Who are Americans?

Global Kids, founded in 1993, is a New York area charity that uses interactive and experiential methods to educate youth in New York public schools about critical foreign policy issues, and provides students with opportunities for civic and global engagement. The mission is to transform urban youth into successful students and global and community leaders.
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What economic problems do Americans consider as ’serious’ in their lives? According to an April, 2008 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, paying for gasoline is the problem that most people mentioned as a serious problem. The full results of the survey are below:

Student Project Africa Network (SPAN), founded in 2005, has sent nearly 50 volunteers to over 15 organizations in Kenya during the past two years. Volunteers have built basketball courts and libraries, taught students, cooked, brought electricity and water to schools, installed wiring and plumbing, worked on malaria and typhoid campaigns, assisted in HIV/AIDS clinics and many [...]

World Learning (Brattleboro, Vermont) is a 75-year old nonprofit that operates international education and development programs in more than 70 countries worldwide. Over 250,000 people have participated in World Learning projects, and the total number of non-U.S. homestay families is about 3,500.
In 2007, approximately 3,753 high school, undergraduate college and graduate college students from 32 countries [...]

Which countries are the most popular destinations for the 30 million plus U.S. residents travelling overseas for vacations or visiting friends and relatives?
According to the U.S. Government’s Office of Travel and Tourism Industries … not including business travel, the most popular tourist or leisure destinations of Americans in 2006 are:

Samaritan’s Purse (Boone, NC) is an American based charity that is providing relief aid to the victims of the cyclone in Burma (Myanmar) and the earthquake in China. Samaritan’s Purse is led by Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, and for over 35 years has worked to provide food, medicine, shelter, clothing, education and other [...]

ONE is the American organization (over 2.4 million people from all 50 states) that is part of the international campaign of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP). Organizations from over 100 countries support the mission to end poverty and help people trapped in gross inequality.
Over 100 nonprofit, advocacy and humanitarian organizations have united [...]

OmniPeace sells t-shirts and consumer products and donates 25% of all profits to Millennium Promise in their efforts to end poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. OmniPeace has raised over $150,000 for Millennium Promise and has sold their products to Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Zac Efron, Kevin Costner, Hugh Laurie, Rachel Ray and other celebrities.
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