It’s a terrible disease on the person and their loved ones.
Please take a moment to donate to the Alzheimer’s Association.
Information: Alzheimer’s Association
Category: Sylum Charities
Sylum Charities: Vindolanda
Vindolanda Trust
The Vindolanda Charitable Trust was founded in the spring of 1970, with seven Trustees. Three of the whom were members of the Archibald family: Brigadier Brian Archibald, Daphne Archibald and Elizabeth Archibald and three were of the Birley family, Professor Eric Birley, Anthony Birley and Robin Birley. Charles Bosanquet, Vice Chancellor of Newcastle University was the seventh member.
The aims of the Trust, which have remained to this day, were for the archaeological research of the site, making the structures and artefacts available to the interested public, especially educational groups, and engage with people from all walks of life.
For More Information: Vindolanda Trust
Sylum Charity: Beanie for Brain Cancer
This Foundation – The Mark Hughes Foundation (MHF) – is a Non-Profit, Health Promotion Charity that my wife Kirralee and I began in 2014, after I was diagnosed with brain cancer. We began the Foundation when we realised how underfunded brain cancer was in Australia in comparison to other cancers. The lack of funding meant very little research into treatments or cures for brain cancer and, as a result, not much has changed in the shocking brain cancer mortality rates over the past 30 years.
We had no idea when we started our Foundation and set about raising funds for some much needed research, the incredible amount of support we would receive from people everywhere.
In 2014 we kicked off our first simple fundraiser, Beanie for Brain Cancer Campaign. Since then we have grown from selling a few hundred beanies locally to joining forces with the National Rugby League to create an annual Beanie for Brain Cancer Round.
Our Beanie campaign is now a nationally recognised fundraiser which has seen almost 1 million beanies sold!
For More Information: Beanie for Brain Cancer
Sylum Charity: National Eagle Center
To day is Save the Eagles day so I figured this would be a good charity to showcase!
The National Eagle Center encapsulates a world in which the iconic power and presence of eagles are known, respected, advocated for, and protected.
Located in Wabasha, Minnesota, we’re home to several non-releasable Bald Eagles and a nesting place for hundreds of others who come for the winter.
Whether you wish to see these beautiful creatures up close, observe them in their prime habitat, incorporate our research into your own teachings, or donate to support our mission, we have a way for you to get involved.
For More Information: National Eagle Center
Sylum Charity: Send Favorite Charities
As we’re getting close to 2024 … which totally blows the mind!
Send me your favorite charities so can add them to next year listings.
Sylum Charity: Breast Cancer Research Foundation
This month is Breast Cancer Awareness. I know many on this group have been touched by the impact of Breast Cancer.
This month we’re showcasing Breast Cancer Research Foundation:
At BCRF, we believe in the power of proof. Just as science is built upon evidence, we expect our research to deliver results. We invest your donations in ideas that will turn into action. To us, progress means making discoveries in the lab that will have a meaningful impact on breast cancer patients today as well as tomorrow.
Since 1993—and because of your generosity—BCRF-supported investigators have been deeply involved in every major advance in breast cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and survivorship. Your support has funded more than 17 million hours of research, bringing us all closer to prevention and cure.
Please make a donation – what they’ve accomplished in learning about cancer and how to treat it has been exceptional.
I’m dedicating this month’s charity donations to Janelle – who we last earlier this year to Breast Cancer.
For more information: Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Sylum Charity: World Center Kitchen
I know I post this one a lot, but they are always there when people need them.
From Ukraine to Maui to Florida – they are there to help those who need a warm meal
World Central Kitchen
Sylum Charity: Monuments Men Foundation
The last original member, Richard Barancik, of the Monuments Men passed recently. Please consider donating this month in his memory.
These men and women have done so much to preserve history, art and culture. And they continue to fight for the preservation of historical monuments.
For More Information: Monuments Men Foundation
Sylum Charity: Gary Sinise Foundation
At the Gary Sinise Foundation, we serve our nation by honoring our defenders, veterans, first responders, their families, and those in need.
We do this by creating and supporting unique programs designed to entertain, educate, inspire, strengthen, and build communities.
For More Information: Gary Sinise Foundation
Sylum Charity: SAGE
In honor of Pride Month
We make aging better for LGBTQ+ people nationwide. How? We show up and speak out for the issues that matter to us. We teach. We answer your calls. We connect—generations, each other, allies. We win. And together, we celebrate. Learn more about our mission and core values.
For More Information: SAGE
World Hunger Day
Today is help World Hunger Day. World Central Kitchen has been showcased many times, but they do a lot to help feed people during crisis.
On this day please look into Food Banks and charities that help feed those in need.
Local Libraries
Libraries.
We need them, and we’re loosing them.
For this month’s charity, reach out to your local library and see how you can help.
Either by volunteering or becoming a friend of the library.
Sylum Charity: Gary Sinise Foundation
At the Gary Sinise Foundation, we serve our nation by honoring our defenders, veterans, first responders, their families, and those in need.
We do this by creating and supporting unique programs designed to entertain, educate, inspire, strengthen, and build communities.
For More Information: Gary Sinise Foundation
Sylum Charity: World Central Kitchen (WCK)
Considering the latest natural distasters plus on going conflicts and the work the WCK has been putting out – I figured best to showcase them.
WCK is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. We build resilient food systems with locally led solutions.
World Central Kitchen started with a simple idea at home with my wife Patricia: when people are hungry, send in cooks. Not tomorrow, today.
Everyone knows that food is central to life and family all over the world. What we learned very quickly was that food is even more essential in a crisis.
It all began in 2010 after a huge earthquake devastated Haiti. Cooking alongside displaced Haitians in a camp, I found myself getting schooled in how to cook black beans the way they wanted: mashed and sieved into a creamy sauce.
You see, food relief is not just a meal that keeps hunger away. It’s a plate of hope. It tells you in your darkest hour that someone, somewhere, cares about you.
This is the real meaning of comfort food. It’s why we make the effort to cook in a crisis.
We don’t just deliver raw ingredients and expect people to fend for themselves. And we don’t just dump free food into a disaster zone: we source and hire locally wherever we can, to jump-start economic recovery through food.
After a disaster, food is the fastest way to rebuild our sense of community. We can put people back to work preparing it, and we can put lives back together by fighting hunger.
Cooking and eating together is what makes us human.
Since those early days our journey has taken World Central Kitchen all over the world. We fed an island after Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico. We fed tens of millions struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic. We put boots on the ground when a blast devastated Beirut, bushfires ripped through Australia, and a volcano transformed a Spanish island.
We were under a bridge with thousands of asylum seekers in Texas, in a demolished Kentucky town after brutal tornadoes, on the Louisiana coast when yet another enormous hurricane made landfall.
We have traveled a long way together, with support from people just like you.
We have witnessed enough disasters to know that food relief is not enough. So we have invested in our Food Producer Network to help create resilience ahead of the next disaster. We train aspiring chefs in skills and safety to build their careers and the food economy. We advocate for more hunger relief and better nutrition. We want clean cookstoves in the homes of the one billion cooks whose health, and the climate, are in danger, when all they want to do is feed their families.
And we launched our Climate Disaster Fund: a $1 billion commitment over the next decade to support communities impacted by the climate crisis.
Because food is not a luxury reserved for the lucky few. It’s a universal human right to live free from hunger.
At times like these, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale of the challenges we face, and the speed of each new crisis.
But many complex problems have simple solutions. Sometimes you just need to decide to do something. Sometimes you just have to show up with a sandwich or some warm rice and beans.
You’d be amazed at the power of a plate of food. It can change the world, and so can you.
José Andrés
For More Information: World Central Kitchen
Sylum Charity: Ocean Conservancy
Ocean Conservancy is working with you to protect the ocean from today’s greatest global challenges. Together, we create evidence-based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it.
For More Information: Ocean Conservancy