About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 211. Chapters: Southern Poverty Law Center, American Red Cross, Comic Relief, World Vision International, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Habitat for Humanity, New Israel Fund, Carter Center, National Foundation for Cancer Research, AHA Foundation, Disabled Sports USA, Comic Relief USA, Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, Harvard Musical Association, Operation USA, Grandma's Gifts, Catholic Charities, American Atheists, Farm Aid, World Vision United States, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Supporting organization (charity), Five & Alive, United States Navy Veterans Association, Direct Relief International, Project H.O.M.E., Toms Shoes, Every Child Ministries, The Jimmy Fund, Catholic Relief Services, Children International, Stand Up to Cancer, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, The Pew Charitable Trusts, American Friends Service Committee, East Meets West (Non-governmental organization), Building Tomorrow, Mercy Corps, Goodwill Industries, Academy of Achievement, World Bicycle Relief, Little Red Wagon Foundation, Knowbility, American Cancer Society, Students Helping Honduras, Fight for Sight (U.S.), TheSpeedGamers, CURE International, Cross International, Global Health Council, AmeriCares, American India Foundation, Hadassah, National Inclusion Project, Take a Swing at Cancer, Foxfire (magazine), Canstruction, Knights of Pythias, HopeLab, Empowering Spirits Foundation, UNICEF Tap Project, Bike and Build, Best Friends Animal Society, United Way of America, Genocide Intervention Network, Easter Seals (U.S.), Lutheran World Relief, Jazz Foundation of America, Dapper Dan Charities, Swim Across America, Child's Play (charity), ASCEND: A Humanitarian Alliance, Counterpart International, Boston Marine Society, Hands Across America, Community Action Services and Food Bank, Sharsheret (organization), Meet Each Need with Dignity (MEND), Charity Navigator, St. Cabrini Home, EarthShare, Pioneers, a Volunteer Network, Ukrainian National Women's League of America, American Asthma Foundation, Camp Quality, Foundation (United States law), Kobe Bryant China Fund, Imus Ranch, International Trachoma Initiative, The Resource Foundation, Scots Charitable Society of Boston, Population Services International, Bogart Pediatric Cancer Research Program, Plan USA, Brownson House, Kids Against Hunger, Bread for the City, Tower Cancer Research Foundation, Safe Kids USA, Boston Seaman's Friend Society, Science Buddies, Cultural Survival, Dreams for Kids, Pelotonia, The Christophers, Sphinx Organization, Good Karma For All. Excerpt: The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American nonprofit civil rights organization noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups; its legal representation for victims of hate groups; its monitoring of alleged hate groups, militias and extremist organizations; and its educational programs that promote tolerance. The SPLC classifies as hate groups organizations that it considers to denigrate or assault entire groups of people, typically for attributes that are beyond their control. In 1971, Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin Jr. founded the SPLC as a civil rights law firm based in Montgomery, Alabama. Civil rights leader Julian Bond soon joined Dees and Levin and served as president of the board between 1971 and 1979. The SPLC's litigating strategy involved filing civil suits for damages on behalf of the victims of hate group harassment, threats, and violence with the goal of financially depleting the responsible groups and individuals. While it originally focused on damages done by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, throughout the years the SPLC has become involved in other civil rights causes, among them, cases concerned with institutional racial segregation and discrimination, the mistreatment of...
