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3. Help a Child: Your donation will help provide critical support to children in
poverty through nutrition, health and education programs, such as:
• Emergency Medical Fund: Offers critical medical care to children in need
with serious injuries or illnesses, giving them access to support that can
save lives.
• HOPE Fund: Provides HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty
through Education) scholarships for vocational training and college for
qualified youth, as well as supplies, books and tuition to help support
secondary school students.

4. Help a Family: Your donation will help us address some of the
most pressing needs of impoverished families through family
assistance programs like these:
• Lifeline Food Program: Helps struggling families provide
adequate nutrition to their children, identifies and treats
malnourishment, provides emergency food for families in the
aftermath of disasters and supplies healthy meals for
schoolchildren.
• Miracles on Hold: Helps us cover the costs of delivering
products like medicine, clothing, books, shoes and more to
families in need of immediate support.

5. • Help a Community
One of the most effective ways to help children in need is to improve the
communities in which they live. These contributions will be used for the
following large-scale community support programs:
• Community Center Campaign: Our community centers, medical and
dental clinics, playgrounds and sports fields are built right in the
communities we support.
• Skills Training: Provides job and life skills to sponsored youth through a
variety of programs designed to help them build successful futures
capable of helping lift entire communities out of poverty.
• Disaster Relief: Helps relieve the suffering of impoverished families with
no place to turn when disasters strike the communities we serve.
• Clean Water Sources: Building clean water sources in impoverished
communities is one of the surest ways to change lives dramatically. Access
to clean water gives poor families the ability to live in more sanitary
conditions, drink and cook without getting ill, and reach a greater level of
dignity than before.

6. Host a street carnival:
• Get a bouncing castle onto the street complete rented with
music or band. Allow people to play games for small amounts
of money and charge an entry fee. This is a great joint event
idea where many charities in your community can come
together to all have different booths and raise money.

7. Organize a competition:
• Have a competition say sports or fashion. Members of public
will pay to participate in voting or tasting foods or sampling
fashion as they donate to the cause. Just be aware of local
laws regarding competitions before you start, so you can
make sure that your competition is legal!

8. Striking gold:
• Organize for members of a community to donate old items for cash.
Auction the items on the spot for a small profit, or simply sell them
in a huge rummage sale. You can also organize a community
rummage sale where each participant keeps their profits, but pays a
small fee to have a table.
Organize a cooking face off:
• Allow people to show off their skills by paying to participate in a
cooking competition. You can have both amateur and professional
categories, so everyone can compete. Allow the public to
participate by paying a small fee then tasting and voting, or have
them vote with cash, and the cook with the most money at the end
wins!

9. Do not ignore crowd funding:
• One big mistake people make is to ignore the power of social
media. Create a portal where people can give toward a certain
cause and promote it via twitter or Facebook for maximum impact.
Register for this program on Secrets to a Successful Crowd Funding
Campaign for an A-Z guide in accumulating monies for your course
online through crowd funding websites. This will be a sure catapult
into new levels of the campaign.
Pump in the money:
• Organize volunteers at gas stations to wait on drivers. They should
pump the gas, clean the windshield, and collect donation for the
certain cause. You can also partner with local gas stations to offer
car washes.

10. CARE
• http://www.careusa.org/
• CARE is one of the world's largest private international humanitarian
organizations, committed to helping families in poor communities improve their
lives and achieve lasting victories over poverty. Founded in 1945 to provide relief
to survivors of World War II, CARE quickly became a trusted vehicle for the
compassion and generosity of millions.
Save the Children
• http://www.savethechildren.org/
• Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating real and lasting
change for children in need in the United States and around the world. It is a
member of the International Save the Children Alliance, comprising 27 national
Save the Children organizations working in more than 100 countries to ensure the
well-being of children. Save the Children responds to any emergency that puts at
great risk the survival, protection, and well-being of significant numbers of
children, where addressing the needs and well-being of those children is beyond
the indigenous coping capacity, and where Save the Children is able to mobilize
the financial and human resources to take urgent action on their behalf.

11. • Oxfam
• http://www.oxfam.org/
• Oxfam is a development and relief agency working to end poverty.
Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working
together with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to
find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• http://www.unicef.org/
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While working to ensure the survival, protection and development
of children and advocating a high priority for them in the allocation
of resources at all times, UNICEF continues to give relief and
rehabilitation assistance in emergencies. The agency was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965.