.

Here is the link:
http://www.right2smile.org/

Beads of Courage

"We are growing every day, providing innovative, arts-in-medicine supportive care programs for children coping with serious illness, their families and the health care providers who care for them."

You can help out by volunteering, donate beads, make beads, donation.

The Mia Foundation

"Helping animals born with birth defects. Because if they are born, they deserve a chance to live!"

You can help by donating,volunteering and by fostering.

Here is the link:
http://www.themiafoundation.com/How-you-can-help.html

Tree House

"Tree House is a humane organization that promotes the inherent value of every animal and strives to educate the public about proper and responsible animal care, with a focus on the care and placement of stray cats with special physical and emotional needs. We are committed to finding every healthy and treatable animal a home."

You can help by volunteering, adopting and donating.

Here is the link:
http://www.treehouseanimals.org/site/PageServer?pagename=home

Girls Love Mail

"A hand-written letter has the special power to heal. Girls Love Mail collects your hand-written letters of encouragement, bundles them, and sends them, via the caring staff at cancer centers, to women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. Every letter is a gift from you to a woman going through a difficult time.

Anyone can write a letter! All it takes is a little of your time and the cost of a postage stamp to help a woman newly diagnosed with breast cancer."

For more information check out this site:

http://www.girlslovemail.com/

Little Dresses for Africa

"The road is especially tough for little girls and young women.  Often small children are left as primary care-givers of even younger children, because of disease and poverty.  These little dresses, given freely to those in need, plant the seed that they are worthy. We plant the seeds; God sends the harvest."

You can help out by sewing these dresses and shorts for boys, donating and volunteering.

For more information checkout these links:
http://www.littledressesforafrica.org/blog/patterns/
http://www.littledressesforafrica.org/blog/making-a-difference/

Enchanted Makeover

"Enchanted Makeovers' mission is to create environments and programs for women and children in shelters that educate, empower, open a path for creativity, mindfulness and self-expression."

You can help by donation of money and items, voluntary work and crafting.

They also have community projects: Travel pillowcase (sewing), Handmade doll adoption, Capes for kids, and Patch project.

http://www.enchantedmakeovers.org/
http://enchantedmakeovers.org/category_61/Community-Projects-.htm

The Peyton Heart Project

"What is the origin of the Peyton Heart Project?

The Peyton Heart Project was co-founded by Jill Kubin and Sue Harris in 2015. Its mission is to help stop suicide and bullying and to help end the stigma surrounding mental health issues.

What is the purpose of this project?

~To bring awareness to the issues of teen suicide and bullying.
~To get people talking about these issues.
~To show people that their lives are worth living and that every life matters."

You can help by making these hearts, there is directions on the site and by donating.

http://www.thepeytonheartproject.org/making-the-hearts/

Ryan's Case for Smiles

"Ryan’s Case for Smiles is one the few volunteer organizations solely dedicated to helping kids feel better to heal better. While other great organizations focus on research and finding a cure, we work to improve the quality of life of children and their families as they undergo treatment."

You can help out by sewing colorful pillow cases, on the site you can find the directions, by hosting an event and by donating.

http://caseforsmiles.org/get-involved/#sew

Wildlife Rescue Nests

On this site you can find patterns for crocheted, knitted and loom knitted artificial bird nests, which can also be used for other little orphaned babies.

You can give these to local wildlife rehabilitators and the site has three addresses too.

http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/nest.html

Project Night Night

"Project Night Night donates over 25,000 Night Night Packages each year to homeless children 12 and under who need our childhood essentials to have a concrete and predictable source of security and an increased exposure to high-quality literacy materials during their time of upheaval. Each Night Night Package contains a new security blanket, an age- appropriate children’s book, and a stuffed animal — all nestled inside of a new canvas tote bag. By providing objects of reliable comfort, Project Night Night reduces trauma and advances the emotional and cognitive well-being of the children we serve."

You can help by volunteering, donating items, kids fundraising, and other ways.

Check this site for more information:
http://www.projectnightnight.org/get-involved/

The Little Yellow Duck Project

"The Little Yellow Duck Project involves people around the world handcrafting little yellow duck gifts as random acts of kindness that are left in public places for others to find. A special tag on each one invites the finder to take their gift home to brighten their day and to visit this website to register where they found their gift. We hope that the stories and information found here will encourage them to pledge their own random act of kindness by registering to donate blood, bone marrow, organs tissues."

You can help out by making these ducks, there are patterns for crochet, knitting and sewing.

Here is the link to the site for more information:
https://thelittleyellowduckproject.org/get-involved/

Small Things Matter

"Small Things Matters is committed to educating children with an emphasis on reading which we believe lays down a strong foundation for educational success. We distribute free books to at risk-children at Difference Makers Kokua Foods food distributions at Rolling Terrace Elementary School and Takoma Park Middle School twice each month. Children are treated to a snack, read to, and encouraged to read to others. They are also allowed to choose a free book of their choice to take home to keep and read. We are in the process of developing a literacy program “Bedtime for Books” that will allow us to reach more children that would benefit from free books."

You can help by donating money or crafting material and volunteering.

Here is the link to the site:
http://smallthingsmatter.org/index.php/about/

Difference Makers

"Difference Makers is a student founded, student run organization, founded in 2009 by a group of Takoma Park Middle School students."

This organisation has and helps out lots of projects including local and international.

One can help by being a volunteer or by donating.
Here is the link for their website:
http://www.difference-makers.org/about-us/