Secular Humanists of Roanoke

Who We Are: The Secular Humanists of Roanoke, Virginia is a non-profit organization. We’re affiliated with the American Humanist Association , and we are a chapter of the Washington Area Secular Humanists (WASH). We believe in the scientific method when it comes to understanding how the universe works and that ethical decisions should be based…

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Trees Water & People

Two men installing solar panels

Trees, Water & People (TWP) has been entrenched in a multi-pronged effort to improve the health, livelihoods of residents and community environmental resource protection for decades. They are heralded by their partners and non-profit admirers as being top in their field. Their work concentrates, as it must, on community-based decisions and innovative programming. Projects include…

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LightHawk: The Power of Aerial Images to Benefit Conservation

Aerial photofrom LightHawk of Little Blue Run Lake in Pennsylvania, 20 gallions of waste dumped since 1975

Seeing is believing. It’s an idea at the cornerstone of the work we do as a non-partisan conservation non-profit group. We believe that people will make the right decision when given a clear picture of an issue and what’s at stake. We have seen the magic of the aerial perspective at work for some of…

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Beyond Belief Network May round-up

Humanism at Work

Foundation Beyond Belief's many Beyond Belief Network partners were busy in May. Here's a run down of how these amazing volunteer groups were active in their communities all month long. In Texas, the Austin Atheists Helping the Homeless held a Mother's Day Giveaway for the Homeless in May, and it went off without a hitch!…

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SkyTruth

SkyTruth provides services and data on Fracking, Wastewater ponds, Mountain Top Mining sites, Global Fishing illegal fishing Watches and Oil spill monitoring. They have developed a system of creating and verifying datasets to be used in Remote Sensing Applications. (Remote Sensing is the process of creating layered maps from disparate sources to collect data needed to…

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Beyond Belief Network February round-up

Foundation Beyond Belief was pleased to announce the Beyond Belief Network (BBN) Picture and Team of the Month Winners for February, but those weren't the only BBN teams doing amazing work! Beyond Belief Network teams reported nearly 30 events and 1,300 hours of service in February. Here's what some other teams were doing in February! South Texas…

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Pure Earth offers update

Pure Earth is an international non-profit organization whose goal is to remediate environmental pollution problems where public health is at risk. Pure Health was a Q3 2015 Foundation Beyond Belief Natural World Grants beneficiary. Please read below for an excerpt of their progress report for 2015-16 and goals for the future. "Pollution is the leading cause of…

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Year end review of spectacular beneficiaries

Foundation Beyond Belief’s Humanist Grants Program gifted over $175,000 to worthy non-profit organizations in 2016.  Here we share a cross-section of our beneficiaries from this year. Cool Earth was a Natural World Beneficiary.  They work closely with indigenous communities to help preserve their forest land, and to create a plan to reclaim farmland depleted by…

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FBB announces Compassionate Impact Grant – Natural World and Human Interaction with the environment

Since 2014, we have been fortunate to award three substantial grants for increasing the impact of innovative non-profits through program capacity building grants. Once again in 2017, FBB seeks to support organizations that are developing or broadening potentially transformative evidence-informed social innovations that solve critical community problems related to the problems faced between people and…

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Update from Everybody Solar

We, at Everybody Solar, work to provide solar energy to do-gooders – aka other non-profits that help their communities. It’s an honor to have been selected as Foundation Beyond Belief’s Natural World Beneficiary during the 3rd quarter of 2016.  With the support of organizations like Foundation Beyond Belief – and the many inspiring humanists behind…

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