www.organicconsumers.org
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children’s health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics.

www.teachersagainstprejudice.org
Teachers Against Prejudice (TAP) is dedicated to fighting prejudice, intolerance and bigotry through education. TAP helps teachers address issues of sensitivity and respect concerning diversity in the classroom and provides trained professionals to teach students how to confront prejudice.

www.apch.org
A Place Called Home (APCH) is a dynamic youth enrichment center founded in 1993. Their mission is to provide at-risk youth with a secure, positive family environment where they can regain hope and belief, earn trust and self respect and learn skills to lead a productive lifestyle free of the gangs, drugs and poverty that surrounds them. A Place Called Home helps inner city youth find their dreams through educational enrichment.

www.globalvolunteers.org
Global Volunteers was founded in 1984 and strives to wage peace throughout the world by helping to establish mutual understanding between people of diverse cultures. Global Volunteers is a NGO (non-governmental organization) in special consultative status with the United Nations. Global Volunteers builds bridges of understanding between people of diverse cultures by involving them in one-on-one service projects. Projects include tutoring children, teaching conversational English or business skills, renovating and painting community buildings, assisting in health care or with natural resource projects, and nurturing at-risk kids.

http://www.commonground.org
Common Ground’s mission is to end homelessness through innovative programs that transform people, buildings and entire communities. In 1990, Common Ground pioneered the concept of mixed-income supportive housing – affordable housing for a range of income groups with on-site social services. These services help formerly homeless tenants restore their health, regain their economic independence, and rebuild their lives. Of those assisted, 93% remain stably housed. Indeed, their lives are transformed.

thinkgiving.com is an online destination for discovering both small and new charities you may not be familiar with. One of our goals is to find every active charity in the United States that was started by young people. Want to get inspired by people creating change right now? Visit a few of the websites for charities created by teenage philanthropists around the U.S. who are creatively solving specific problems in their communities. Some of these organizations are so effective they are now expanding to help people all over the country.

We all have something we can give to help others less fortunate. Donations, time, encouragement, experience, creativity, any number of skills we each possess. thinkgiving.com was created by a group of art directors, graphic designers and videographers who have enjoyed creating promotional materials for charitable and educational organizations.

thinkgiving.com is designed to create awareness about the many charitable groups working quietly behind the scenes to solve problems that effect all of us. Visit their websites and if you believe in their work: volunteer or donate time, money, items they may need or your personal skills. Change in the world begins with you.