ICC'S NEW FOUNDATION PAGE In keeping with ICC's Mission Statement of providing quality products that meet the needs of our clients by offering great resources, we are now launching a Foundation Page which will allow us to spread the word about organizations who are making a difference everyday by promoting global programs that encourage, support, and foster peace, kindness, resources, and inspiration that will help create a better world. All of the organizations listed on this page will be reviewed by ICC staff to ensure that they are in line with ICC's Mission Statement and company philosophy. To be considered, please submit your request on ICC's Contact page with web site information along with company contact details.

 

Chile Assistance

Haiti Assistance

About CharityChannel
CharityChannel is a resource that connects you to your nonprofit colleagues around the corner and around the world. Our Purpose: To foster a place where nonprofit professionals can learn from each other, share information and work together to advance the cause of philanthropy. The CharityChannel community is comprised of nonprofit-sector professionals from around the world who volunteer their time, advice, information, tips and articles for the benefit of the community.
http://www.charitychannel.com/Default.aspx?tabid=309&CATReferrer=4105

The Westgate Resorts Foundation
Mission Statement
The mission of the Westgate Resorts Foundation is to actively support charitable activities in areas where our employees live and work. Emphasis is placed on our employees, children, women, families, seniors and other local programs that improve the quality of life in our communities.
http://www.westgateresortsfoundation.org/

GoodSearch.com
Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by searching the Internet with GoodSearch.com (powered by Yahoo), or shopping online with GoodShop.com

Step Forward to Cure Autism, Epilepsy, and Cancer!
We choose to fight, not only for Bao, but for the 1 in 6000 kids like him born with TSC every day…50,000 in the U.S…over 1 million worldwide. TSC is more common than Lou Gehrig’s disease and Cystic Fibrosis, but you’ve never heard of it. And there is no cure. Yet!

Ours is a story of determination. Our stunningly small group of parents, through sheer will and passion, have brought this disease to the brink of a breakthrough. We are joined in our fight by aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, grandparents and friends, co-workers and colleagues. We’re asking you to join us in the fight to find a cure! Please support parents like Ann and I who have refused to give up, refused to take no for an answer, even when faced with the daily challenges of seizures, autism, ADHD, facial disfiguration, anxiety, behavioral problems, and medical complications.

We’re making HUGE strides in finding a cure for TSC. Here’s what we know now that we didn’t know just two short years ago: TSC is what’s called a “linchpin” disease. The genetic pathway involved in TSC is the same pathway affecting over a dozen major diseases and disorders, including autism, epilepsy, cancer, and obesity. We’ve got a long way to go, but recent clinical trials of a new drug actually show the symptoms of autism disappearing in mice. We’re in a race against time and our resources are strained beyond their limits!

Beginning on May 16th, we are holding a major fundraising "Step Forward to Cure TSC" in UT and Southern California. Please join our fight by supporting Team Bao and helping to break the back of this horrific disorder. You can make donations securely at:
http://www.firstgiving.com/team_bao

 

Plan is a community of individuals, families, groups, organizations and institutions that share the common belief that every child in this world deserves to fulfill her potential.

As members of the Plan community, we do more than donate money — we give our time, skills and resources to help realize this vision for the world's children.
www.planusa.org

GoodShop.com
Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by searching the Internet with GoodSearch.com (powered by Yahoo), or shopping online with GoodShop.com

United Negro College Fund (www.uncf.org)
About UNCF
At a time when a college degree is what a high school diploma was to previous generations, the minimum entry-level requirement for almost every well-paying career, UNCF plays a critical role in enabling more than 65,000 students each year to attend college and get the education they want and deserve. To close the educational attainment gap between African Americans and the majority population, UNCF helps promising students attend college and graduate by:• Providing operating funds for its 39 member colleges, all of them small, liberal arts institutions, making it possible for them to offer their students 21st century academic programs while keeping their tuitions to less than half the average of other private colleges;• Administering 300 scholarship and internship programs, so that even students from low- and moderate income families can afford college tuition, books and room and board;• Serving as a national advocate for the importance minority higher education by representing the public policy interests of its students and member colleges, through its annual television program, An Evening of Stars®, and by using print and electronic media to carry out the mission implicit in its motto, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."®Quick Facts

Unicef.org
UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. We have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality. That makes us unique among world organizations, and unique among those working with the young. We believe that

Remote Area Medical
Provides free medical care to people in remote areas around the world via its fleet of aircraft. ... and Remote Area Medical Foundation are 501(c)(3) publicly ...
www.ramusa.org - Cached (Also featured on 60 Minutes)

El Sistema: Changing Lives Through Music, Bob Simon On Venezuela's ...
Through a system of early training and local orchestras, Venezuela has not only provided an ... Home " 60 Minutes.
El Sistema: Changing Lives Through Music ...
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/11/60minutes/main4009335.shtml

Free the Slaves
www.freetheslaves.net

Ayuda Inc.
www.ayudainc.org

Ethos Water:
Helping Children Get Clean Water Read the Latest Ethos Water Blog ... with Peter Thum from Ethos, a bottled water company purchased by Starbucks in 2005. ... 2007 Ethos Water. All rights ...
www.ethoswater.com

Oprah.com

From the show I Walked Away from Millions

Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation
Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation (OBI) is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) humanitarian organization based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
www.OB.org

Global Vessels
Global Vessels is a Christian organization that is dedicated to the uplifting of humanity. We organize and participate in short term mission projects globally.
www.GlobalVessels.org

Gifts In Kind International
Gifts In Kind International is a 501(c)(3) organization. Our mission is to link donor resources to enhance, empower, and restore communities and people in need.
www.giftsinkind.org

SAVE DARFUR
http://www.savedarfur.org

Hurricane Katrina Disaster officials recommend the following Web sites http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/help.center/

Additional Katrina Support Links

 

TSUNAMI AID AND RELIEF

"These international aid organizations are accepting donations to help victims of the powerful earthquake and resulting tsunamis that caused widespread destruction in parts of South Asia and East Africa".
Organizations listed on CNN website

 

FUND RAISING EFFORT FOR CUBA

"Financial help desperately needed to support Cuban Pastors and Seminary Students"

Rev. Jerold Boodhoo, Pastor of the Emmanuel Mission, Church of the Nazarene in Toronto, Canada, visited Cuba twice this year and has identified a desperate financial need that exist among his denomination pastors and full-time theological seminary students.

Discussions with his denomination church leaders, pastors and full-time seminary students really made an impression on him. He was so touched and moved by the poverty he saw while visiting many of the churches in Havana that created a heavy burden upon his heart that urged him to help these loving and faithful Christian people. He decided to immediately start raising money upon his return to Canada to help support the Cuban pastors and their families and the full-time resident seminary students, many of whom live in very cramped and poor living conditions that consists of the very bare basic necessities of life.

What impressed him the most was the fact that no one asked for money or help but instead were willing to share the little they had. The welcome and love he experienced from the Cubans whereever he visited cannot be compared.

Facts: The average Cuban pastor or worker earns the equivalent of about $10 US dollars per month. The full-time seminary students are assigned to specific churches every weekends and earns the equivalent of about $1 or $2 US dollars per month.

You can help Rev. Boodhoo in this financial drive by giving whatever you can afford to help support these Cuban pastors and their families as they spread the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ to a nation that is desperately looking for hope. A donation of $50 US dollars will provide food, housing accommodation and cover the tuition fees for one full year for a full-time seminary student. Rev Jerold Boodhoo will be visiting Cuba very soon again and will personally hand over 100% of all your donations to the Cuban church leaders. Rev. Boodhoo can be contacted directly by E-mail if you will like to find out more about this project: E-mail address: jboodhoo@sympatico.ca

Please make your donations by checks or money order in US dollars only and payable to:

EMMANUEL MISSION Full mailing address:
Emmanuel Mission Church of the Nazarene
1875 Sheppard Avenue West
Downsview, Ontario M3L 1Y6
Canada

 

THE BREAT CANCER WEB SITE
www.thebreastcancersite.com

The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on "donating a mammogram" for free (pink window in the middle).

This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate a mammogram in exchange for advertising.

Here's the web site. Please pass it along to 10 people.
www.thebreastcancersite.com

 

BEYOND BORDERS
www.beyondborders.net

Beyond Borders has partnered with Haitian church and community leaders to create more than 80 literacy centers for children and adults, bringing hope and dignity to some of Haiti's poorest people. Beyond Borders also provides extraordinarily well-planned short and long-term service-learning opportunities for groups and individuals wanting to travel to Haiti.

Website: www.beyondborders.net

 

URBAN PROMISE
www.urbanpromiseusa.org

Urban Promise is headquartered in Camden, NJ, and reaches hundreds of children and teenagers through a variety of daily activities that include Bible study, evangelism, tutoring, sports, music and drama. They have also developed the Camden Forward Elementary School and the Home School Academy, an alternative school for high school students on the verge of dropping out. Another Urban Promise program, Camden Printworks, is a fast-growing T-shirt and printing business that trains and employs young entrepreneurs in a city with nearly 70% unemployment. Urban Promise also operates ministries in Wilmington, Delaware and Toronto and Vancouver, Canada.

Website: www.urbanpromiseusa.org.

 

CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
www.cornerstonephiladelphia.com

Cornerstone Christian Academy is an academically rigorous elementary school for children from low-income neighborhoods in West Philadelphia. Cornerstone has an outstanding faculty, an array of committed volunteers and more than three hundred promising students. This school stands as a beacon of hope in one of America's neediest neighborhoods.

Website: www.cornerstonephiladelphia.com

 

MISSION YEAR
www.missionyear.org

Mission Year is a national Christian service program that recruits committed young adults to live and work together as full-time missionaries in poor inner-city neighborhoods. Each Mission Year team becomes part of a solid local church, performs regular community service (in schools, hospitals, and other agencies) and does daily outreach visitation in order to build life-changing relationships with neighbors. Mission Year currently has teams in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Oakland, and Chicago.

Website: www.missionyear.org

 

THE CAMPOLO SCHOOL OF SOCIAL CHANGE
www.eastern.edu/academic/trad_grad/ssc/

The Campolo School of Social Change at Eastern University is an integrated group of graduate programs aimed at developing Christian professionals who will use their skills to transform urban communities around the world.

Website: www.eastern.edu/academic/trad_grad/ssc/

 

OASIS/ZIMBABWE
www.u-net.com/oasis

Oasis/Zimbabwe provides housing, schooling, and loving care for hundreds of children who have been orphaned and, in many cases, afflicted themselves by the terrible AIDS epidemic in Africa. Oasis/Zimbabwe helps those children to live with hope and, when there is no choice, to die with dignity.

Website: www.u-net.com/oasis

 

COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL
www.compassion.com

Compassion International recruits sponsors for needy children in more than 50 countries around the world. For just $28 per month, each Compassion sponsor helps provide food, clothing, health care, and Christian education for an individual boy or girl, with whom that sponsor is encouraged to correspond.

Website: www.compassion.com

 

THE RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS FOUNDATION
www.actsofkindness.org

MISSION
The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation inspires people to practice kindness and to pass it on to others. We provide free educational and community ideas, guidance, and other resources to kindness participants through our web site at www.actsofkindness.org

ABOUT THE FOUNDATION
Through the dissemination of ideas and the development of materials and programs, we have helped our kindness coordinators including educators, students, community members, faith groups, service clubs, and others incorporate kindness into thousands of schools and communities. As people tap into their own generous human spirit and share kindness with one another, they discover for themselves the power of kindness to effect positive change. When kindness is expressed, healthy relationships are created, community connections are nourished, and people are inspired to pass kindness on.

Established in 1995 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation is a resource for people committed to spreading kindness. We provide a wide variety of materials on our web site, including activity ideas, lesson plans, project plans, teacher's guide, project planning guide, publicity guide, and work place resources on our web site at www.actsofkindness.org all free of charge.

The Foundation is privately held and funded. We accept no donations, grants, or membership dues. We do not provide financial assistance to individuals or organizations. The Foundation has no religious or organizational affiliations; we encourage the practice of kindness in all sectors of society.

The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation is the United States delegate to the World Kindness Movement, an organization that includes various nations. People in these countries promote kindness within their countries' borders and are creating a global network of kindness and compassion.

As people from different cultures and from all walks of life are joining to spread kindness, they are creating a powerful, synergistic action throughout the world. Please join us in bringing kindness and compassion to our local and global communities!