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More than a third of the world’s people live without access to electricity. Fifty Lanterns International (St. Paul, Minnesota) is a nonprofit that provides solar lanterns to needy people around the world.
Solar energy can help families have light to read at night, or work at their home craft or small business, or help medical clinics [...]

What makes a successful marriage in America? A study in 2007 by Pew Research Center revealed the results of surveying Americans on the topic of marriage.
Faithfulness is the highest rated topic, followed by a happy sexual relationship. Sharing household chores has risen to almost second place in the survey. Could sharing household chores one day be the [...]

The Boma Fund (Manchester Center, Vermont) is an American charity that works to improve employment opportunities for the nomadic people of Northern Kenya by working with local community organizations. Projects are undertaken to provide self-sustaining income to the people in the Karare Mountain and surrounding lowland region of northern Kenya, which are far removed from [...]

Project CURE (Centennial, Colorado) is a nonprofit humanitarian relief organization that collects medical supplies and equipment for developing countries around the world. Project CURE has a 100,000 square foot warehouse in Brighton, Colorado and other offices are located in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Nashville, Houston, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and London, England. By 2012, collection centers are planned [...]

Educational Praxis (EP) is a nonprofit that brings people of diverse communities together through direct educational activities to develop solidarity with learning-teaching centers around the world. EP (Putney, Vermont) works with local universities, schools and nonprofits in sponsoring lectures, training workshops, cultural events and teacher enrichment seminars. Topics addresses include critical reflection, economic equity and [...]

Food Shelter Health Ministry (FSHM), a Dallas, Texas based nonprofit, was founded in 2006 by Marsha Thompson, a nurse, with a mission to provide food, clean water, shelter, healthcare and education for orphans in underdeveloped countries.
FSHM is working to build Children’s Villages for orphans, with the first village in Uganda, serving about 500 orphans, in the [...]

What are the greatest American movies of all time? Below are some different lists that look at popularity, box office revenue, and technical aspects for the top 10 movies of all time. No movies make every list … but Citizen Kane, Star Wars, Schindler’s List, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, Singin’ in the [...]

The Chiapas Project is a Dallas, Texas based nonprofit that collects old cell phones and ink cartridges, refurbishes and sells them, and uses the proceeds from the recycled equipment to help fund the Grameen Foundation’s microfinancing programs in Chiapas, Mexico.
In 2003, The Chiapas Project raised $790,000 to help bring 4,000 women loving in Chiapas out [...]