Food Banks.
I’m not listing a specific one, as we all know of the ones in our specific areas.
Please donate what you can to a Food Bank.
There are millions of people who are food insecure – let’s make sure they can put food on the table.
If don’t have a good Food Bank near you, look for organizations that help feed the hungry.
For example: No Kid Hungry, World Center Kitchen, and many others.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
So for this month – we’re showcasing BCRF.
I’ve known too many who have been lost to Breast Cancer, and also those who have survived.
So let’s keep fighting
For More Information: BCRF
The Monuments Men and Women Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to raising global awareness about the importance of respecting and preserving the world’s shared cultural heritage. In addition to honoring the service of these wartime heroes, from fourteen nations, who served as Monuments Men and Women during World War II, the Foundation continues their mission by locating some of the hundreds of thousands of still missing works of art and cultural objects and returning them to their rightful owners.
For More Information: Monuments Men Foundation
At No Kid Hungry, that’s our promise. If it sounds simple, that’s because it is.
That doesn’t mean ending childhood hunger is easy. We know what works, and we’ve made extraordinary progress for kids and families.
But the job isn’t done, and won’t be done until we’ve met that promise and every single child in America has the food they need to grow up healthy and strong.
Information: No Kid Hungry
This is one of the charities I donate to monthly. No one should go hungry, and kids are especially vulnerable.
Working across Kenya, our projects include anti-poaching, safe guarding the natural environment, enhancing community awareness, addressing animal welfare issues, providing veterinary assistance to animals in need, rescuing and hand rearing elephant and rhino orphans, along with other species that can ultimately enjoy a quality of life in wild terms when grown.
For More Information: Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Today is World Ocean Day! There are many Charities and Foundations out there that help clean up the Ocean.
Mission Statement:
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
Today is Lupus Awareness Day so figured good day to highlight a charity that is working to fight this disease.
As the largest private funder of lupus research in the world, the Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) is leading the way for better treatments and, ultimately, a cure through the power of science and clinical research. Our commitment to people with lupus guides our work across the entire research spectrum, from transformative discoveries in the lab to new therapies in the clinic. Our research investments allow the best researchers in the world to pursue novel ideas, advance treatments and diagnostics, and one day, discover a cure.
For More Information: Lupus Research Alliance
I know I’ve listed this one a few times. Mainly because they do damn good work.
They are on the ground for every major disaster, and with the recent earthquake in Myanmar – they are back out there.
For more information: World Central Kitchen
Today is Global Recycling Day!
So instead of listing a specific charity – take today to recycle.
Today is Whale Day! I figured it was a good day to do Sylum Charity specific to the Ocean, and these beautiful creatures.
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
While we’re talking about the Ocean and Whales – favorite whale?
For me – that’s hard. Love Humpback whales, the Ocra’s are awesome, and Blue Whale’s are magnificient.
For this month’s charity – I’m besearching those to donate to a local Food Bank.
Food Poverty is more of a problem than many like to state, and though there is not much we can do to leviate the major problems, we can help to make sure that people get the food they need.
Please check out your local Food Bank to donate – I have volunteered for our local one and was amazed at how much they can help with just a few dollars – $1 equals 4 meals.
It’s one of the charities I actually send a monthly contribution to, though lucky to not need the help of a food bank, I know so many do.
October was Breast Cancer Awarness Month I had picked another charity for that month for personal reasons.
So this month we’re showcasing BCRF. For the hope and continued research to find the cure for cancer.
For more information: Breast Cancer Research Foundation
The PKD Foundation is the only organization in the U.S. solely dedicated to finding treatments and a cure for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and to improving the lives of those it affects. Since 1982, we have proudly funded more than 1,300 research projects and leveraged $1.5B in research funds.
This one is on the personal side – as have very dear friend with the disease.
For more information: PKD Foundation
The Orangutan Project was established in 1998 by founder and world-renowned orangutan expert, Leif Cocks, as a result of his 35+ year career working with orangutans – including establishing the most successful breeding colony of orangutans in the world. The Orangutan Project was formed with a key mission; to ensure that Critical Endangered wild orangutan species would be protected against extinction, and would continue to live in secure populations for generations to come.
Today, The Orangutan Project is a dynamic, fast-growing and successful not-for-profit project that supports a wide range of critical projects that address the holistic problem facing remaining fragmented orangutan populations – including fighting deforestation and habitat loss at the highest level.
The projects funded by The Orangutan Project not only include direct orangutan conservation, such as orangutan rescue, rehabilitation and release programs, but also forest habitat protection and regeneration, education, research and local community partnerships. Tying funding into direct outcomes for the species has enabled The Orangutan Project to partner with the majority of orangutan conservation projects operating on the ground today in Borneo and Sumatra.
For More Information: The Orangutan Project
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.
The Trust’s assets in 1970 were the 13 acre ‘camp field’, a small garden shed to store tools, a variety of picks and wheelbarrows and the princely sum of £21 in the bank. The formal Vindolanda Trust Excavations, under the direction of Robin Birley during a snow laden Easter, started on the 3rd century military bath house. The student excavators from Alnwick Teacher Training College, were transported each day from their basic accommodation in Haydon Bridge. The Trust had no other facilities, no museum, toilets, car park, electricity, water, telephone and when it rained, no shelter from the elements. By early 1971 it became clear that the aims of the Trust could only be realised with a full- time approach to the work in hand. Robin Birley resigned both his senior lecturing post at Alnwick and his position as a Trustee and became the first Director of the Trust.
These were challenging times that required dedication, passion and nerve but from those humble beginnings the Trust started to grow and the research with it. In 1971 the Trustees also purchased the fort at Magna, Carvoran (next to what is now the Roman Army Museum), 7 miles to the west of Vindolanda to preserve it for future archaeological research. Each year more and more visitors came to Vindolanda to see the new and exciting work taking place so that by 1972 the Charity had enough resources to take on a few full-time members of staff and build two basic Nissen sheds, one to shelter the excavators and the second to act as a small visitor reception and museum. These were later replaced by a temporary classroom generously loaned by Gateshead education Authority.
In 1973 the first of the famous Vindolanda writing tablets were found by Robin Birley and his team as well as many thousands of well-preserved wooden and leather artefacts and the Trust built up enough resources to purchase the once Hedley and Birley nearby family home, Chesterholm cottage, and turn it into a museum. The keys to the house were presented to the Trust on the 28th of October 1974 and by the spring of 1975 the museum was open to the public.
Excavations, education courses and incredible discoveries continued at the site throughout the 1970’s and into the 1980’s and the Trust continued to put every resource it made back into the core objectives of understanding and promoting the history and archaeology of the site. In 1978, some 115,000 people visited Vindolanda making it one of the most popular destinations on Hadrian’s Wall. The Trust became a major employer in the area, taking part in the manpower services scheme, growing its staff from 1 in 1971 to 48 by 2019. From 1969-2019, some 9700 volunteer places have been taken up on the excavations and through that period two generations of Roman archaeologists and specialists have learnt and honed their trade at the site. The Trust has been grateful over many years for the assistance of other Charities and Trusts to help achieve its goals and develop the facilities at the site. These have included the Northern Rock Foundation, the Sir James Knott Trust, One North East, the European Union, Heritage Lottery Fund, The Arts Council for England (ACE) and the English Tourist Board.
In 2009 the Vindolanda Trust was awarded a major grant by One North East (the former Regional Development Agency) and the Heritage Lottery fund to redisplay both the museum at Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum and to convert the old coach house down the museum drive in to an archaeological study centre. This development transformed those spaces to create the modern 21st century museums at Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum that the Designated Museum Collections of National importance deserve. Throughout its history the Trust has been deeply grateful for the dedicated work of its staff, board members, patrons, specialists and volunteers in promoting access to the History and Archaeology of the site to all.
It is estimated that there are several hundred years to go before the site of Vindolanda and Magna at the Roman Army Museum are fully explored, and all their secrets will be revealed.
For More Information: Vindolanda