Debbie Hennessey: Links

Charities

Best Friends: The mission of Best Friends is driven by the simple philosophy that kindness to animals helps build a better world for all of us. And the work of Best Friends is supported entirely through the donations of our members and supporters. Through the generous hearts and hands of people like you, we can ensure that animals who come into the care of Best Friends will never again be alone, hungry, sick, afraid, or in pain.
The Animal Rescue Site: Click on the "Feed an Animal in Need" button and give food to an animal living in a shelter or sanctuary -- at no cost to you!
Kitten Rescue - Los Angeles: Kitten Rescue saves the lives of 1,000 cats and kittens every year. Because we don't shy away from sick and injured kitties, we have huge vet bills. This year we expect to pay over $120,000 for the medical care of our animals. We need your help! Any amount you donate will help use save lives.
North Shore Animal League America: North Shore Animal League America is the world's largest no-kill pet rescue and adoption organization. We have been successfully placing homeless pets into loving homes for over 60 years.
ASPCA American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: The ASPCA was founded in New York City in 1866 to prevent cruelty to animals in the United States. The ASPCA has been headquartered in New York City since its founding and maintains a strong local presence, but with the gradual addition of programs and staff that extend its anti-cruelty mission across the country, the ASPCA is now recognized as a national animal welfare organization. ASPCA activities are divided into NYC Regional Programs, National Programs, and Communications and Support.
The Humane Society of the United States: The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has worked since 1954 to promote the protection of all animals. With nearly ten million members and constituents, The HSUS is the nation’s largest and most powerful animal protection organization, working in the United States and abroad to defend the interests of animals. We celebrate the human-animal bond, and we fight animal cruelty and abuse in all of its forms.
Defenders of Wildlife: Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities. We focus our programs on what scientists consider two of the most serious environmental threats to the planet: the accelerating rate of extinction of species and the associated loss of biological diversity, and habitat alteration and destruction.
World Wildlife Fund: WWF directs its conservation efforts toward three global goals: saving endangered species, protecting endangered habitats and addressing global threats such as toxic pollution, over-fishing and climate change. From working to save the giant panda and bringing back the Asian rhino to establishing and helping to manage parks and reserves worldwide, WWF has been a conservation leader for more than 40 years.
Animal Welfare Institute: Since 1951 AWI has fought for animals, with emphasis on ending animal factories, steel jaw and wire traps, experiments on animals and more.
American Humane: Protecting Children & Animals since 1877.
RAN - Rainforest Action Network: Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
Levi Lindekugel/St. Judes: Levi Lindekugel was a very special nine year old boy who lost his battle with a cancer called Neuroblastoma. While I never got to meet Levi, I have been honored get to know his dad, John through emails. Every year they have a big charity event to benefit St. Judes. Someday I hope to go the event in person. For more info please visit the site.
The 3rd Annual Cerebral Palsy Benefit: Jessica Smith is an amazing and inspiring lady who just happens to have Cerebral Palsy. She and artist Eve Selis are doing their annual benefit in San Diego. Please check out Jessica's website and Eve's www.eveselis.com to find out more about how you can help.
St. Jude Children's Hospital: All patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude are treated without regard to the family's ability to pay. St. Jude is unlike any other pediatric treatment and research facility anywhere. Discoveries made here have completely changed how the world treats children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases.
Inner Images (mobile mammography service): Founded by Debora Wright, Inner Images, Inc. is committed to providing accessible and affordable mobile mammography services to the women in California by providing the highest quality of early detection of breast cancer. Patients & Providers, please check out the site to find out more.
I'm Too Young For This i2y: There are tons of awesome cancer support services out there with programs just for adolescents and young adults and we're going to tell you about them! Support Orgs, Scholarships & Financial Aid, Online forums & Chat Rooms, Camps & Retreats, and much, much more!
Fertile Action: Founded by the amazing Alice Crisci, Fertile Action (formerly My Vision) is a breast cancer organization for women of reproductive age that she launched just a few weeks after her own cancer diagnosis in 2008. When faced with losing her breasts, her hair, her consulting firm, her money, her boyfriend and quite possibly, the chance to become a mom, Alice practiced what she'd always preached: Vision + Action = Victory, no matter what the circumstances. Included in Alice's vision were publishing her novella "Too Young For This," which she did six weeks after her diagnosis, and preserving her fertility, which she did a couple weeks after her diagnosis. She now gifts her book to newly diagnosed breast cancer patients and counsels them about freezing embryos to ensure their chance to become a mother. She is continuing to chronicle her journey as a featured columnist on the Huffington Post. Please visit Fertile Action to get info and get connected!
USO: Freedom is not free - Support Our Troops and their families thru the USO. The USO is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide morale, welfare and recreation-type services to our men and women in uniform. The original intent of Congress – and enduring style of USO delivery – is to represent the American people by extending a touch of home to the military. The USO currently operates more than 120 centers worldwide, including seven mobile canteens located in the continental United States and overseas. Overseas centers are located in Germany, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Qatar, Korea, Afghanistan, Guam, and Kuwait. Service members and their families visit USO centers more than 5 million times each year.
American Cancer Society: The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the ACS has state divisions and more than 3,400 local offices.
National Center For Missing & Exploited Children: The Nation's Resource Center for Child Protection 1-800-THE-LOST
The Literacy Site: Click the "Fund Books For Kid" button and get books to kids at no cost to you!
Hep C Aware/Hep C Coalition: A non-profit foundation that is dedicated to raising awareness of Hepatitis C. Along with events during the year the hold an annual internet telethon each fall.
ALS Association: The ALS Association relentlessly pursues its mission to help people living with ALS and to leave no stone unturned in search for the cure of the progressive neurodegenerative disease that took the life and name of Baseball Legend Lou Gehrig.
Augie's Quest - link 1: Dec 07 - from the Lowen & Navarro newsletter. Augie Nieto is a successul businessman in the fitness world who was diagnosed with ALS two years ago and set about lending his considerable business acumen to finding a cure. He calls it "Augie's Quest" and he has revolutionized ALS research. Augie made a video to bring awareness to his quest. Augie has teamed up with John Ondrasik, the singer and songwriter of the band Five For Fighting, who is giving back to the community by featuring activist videos his website, www.whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com. Every time a video on the website is viewed, a $2 contribution is made to the cause it represents . . . just for watching! This is one of two links to videos about ALS (and have Eric in them!), but there are a myriad of worthy causes represented. Please check it out and pass it on to everyone you've ever met!
Augie's Quest - link 2: Dec 07 - from the Lowen & Navarro newsletter. Augie Nieto is a successul businessman in the fitness world who was diagnosed with ALS two years ago and set about lending his considerable business acumen to finding a cure. He calls it "Augie's Quest" and he has revolutionized ALS research. Augie made a video to bring awareness to his quest. Augie has teamed up with John Ondrasik, the singer and songwriter of the band Five For Fighting, who is giving back to the community by featuring activist videos his website, www.whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com. Every time a video on the website is viewed, a $2 contribution is made to the cause it represents . . . just for watching! This is one of two links to videos about ALS (and have Eric in them!), but there are a myriad of worthy causes represented. Please check it out and pass it on to everyone you've ever met!
American Diabetes Association: The American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. Founded in 1940, the American Diabetes Association conducts programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, reaching hundreds of communities.
Save Darfur: Darfur has been embroiled in a deadly conflict for over three years. At least 400,000 people have been killed; more than 2 million innocent civilians have been forced to flee their homes and now live in displaced-persons camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad; and more than 3.5 million men, women, and children are completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of displacement, starvation, rape, and mass slaughter. This campaign is being waged by the Sudanese government-backed militia known as “Janjaweed” who are determined to wipe these innocent people of the face of the earth. Please click on the link to find out what you can do to put a stop to this genocide.
One: The campaign to make poverty history.
Light Up Their Lives: This is a retired couple, Patrick and Anna Connolly who live in Wolseley, South Africa, and have taken it upon themselves to attempt to relieve some of the hardships that the children living in the Pine Valley and Montana settlements endure. Everyday, out of their home they provide meals for the children; the numbers vary daily, sometimes as few as twelve, other times as many as forty.
National Crime Prevention Council: NCPC produces tools that communities can use to learn crime prevention strategies, engage community members, and coordinate with local agencies, including: Publications and teaching materials on a variety of topics; Programs that can be implemented in communities and schools; Local, regional, and national trainings. Public service announcements broadcast nationwide starring McGruff the Crime Dog; Support for a national coalition of crime prevention practitioners.
Tips from McGruff: Tips on crime prevention from McGruff for kids, schools, seniors, neighborhoods, and your home.
Fight Crime - Invest In Kids California: Established in 2000, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California is a bipartisan, nonprofit, anti-crime organization led by more than 350 sheriffs, police chiefs, district attorneys and violence survivors. It is part of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a national nonprofit organization representing over 3,000 law enforcement leaders and violence survivors, headquartered in Washington, DC with additional state offices in Illinois, Maine, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Washington.
MS Music Fest: MS Music Fest & The Montel Williams MS Foundation: In August the song Love Might Change Your Mind from Debbie's new cd was chosen to be included on the MS Music Fest 2006 Compilation CD to benefit MS charities.
CaringBridge: A nonprofit organization that offers free, easy-to-create web sites to connect family and friends during a health crisis. A CaringBridge site eases the burden of keeping loved ones updated, while also providing a way for them to send their love and encouragement. Bring your world together when you need it most with CaringBridge.
Clear Channel, Indie Artists and National Breast Cancer Foundation.: Clear Channel, Indie Artists and National Breast Cancer Foundation join in the fight against breast cancer.
Union Rescue Mission: We provide a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing, medical and dental care, recovery programs, transitional housing, legal assistance, education, counseling, and job training to needy men, women, children, and families.
Charity Navigator: Independent charity evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health of America's largest charities.
Charity.com: List all kinds of deserving charities.