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volunteer opportunities

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and you will get a look at many possibilities for volunteering in your neighborhood.
Make a Difference Day is a national day of helping others -- a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors. Make A Difference Day is an annual event that takes place on the fourth Saturday of every October.
Spirituality for Kids: http://spiritualityforkids.org/
The goal of Spirituality for Kids (SFK) is to stop the suffering and chaos in the lives of children around the world by giving them the tools of spirituality, tools that help children transform the belief systems that limit their ability to realize their true potential and change their destiny. PDF Brochure.

organizations
Arts and Healing Network

An international resource for anyone interested in healing potential of art.

The Center For Attitudinal Healing states that love is the most important healing force in the world. It defines health as inner peace and healing as a process of letting go of fear
Gratefulness.org You are invited to plug into the active transformative power of gratefulness through this interactive website.
Kiva.org is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website. By enabling people to connect with and make personal loans to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world, Kiva.org is revolutionizing the fight against global poverty. You can make a direct loan of as little as $25 to an entrepreneur to purchase business-related items such as sewing machines or livestock. This can dramatically improve the life of an entrepreneur and his/her family, empowering them to earn their way out of poverty.

Seva is a donor-supported non-profit foundation
building partnerships to respond to locally defined problems
with culturally sustainable solutions throughout the world.

The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love supports research on "unlimited love," and seeks to understand our capacities for participation in unlimited love as the ultimate purpose of our lives.
The Fetzer Institute, a foundation that supports research, education, and service programs exploring the integral relationships among body, mind, and spirit.
Make A Wish Foundation. Grants the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy.
Hugs for Health Foundation, To bridge the gap between the community and aged Americans residing in senior and long-term care facilities through hug therapy wellness programs, outreach, education and volunteer support services.
Words Can Heal A new national effort to reduce verbal violence and gossip. The goal is to promote the value and practice of ethical speech improving our democracy and building respect, honor and dignity.

magazines • journals
For A Change is an international magazine about people making a difference. Healing history, transforming relationships, building community and more.
The Sun Magazine. In essays, stories, interviews, and poetry, people write of their struggle to understand their lives, with surprising intimacy. Founder Sy Safransky promises that every issue will explore the unexpected pain, the joy, and, most of all, the simple dignity of being human. 
Tricycle, the Buddhist review magazine
Spirituality & Health, The Soul Body Connection

humor

photo related
RedTop is a place for photographers to show their work
Fifty Crows Foundation. The International Fund for Documentary Photography supports documentary photographers whose outstanding ability in visual storytelling leads to a better understanding of our common humanity.

photographers
Nancy L. Ford, Photojournalism from the Soul
Jan Phillips, God Is At Eye Level, Photography As A Healing Art

other
Ilana Yahav is a sand animation artist. Using only her fingers, Ilana draws with sand on glass table.
http://thegoodnessoflife.com The goodness of life / great site for meditation
PhotoTherapy in counseling and therapy
Alternate Gifts International The global mission of Alternative Gifts International is to send authentic, life-giving gifts to a needy world - gifts that build a partnership with oppressed people and that protect and preserve the planet's environment.
"We all want to be remembered and everyone leaves something behind." What is an ethical will? Ethical wills are a way to share your values, blessings, life's lessons, hopes and dreams for the future, love, and forgiveness with your family, friends, and community. http://ethicalwill.com/

www.humanistic-photography.com