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Not only in your life, but others

American Diabetes Association
Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for daily life. The cause of diabetes continues to be a mystery. There are 18.2 million people in the United States, or 6.3% of the population, who have diabetes. Educate yourself with this site and help yourself or someone you love.

Artists For a Hate-Free America
America, at its best is defined by the principle of Absolute Equality. Absolute equality gives us all the right to be exactly who we are - no apologies.

The Breast Cancer Site
43,000 women will die from breast cancer this year. That's why it's so important to click daily and tell others about The Breast Cancer Site. By telling 10 friends about this fast, free way to fund mammograms for underprivileged women, you increase the number of women who will receive the gift of early detection.

The Bridge School
The Bridge School provides children with severe speech and physical impairments with an educational environment designed to meet their unique needs.

Choice USA
A pro-choice organization, which means we support each woman's right to make her own contraception, abortion, and child-bearing decisions. Founded in 1992 by author and activist, Gloria Steinem.

Fighting Blindness
The urgent mission of The Foundation Fighting Blindness is to drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, Usher Syndrome, and the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.

Greater Community AIDS Project
The Greater Community AIDS Project (GCAP) is a non-profit agency which has been around for two decades and works with roughly 250 people affected with the HIV/AIDS by providing many services that are not issued. To provide the care they give, the GCAP owns and operates a five-bedroom transitional house (Champaign House) where people who are HIV positive and are homeless can reside for six months free.

Home Alive
A collective of performance and visual artists (and other freaks) hell bent on fighting all forms of violence including rape, domestic abuse, gay/lesbian bashing, racism, and other forms of oppression. We want you to get home, and be home alive.

In Defense of Animals
In Defense Of Animals is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to ending the institutionalized abuse of animals by defending their rights, welfare and habitat. IDA celebrates the vital bond of stewardship which unites human beings and animals. IDA rejects the bitter hierarchy of master to slave, oppressor to victim, "user" to abused.

Independent Media Center
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.

kristin brooks hope center National Hopeline Network, 1-800-SUICIDE
Since the suicide of his wife Kristin in April, 1998, Reese Butler has been on a crusade. Butler used the money from his wife's life insurance to start the Kristin Brooks Hope Center, the organization behind 1-800-SUICIDE. His mission: to help present the option to live to people in the deepest of emotional pain. The means to that end - a nationwide, toll-free hotline number 1-800-SUICIDE.

Organ Donation
Transplantation saves lives, but only if you help. All you need to do is say yes to organ and tissue donation on your donor card and/or driver's license, sign up on your state’s donor registry (if there is one), and discuss your decision with your family. Each day about 70 people receive an organ transplant, but another 16 people on the waiting list die because not enough organs are available.

Plea For Peace
A non-profit organization that was established to spread the ideas of PEACE and UNITY. We want to challenge all who will listen. We want to spur education about diversity. We want to make life enjoyable for everyone. We want to bring people together and encourage the belief that there is hope.

Red Feather Development Group
A nonprofit organization established in 1994 to provide and rehabilitate homes for American Indian elders living in desperate poverty on reservations throughout the United States.

Reagan's Rescue
This organization's mission is two-fold: 1) to bring Shaken Baby Syndrome awareness and education to the people of East Central Illinois, and 2) to support local organizations which aid families- and children-at-risk.

Riley’s Children’s Hospital
Formed in 1921 to perpetuate the legacy of Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley, the Riley Children's Foundation today is at the forefront of serving ill children.

rockthevote Rock The Vote!
Rock the Vote is a non-profit, non-partisan organization bringing young people together to make a major impact on the American political process. Make some noise!

Surfrider Foundation
Help protect and preserve our oceans and shores.

Sweet Relief Musicians Fund
Provides financial assistance to musicians of all kinds for medical expenses, alternative therapies, treatment for alcohol or chemical dependency, prescriptions, and living expenses if the artist is unable to work. Sweet Relief also has a new financial assistance program especially for retired or semi-retired older musicians, which helps pay living expenses. "Music helps us through our hard times. Isn't it time we help musicians through theirs?"

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