Charity

Since 2003, we've donated more than $3,400 to various charities.
Some of our favorite non-profit organizations and causes are listed below.
(They've all rated favorably by charitynavigator.org, an independent charity evaluator.)

Please note: Because we know of no independent evaluator of Australian charities, we don't make cash donations to Aboriginal organizations. Instead, we support Aboriginal culture via direct and indirect purchases of traditional didgeridoos, boomerangs, bull-roarers and other items. We recommend you do the same. If you're not lucky enough to visit Australia and buy straight from the source, your next best option is to shop at one of the Aboriginal stores listed on our Didg Links.

Autism Speaks (autismspeaks.org) - Funding global biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and cure for autism; raising public awareness about autism; and bringing hope to all who deal with the hardships of this disorder.

CARE (care.org) - Fighting global poverty, placing emphasis on working alongside poor women to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources.

Center for Biological Diversity (biologicaldiversity.org) - Working to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction.

Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust (dav.org/cst) - Building better lives for our nation's disabled veterans and their families.

Defenders of Wildlife (defenders.org) - Working to protect and restore America’s native wildlife, safeguard habitat, resolve conflicts, and educate and mobilize the public.

Doctors Without Borders (doctorswithoutborders.org) - Delivering emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care.

Environmental Defense (edf.org) - Creating innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems.

Grameen Foundation (grameenfoundation.org) - Supporting microfinance programs that enable the poor, mostly women, to start self-sustaining business that lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

International Rescue Committee (theirc.org) - Providing emergency relief, rehabilitation, protection of human rights, post-conflict development, resettlement services and advocacy for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression.

Mercy Corps (mercycorps.org) - Working to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.

National Wildlife Federation (nwf.org) - Inspiring Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future.

Natural Resources Defense Council (nrdc.org) - Safeguarding the Earth, its people, its plants, its animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.

Oceana (oceana.org) - Working to protect all of the world's oceans, and the people and creatures that depend on them.

Oxfam (oxfam.com) - Finding lasting solutions to global poverty and injustice; working on a broad range of issues, including trade, conflict, debt and aid, and education.

Rainforest Action Network (ran.org) - Using savvy and hard-hitting market campaigns to align policies of multinational corporations with widespread public support for environmental protection.

Save Darfur Coalition (savedarfur.org) - Raising public awareness and mobilize a massive response to the atrocities in Sudan's western region of Darfur.

The Nature Conservancy (nature.org) - Working worldwide to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

Union of Concerned Scientists (ucsusa.org) - Working for a healthy environment and safer world by combining independent scientific research and citizen action to develop solutions and secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices and consumer choices.

World Wildlife Fund (worldwildlife.org) - Working to conserve nature by preserving the diversity and abundance of life on Earth and the health of ecological systems.