Literacy

http://www.alliance4ed.org/

http://www.bigshouldersfund.org/

http://www.scholarshipfund.org/drupal1/

http://www.communitiesinschools.org/

http://www.ferstfoundation.org/

Did you know?

• In the United States, school districts with the highest child poverty rates have $1,139 fewer state and local dollars to spend per student than the wealthiest districts.
• Among 18- to 24-year-old Americans given maps, 70 percent cannot find New Jersey and 11 percent cannot find the United States.
• In 2009, 90 percent of young adults ages 18-24 had completed high school with a diploma or an alternative credential such as a General Educational Development (GED) certificate.
• There are about 1.5 million elementary school teachers and 1.1 million secondary school teachers in the United States.
• The average amount spent on home schooling per child in the US is $450.
• Between 8 and 15 million children nationwide are unsupervised at the close of each school day.
• Only 23 men's teams in the 2005 65-team NCAA Tournament managed to graduate at least 50 percent of its student athletes.
• Experts say the average deaf child isn't introduced to English until age six, upon entering school.
• The 2004-05 academic year marks the second straight year of double-digit increases in the average cost of a four-year public college.
• About 3 percent of the school-age population in the United States was home-schooled during the 2002-2003 school year.
• http://www.charitynavigator.org

free charity donations

http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1366

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com

http://www.thehungersite.com

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com

http://www.theveteranssite.com

http://www.theautismsite.com

http://www.thechildhealthsite.com

http://www.theliteracysite.com

http://www.therainforestsite.com

go green

http://www.gogreeninitiative.org/

http://www.treehugger.com/

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/

equality

http://www.hrc.org/

http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/

http://www.unicef.org/

http://www.marriageequality.org/

violence

http://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/

http://www.kidpower.org/

http://www.domesticviolence.org/

autism

http://www.thehopeinstitute.us/

http://www.autismspeaks.org/

http://www.autism.com/

animal cruelty

http://www.aspca.org/

http://www.worldwildlife.org/home-full.html

http://www.pet-abuse.com/

http://exposeanimalabusers.org/section.php?id=163

http://www.humanespot.org/node

http://www.avmf.org/

http://www.thinkingoutsidethecage.org/site/PageServer

http://www.animalhumanesociety.org/

http://www.anticruelty.org/

http://www.canineassistants.org/

http://www.cap4pets.org/

Did you know?

• Chimpanzees share 98.4% of their DNA with human beings.
• Only 10% of owned dogs were adopted from an animal shelter.
• 39% of U.S. households own at least one dog.
• The Sun Gem Hummingbird beats its wings at the rate of 90 beats per second.
• The average life span of an adult butterfly is one to two weeks, but it can be as brief as two days or as long as a year.
• Tortoises are the only animals that normally live longer than man. The oldest tortoise ever known was an Aldabra tortoise that was approximately 152 years old.
• One in every four pets in the United States is obese.
• For every person born in the United States, 15 dogs and 45 cats are born.
• About six million vertebrate animals are dissected yearly in U.S. high schools alone.
• Polar bears - the largest of all bears - carry four-inch layers of fat to retain their body heat.
• http://www.charitynavigator.org