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Missing & Exploited Children & Adults
Click here to make a donation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

National Center for Missing Adults. According the Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Crime Information Center (NCIC) there are 50,930 active missing adult cases in the United States as of January 31, 2007.

Project Jason. A nonprofit organization that raises awareness about missing persons of all ages and provides resources for families of missing persons.

Still Missing: Michaela Joy Garecht: a site maintained by the mother of Michaela Joy Garecht, who was abducted from a Hayward, CA market in 1988 and who has never been found

Eliminating Poverty
Kiva - connecting individuals in the West to needy entrepreneurs in developing countries. Make loans of as little as $25 through paypal, and track the business’s progress through Kiva’s online journals.
Women Initiative to Eradicate Poverty
Open Society Institute

Literacy
826 Valencia - free tutoring, storytelling, and writing programs for children in the San Francisco Bay Area
First Book — providing books to children from low-income families

libraries

Indie Bookstores
Bay Area
Black Oak Books
Book Passage
Bookshop West Portal
Books Inc
Booksmith
Cody’s
Diesel
A Great Good Place for Books, Oakland
Green Apple
Kepler’s, Menlo Park
Lafayette Books, Lafayette
Rakestraw Books, Danville
Reader’s Books, Sonoma

Down South
Over the Transom
Square Books
Lemuria
Octavia Books, New Orleans


Links to literary blogs and author pages can be found on my blog. Click BLOG on the top menu.






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