Deserving organizations benefit from strong Q3 2014 giving results

The grants we provide to our featured beneficiaries each quarter are funded by our monthly giving members. Each quarter we see a steady increase in total member giving, and therefore an increase in the support we can give to our beneficiaries. This quarter, our Natural World beneficiary was Rainforest Foundation US. Their techniques are to…

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Challenge the Gap: A Brief Review

Since its inception in 2011, Challenge the Gap challenges the idea that there is an unbridgeable gap between theists and nontheists. Foundation Beyond Belief remains committed to aiding secular organizations that encourage and demonstrate humanist generosity and compassion, which is why the beneficiaries in our other Humanist Giving categories are always secular. However, Challenge the…

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Closing the Book on Our 3rd Quarter Beneficiaries

As the 3rd quarter of 2014 comes to a close, we'd like to take a look back at the many ways that our beneficiaries this quarter put your contributions to good use in putting humanism into action. Poverty and Health: Sustaining Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL).  SOIL is doing important work in Haiti building ecological sanitation…

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The Night Ministry: An inside perspective

In order for The Night Ministry, our third-quarter Challenge the Gap beneficiary, to provide housing, health care and support to Chicago community members struggling with poverty and homelessness, they require a dedicated team of staff and volunteers. Two members of this team are Cammeo Medici and Ellen Rosenwinkel. Both started with The Night Ministry on…

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The Night Ministry tackles poverty and homelessness in Chicago

The Night Ministry, our third-quarter Challenge the Gap beneficiary, provides housing, health care and support to Chicago community members struggling with poverty and homelessness. The Night Ministry was founded in 1976 by a diverse group of congregations and synagogues. Thirty-eight years later, it has grown into a large, secular organization with multiple programs designed to…

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Meet our third-quarter beneficiaries

It’s time for a new quarter and a new slate of featured beneficiaries! Get to know our new charities for the third quarter of 2014:   Human Rights: Footsteps Footsteps is a New York-based organization that helps people from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community leave this insular way of life. Most leave with a limited knowledge…

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A final look at our second-quarter beneficiaries

Before we say goodbye to our second-quarter beneficiaries, take another look at these great organizations and the work they’re doing to make the world a better place. Poverty and Health: 50 Cents. Period. Menstruation Matters was the rallying cry—and Twitter hashtag—for the first ever Menstrual Hygiene Day held on May 28, 2014, and 50 Cents.…

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BJC uses litigation as a tool for First Amendment rights

The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, our second-quarter Challenge the Gap beneficiary, works to both protect the free exercise of religion and to support the institutional separation of church and state. To this end, Baptist Joint Committee Office of the General Counsel advocates for religious liberty through its involvement in church-state litigation. BJC files…

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Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty encourages self-advocacy

The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, our second-quarter Challenge the Gap beneficiary, provides education about and advocacy for religious liberty. Comprised of representatives from fifteen national, state and regional bodies in the United States, BJC works with coalitions of religious and civil liberties groups to both protect the free exercise of religion and to…

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