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March Beyond Belief Network Roundup
As we're all well aware, March was an unusual month for volunteerism across the globe. Last month marked the transition from business as usual to socially-distant action for many Beyond Belief Network (BBN) teams. This installment of our monthly BBN roundups includes activities reported by teams before lockdowns were implemented in their states and after.…
Read MoreHidden in Plain Sight – The Environmental Impacts Of Some of Our Favorite Brands
Consider this: 250 billion single-use coffee cups per year; they are made from forests, and they can’t be recycled. How do you even begin to approach an issue at that scale?
Read MoreBeneficiary blog— NCSE: What Does the Evidence Say?
A bag of paper bones. That’s what instantly comes to Turtle Haste’s mind when asked to describe a pivotal moment in her long and distinguished career as a science educator. She was a graduate student at Oregon State University, studying with Norman Lederman—“Mr. Inquiry,” Haste calls him—when she and her classmates were presented with the…
Read MoreDecolonizing Service
The following blog has been adapted by FBB staff from Wendy Webber's 6/7/19 speech at the American Humanists Association Annual Conference. Decolonizing service is a huge topic. I can only scratch the surface today, so I’m going to focus on what "decolonizing service" means in the context of Ghana, because of Foundation Beyond Belief’s work…
Read MoreEcuadorian Exchange (part 2 of 3): Learning from Tandana Foundation
For a long time this trip was just a dream. Although multiple people at Foundation Beyond Belief had put a lot of hours into its planning, in the end it seemed impossible. International laws and foreign immigration systems made it extremely difficult to get to Ecuador. It didn’t matter that Ecuador is visa-free for 90…
Read MoreBeneficiary guest blog: APOPO— Training Rats to Save Lives
APOPO is a global non-profit with Belgian roots, that researches, develops, and implements scent detection technology to solve global humanitarian issues. For over 20 years APOPO’s scent detection rats, nicknamed HeroRATs, have been detecting landmines and tuberculosis in affected countries around the world. The rats are trained through clicker/reward methods, receiving tasty food treats when…
Read MoreThe Spirit of Mother’s Day
Are you put off by the commercialism of Mother’s Day? You're in good company. The founder of Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis, died institutionalized and broke decrying the commercialization of the very day she created. To have Mother's Day the burdensome, wasteful, expensive gift day that Christmas and other holidays have become, is not our pleasure.…
Read MoreEcuadorian Exchange: learning from human rights groups in Quito (part 1 of 3)
When I arrived in Quito I was jet lagged and exhausted from two days of flights filled with lengthy and agonizing layovers. I was also suffering from altitude sickness coming from Ghana where the altitude is around 880 meters (compared to Quito’s 2,850 meters). However, I was excited to be in Ecuador and really looking forward to meeting…
Read MoreAtheist Community of Lubbock
The Atheist Community of Lubbock is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to advocating for the total separation of church and state, defending those who have been harmed by religious discrimination, helping educate the public on atheism, and building a community that advocates for and supports atheists, agnostics, humanists, and other non-religious individuals.
Read MoreFreethinkers Association of Central Texas (FACT)
Freethinkers Association of Central Texas (FACT) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in San Antonio, TX. Our goals are to resist threats against the separation of church and state, support science-based curriculum and education, and promote positive atheism by engaging and educating the community at large about non-theism. Our members include atheists, agnostics, skeptics, secular humanists,…
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