New Campaign Highlights On StartSomeGood

Happy Friday everyone! Whether you’re sipping on morning java or getting your afternoon caffeine kick, take a few minutes to check out some of StartSomeGood’s latest campaigns.

Berkeley Youth Alternatives (BYA) is looking to fund a Youth Garden Program to provide teens living in poverty with internships, where they can engage in positive activities and gain valuable job skills. The paid internships teach teens how to live a healthier lifestyle by growing their own food for their families and communities. BYA also helps them open their own bank accounts and teaches them how to manage their finances.

FRAEC is an organization dedicated to improving US-Russian relations through The Story Stream Project, a campaign to bring stories of Russians and Americans making a difference in their local communities. The funds they raise will be used to cover the travel expenses to Russia to interview individuals and to produce the documentary that captures their stories.

The indigenous people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia live a life riffed with poverty and inhospitable living conditions. Due to the lack of education and health care, many of them die of complications from treatable and preventable diseases. Learn To Live is a three-week program that will send a team of medical professionals to treat these patients and to set up health care clinics. Please click here for more details about the program.

Hesperian has been publishing and distributing illustrated books for the survival of people in poor and under-resourced communities for over 30 years. Given the growing availability of mobile phones in rural areas, Hesperian is looking to use mobile technology to provide life saving health information to those living in poverty. Your support for this campaign will help create a mobile phone application to help people who might not have access to doctors, hospitals and medical information.

One in seven Australians has been a victim of racism in the past year. All Together Now, a non-profit organization in Australia, is going to Give Racism The Finger In Melbourne. Partnering with The Body Shop, over 50,000 customers have added their fingerprint to the canvas store, symbolizing their willingness to speak up when they witness racism. To promote this campaign, funds are being raised to print and place these posters Melbourne’s biggest train stations.

Shouting Fire is not an ordinary radio station. It is an audio nexus for ideas and engagement, an online salon where you will be able to listen to an eclectic mix of programming or access the content you want on demand from philosophy to poetry to politics. Click here to learn more about what Shouting Fire aims to bring to you.

Did you know that most of America’s recycling programs does not accept the prescription bottles? That becomes a problem when with 76 million baby boomers and over 3.6 billion prescriptions to fill. A recent college graduate as come up with a solution with two new designs: a prescription bottle made of glass and silicone and the other out of 18/8 food grade stainless steel. Donate here today to help make environmentally friendly and reusable prescription bottles. 

Legal systems in many developing countries are no more transplants than their former European colonial countries. Often times, they are viewed as a means of oppression. OpenTrial aims to reduce corruption and violence in developing-world legal systems by working with locals to collect and upload data to put judges, police and prosecutors under public scrutiny. An international support base is needed to provide the funds to pay people to do this - starting in Indonesia - and your donation will be a beginning that will fuel action.