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DeGeneres Asks for Help for Sanctuary’s Rescued Animals
by Jennifer Mishler April 6, 2012
Photo: The Gentle Barn
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Ellen DeGeneres has been a long-time supporter of The Gentle Barn. She and wife Portia have adopted two cows, Holy and Madonna, that were rescued by the organization.
The nonprofit organization rescues and rehabilitates animals saved from “severe abuse, neglect or slaughter,” while also working with at-risk children and children with disabilities. The Gentle Barn recently rescued over 20 animals from a “backyard butcher,” and Ellen is asking for help. She tweeted yesterday, “There are 20 new animals that could use our help. Donate here. http://say.ly/FDc1HNn.”
The Gentle Barn writes on their blog, “There are over 20 goats and sheep that were brought to us yesterday. They are sick, infested with parasites, malnourished, emaciated and terrified. They have such bad eye infections they are going blind! We are working hard to save them but cannot do it without your help, please support us, we need you now more than ever!” The first of the animals in the group to be rescued was a horse who is also in bad condition. “She is hundreds of pounds underweight and every bone protruding, covered with mud, she has hair falling off in clumps, sores on her face and body, a huge wound on her leg that is infected down to the bone, both eye[s] are infected, her knees are swollen and we are fighting hard to save her life.”
The “backyard butcher,” located in Santa Clarita Valley, has been arrested and according to NBC, the founders of The Gentle Barn Jay Weiner and Ellie Laks have been following the situation for four years. They and other staff call it “one of the worst cases of animal abuse and cruelty they’ve ever seen.” They had been buying animals from the butcher, picking ones that were in the worst conditions and bringing them to the sanctuary.
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A message of hope from employees at Pixar Animation Studios. Live the life you love, love the life you live. Music courtesy of Geographer. http://www.geographermusic.comA message of hope from employees at Pixar Animation Studios. Live the life you love,... more
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A message of hope from employees at Pixar Animation Studios.
It gets better.
http://www.itgetsbetter.org/A message of hope from employees at Pixar Animation Studios.
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How Pakistan being economically down compared to other countries can supply terrorists and other anti-social elements with arms and ammunition?! Watch this video you ll sure be dumbstruck. This video shows THE LARGEST ILLEGAL ARMS MARKET on the planet.How Pakistan being economically down compared to other countries can supply terrorists... more
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This week, we launched Impact, our new section devoted to giving back. Thanks to the compassion and generosity of our HuffPost community, it immediately lived up to its name...This week, we launched Impact, our new section devoted to giving back. Thanks to the... more
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Swaziland, Africa - July 2009: Jennifer Sly, Founder of YouthAssets, brought us with her to a number of local homesteads in Swaziland this week. Along the way, Jennifer told us about how she used Google's G1 phone & Google GPS Maps to find a remote homestead of a 12 year old boy she met over 14 months beforehand in rural Swaziland, Africa. Jennifer points out the importance of GPS maps in Africa, noting that in most locations people do not have street addresses.
YouthAssets is an international nonprofit organization that uses mobile technology to empower and connect orphans and vulnerable youth in southern Africa. To learn more about how you can support their important work, please visit http://www.YouthAssets.org. For more videos on Africa, social entrepreneurs, social capital, and nonprofits, please visit: http://www.envisionGood.tv. Thanks!Swaziland, Africa - July 2009: Jennifer Sly, Founder of YouthAssets, brought us with... more
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KIDS AT THE BEACH - AChanceForChildren.org - A Chance for Children Foundation helps support homeless and "at risk" youth in a variety of educational and athletic activities, after school programs, summer camps, holiday events, college tuition and an Adopt-a-Family program that assists families as they make their transition from the homeless shelters to permanent housing.
For many of the children, whose lives have been filtered with hardships, danger and struggle, A Chance for Children represents the dawning of the possibilities to create a better life.KIDS AT THE BEACH - AChanceForChildren.org - A Chance for Children Foundation helps... more
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Paul Light, a professor of Public Service at New York University, has warned that some 100,000 nonprofit organizations may be wiped out in the next few years. At a minimum. The financial crisis comes on the heels of a presidential campaign that drained the coffers of many big donors. The ACLU alone is facing a $19 million hole in its budget and has had to cancel various projects as well as dismiss 10 percent of its staff nationwide.
Eyal Press in The Nation Magazine writes that, "Now, with foundations watching their endowments shrivel, many individual donors maxed out and states across the country staring at massive budget deficits, nonprofits are scaling back their services at the very moment when the need for them is escalating."
Eyal Press, Marjorie Fine of the Center for Community Change, Talia Schank of Community Voices Heard, and Katherine Acey of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice discuss the fate of nonprofits in a world of falling profits.Paul Light, a professor of Public Service at New York University, has warned that some... more
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Paul Light, a professor of Public Service at New York University, has warned that some 100,000 nonprofit organizations may be wiped out in the next few years. At a minimum. The financial crisis comes on the heels of a presidential campaign that drained the coffers of many big donors. The ACLU alone is facing $19 million hole in its budget and has had to cancel various projects as well as dismiss 10 percent of its national staff.
Eyal Press in The Nation Magazine writes that, "Now, with foundations watching their endowments shrivel, many individual donors maxed out and states across the country staring at massive budget deficits, nonprofits are scaling back their services at the very moment when the need for them is escalating."
Press, Marjorie Fine of the Center for Community Change, Talia Schank of Community Voices Heard, and Katherine Acey of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice discuss the fate of nonprofits in a world of falling profits.Paul Light, a professor of Public Service at New York University, has warned that some... more
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As 1-800-SUICIDE marks its tenth anniversary this year, the hotline needs your help. It was founded in 1998 by Reese Butler in memory of his wife, Kristin who had committed suicide. The Kristin Brooks Hope Center has helped almost three million callers connect to help and hope.
As they enter their second decade of service to the public, continued support is needed to ensure that the confidentiality of every caller is protected. Because they are totally privately funded, they need to prove to the government that they are capable of supporting 1-800-SUICIDE to keep control of the line from being taken over by the federal government.
The money you donate will not only be used to pay the phone bill that connects about 50,000 callers each month to the Hopeline Network, but will also be used to pay for training of online crisis counselors who will provide the same support via online counseling. This is where the young people of today reach out for help. The success of 1-800-SUICIDE is based on individuals in crisis knowing that any personal identifiable information is kept strictly confidential.
The Hope Center’s volunteer staff and Board remain committed to preserving confidential suicide prevention programs. Your action today assures their sustainability!
The Kristin Brooks Hope Center and its national 1-800-SUICIDE hotline is a great asset to our society – one of those private-sector initiatives called a “point of light.” For reasons of their own, certain officials within the government tried to snuff that light. With your help and support together we can prevent that tragedy from occurring and help the Hopeline achieve success in liberating 1-800-SUICIDE from government control permanently.
As 1-800-SUICIDE marks its tenth anniversary this year, the hotline needs your help.... more
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On the weekend of May 2-4, Myanmar (also known as Burma) was struck by the powerful Cyclone Nargis. A resulting tidal surge killed at least 23,000 people, and another 41,000 people are missing. At least a million more people are now in desperate need of clean drinking water, food, and shelter.
Historically, international aid agencies have been granted limited access to work in Myanmar by the country’s ruling junta. The scale of the disaster has prompted the regime to make an unprecedented request for international assistance. As such, many leading international NGOs are now collecting resources they hope to distribute to cyclone victims as soon as possible.
If you are looking to assist with the relief efforts, please see the following links.
Network for Good has a list of aid agencies accepting donations for Myanmar cyclone relief.
http://networkforgood.blogspot.com/2008/05/help-victims-of-myanmar-cyclone.html
International Federation of Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies has launched an emergency appeal for Myanmar.
http://www.ifrc.org/
World Vision is one of the international NGOs already on the ground in Myanmar.
http://www.worldvision.org/news.nsf/news/myanmar-cyclone-20080505?open&lid=20225&lpos=emg_txt_LearnMore
UNICEF is another aid agency with staff on the ground in Myanmar, and is collecting resources to distribute.
http://www.unicefusa.org/
Save the Children has been on the ground in Myanmar since 1995 and is collecting resources for distribution to affected families.
http://www.savethechildren.org/emergencies/asia/cyclone-nargis-myanmar-response.html
Globalteer is an organization in the United Kingdom that is looking for volunteers to go to Myanmar and help out.
http://www.globalteer.org/news/21/15.html
Architecture for Humanity is raising funds to assist with reconstruction efforts.
http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/
Do you know of other organizations or people who could use volunteers or resources to aid Myanmar? Leave a comment! On the weekend of May 2-4, Myanmar (also known as Burma) was struck by the powerful... more
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Global Giving and Volunteers for Prosperity - a division of USAID - have created an incentive program through which matching grants are given to those Americans who want to volunteer abroad.
http://www.globalgiving.com/cb/vfpserv
They’re basically trying to give money away (to skilled volunteers) as fast as possible.Global Giving and Volunteers for Prosperity - a division of USAID - have created an... more
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If you run, are starting, or are thinking about nonprofits, this portal is a quick an easy way to get access to the myriad tools Google is making available for free.
http://realist-idealist.com/2008/03/20/google-launches-nonprofit-portal/
The idea is that you can ultimately spend more time doing the things that your organization was created for (i.e. serving the community) and less on operations. If you run, are starting, or are thinking about nonprofits, this portal is a quick an... more
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