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Following is a list of helpful goodwill and charity websites and charitable organizations:

• Support the troops.  Find their wish list at anysoldier.com

• Donate new blankets to kids in homeless shelters at projectnightnight.org

• Thrift stores that give back; sales help support the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.  For locations, see outofthecloset.org

• Online retailers who donate a portion of your purchase to the charity of your choice?  Go to goodshop.com before you shop. 

• Help victims of domestic violence for emergencies by donating old cell phones.  Go to ncadv.org and click “donate”.

• A $50 donation to doctorswithoutborders.org will help to vaccinate 50 people around the world against deadly diseases such as meningitis, measles or polio.

• Help provide a month of care for a woman or child who has been rescued from sexual slavery for $30 at sharedhope.org.

• Get your family and friends together to give back.  To find group volunteer projects, go to thevolunteerfamily.com

• Clean out your closet and do some good.  Donate old glasses to neweyesfortheneedy.org, shoes to shareyoursoles.org and even wedding gowns at makingmemories.org.

• How can you help people in your zip code? Find projects in your specific zip code at dosomething.org.

• Give $10 to freethechildren.org and a special matching fund will turn it into $100 worth of medical supplies for kids around the world.

• Help mentor an at-risk kid online at icouldbe.org. 

• nps.gov:  volunteer - inside or out - at a national park.

• volunteermatch.org  - will help match you with local programs in need of volunteers.

• scholarshipamerica.org will help you help an aspiring student with paying for college.

• childsplaycharity.org will send a DVD or video game to hospital-bound kids.

• Donate frequent flyer miles to injured soldier’s families at heromiles.org

• 826 National is an innovative tutoring, writing, and publishing nonprofit based in seven cities across the country. Since starting up in 2002, our goal has been to assist students ages 6-18 with their writing skills while helping teachers get their classes excited about the writing.  Donate your money or your time at 826national.org.

• Your medical history could inspire you to donate to a cause that could help save a loved one.  Check out the American Heart Association (americanheart.org) or Susan G. Komen for the Cure (komen.org).

• Help a budding entrepreneur in a developing country with a loan to help get them started.  Loan money at kiva.org

• If you don’t need it, you can sell it.  eBay’s Giving Works program (givingworks.ebay.com)  earmarks a percentage of the sales for the charities of your choice.

• Help underfunded classrooms create cozy reading nooks by giving a small donation to donorschoose.org