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Soles4Souls is a registered charity (Nashville headquarters) which helps individuals, churches, civic groups, retailers and shoe companies donate new and used shoes to needy people worldwide.
Following the 2004 Asian tsunami, Wayne Elsey, the founder of Soles4Souls, called some fellow executives in the shoe industry and collected about 250,000 pairs of shoes for the tsunami victims. A year [...]

A 2006 fourth grade literacy study, including 38 countries and 5 Canadian providences, just released its results and showed American students ranked slightly higher than average compared to other countries.

Oakland-based World Exchange for Health and Human Services (WEHHS) ships surplus medical and educational equipment and supplies to developing countries around the world. WEHHS also sponsors indigenous artists to perform in the Bay Area in an effort to promote cultural exchanges between countries.

Below are  11 common myths (misunderstandings) that foreigners and Americans often have concerning the State of Texas (one of 50 States in the USA).

Most Texans still travel by horse (False) - Texas has more motor vehicles (cars) than any state in the USA, except California. Over 20-million cars

Airborne Angel Cadets of Texas is a non-political charity that sends care packages to U.S. soldiers overseas and also to local children and families in Afghanistan and Iraq (distributed by American soldiers).

Opportunity International (Oak Brook, Illinois) is a faith-based microfinance organization and registered charity thatprovides  microcredit loans to the world’s poorest people in 28 countries, with a special priority to serve the needs of women. Opportunity International now serves about 1-million clients yearly through about 42 partner organizations in developing countries.
Micro-credit loans are used to create [...]

While volunteering at a hospital in Ghana, Connecticut businessman Ed Bullard was struck by how difficult it was for hardworking people to lift themselves out of poverty, so he created TechnoServe (Technology in the Service of Mankind) in 1968. TechnoServe helps people identify and capitalize on good sustainable business opportunities so the rural poor can [...]

NetAid (New York-based) is an American nonprofit (part of Mercy Corps organization) that focuses on educating, inspiring and empowering young people in America to fight global poverty. Around the world, one of every six people struggles to survive on less than $1 a day.
NetAid believes the youth of America have the greatest potential to make a [...]