Count Your Beans Charity Donations - Children, Hurricane Katrina, Many worthwhile charities

Since the Count Your Beans family first came online in 1999, a percentage of all our website and auction profits have been donated to Charities that help Children as well as many other worthwhile organizations. The family of Count Your Beans has been very blessed with love, with life, with wonderful customers. We have always believed that businesses should give back to the community in which they serve.

Here is a Partial Listing of where we have made donations from 1999-2008. These charities are listed in NO particular order and ALL are worthy in our eyes! We try to rotate them on our website on a quarterly basis so all will get fair exposure. We wish we could help more! ** New ** means added within the past year.

If you'd like to help too and choose a special charity to help, you can donate Bonus Beans that you have earned from us and turn them into cash donations. To reward your generosity, we offer partial or full donation matching for Bonus Beans redemptions. See here for details!

Autism Speaks - ** New * Through historic mergers with the Autism Coalition for Research and Education (ACRE), the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR), and, most recently, Cure Autism Now (CAN), Autism Speaks is now one of the largest foundations dedicated to autism in the world, with more than 130 employees, and walk chapters across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

In 2006 alone, they raised over $33 million and committed $25 million to fund scientific research. They lobbied hard and successfully for passage by the federal government of the landmark Combating Autism Act. And we significantly raised autism's profile through our Ad Council campaign and a variety of media appearances on television, radio, and print. These are just a few of the many accomplishments Autism Speaks has recently had.

Make A Wish Foundation - The Make-A-Wish Foundation^Ž grants the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. They are the largest wish-granting organization in the world, with 80 chapters in the United States and its territories, and 22 international affiliates on five continents.

Children's Miracle Network - Children's Miracle Network is an international non-profit organization dedicated to helping children by raising funds and awareness for 170 children's hospitals throughout North America. Each year these non-profit hospitals treat more than 17 million children afflicted with diseases, injuries and birth defects of every kind.

** Marie Osmond and John Schneider co-founded this wonderful organization. We carry a large number of Marie Osmond dolls and are happy to say that sales of these dolls at our website have helped us donate to this very worthy group.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society - The mission of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is to end the devastating effects of MS.

The Society and its network of chapters nationwide promote research, educate, advocate on critical issues, and organize a wide range of programs including support for the newly diagnosed and those living with MS over time.

The manufacturer for one of the lines we used to carry, Annette Funicello Teddy Bears was involved in fund-raising awareness for the National MS Society through Annette's Amazing Angels.

St Jude Children's Research Hospital - St. Jude is unlike any other pediatric treatment and research facility anywhere. Discoveries made here have completely changed how the world treats children with cancer and other catastrophic illnesses. This is where some of today's most gifted researchers are able to do more science, more quickly. Where doctors across the world send their toughest cases and most vulnerable patients where no one pays for treatment beyond what is covered by insurance, and those without insurance are never ask to pay. They've built America's 4th-largest health-care charity, with a model that keeps the costs down and the funds flowing, so the science never stops.

In addition to food, shelter, clothing and crisis care, Covenant House provides a variety of services to homeless youth including health care, education, vocational preparation, drug abuse treatment and prevention programs, legal services, recreation, mother/child programs, transitional living programs, street outreach and aftercare.

Toys for Tots -The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is one of the nations flagship Christmas charitable endeavors and the U.S. Marine Corps' premier community action program. Over the past 51 years, U.S. Marines have distributed over 243,300,000 toys to 121,000,000 needy children throughout the nation.

City of Hope - City of Hope, a Comprehensive Cancer Center, is an innovative biomedical research, treatment and educational institution. Located near Los Angeles, California, City of Hope is dedicated to the prevention and cure of cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, and other life-threatening diseases.

CASA - The National Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Association mission is to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children who are involved in the juvenile courts. Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers are powerful, caring advocates for more than 280,000 abused and neglected children. CASA volunteers are appointed by judges to champion the best interests of these children so that they have a chance to thrive.

This is also a charity supported by Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity (women). (Karen is a Kappa Alpha Theta alumni from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. If there are any other Thetas out there reading this, she'd love to hear from you!)

Big Brothers / Big Sisters -Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America is the nation's oldest and largest youth mentoring organization. Since 1904, caring adult volunteers have been helping millions of children reach their full potential and fulfill their dreams. Our programs in all 50 states match kids with mentors who provide meaningful friendships and share fun experiences.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara Counties is a private non-profit organization that collects and distributes more than 21.2 million pounds of food each year to low income children, adults and seniors. The Food Bank currently serves an average of 119,500 individuals each month; nearly 50% are children.

Special Olympics provides year round sports training and athletic competition to 1 million people with mental retardation in over 150 countries. (When I used to bowl professionally on the Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour a few years ago, I was blessed to have the chance to work with many special bowlers during Pro / Am competitions.)

Children's 911 Fund - The September 11, 2001 Children's Fund, Inc. has been formed for the purpose of providing financial support through scholarships, apprenticeships, internships, work-study programs, and work training programs to the children directly affected by the terrorist act at the World Trade Center in New York City including American Airline Flight 11 and United Flight 175, The Pentagon in Washington, DC, including American Flight 77 and the United Airline flight 93 crash in Sommerset County Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.

Salvation Army / Children's Giving Tree -The Salvation Army is an integral part of the Christian Church, although distinctive in government and practice. The Army's doctrine follows the mainstream of Christian belief and its articles of faith emphasise God's saving purposes. Its objects are 'the advancement of the Christian religion... of education, the relief of poverty, and other charitable objects beneficial to society or the community of mankind as a whole'. (Salvation Army Act 1980)

Giving at Home - Giving@Home is about helping those less fortunate. Helping those who find themselves in critical need, or just need to be cheered up, or have a prayer said for them or a loved one. It's about making the sick children smile, and the elderly less lonely. It's about lending an ear to a friend with problems. It's about making sure every child has the necessities they need and the love they deserve. It's about giving our all to make sure nobody fall in the cracks!

Junior Giants - In addition to contributing to various community and youth programs, the Giants Community Fund administers a youth baseball program for nearly 7,000 children in Northern California. With the help of former Giants' pitching great, who serves as Junior Giants Commissioner, the program provides self-esteem and values training, along with baseball equipment, uniforms and instructional service, to boys and girls 8-13 years old who otherwise could not afford to play organized baseball. The Junior Giants Baseball program boasts an expanded total of 26 leagues throughout Northern California this year, featuring nearly 7,000 participants on more than 250 teams from Mt. Shasta to San Luis Obispo.

Ecunumerical Hunger Program - Located in East Palo Alto, CA this program serves over 7000 children and 1300 adults during the holiday and thousands more throughout the year. EHP provides food, clothing and toys for famlies in need.

Santa Clara County Children's Shelter - Child Abuse Council of Santa Clara County - Located in Santa Clara County in Northern California the shelter takes protects and takes cares of children and mothers of abuse. Please let's all do whatever we can do to stop all abuse!!!

March of Dimes - Four major problems threaten the health of America's babies: birth defects, infant mortality, low birthweight, and lack of prenatal care. The March of Dimes has adopted goals for the year 2000 to bring us closer to the day when all babies will be born healthy. These goals include:

Cystic Fibrosis - The mission of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is to assure the development of the means to cure and control cystic fibrosis and to improve the quality of life for those with the disease.

American Red Cross - The Red Cross is committed to saving lives and easing suffering. This diverse organization serves humanity and helps you by providing relief to victims of disaster, both locally and globally. The Red Cross is responsible for half of the nation's blood supply and blood products.

The Red Cross gives health and safety training to the public and provides emergency social services to U.S. military members and their families. In the wake of an earthquake, tornado, flood, fire, hurricane or other disaster, it provides relief services to communities across the country. The Red Cross is America's most trusted charity, and it needs the support of compassionate Americans to succeed.

If you are a non-profit charitable organization and wish to be considered when we allocate charitable funds, please send an information packet to: Count Your Beans!, Attn: Charitable Contributions, P.O. Box 87043, Vancouver, WA 98687. Although we can't respond to everyone and unfortunately cannot afford to donate to all worthwhile causes, please know you will be considered and contacted if we have any questions. Sometimes we will make donations for charity auctions so even though it may not be a monetary contribution, it may still help your group. We're sorry that we can't help everyone but we will gladly keep you and your charity in our prayers and wish you the very best. THANK YOU!

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