Some bloggers sign up for the Blogathon knowing exactly the charity they'd like to benefit. Others sign on for the spirit of the event, but may not be sure about what charity they prefer. For this reason, we provide a few examples of well-established international charities that provide online donation options.
Disaster Relief
Doctors Without Borders
(Medecins Sans Frontieres)
Medecins Sans Frontieres (also known as Doctors Without Borders or MSF) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation.
Direct Relief
Since 1948, Direct Relief International has worked to improve the quality of life for people in need. We focus on health--by providing essential material resources to locally run health programs in poor areas around the world and during times of disaster.
Hunger and Poverty
Wateraid
Set up in 1981, WaterAid has developed one of the leading international non-governmental organisations in the global drinking water sector. Over the last 21 years WaterAid has helped over 6.5 million people in Africa and Asia gain access to safe water and sanitation and influenced many other organisations to do the same.
Freedom From Hunger
Freedom from Hunger brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty. Together with local partners, we equip families with resources they need to build futures of health, hope and dignity.
Modest Needs
Modest Needs is an online organization with one simple goal: to help individuals and families struggling individuals and families to retain their self-sufficiency by remitting payment for a one time, emergency expense on their behalf.
Social Justice and Development
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and "disappearances"; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.
Book Aid
Book Aid International works in partnership with organisations in developing countries to support local initiatives in literacy, education, training and publishing. We provide relevant books and information to those in greatest need--to enable people to realise their potential and contribute to the development of their communities.
First Book
First Book is a national nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. We provide an ongoing supply of new books to children participating in community-based mentoring, tutoring, and family literacy programs.
DonorsChoose (U.S. Only)
DonorsChoose is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. At this not-for-profit web site, teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn. These ideas become classroom reality when concerned individuals choose projects to fund. Bloggers can set up a challenge for their Blogathon sponsors at bloggerschoose.org.
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
IGLHRC's mission is to protect and advance the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV status.
Planned Parenthood
FPIA has been a leader in the international reproductive health movement since 1971, helping to provide quality, culturally sensitive reproductive health care services to people who have the least access. We seek to ensure access to the information and services people need to make responsible choices about their reproductive health by bringing funding, supplies, training, and technical assistance to strengthen non-governmental (NGO) and governmental reproductive health care providers in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Global Fund For Women
The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice, advocates for and defends women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.
Children
Save The Children
Save the Children is the leading UK charity working to create a better world for children. We work in 70 countries helping children in the world's most impoverished communities. We are part of the International Save the Children Alliance, which aims to be a truly international movement for children.
Environment & Animals
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth was the first environmental pressure group in the UK to start campaigns for whales, endangered species and tropical rainforests, and against acid rain, ozone depletion and climate change. Today we campaign on more issues than any other environmental group in the country.
International Fund for Animal Welfare
IFAW mounts rescue and relief operations to help animals in distress, whether from natural or man-made disasters; collaborates with local communities around the world to preserve critical tracts of wilderness habitat; promotes economically viable alternatives to commercial exploitation of wildlife; and supports sanctuaries for animals around the world.
World Wildlife Fund
WWF's main goal is to stop, and eventually reverse, the worsening degradation of the planet's natural environment, and build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.
Peace
Ploughshares Fund
The Ploughshares Fund is a public grantmaking foundation that supports initiatives for stopping the spread of weapons of war, from nuclear arms to landmines.
AIDS
Avert
AVERT is a leading UK based AIDS Education and Medical Research charity. We are responsible for a wide range of education and medical research work with the overall aim of: preventing people from becoming infected with HIV; improving the quality of life of those already infected; and through medical research working to develop a cure for AIDS.
Cancer
Association for International Cancer Research
Cancer recognises no frontiers, geographical, political or racial, and strikes in its various forms in every country. The Association for International Cancer Research (AICR) in turn recognises no frontiers, geographical, political or racial in its determination to fight the disease. AICR is dedicated to raising the funds necessary to support the best scientific research into the causes of cancer, wherever in the world it is carried out.