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The charity with the most votes as of 11:59p ET on December 15 below gets the loot.More info at awesomegov.org
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W.H.A.L.E.R.'s Creation
Since 2005 WHALER’s Creation-Foster Youth
Arts and Media Training has worked tirelessly to
promote foster care and adoption through the
arts and media. Our program and services are
designed to help current and former foster and
adopted youth develop plays, a magazine and
long lasting friends and "families". In addition to
involvement in the arts and media, youth involved
in our programing also gives back to their
communities. Youth are engaged in volunteering
in the community as well as developing plays for
children in day cares, hospitals, and various
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Vanguard Services http://www.vanguardservices.org
Residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment programs for adult men, women, women with children, and teenage girls and boys. This organization has existed in the metro washington dc area for over 50 years, and has sustained some of the top success metrics in the industry regarding treatment outcomes. Accepts clients from Northern Virginia, Washington DC, and Montgomery County, MD Recovery works!
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
In 1996, Dolly Parton launched an exciting new effort to benefit the children of her home county in east Tennessee. She wanted children to be excited about books and to feel the magic that books can create. Moreover, she could insure that every child would have books, regardless of their family’s income.
So she decided to mail a brand new, age appropriate book each month to every child under 5 in Sevier County. With the arrival of every child’s first book, the classic The Little Engine That Could ™, every child could now experience the joy of finding their very…
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The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children http://www.icmec.org
The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), founded in 1998 and launched by the U.S.-based National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, works to identify and coordinate a global network of organizations fighting child-sexual exploitation and abduction.
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American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org/ - The American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors—across the street, across the country and across the world—in emergencies.
Each year, in communities large and small, victims of some 70,000 disasters turn to neighbors familiar and new—the more than 700,000 volunteers and 34,000 employees of the Red Cross. Through nearly 720 locally supported chapters, more than 15 million people gain the skills they need to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their homes, communities and world. Some 4 million people give blood—the gift of life—through the Red Cross, making it the largest supplier of…
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Epilepsy Foundation-www.epilepsyfoundation.org/
The national voluntary agency dedicated to ~3 million people in the U.S. with epilepsy and their families. The organization works to ensure that people with seizures are able to participate in all areas of life; to improve how people with epilepsy are perceived, accepted and valued; and promotes a cure.
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Half the Sky Foundation
www.halfthesky.org/
Created in 1998 by adoptive parents who wanted to enrich the lives and enhance the prospects for the children who remain in China's welfare institutions.3 votes -
Fast Friends Greyhound Rescue WWW.Greytdogs.org
A local (MD) non-profit that finds homes for Greyhounds. This organization is slightly different than others in that it takes on the more challenging cases - older Greys and those who have problems (partial blindness, broken or missing legs, etc.) Nothing makes a home more blessed and complete than having a greyhound.
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Victory Junction
Victory Junction enriches the lives of children with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses by providing life-changing camping experiences that are exciting, fun, and empowering, in a safe and medically-sound environment.
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Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America provides a program for young people that builds character, trains them in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and develops personal fitness.
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Sunlight Foundation
Sunlight Foundation: Making government transparent and accountable.
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CASA for the Children of DC
Trained local volunteers fight for kids in foster care in DC every day!
Kids finds homes faster and get the services they need!3 votes -
OpenTheGovernment.org
We are a coalition of consumer and good government groups, environmentalists, library groups, journalists, labor, and others united to make the federal government a more open place in order to make us safer, strengthen public trust in government, and support our democratic principles. Our coalition transcends partisan lines and includes progressives, libertarians, and conservatives.
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BookServer
http://www.archive.org/bookserver
Distributed Lending and Vending over the Internet
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National Resources Defense Council
Working to protect wildlife and wild places, and to ensure a healthy environment for all life on earth. (www.nrdc.org) NRDC is the nation's most effective EAG, combining the power of 1.3 million members and online activists with the courtroom expertise of more than 350 lawyers, scientists, and other professionals.
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Washington Mathematics Science Technology Public Charter High School www.wmstpchs.net
Washington Mathematics Science Technology Public Charter High School is a leading public high school serving Washington, DC, with nearly 400 students.
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Curamericas
http://www.curamericas.org/ | Curamericas Global, Inc., was founded in 1983 by Duke University and Johns Hopkins graduate Henry Perry III, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H and Alice Weldon, Ph.D. Curamericas Global was created with the goal of establishing primary health care programs that are responsive to the health needs of the community, improving child survival within the community, and building the national and local capacity of health service providers.
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