Happy Birthday, Margaret Sanger

[filkertom]

On this date in 1879. Coined the term "birth control", founded Planned Parenthood, that kinda stuff. Definitely some controversial views, including "negative eugenics", but she did a lot of good, much of which lasts to this day.

What are some of your preferred causes these days? Link 'em up.

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[kilbia.livejournal.com]

This one is my absolute favorite:

http://www.modestneeds.org/

It speaks very strongly to me - when I was a teenager, my family almost got turned down for some of the low-rent housing being built although my mom was only being paid 10% of the revenue earned by a slowly dying take-n-bake pizza shop, that was still too much money for their guidelines. There are plenty of charities that will throw in and help out when you've hit the absolute bottom, but I think it's awesome there's at least one out there that is thinking "Hey, what if we throw a *little* bit of help their way to *prevent* them from hitting the absolute bottom?".

[leareth26.livejournal.com]

My present love is working w/ and being a SOFFA (Significant Other, Friend, Family, and Ally) to the Transgendered population out there. Right now, I'm working w/ GASS (Gender Alliance of the South Sound), and trying to form a support group. It's similar, I suppose to a PFLAG chapter, but there's much less support out there for the SOFFAs of transgendered folks. I'm trying to change that.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

I'm hopelessly bad with html, so I won't try to do links, but any of these can be looked up easily enough:

Medicines Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders
CASA/Court Appointed Special Advocates
The Heifer Project

[ororo.livejournal.com]

Planned Parenthood always has my vote. I voted for Sanger as Person of the 20th entury.

+1

[demographer.livejournal.com]

could I add mu voice?

[sillyfox.livejournal.com]

American Cancer Society (http://www.cancer.org)
Feeding America (http://feedingamerica.org)

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

My big issue, the one that can set me off, are veterans issues. My dad was in the army, served in Korea after the war actually and near the DMZ. All of my unlces have been in the military, in nearly every branch actually; one of whom served as a paratrooper and in the army corps of engineers in WW2.

Groups like wounded warriors and other people who help disabled vets are the ones I like to highlight and if I had spare money it would go to them.

Also I do like a lot of the charity and missions work that Pastor Rod Parsley does. He's one of the very few television ministers who actively speaks out about the problems in Sudan. Whether you agree with his views or not he at least steps up and tries to get involved to help people.