Big Congratulations to the Petfinder.com Foundation, who just completed their fundraising project to vaccinate 2,000 dogs from kennel cough. Here’s the background: kennel cough, or bortadella, is a huge problem in kennels across the country as the virus can spread quickly between dogs and make them very sick. Vaccines can be expensive and small shelters ...
Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. I first learned about human trafficking while working as a political organizer in San Francisco. I had a volunteer who, during the day, worked for an anti-trafficking organization called SAGE (Standing Against Global Exploitation) and, by night, came in and made phone calls to voters about the mid-term ...
I recently had the privilege of attending the year-end fundraising banquet for a local San Francisco nonprofit, Streetside Stories. Streetside Stories works with kids in classrooms to help them express themselves and tell their stories through writing, video, and other media. At the event, many of their students, students’ teachers, and staff talked about the ...
24 months ago Larry Thorpe and Patrick Ayres founded JoeOnTheMove, a movement to help deployed soldiers contact loved ones for free. Patrick, a Combat Medic, and Larry, a Cannon Crew member, were deployed to Korea two and a half years ago and found that they had to pay for their phone calls home and their internet ...
The new Causes widgets are starting to pop-up on nonprofit websites, tech blogs, and other sites around the internet. Take a look! To get a widget for your website or blog, go to www.causes.com/widgets. You can customize the color, the size, the cause you’re promoting, and even pick if you want a “Join the Cause” ...