Worthy Websites!
Visit this page now and then to find links to other websites. This is an eclectic collection and includes links to mind and body fitness sites, world compassion movement sites, vegan sites, recipe collections, charitable organizations, and just about anything else that has garnered my interest.
Vegan Websites
http://www.veganchatroom.co.uk/
http://www.compassionatecooks.com/
http://vegancookies.wordpress.com/recipes/
Volunteer Opportunities
These are charitable organizations that I have volunteered for and/or contributed to. Take a look at their websites and see if you can put compassion and citizenship to work by volunteering or donating today.
Grayslake Prairie Grassroots for Change
Join us in providing service to our community. Our current projects include providing lunches and other necessary items for Lake County PADS and we've adopted a stretch of highway to maintain. We are looking for new members who want to do their part to change their corner of the world!
Allendale Association The Allendale Association is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to excellence and innovation in the care, education, treatment and advocacy for troubled children, youth and their families. Night Ministry About 25,000 youth in Illinois experience homelessness each year, nearly 10,000 in Chicago. The Night Ministry provides a continuum of age-appropriate services for homeless youth. Staff help youth identify their own strengths, advocate for themselves, and create solutions to their own problems. Literacy Volunteers ProLiteracy Worldwide is the oldest and largest nongovernmental literacy organization in the world. It achieves its mission, championing the life-changing benefits of literacy for adults and their families, by sponsoring educational programs that help adults and their families acquire the literacy practices and skills they need to function more effectively in their daily lives. Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity has shown that building homes does more than put a roof over someone’s head. In clean, decent, stable housing: Families can provide stability for their children. A family’s sense of dignity and pride grow. Health, physical safety, and security improve Educational and job prospects increase. Lake County Haven The Lake County Haven empowers homeless women and children to achieve permanent independent living. We use transitional housing, education, employment, and life-skills training to help people move from homelessness to independence. Throughout this process our goal is always the long-term stability and self-sufficiency of each person. Save A Pet Save-A-Pet is a not-for-profit, no-kill shelter dedicated to finding loving, quality homes for each cat and dog in its care. Pets are sheltered indefinitely. Our shelter strives to create an environment which enhances both awareness of and support for the humane treatment of animals. Our Mikey, who sadly has passed on, came to us from Save A Pet and Pumpkin and Jeffrey were both adopted from Save-A-Pet in 2008! Seed Savers Exchange is a nonprofit organization that saves and shares the heirloom seeds of our garden heritage, forming a living legacy that can be passed down through generations. When people grow and save seeds, they join an ancient tradition as stewards, nurturing our diverse, fragile, genetic and cultural heritage. Sustainable Harvest International Founded in 1997 by Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Florence Reed, Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) addresses the tropical deforestation crisis by providing farmers with sustainable alternatives to slash-and-burn agriculture. SHI facilitates long-term collaboration among trained local staff, farmers and communities to implement sustainable land-use practices that alleviate poverty by restoring ecological stability.
Seed Savers
My Favorite Hair Stylist!
Andrea's Hair Services
I have been having my hair done by Andrea for years! I love her! You can always count on a great cut and style. Andrea is now at the Hair Source Salon in Libertyville and can be reached at 847-636-6267. Tell her I sent you!
Mind-Body Connection Research
Mind and Life Institute
Vision
To establish mutually respectful working collaboration and research partnerships between modern science and Buddhism — two of the world's most fruitful traditions for understanding the nature of reality and promoting human well-being.
Purpose
To promote the creation of a contemplative, compassionate, and rigorous experimental and experiential science of the mind which could guide and inform medicine, neuroscience, psychology, education and human development.
Mission
The Mind and Life Institute is dedicated to fostering dialogue and research at the highest possible level between modern science and the great living contemplative traditions, especially Buddhism. It builds on a deep commitment to the power and value of both of these ways of advancing knowledge and their potential to alleviate suffering.
World Compassion Movement
Seeds of Compassion
Seeds of Compassion came about through a collaboration of the Kirlin Foundation and the Venerable Tenzin Dhonden to focus world attention on the following:• Our communities need thoughtful, creative adults who are actively engaged citizens.
• Our global society needs people equipped to communicate across cultures and address differences through understanding and collaborative problem solving.
• These qualities must take root in early childhood.
• When children build from strong foundations emotionally, socially and cognitively, they can develop into compassionate adults.
Sojourners
Our mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world.In response to this call, we offer a vision for faith in public life by:
- publishing Sojourners magazine, SojoMail and other resources that address issues of faith, politics, and culture from a biblical perspective;
- preaching, teaching, organizing, and public witness;
- nurturing community by bringing together people from the various traditions and streams of the church;
- hosting an annual program of voluntary service for education, ministry, and discipleship.
In our lives and in our work, we seek to be guided by the biblical principles of justice, mercy, and humility.
Vegan Outreach and Resources
Farm Sanctuary
Farm Sanctuary works to end cruelty to farm animals and promotes compassionate living through rescue, education and advocacy. We envision a world where the violence that animal agriculture inflicts upon people, animals and the environment has ended, and where instead we exercise values of compassion.
Vegan Essentials
VeganEssentials is both an online store and a retail shop located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We have been in business since early 1998 and are one of the USA’s oldest cruelty-free retailers, filling the needs of vegans worldwide for nearly a decade. We’re a vegan owned and operated store that specializes in only offering the highest quality animal-free products, and our mission is to offer unparalleled service and selection all in one location, making us a one-stop shopping destination for all things vegan. My go to store for all things vegan - since they're just across the border my orders usually make it here in 24 hours!
Other Stuff You Can Use
Compare Hospital Quality
This tool provides you with information on how well the hospitals care for all their adult patients with certain conditions or procedures. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide. Talk to your doctor about this information to help you, your family and your friends make your best hospital care decisions.
Health Care Reform
http://wyden.senate.gov/issues/Legislation/Healthy_Americans_Act.cfm
Take a look at this information - affordability and availability of quality basic health care affects every single one of us, whether or not we currently have employer provided coverage. This bipartisan proposal has been calculated to be budget neutral by 2014 (not so far away). The Senator's site contains the full text of the bill, an analysis by an independent consultant, and plain language information on key bill provisions.
