charities list

I think these are organizations worth supporting as they are making useful changes. I get asked about who we support/like, so I thought I'd blog this to help those who are curious/interested:

Racial/Social Justice, making changes to the Political and the Legal Systems

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU.org)
• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI.org)
• Mass. Bail Fund (massbailfund.org)
• Southern Poverty Law Center (splcenter.org)
• Real Justice (realjusticepac.org)
• Lakota People's Law Project (lakotalaw.org)
• Innocence Project (innocenceproject.org)
• Council on American Islamic Relations (cair.com)
• Flip the Senate (howweflipthesenate.com)

Business Growth/Social Justice

• Haymarket People's Fund (haymarket.org)
• Trickleup (trickleup.org)
• Boston Ujima Project (ujimaboston.com)
• The Pad Project (thepadproject.org)

Housing

• City Life Vita Urbana (clvu.org)

Environment

• Union of Concerned Scientists (ucsusa.org)
• Environmental and Energy Study Institute (eesi.org)
• EarthJustice (earthjustice.org)
• Water Protector Legal Collective (waterprotectorlegal.org)
• Arbor Day Foundation for #teamtrees (arborday.org)
• Friends of the Earth (foe.org)
• 350.org

Health

• Doctors Without Borders (doctorswithoutborders.org)

Food

• Haley House (haleyhouse.org)
• Boston Area Gleaners (bostonareagleaners.org)

Education

• Children’s Literacy Initiative (cli.org)
• We Need Diverse Books (diversebooks.org)
• World Education Inc. (worlded.org)
• WBUR (wbur.org)

Ways to research these and other charities

• charitynavigator.org
• give.org
• givingcompass.org
• guidestar.org
• fidelitycharitable.org/guidance/research-charities/give-lists.html
• charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=4742