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winners announced February 27 2011
Even one vote can make a big difference with Members Project. Help decide which five charities will receive a total of $1,000,000 in funding from American Express. You can vote for one charity every week and new winners will be announced every three months.
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"I Have a Dream" Foundation
The “I Have A Dream” Foundation is a national education nonprofit organization that increases college access for students in low-income communities. Since our founding in 1981, local affiliates have been sponsoring entire grade levels of ...
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9/11 Memorial
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, now being built at the World Trade Center, will be a lasting place for remembrance, reflection and learning. Be a part of history by helping to support opening the Memorial in time for the 10th ...
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A Better Chance
At A Better Chance, we know that thousands of bright young people of color lack access to educational opportunities that allow them to flourish. We help these students realize their full potential by opening doors to the best secondary schools in the ...
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Adopt-A-Classroom
Adopt-A-Classroom is dedicated to ensuring that all children have equal access to a quality education. How do we do this? By helping to provide teachers with much-needed classroom materials that transform classrooms into vibrant centers ...
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation
Now in our third decade of leadership, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is the largest HIV/AIDS healthcare organization in the U.S., providing free lifesaving medical care to more than 140,000 individuals in 23 countries worldwide through 75 AHF ...
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Since its founding in 1958, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has performed for tens of millions of people around the globe. On stage, our dancers enthrall audiences through electrifying performances of the best contemporary choreography as ...
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Alzheimer's Association
Founded in 1980, the Alzheimer’s Association is the nation’s leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research. We are dedicated to helping those affected and to finding prevention methods, treatments and a cure ...
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American Diabetes Association
If current trends continue, 1 in 3 children born in the U.S. today will develop diabetes. For minority children the statistic is 1 in 2. Join the millions who have made a difference to Stop Diabetes®. Diabetes is a serious disease with ...
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American Film Institute
AFI is America's promise to preserve the history of the motion picture, educate the next generation of storytellers, and honor the artists and their work. Become an AFI Member today and play your part in American film! AFI is a national institute ...
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American Indian College Fund
In 1968, the Navajo nation created the very first American Indian-controlled higher education institution to provide a first-rate college education to Native youth while preserving Native language and culture. Today there are more than 30 accredited ...
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Americans for the Arts
For 50 years, Americans for the Arts has led the national effort to ensure that every American has an opportunity to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Championing the cause of the arts and arts education in communities across ...
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AmeriCares
In times of epic disaster, daily struggle or civil conflict, AmeriCares restores health and saves lives by delivering medicines, medical supplies and humanitarian aid to people in need around the world and across the U.S. Since 1982, ...
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Big Brothers Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters helps vulnerable children beat the odds. The organization depends on donations to help recruit volunteers and reach more children. Funding is used to conduct background checks on volunteers to ensure child safety; ...
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Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Ask Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington, Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee or General Wesley Clark where it all started, and their answers will be the same: their local Boys & Girls Club. Such testimony speaks to the profound ...
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Children's Scholarship Fund
The Children's Scholarship Fund aims to maximize educational opportunity for all children: for those in need by offering tuition assistance in grades K-8 for alternatives to faltering conventional schools and for all children by supporting and ...
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Court Appointed Special Advocate Association
“To give a child a CASA volunteer is to give them hope, and to give them hope is to give them the world.”—Pamela Butler, former foster child. CASA volunteers speak up for the safety and well being of abused and neglected children ...
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Defenders of Wildlife
Fighting for the survival of polar bears. Helping wolves where they are most imperiled. Promoting new safeguards for Florida panthers and California’s sea otters. Protecting sea turtles from dangerous fishing practices. ...
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First Book
Forty percent of American children are growing up in low-income families, and most of these families have no books for their children. In fact, an estimated 80% of preschools and programs serving these children have no age-appropriate books at ...
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Folds of Honor Foundation
The Folds of Honor Foundation (FHF) provides post-secondary educational scholarships to the spouses and children of service members disabled or killed as a result of their military service to our great nation. The need is great. There are ...
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Free The Children
Free The Children is a by youth, for youth organization founded on the belief that young people have the power to change the world. Craig Kielburger founded Free The Children in 1995, when he was 12-years-old. Since then it’s grown into ...
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Green Schools Alliance
The Green Schools Alliance (GSA) works with and through the pre-K to grade 12 school community to meet their energy and sustainability goals, raise environmental awareness, and engage all members of the school community including students, ...
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Hispanic Scholarship Fund
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund’s (HSF) vision is a college degree in every Latino household. The organization delivers solutions with the greatest educational impact for the Hispanic American community and its supporters. With an integrated ...
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Jazz Foundation of America
One of the greatest saxophone players of all time wanders the streets homeless. A famous jazz drummer freezes because he can't afford to pay his heating bill. A world-renowned bassist is deathly ill but doesn't have the money to see a doctor. These ...
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Keep America Beautiful, Inc.
Keep America Beautiful believes that each one of us holds an obligation to our environment, to our communities, to the places we most cherish and call “home.” Whether we live in large cities, suburban towns or the rural countryside, we all ...
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Kiva.org
Kiva is the world’s first micro-lending website for the working poor, empowering individuals to lend to an entrepreneur across the globe. By combining microfinance with the power of the internet, Kiva can turn every $1 in award donations into ...
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Little Kids Rock
Kids who play a musical instrument are 52% more likely to go on to college, but school budget cuts keep denying kids this vital component of a well-rounded education. Little Kids Rock thinks that's unacceptable, and we are actively reversing ...
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Meals On Wheels Association of America
Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA) is dedicated to realizing our vision of ending senior hunger in America by 2020. MOWAA is the oldest and largest national organization composed of and representing local, community-based Senior Nutrition ...
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Musicians On Call
Musicians On Call brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in healthcare facilities. Musicians On Call uses music to promote and complement the healing process for patients, families and caregivers.It has been demonstrated that ...
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National Assoc. of Latino Arts & Culture
The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) is the nation’s leading service and advocacy organization exclusively dedicated to the promotion, advancement, development, and cultivation of the Latino arts field. For over 20 ...
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NRDC
NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of 1.3 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for ...
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Oceana
Oceana is the largest international conservation organization dedicated to the oceans. Our team of scientists, lawyers, economists and advocates work together for strategic and concrete policy changes concerning the health of the oceans. In just the ...
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Phoenix House
The consequences of substance abuse are devastating and indiscriminate, reaching into the schools, streets, and homes of our towns and cities. But each day at Phoenix House brings a new story of redemption: a runaway with a drug habit now enrolled ...
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Prostate Cancer Foundation
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men in the US, excluding skin cancer, and the second most common cause of cancer death among men. The Prostate Cancer Foundation is firmly committed to identifying and investing in the most ...
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Rainforest Alliance
The Rainforest Alliance works with people whose livelihoods depend on the land, helping them transform the way they grow food, harvest wood and host travelers. From large multinational corporations to small, community-based cooperatives, we involve ...
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Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the nation’s largest children’s literacy nonprofit, inspires all children to be lifelong readers through the power of choice. RIF provides new books for children to choose and make their own. Since its ...
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Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc.
Families are stronger when they are together, and research shows that their presence helps a sick child heal faster and cope better. While Ronald McDonald House Charities® cannot make medicine taste better or take away painful treatments, we can ...
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Save the Children
Save the Children works to ensure the well-being and protection of children in more than 120 countries around the world, including the United States. Founded in 1932 to aid families in Appalachia during the Great Depression, today we serve over ...
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Share Our Strength | NO KID HUNGRY
“You do not need to ask which child is hungry, because you can see it in their eyes and their actions.” Those are the words of Lisa, a teacher in Pennsylvania. Her colleagues all over the country have echoed her words. According to the ...
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital® is one of the world's premier pediatric cancer research centers. Our ground-breaking research and care has transformed the way the world treats childhood cancer and other deadly diseases. St. Jude ...
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STRIVE
STRIVE is a unique workforce development agency that has been transforming lives for over 25 years through comprehensive job training and career development services for the hardest-to-employ individuals in New York City – the chronically ...
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure®
Imagine living in a world where breast cancer doesn’t exist. A world where no one ever has to hear the words “you have breast cancer.” Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power ...
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The American Red Cross
The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers and guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross Movement, will provide relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, ...
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The Jane Goodall Institute
The Jane Goodall Institute is a global nonprofit that empowers people to make a difference for all living things. Our work builds on Dr. Goodall’s scientific work and her humanitarian vision. Specifically, we seek to: Improve global ...
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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Since its opening in 1971, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – America’s National Cultural Center and a “living” memorial to our 35th president – has attracted over 100 million visitors and patrons in its ...
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The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. The Nature Conservancy has accomplished the following since being founded in ...
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The Sierra Club Foundation
The Sierra Club Foundation is partnered with the Sierra Club on the Climate Recovery Partnership, a comprehensive initiative to reduce America's carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 while strengthening our habitats and communities to respond to ...
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US Fund for UNICEF
Imagine you are a child, living in the tense commotion of a refugee camp. You've fled there on foot with your family, lugging just a few hurriedly packed bags. Your house and village are far away, possibly destroyed by the flood, or earthquake, or ...
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Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
WCS is a global conservation organization working to save the last of endangered wildlife and wild lands worldwide with 500 programs in more than 60 countries. Headquartered at the Bronx Zoo, WCS is home to the world's largest network of urban ...
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World Monuments Fund
Every day, around the world, places that mean the most to us – those touchstones for our children and our children’s children – are threatened by neglect, demolition, and environmental disaster. Every day, the World Monuments ...
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Year Up
Year Up is a one-year, intensive training program that provides urban young adults 18-24, with a unique combination of technical and professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend and corporate internship. Our success is our graduates ...
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November 2010 Winners
Sundance Institute
Arts & Culture
KaBOOM!
Community Development
FIRST®
Education
Best Friends Animal Society
Environment & Wildlife
American Heart Association
Health & Wellness
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August 2010 Winners
StoryCorps
Arts & Culture
Grameen Foundation
Community Development
Jumpstart for Young Children
Education
National Audubon Society
Environment & Wildlife
American Cancer Society
Health & Wellness
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May 2010 Winners
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (Tie)
Arts & Culture
National Trust for Historic Preservation (Tie)
Arts & Culture
International Rescue Committee
Community Development
DonorsChoose.org
Education
ASPCA
Environment & Wildlife
Operation Smile
Health & Wellness
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