DONATE: New Year’s Resolution Challenge!
USE YOUR POWER!
This month, we’re doing something a little different for our donation opportunity! In the spirit of New Year’s Resolutions, we challenge you to commit to a monthly donation (for all of 2026) to an organization of your choice. This monthly donation can be as small as $1/month. Most organization donation pages have the option to set up monthly donations, so you don’t have to remember to go back every month.
What’s the benefit of committing to a smaller monthly donation rather than one larger donation if I end up giving the same amount either way?
Monthly donations can be helpful to organizations as they make long-term planning decisions. While single donations are still very helpful, they don’t indicate how much funding the organization can anticipate coming in throughout their year.
What organization should I choose to donate to?
- If there is an organization close to your heart– then that’s your answer!
- If you’re unsure and you’d like help deciding where to give your monthly donation, we have a list of suggestions arranged by cause below! You can also contact us as now.wehavepower@gmail.com if you would like more assistance.
- There is also a helpful tool called CharityNavigator.org, which is a website that evaluates charities. Specifically, Charity Navigator’s rating system examines two broad areas of a charity’s performance: their Financial Health and their Accountability & Transparency. With this tool, you can search the name of some of your favorite charities and check their rating. You can also peruse charity options on their Discover Charities page.
ORGANIZATION SUGGESTIONS
International Causes (including humanitarian relief in Gaza and Ukraine):
- International Rescue Committee (IRC) – The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, including the conflict in Ukraine and the crisis in Afghanistan, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well being, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is at work in over 40 countries and 26 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities.
- Save the Children – Save the Children’s founder Eglantyne Jebb saw children dying of starvation and wracked with disease after the end of the First World War. So, in 1919, she launched the Save the Children Fund to raise much-needed funds to end children’s suffering across war-torn Europe. Today, over 100 years later, they work in the United States and around the world to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. When crisis strikes and children are most vulnerable, they are among the first to respond and the last to leave.
Climate Change Organizations:
- Environmental Defense Fund – EDF works to solve the most critical environmental problems facing the planet, focusing on mitigating climate change, restoring the ocean’s bounty, protecting wildlife and their habitats, and safeguarding our health. They work in concert with other organizations-as well as with business, government and communities-and avoid duplicating work already being done effectively by others.
- Environmental and Energy Study Institute – EESI’s mission is to advance science-based solutions for climate change, energy, and environmental challenges to achieve our vision of a sustainable, resilient, and equitable world.
- Conservation Lands Foundation – As the only nonprofit in the country solely dedicated to protecting the National Conservation Lands, their mission is to protect, restore and expand the National Conservation Lands through education, advocacy and partnerships.
Community Relief and Assistance:
- Feeding America – Feeding America is the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States. Through a network of more than 200 food banks, 21 statewide food bank associations, and over 60,000 partner agencies, food pantries and meal programs, they helped provide 6.6 billion meals to tens of millions of people in need last year. Feeding America also supports programs that prevent food waste and improve food security among the people they serve; brings attention to the social and systemic barriers that contribute to food insecurity in our nation; and advocates for legislation that protects people from going hungry.
- GiveDirectly – GiveDirectly is a nonprofit that lets donors like you send money directly to the world’s poorest households because they believe that people living in poverty deserve the dignity to choose for themselves how best to improve their lives. Since 2009, they’ve delivered over $1 billion in cash directly into the hands of 2+ million people living in poverty. They currently have operations in DRC, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda, and the U.S.
- National Domestic Violence Hotline – 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse. Contacts to The Hotline can expect highly-trained, expert advocates to offer free, confidential, and compassionate support, crisis intervention information, education, and referral services in over 200 languages.
- Coalition for the Homeless – Coalition for the Homeless is the nation’s oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women, and children. They are dedicated to the principle that decent shelter, sufficient food, affordable housing, and the chance to work for a living wage are fundamental rights in a civilized society. Since their inception in 1981, the Coalition has worked through litigation, public education, and direct services to ensure that these goals are realized. Every day the Coalition helps over 3,500 clients with the tools and support to reclaim their lives.
Protecting Civil Rights:
- The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation – ACLU provides legal presentation in cases involving issues of civil liberties and constitutional rights ranging from administrative hearings to trials and appeals. In addition, the Foundation educates the public as to civil liberties and constitutional rights by disseminating literature and other publications.
- Southern Poverty Law Center – The SPLC is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people.
- Planned Parenthood – The mission of Planned Parenthood is to provide comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services, to advocate public policies which guarantee these rights and ensure access to such services, to provide educational programs which enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality, and to promote research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care.
Indigenous Peoples & Native-Led Nonprofits:
- Native American Rights Fund – Since 1970, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) has provided legal assistance to Native American tribes, organizations, and individuals nationwide who might otherwise have gone without adequate representation. NARF has successfully asserted and defended the most important rights of Indians and tribes in hundreds of major cases, and has achieved significant results in such critical areas as tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, natural resource protection, voting rights, and Indian education.
- AISES – The mission of AISES is to substantially increase the representation of American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, First Nations and other indigenous peoples of North America in STEM studies and careers.
- First Nations Development Institute – FNDI’s mission is to strengthen American Indian economies to support healthy Native communities; they invest in and create innovative institutions and models that strengthen asset control and support economic development for American Indian people and their communities.
Black-Founded Nonprofits:
- Equal Justice Initiative – EJI is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
- Clara White Mission – The mission of the Clara White Mission is to prevent and reduce homelessness through advocacy, housing, job training, and employment, working in partnership with businesses in the community. The Clara White Mission was founded in 1904, but traces its origins to 1880s Jacksonville. It was then that former slave Clara English White fed hungry neighbors from her two-room house on Clay Street. Over subsequent years, her daughter, nationally recognized humanitarian Dr. Eartha M. M. White, molded the labor of love into a thriving social agency.
- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) – Founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, although LDF’s primary purpose was to provide legal assistance to poor African Americans, its work over the years has brought greater justice to all Americans.
LGBTQ+ Organizations:
- Los Angeles LGBT Center – Today the Center’s more than 800 employees provide services for more LGBT people than any other organization in the world, offering programs, services and global advocacy that span four broad categories: Health, Social Services and Housing, Culture and Education, Leadership and Advocacy.
- The Trevor Project – The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and mental health organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people.
- GLAAD – Formed in New York in 1985, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) amplifies the voice of the LGBT community by empowering real people to share their stories, holding the media accountable for the words and images they present, and helping grassroots organizations communicate effectively.
Disability Rights:
- Disability Rights Fund – The Disability Rights Fund’s mission is to support persons with disabilities around the world to build diverse movements, ensure inclusive development agendas, and achieve equal rights and opportunity for all.
- National Disability Rights Network – The National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) is the nonprofit membership organization for the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Systems and the Client Assistance Programs (CAP) for individuals with disabilities.As the national membership association for the P&A/CAP network, NDRN has aggressively sought federal support for advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities, and expanded P&A programs from a narrow initial focus on the institutional care provided to people with intellectual disabilities in facilities to include advocacy services for all people with disabilities no matter the type or nature of their disability.
We Have Power 
