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A tiny jewel of a public library, Friend Memorial Library was built one hundred years ago to serve the small town of Brooklin, ME, and the villages nearby. The award-winning building, with its excellent collection of library materials, sits at the center of the village. It is a popular gathering place for the community and is funded entirely by local residents and library users past and present. For more information, visit Friend Memorial Library online at http://www.friendml.org.
SKETCH is a community arts initiative in Toronto that creates opportunities for street-involved and homeless youth aged 15 – 29 by offering them tools to engage in the arts, a safe place to express and create, and opportunities to creatively integrate back into community life. SKETCH supports and facilitates community connections with education, leadership, and apprenticeships in arts industries through exhibition, performance, and sale of artwork. For additional information about SKETCH, including volunteer applications and a gallery of student artwork, visit them online at www.sketch.ca.
The Free Library system consists of 49 branches, three regional libraries, the Parkway Central Library, and the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. With more than six million visits annually, the Free Library is one of the most widely used educational and cultural institutions in Philadelphia. You can access their numerous online archives and resources at freelibrary.org.
The mission of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is to eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation, and the world through outstanding programs that integrate patient care, research and prevention, and through education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees, and the public. For more information about their educational and research efforts, as well as volunteer opportunities, clinical trials, and blood drives, visit them online at www.mdanderson.org.
The mission of InsideOUT Writers is to free the creative voice locked within incarcerated and at-risk youth. They provide positive and empowering experiences using creative writing as a means to foster honest introspection, socially responsible behavior, and to build a foundation for living productive lives. You can learn more about their programs, read excerpts of their students’ work, and find ways to participate at their website.
Riverkeeper is an independent, member-supported environmental organization founded on the premise that citizens themselves must roll up their sleeves to defend our waterways. Riverkeeper’s mission is to protect the ecological integrity of the Hudson River and its tributaries, and to safeguard the drinking water supply of New York City and the lower Hudson Valley. You can become a member, learn more about their many efforts, assess the water quality in various neighborhoods of New York City, and sign up to help one of their campaigns at their website.
The Theodore Payne Foundation is an organization dedicated to promoting and restoring California landscapes and habitats and propagating native plants and wildflowers. You can explore their nursery, get tips for sowing seeds and raising your own California native plants, and order from an extensive library of seed packets at their website.
Helping Hands: Helpers for the Disabled serves quadriplegic and other people with severe spinal cord injuries or mobility-impairments by providing highly trained capuchin monkeys to assist with daily activities. The staff at Helping Hands raise and train these monkeys to act as live-in companions who, over the course of twenty to thirty years, will provide the gifts of independence, companionship, dignity and hope to the people they help, all at no cost. You can learn more about their programs, watch videos of their monkeys training at monkey college, and find ways to participate at their website.