We Support Worthy Organizations! No question, it takes money and time to effect positive change in the world. And we can’t do it all ourselves. That’s when it makes sense to donate hard-earned dollars to worthwhile organizations, who are organized and poised to fight for what’s right and good and true. As a member of these organizations, we get messages about what’s going on in Washington, D.C., and we contact our legislators regularly to voice our opinions on critical matters. Here is an overview of worthy organizations which DeWinter Communications supports: Environment • Natural Resources Defense Council (www.nrdc.org) -- NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. It uses law, science, and the support of 1.2 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. • The Nature Conservancy (www.nature.org) -- The Nature Conservancy is a US-based organization working to protect endangered species and ecosystems through land acquisition and research. • Oceana (www.oceana.org) -- Oceana is the largest international group focused 100% on protecting and restoring the world's oceans. • The Ocean Conservancy (www.oceanconservancy.org) -- The Ocean Conservancy promotes healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and opposes practices that threaten ocean life and human life. Through research, education, and science-based advocacy, The Ocean Conservancy informs, inspires, and empowers people to speak and act on behalf of the oceans. In all its work, The Ocean Conservancy strives to be one of the world's foremost advocates for the oceans. • Sierra Club (www.sierraclub.org) -- The Sierra Club's 750,000 members work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Sierra Club is one of America's oldest and most influential grassroots environmental organizations. Animal Welfare • Denver Dumb Friends League (www.ddfl.org) -- Founded in 1910, the Dumb Friends League is a national leader in providing humane care to lost and abandoned animals, rescuing sick, injured and abused animals, adopting pets to new homes, helping pets stay in homes, and educating pet owners and the public about the needs of companion animals. The Dumb Friends League is the largest animal welfare organization in the Rocky Mountain region, welcoming tens of thousands animals to its two shelters. They turn no animals away. • The Humane Society of the United States – (www.hsus.org) -- A national group dedicated to stopping and eliminating animal abuse, with an emphasis on investigating animal cruelty cases and working with the courts to prosecute the guilty parties. In recent years, HSUS was instrumental in fighting for a bill to outlaw US-based slaughter barns where unwanted horses are transported under horrific conditions, and butchered for meat that is shipped overseas. • The Wildlife Sanctuary (www.wildlife-sanctuary.org) -- Rocky Mountain Wildlife Conservation Center - now operating as “The Wild Animal Sanctuary”- is a state and federally licensed zoological facility. They have been rescuing exotic wildlife and endangered species since 1980, and are currently home to more than 155 lions, tigers, bears, jaguars, leopards, mountain Lions, lynx, bobcats, servals, wolves, and other wildlife. The residents of the Wild Animal Sanctuary were abandoned, abused, illegally kept, or came from other terrible situations. The vast majority of its animals were so-called “pets” - and were confiscated by law enforcement officials - usually within the first six months of their lives. The sanctuary also provides permanent refuge to surplus animals from zoos and other wildlife facilities, where they face euthanasia due to over-breeding. In 2006, the organization lost a huge chunk of its funding and almost closed. Thanks to extensive media coverage of the problem, people stepped up, donated money, offered consulting services, and generally helped the sanctuary get back on its feet (and paws). Independent Media Sources Progressive Political Action Civil Liberties/Personal Freedom • NARAL Pro-choice Colorado (www.prochoicecolorado.org) -- The political arm of the pro-choice movement in Colorado, NARAL Pro-choice Colorado works to protect a woman’s right to reproductive choice in Colorado, while also working to minimize abortions by fighting for access to affordable, effective contraception and emergency contraception, as well as medically accurate sex education. •
Planned Parenthood (www.plannedparenthood.org)
-- Planned Parenthood is America’s leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate
and provided. Founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916 as America’s
first birth control clinic, PP fights for the rights of women to choose
when or whether to have a child, and determine their own destinies.
Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide provide sexual and reproductive
health care, education, and information to millions of women, men,
and teens in the United States each year. Three and a half million
Planned Parenthood activists and supporters also serve as advocates
for sexual and reproductive rights. |
