Apne Aap: fights child sex slavery, runs shelters for trafficked women and organizes raids to rescue them from brothels. Esp in India, where the problem is the worst.
What are yours?
Please donate money to the Joe Burzynski foundation. Anything is accepted.
email burjzyntski@gmail.com for more information.
Ah, your name is Joe. Now when I see that crazy combination of uncommon letters in uncommon combinations which is your last name, I’ll just see “Joe”. (no offense, and I’m just being silly, but it does kinda make my eyes bug out).
Many years ago at the office, a guy used his last name as his password. This was okay, because nobody could really spell Schwabacher anyway. Your last name is almost encrypted compared to his. 
(again, sorry… I’m just being silly)
My favorite “charity” is my friend Bob who is fighting for his life with cancer. He can’t work and has serious money problems on top of everything else. I send him money every month (not that I have any to spare).
[my username is actually a combination of my first name (Joseph), middle name (Thomas), and surname (Burzynski); BURJZYNTSKI = burjzyntski.]
But seriously, all donations are accepted 
I don’t really have a favorite charity, per se, but I am quite fond of the Feed The Children organization which raises money/gains sponsors in order to feed children in third world countries.
as already mentionned in another post; my mom told me that it was extremely bad taste to display publicly any charity donation.
So when, for instance, in my corporation the usual excuse for getting togerther is about (so called) “charitable” purposes that infuriates me.
want to have a social drink? for a charity…
want to go out and practice you favorite sport? for a charity…
and so on…
worse when I explain my refusal to play this game to my colleagues I am met with blank stares … apparently I must come from another planet!
caritas should be an open heart for every moment of your life not an hypocrit face to the world!
I agree, I can’t help thinking with a lot of sponsored events I see (and I’m not talking about unicycling atall here) that if the person involved actually made some real sacrifice and didn’t go on whatever marvellous life-changing journey there were planning, and instead donated all the money they were going to spend to charity and worked during the time they would have been off and donated that money too they would make an awful lot more.
This year I have supported a charity which provides mental support for ex-servicemen by unicycling, damned if I can remeber what it’s called but they do good and very necessary work.
We regularly give to:
The Foodbank of Monmouth County - supplies food to local soup kitchens
Habitat For Humanity - builds house for and with their future owners
The Lustgarten Foundation - my wife, at 17 years of age, held her mother’s hand as she died of pancreatic cancer for which this foundation is helping to find a cure
Our current charity is Marquise. He’s a boy we met at NAUCC last summer, and lives in some pretty bad poverty. Tommy Thompson helps kids like Marquise have a chance to get out of their neighborhoods and do a healthy, confidence-building activity like unicycling. The brief bits I’ve heard about Marquise’s home life are just scary. He lives in a house with a bunch of other people that may or may not be related to him. Tommy was not sure where his parents were, or who was “raising” him.
The Memphis Unicycle Club used to have a link on their site for the charitable organization they were running to handle this part of what they do, but it was recently hacked into and they are currently rethinking how to work it. I’ve been waiting for that to happen but at this point Jacquie and I will just be sending the checks to him.
Before this, we were sending a monthly donation to the Christian Childrens Fund. Aside from any religious connotations, they are well known for a very low percentage of administrative overhead, and the good work they do. We also donate lots of our used “stuff” to local organizations that take those kinds of donations. WEAVE (Women Escaping a Violent Environment) is our preferred one, but they are often “full” and our stuff ends up at Good Will.
My friends dad has a huge semi-truck (hes a trucker) so we frequnetley go around and collect things for the people that lost things in the Holly Colorado tornado. Lots of people lost everything. And many have no money to buy furnitrue. So we help them out. Its not really an organization, but it is something we do for charity.
My uncle was very recently diagnosed with pancreatitis and told that, at his late of a stage & with the very little medical support he’d received (he didn’t tell anyone about the pains he’d been having until he needed to be hospitalized), he would only have a couple of hours to live. Apparently his organs were “shutting down left and right” and he was put on some form of life support. That was about 5 days ago; apparently he’s stable now.
Thanks Raphael, I’m going to look up that organization.