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Here are some options:

1. Take part in the next Design Science Lab.
2. Bring one of the BigPictureSmallWorld Programs to your school, organization or event and see and feel how the BigPicture can make a huge difference in a SmallWorld— and how you can help make it happen.
3. Investigate any of the following organizations and see if any match up with your values and what you would like to do. Get involved with one or more of them and invest your energy, time and intellect in a noble effort to change the world.

(The organizations below are listed as a public service. BigPictureSmallWorld does not necessarily support or agree with all the views expressed on all the sites, nor does it expect you to. What it does hope is that you will think seriously about getting involved in one or more of the groups, and act accordingly. Many wonderful groups have undoubtedly been left out of the list below. My apologies for any errors of omission. Any group that would like to be listed should contact Medard Gabel at BigPictureSmallWorld.)


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Hunger organizations
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ACDI-VOCA:nonprofit international development organization providing technical expertise at the request of farmers, agribusinesses, cooperatives, private and government agencies.
Action Against Hunger:delivers emergency aid and longer-term assistance to people suffering from the dire consequences of natural disaster or man-made crisis.
Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA):humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, providing individual and community development and disaster relief.
African Development Foundation (ADF): U.S. government agency working at grassroots level in Africa to alleviate poverty and promote broad-based sustainable development.
Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN): voice for Africa in U.S. public policy.
America's Second Harvest:nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization.
Asia Rice Foundation: rice education, cultural preservation, research, and advocacy.

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Baptist World Aid (BWAid): provides long-range help for persons in need, regardless of religion, nationality, tribe or class.
Bread for the World: citizens' movement that seeks justice for the world's poor and hungry.

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Catholic Campaign for Human Development: domestic anti-poverty, social justice program of the U.S. Catholic bishops.
Catholic Relief Services: represents the US Catholic community by helping people in more than 80 countries around the world.
Call to Action: Catholic movement working for equality and social justice.
Center on Hunger and Poverty: promotes policies which improve the lives and developmental capacities of low-income children and families in the nation.
Children's Hunger Relief Fund: responds to children's immediate physical, emotional, and spiritual needs following drought, earthquake, hurricane, war, and other disasters.
Church World Service: coalition of 36 Protestant, Anglican, and Orthodox communions in the U.S., cooperating worldwide in programs of long-term development, emergency response and assistance to refugees.
Congressional Hunger Center: develops new and existing anti-hunger leaders through its Mickey Leland Hunger Fellows Program and Beyond Food AmeriCorps Program.

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Feed the Children: provides food, clothing, educational supplies to people who lack these essentials
The Feinstein Foundation: seeks to end hunger in America through educational programs and political advocacy.
Food First: (the Institute for Food and Development Policy) seeks to eliminate the injustices that cause hunger
Food for the Hungry: Christian relief and development organization dedicated to meeting physical and spiritual needs around the world
Food Force. Computer game available for download for free; puts players in charge of a hunger relief effort
Food Not Bombs: protests militarism and poverty by serving free food to people in need.
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC): leading national organization working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States.
Foods Resource Bank: non-governmental, humanitarian, organization committed to ensuring that "Food is a Basic Human Right" for all persons through support of sustainable development programs
Freedom From Hunger: innovative and sustainable self-help solutions in the fight against chronic hunger and poverty.

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Harvest Help: provides practical help to rural communities in Zambia and Malawi through increased self-reliance and sustainable farming
Harvest Time International: seeks donations for food relief throughout the world.
Heifer Project International: combats hunger, alleviates poverty, and restores the environment by providing appropriate livestock, training, and related services to small-scale farmers.
Hunger Project: global organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger.
The Hunger Site: enables visitors to"give free food" and help feed the hungry.
HungerWeb: for researchers, educators, policy influencers, operations personnel, other professionals and students; helps find solutions to hunger

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International Famine Centre: research, advocacy, and action in countries threatened by famine.
International Food Policy Research Institute: identifies and analyzes policies for sustainably meeting the food needs of the developing world.

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Kids Can Make A Difference: educational program inspiring kids to end hunger and poverty in their communities, country, and world.
kNOw HUNGER: 6-unit social studies curriculum geared toward high school youth that gives students a way to understand and address hunger in their communities, their state and the nation.

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Living Waters for the World:save communities from illness and disease by providing clean water.
Lutheran World Relief: overseas development and relief

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MAZON: raises money to fund a variety of organizations including food banks and kosher meals-on-wheels programs for homebound elderly people,
Mennonite Central Committee: relief and development arm of the North American Mennonite churches involved in food relief, agriculture, health and education and social services.
Mercy Corps:food and poverty relief
Millennium Campaign: highlights progress countries have made in eradicating extreme poverty and provides regional profiles.

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National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness: ending hunger and homelessness in America by educating, engaging, and training students
NetAid: empowers young people to fight global poverty

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The ONE campaign: fights global AIDS and extreme poverty.
OneWorld: provides international perspectives and access to original documents
Oxfam International: fights poverty and injustice around the world.


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Partnership to Cut Hunger in Africa: vision, strategy and action plan for renewed U.S. efforts to help African partners cut hunger
Presbyterian Hunger Program: advocates for public policies that provide food for poor and hungry people


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Resal: food security network of the European Commission.
RESULTS: grassroots citizens' lobby working to create the political will to end hunger and poverty.

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Share Our Strength: food assistance, malnutrition, and economic independence among people in need to


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TakingITGlobal: youth involved in the effort to implement the Millennium Development Goals.
30 Hour Famine:youth group event that educates young people about the hunger crisis in this world and encourages them to do something about it.

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United Methodist Committee on Relief: practical solutions to the problems of hunger, human rights and world peace
UN Millennium Project: independent advisory body for UN on strategies for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the set of internationally agreed upon targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015.
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
United Nations FAO Special Programme for Food Security
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World Food Day: worldwide event designed to increase awareness, understanding and informed, year-around action to alleviate hunger.
World Food Program:, promotes economic and social development and relief assistance in emergencies throughout the world.
World Hunger Year: attacks root causes of hunger and poverty by promoting effective and innovative community-based solutions
World Vision: humanitarian organization serving the world's poor and displaced by providing programs that help save lives, protect children and restore dignity.

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