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Sites Descriptions:
African Community Center of Denver
(Denver, CO)
Camp Heartland (Willow River, MN)
The Great Basin Institute (Reno, NV)
Harvest Farm (Wellington, CO)
Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding
Academy (Valley, NE)
Huntington West Virginia Housing
Authority (Huntington, WV)
Ijams Nature
Center (Knoxville, TN)
Kentucky Harvest (Louisville, KY)
Lower Nine (New Orleans, LA)
Mission: Wolf (Westcliffe, CO)
New American Sustainable
Agriculture Project (Portland, ME)
Pace School (Pittsburgh, PA)
Raphael House of Portland (Portland, OR)
Turpentine Creek (Eureka Springs, AR)
African Community Center of Denver
(Denver,
CO): The
African Community Center is a Refugee Resettlement program which
welcomes newcomers who have had to flee persecution within their home
country. The ACC conducts
educational and social service programs that help newcomers resettle in
their new communities and acculturate, recover from past trauma, gain
personal independence and economic self-sufficiency, and quickly become able
participants and productive, contributing members of American society.
Price: $230
Camp Heartland
(Willow River, MN): Camp Heartland is a national, non-profit
organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of children impacted by
HIV/AIDS through year-round support, advocacy, recreational programs and
community AIDS awareness efforts.
Camp
Heartland believes that
every child deserves a warm and welcoming place within our world...a place
where they can experience unconditional love and acceptance. For hundreds of
children each year, Camp Heartland is their safe haven, where the isolation
and tragedy of AIDS cannot touch them. Price: $210
The Great Basin
Institute (Reno, NV): The Great Basin Institute is an interdisciplinary
field studies organization that promotes environmental research, education,
and conservation throughout the West. The Institute advances ecological
literacy and habitat restoration through educational outreach and direct
service programs. GBI is currently working on a variety of projects,
including riparian restoration at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Ash
Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, and trail building in the Spring
Mountains. Price: $600
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Harvest Farm (Wellington, CO):
Harvest Farm is a 100-acre farm and rehabilitation center for men located 70
miles north of Denver.
The Farm accommodates up to 72 men who participate in a long-term treatment
program. Men determined to break cycles of addiction and poverty are
referred to the Farm by detox facilities, social service agencies, and the
legal system. Once there, they find educational, spiritual, and emotional
support to assist their transition into society. Price: $220
Heartland
Equine
Therapeutic
Riding
Academy
(Valley, NE): The mission of HETRA is to improve the quality of life
both physically and emotionally of adults and children with disabilities
through equine assisted activities. HETRA has 14 therapy horses, 3 ponies, 8
certified instructors, and over 50 students. They offer services in
Therapeutic Riding, Hippotherapy and Therapeutic Carriage Driving.
Price: $170
Huntington West Virginia Housing Authority (Huntington, WV):
HHA is an equal opportunity housing authority that meets the needs of
over 5,000 individuals and families and continues to expand their service
base in order to meet the needs of additional needy families waiting for
housing assistance. They have self-sufficiency programs to assist families
and elderly and have employment and training programs to assist families to
enter the world of work. They also provide services that enable seniors to
remain in their own homes and we have recreational programs that make all
families lives more enjoyable. Price: $180
Ijams
Nature Center (Knoxville, TN): Ijams Nature Center's mission is to
develop and maintain the park as a wildlife sanctuary. Ijams seeks to
increase knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the natural world by
providing quality environmental educational programs and nature-related
experiences for all people. $180
Kentucky
Harvest (Louisville, KY): Kentucky Harvest is the headquarters of the
nation-wide organization USA Harvest. KY Harvest has a mission very
different from other charitable organizations, they’re not fund-raisers,
they’re food-raisers. Volunteers pick-up surplus food from restaurants,
hospitals and food suppliers and deliver it to missions, soup kitchens and
people in need. Moving food from people who have too much, to those who have much too
little! Price: $170
Lower
Nine (New Orleans, LA): Lower Nine is dedicated to training residents of, and volunteers
in, the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, LA, in the skills necessary to
bring this century-old historic neighborhood back to life after the
devastation wrought by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. These skills
include basic carpentry, roofing, plumbing, electrical wiring, sheetrock
finishing, etc., which are needed if houses are going to become habitable
once again. They also include counseling services, social outreach, medical
care, youth programs and advocacy, resident rights advocacy and sustainable
economic development. Price: $240
Mission:
Wolf (Westcliffe, CO): Mission: Wolf is a peaceful wolf sanctuary located in the
remote mountains of Colorado.
Their desire is to provide the resident wolves with the most peaceful life
possible. They currently care for up to 40 captive-born wolves and wolf-dog
crosses. The refuge supports a primitive visitor center that provides
visitors and volunteers with hands-on working experience. Price: $220
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New American Sustainable Agriculture Project (Portland, ME):
NASAP provides information, training, tools and resources to recently
resettled refugee farmers and immigrant farm workers now living in Maine. NASAP's primary goal is to deliver
focused outreach and technical assistance, including educational programs,
to limited-resources immigrant farmers, helping them to build successful Maine farms that are
consistent with their cultural and lifestyle aspirations.
NASAP provides access to training plots, and recently acquired use of a
96-acre farm in Bowdoinham. Farmers sell produce at farmers’ markets, and
though production to date has focused on vegetables and small fruits, the
project plans to incorporate livestock, including poultry and goats. Price:
$210
Pace School (Pittsburgh, PA):
As a private, nonprofit day
school, Pace serves hard-to-teach, hard-to-reach children and
adolescents. Pace School is a
placement option for school districts in Allegheny and surrounding
counties and serves students, grades K - 9, with emotional challenges or
autism. It is the unique blend of
special education and mental health services-and the added supports within
each system-that sets Pace School
apart.
Price: $210
Raphael House of Portland (Portland, OR): Raphael House of Portland has been offering shelter to women
and children fleeing domestic violence since 1977. Each year, more than 300
women and children access shelter, food, clothing, transportation, support
groups and individual support at the emergency shelter and over 3500 people
are served by the in-house crisis line. In addition, approximately 400
non-residential survivors receive advocacy services through a transitional
program and a program at the Domestic Violence Reduction Unit of the
Portland Police. $600
Turpentine
Creek (Eureka Springs, AR): Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge is a
no-kill facility dedicated to rescuing abused, abandoned and unwanted big
cats. The refuge is a non-profit facility of over 100 rescued exotic cats.
Frequently, young cubs of big cats are sold to people as pets. A few months
pass and the new "pet owner" begins to realize they have made a mistake.
Turpentine Creek staff members have traveled to 17 different states rescuing
big cats; lions, tigers, leopards, cougars, servals, bobcats, and lynx.
Every animal rescue is an animal saved. Price: $230
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