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2020 Membership Applications Due October 9, 2019!
REMINDER: By close of business on October 9, 2019, please remember to submit your America’s Charities’ 2020 Membership Application to renew your membership and continue receiving all the benefits your membership with America’s Charities offers. If you need assistance or have a question about the application, please contact our membership team at clientsolutions@charities.org.
Read MoreSPLC Fights Voter Suppression Across Deep South
In his testimony before Congress in July, Special Counsel Robert Mueller pointedly warned the nation about Russia’s ongoing attempts to meddle in our nation’s elections. All Americans, regardless of their political beliefs, should be gravely concerned about this threat from abroad. But we should be equally – perhaps even more – concerned about efforts to…
Read MoreThe Conservation Fund: Complex Issues Call for Smart Conservation
Since 1985, The Conservation Fund has protected about 28 acres an hour—nearly 700 acres a day. That is about one Central Park worth of land protected each day! Your support helps make this possible and allows us to address the most pressing environmental challenges of our time: climate change and sea level rise, loss of…
Read MoreA Critical Time for You and the ACLU to Protect People’s Rights
For nearly a century, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU) has been our country’s leading defender of civil liberties. And the work of our skilled attorneys, advocates and organizers fighting alongside people whose fundamental freedoms are in jeopardy has never been more critical. The ACLU has a well-earned reputation as a fierce, persistent defender…
Read MoreMelwood Provides Pathways to Independence
Imagine that you KNOW you can do a job. You KNOW you can contribute – but at every turn you are denied the opportunity to fulfill your potential because other people don’t think you can make the grade. Wouldn’t you want someone to see the REAL YOU and let your talent and potential shine? At…
Read More2019 Fall CSR Conference Lineup: Meet up with America’s Charities at These Events
Can’t attend one of these events, or want to meet with our team beforehand? Click here to request a call with our team. 2019 Corporate Citizenship Conference November 13-14 | Washington, D.C. Giving is Not Dead: Integrating Impact and Giving Into Business Models Using Tech Traditional philanthropy has been upended by newer, more personalized…
Read MoreProvide “a different kind of healing” to Seriously Ill Children and Their Families
At nine years old, Jaxson was an avid fisher who loved to ride his bike. Then his world was turned upside down when he was diagnosed with Leukemia, a malignant progressive cancer in which the bone marrow and other blood forming organs produce increased numbers of immature or abnormal leukocytes. Suddenly, he could no longer…
Read MoreTogether We Can End Gender-Based Violence
Week Without Violence is part of a global movement with YWCAs across the country and around the world to end violence against women and girls. America’s Charities’ member, YWCA, knows that not all violence is acknowledged or responded to equally and that some victims go unrecognized altogether. That’s why, for more than 20 years, YWCA has…
Read MoreThe Next Generation of Workplace Giving
Every year, American employees give to causes they care about through their employers, resulting in $5 billion for the nonprofits who are tackling tough issues and improving the world around us. American generosity has always been incredible, and when the economy does well, charitable giving only grows. Giving USA 2018 found that charitable giving of…
Read MoreHow to Build an Employee Volunteer Program That Makes an Impact
Thanks to a KaBOOM! project funded by The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation and 150 volunteers organized by Marriott International and America’s Charities’ member PHILLIPS Programs for Children and Families’ networks, a kid-designed, community planned playground was built in a single day on May 22, 2019 for the children and families who attend…
Read MoreStop Cancer Before It Starts! Your Dollars Make it Happen.
Your workplace giving donation gives us the opportunity to share important information about how to Stop Cancer Before It Starts!® with new audiences. You also provide a steady, predictable stream of funding that can help us better budget and plan for the future, including the ability to weather economic downturns. Knowing your donation will still be…
Read MoreEvery Kid. Healthy Food. Every Day. Here’s What Your Dollars Can Do to Help No Kid Hungry Make This Possible.
“$1 can provide up to 10 meals for hungry kids.” That’s a statement you’ll often see from the No Kid Hungry campaign, and I’m frequently asked how we make such an incredible return on each dollar. We don’t get a bulk discount on food, as most folks guess. In fact, we don’t even buy food.…
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