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CASA - COURT
APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES
In the United States
over one half million children are in foster care because they cannot safely
live with their families. Nearly 70,000 National CASA volunteers serve
approximately 280,000 of those abused or neglected children every year. Click
here to learn how
you can raise awareness and help children affected by neglect and abuse.
 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA
Click
here to learn how you can raise awareness and help children affected by
neglect and abuse.
"Love
cannot remain by itself --
it has no meaning.
Love has to be put into
action,
and that action is service."
~ Mother
Teresa
 
The
Foundations primary mission is to provide scholarships for
secondary education for children who have lost a parent to breast
cancer.
Visit their
website
 THE WELLNESS COMMUNITY
The Wellness
Community is dedicated to help people with cancer and their loved
ones enhance their health and well-being by providing a professional program of
emotional support, education, and hope.
Visit their website
"It
is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can
sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
SERVICES TO ENHANCE POTENTIAL
They serve nearly 1,000 persons with
developmental and other disabilities including mental retardation, cerebral
palsy, visual impairments, physical disabilities, autism, and mental illness.
Visit their website
"Only
when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain,
can we truly know what love means."
~ Leo
Buscaglia
23rd STREET STATION
They work
with shelters and non-profit agencies enabling victims of domestic
violence to acquire basic life and updated job skills, allowing them
to re-enter society feeling more secure.
Visit
their website
"No
act of kindness, no matter how small,
is ever wasted."
~ Author: Aesop
CALIFORNIA
DEPARTMENT OF AGING
The
California Department of Aging administers a broad range of home- and
community-based services throughout California, working primarily with
the Area Agencies on Aging who serve seniors, adults with
disabilities, and caregivers.
Visit their
website
YOU make the difference!!!!
National
Multiple Sclerosis Society
The mission of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is to end the
devastating effects of MS.
 Join family and friends to fight MS. Read stories, fundraising &
recruiting tips, and more.
Go
team, Visit their website
"We
only find out how far we can go, when we go as far as we can.....
"
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Some people get
involved because "they want to make a better world"...
Others do it because "it looks good on their resume"...
Some people have "had an experience that motivates them"....
Some do it, because "they are concerned about their
Karma"...
Others do it, "because it's the right thing to do:..
Whatever your reason or motivation to get involved...
You make the difference!
"Volunteering
is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters
profoundly.
It does more than help people beat the odds;
it changes the odds."
~ President Bill Clinton
"A
pessimist, they say,
sees a glass of water as being half empty;
an
optimist sees the same glass as half full.
But a giving person sees a glass of water
and starts looking for
someone who might be thirsty."
~ G.
Donald Gale
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