admice

Here’s some info on others I got from another site:

There is an organization named Atheists For Human Rights, which is located in Minnesota but which is open to membership for everybody. It is led by Marie Alena Castle, who is a past president of the Atheist Alliance. They raise money for three charitable organizations who provide aid to those victimized by religious authoritarians. The Philanthrofund Foundation, which supports the gay and lesbian community with scholarship awards; the Women's Medical Fund (Founded 17 years ago by Anne Nichol Gaylor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation); and the North Dakota WIN (Women In Need) Abortion Access
Fund, which helps fund the Red River Women's Clinic in Fargo.

MAC's org has a website now, www.atheistsforhumanrights.org which I presume will have information about the above.

Another one:

Earth's Atheist Resistence To Holy Wars and Religious
Devastation). http://earthward.net

The problem I see with this is that it only benefits victims or religion. I'd like to see a different benefit.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/tocindia.htm

The Atheist Centre was founded in 1940 by the Gora family, who were associated with Ghandi and the nationalist movement for freedom. They provide counseling, are fighting against the caste system and for the abolition of child marriages, helping ex-prostitutes, and protecting widows from inhumane customs. They also dispell superstitions by scientific demonstrations, and are asked to calm witchcraft hysterias. They provide sex education and family planning, are carrying on a rural development program,
and have a center for free cornea grafting operations which is giving sight to the blind. Although it doesn't have "Humanist" in its name, it was awarded the International Humanist Award in 1986 (given by the IHEU).



http://www.humanitas.nl/

Dutch organization for social care and community development, based upon humanistic principles with projects in the fields of child-care, elderly homes, support for the homeless, care for the disabled, visiting and empowering the lonely, and grief counseling.



http://www.hivos.nl/

Hivos is an organisation working to promote: democracy; economic development; cultural development; human rights, including equal rights for women, in the developing countries of Africa, Asia, Latin-America and South-east Europe. It also combats poverty and the spread of AIDS in those areas.

admice

Philosoft replying to Paine; I hope somewhat it's not. The intent I envisioned was to give atheists a better reputation as well as help.

admice

Dominus: the Peacecorps does some of that work, documenting threatened cultures. There are also several university studies. I read an article in Scientific American in the last 12 months about it. I'll try to find the name . There are also NAtive American groups doing that.

admice

d'naturalist-you're such a good resource! There's a company Working Assets, that does something like that, but they are commercial. I bet we could find an existing or create, but if we want 100% to go to the recipient charities, would have to be all volunteer and doations for supplies, etc. But I think the idea of several to choose from is great! (Getting a concensus from any group can be unbearably difficult.) Maybe donate annually tho-less work, better interest rates on the donations till given.

So maybe review the additional ones I posted. I'll do more research into existing fund types, then maybe try to promote one we like, or if none exist start one.

Cool. Thanks you all (even Philosoft)

Richard1366

Creativeness seems to be the word. Back in the 60's (yes I can remember then) the Black Panther Party in California started a free breakfast program for children, nothing fancy, cereal, fruit juice, milk AND they gave the kids a copy of the "Black Panther Coloring Book" showing graphically how the slaves were kidnapped from Africa and that the best way to fight back was to kill the "pigs" (pig faced humans in police uniforms), I have a copy of the book. From this they got a great deal of national and international publicity. Thus, a group with espoused motives of anarchy came to be thought of as generous and respectable.

Philosoft

Rats. And I try so hard to be stubborn and obfuscatory.

gilly54

Quote:

This is not well thought out, just my first thought to reading the post. If there was a way to target aid to people who are victims of crime/war/violence, etc. resulting from religion and/or fundamentalism. I know it's probably too broad of a category.

The people that immediately came to mind were the Afghan women. I wonder if Karzai would take money from "infidels"?

Then we have the powerless women who can't stop getting pregnant because of their religion in Ireland, Latin and South America, Albania, Utah...

Sadly, a very broad category indeed.

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Paine

Well, no it wasnt intended that way. I was just trying to point out:
1. If your just looking to "help" people, then there are many established charitys. Theres no reason to set up our own to do this.
2. We set this charity up to get something in return(Positive publicity). The fact that people are getting helped is a nice side effect.

I am new to this forum so perhaps Philosoft was being sarcastic and i just missed it.

Rusting Car Bumper

There are great charities but there none which exist solely as a mechanism for non-believers, whether they call themselves agnostics, atheists, freethinkers, humanists or whatever, to be charitable and to forward specifically their own philosophies of what good works should be.

DC

admice

digital- Yeah, actually there are: the IHEU and the AHA, but they are limited to Humanist's philosophy. I was thinking of something more encompassing. Will check out the references given.