Give thanks and provides again!
While we collect with household to take pleasure in good meals and firm on this particular vacation, it’s additionally the proper time to honor the various charities working across the clock to make sure a greater future for us all. From these preventing for our rights to maintaining households fed throughout robust occasions, there are such a lot of unbelievable organizations we’re SO glad exist!
This Thanksgiving, right here’s a handful of the charities we’re most grateful for!
GLSEN
GLSEN is on a mission to verify each scholar has a protected and supportive faculty setting to thrive in. And in a day and age when anti-LGBTQ+ legal guidelines, e book bans, and hatred has sadly been on the rise, we expect it’s extra necessary than ever to verify the subsequent era has the assist they want within the classroom — to allow them to spend much less time worrying about worry of discrimination and bullying and extra time studying. Consider a donation HERE.
Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts
The Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts was based by Librance, AKA Władziu Valentino Liberace, an acclaimed American musician and actor. Keeping the star’s legacy alive, the not-for-profit group “owns and licenses the Liberace name, likeness, and other intellectual property” and “exhibits the Liberace Museum Collection worldwide in support of the arts.” Perez Hilton was really the Master of Ceremonies for the Liberace 104th Birthday Benefit in May, making this a company close to and pricey to our hearts and all these in Las Vegas and past. Support the group HERE.
Feeding America
No individual ought to ever go hungry, which is why we love Feeding America, a charity that’s working to get meals into the arms of everybody that wants them. On their web site, the non-profit explains they’re “part of a nationwide network of food banks, food pantries and community-based organizations in the United States working to create a future where no one is hungry.” And they’re on a mission to resolve the hungry drawback from all angles, together with “working to improve access to nutritious food, expand economic security, and advocate for policies that make it easier for people to get the food they need.” Amazing! Donate and even contemplating volunteering HERE.
One Drop Foundation
Just like meals is necessary, so is entry to scrub ingesting water! One Drop Foundation is an unbelievable group working to “ensure sustainable access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene for communities everywhere through innovative partnerships, creativity and the power of art.” According to them, 2 BILLION (!!!) folks lack protected water at house. So, the subsequent time you’re filling up a glass for your self, keep in mind how fortunate you might be!
This yr, Perez had the glory of internet hosting the org’s annual One Night for One Drop celebration in Sin City, the place they raised thousands and thousands for this nice trigger! Incredible!
Learn extra on this necessary challenge and contemplate a donation HERE.
ACLU
You know what they are saying concerning the holidays: don’t deliver up politics! But with all the things occurring in our nation (and the world, for that matter!), we are able to’t flip a blind eye to the authorized issues that have an effect on us all.
That’s why we love the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, authorized and advocacy group that “works in the courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country.” They deal with just about each challenge you possibly can think about, from LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive freedom and girls’s rights, racial justice, rights for refugees and immigrants, and a lot extra. A donation HERE will assist proceed this much-needed work.
And there you’ve gotten it. Just a small fraction of the various superb folks and organizations making us grateful this vacation season! Cheers to creating the world a greater place!
To study extra about how one can assist the LGBTQ+ group, take a look at https://www.glaad.org/.
[Image via SNL/Feeding America/YouTube]
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