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Comment by Lina Baker on November 24, 2010 at 10:12am

I want to encourage any atheists who are volunteering as a group to consider nominating themselves as a group for state volunteer awards, if you feel you are having big impact. Even if you don't win, you are still getting recognition for your efforts and changing minds about who volunteers and why. For instance, Texas, Oregon, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine and various other states have annual Governor's Volunteer Awards (in California, it's called the Governor and First Lady's Service Award), recognizing group and individual volunteer efforts. Also, there's the President’s Volunteer Service Award, which "recognizes individuals, families, and groups that have achieved a certain standard – measured by the number of hours of service over a 12-month period or cumulative hours earned over the course of a lifetime." Let's show that atheists care!

Comment by Claire on November 18, 2010 at 12:58pm

There are only six weeks left in what will be our first year as an organization, and our members have already accomplished an awful lot. 631 members have raise over 70,000 dollars for 37 awesome charities.

With the generous donations of our members, we have fed, clothed, and paid school tuition for 22 impoverished children in Nepal. We have funded science education in India and in US public schools and supported efforts to fight global warming and protect biodiversity.

We put textbooks in Uganda's humanist schools and peacebuilding teams in Uganda's conflict areas. We funded efforts to improve access to health care for marginalized populations on four continents and in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake. We helped launch a new Camp Quest in Virginia and helped build a new school for girls in Pakistan.

We've added humanist voices and dollars to the fight for LGBT rights, the key civil rights struggle of our time. We've empowered adoptions, fed the hungry, and worked to protect the most vulnerable—refugees in war, victims of torture, women under threat of religious violence, political asylees, people struggling with addiction, and those hoping for dignity at the end of their lives.

We want to keep up this awesome work, but we can't do it without some help. Since we are committed to remaining a 100 percent pass-through organization, we rely on separate donations for our own operational costs. Because the current economy took a serious bite out of our major funding sources, we are left with an operating deficit for 2010.

Can you help us close that gap?

This holiday season, give a gift that will help us keep giving: http://foundationbeyondbelief.org/one-time-donation

Comment by Bryanderthal on October 14, 2010 at 3:46pm

And that's why I will never worry about this organization. Can you imagine a priest or pastor responsible for a charity saying, "Oops, I made a mistake. Here's how I fixed it."

Comment by Claire on October 13, 2010 at 10:23am

There is a change in the line up for this quarter's Human Rights beneficiary. The Foundation Beyond Belief will no longer be sponsoring Soulforce, and will be selecting a new beneficiary in the coming days.

To learn more about why the change is being made, read Executive Director Dale McGowan's blog post on the subject: http://foundationbeyondbelief.org/node/511

Comment by Claire on October 1, 2010 at 1:14pm

New beneficiaries!

It's the 1st of October today, and also the 1st day of the new quarter, which means we've got a whole slew of new beneficiaries!

Here's the roll call:

Animal Protection: Animal Welfare Institute
"Big Bang": AHA Foundation
Child Welfare: Camfed
Education: Vidnyanvahini ("Science in Motion")
Environment: The Center for Biological Diversity
Health: FAME—the Foundation for African Medicine & Education
Human Rights: Soulforce
Peace: The Federation of American Scientists
Poverty: Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK)

To learn more about them go to:
http://foundationbeyondbelief.org/node/507

Comment by Geraldo Cienmarcos on September 5, 2010 at 8:44am

Secular Believers
The film Secular Believers provides an example of how secular beliefs can be included in a religious education syllabus.
It was made for the UK education system and its message is that beliefs, and believers, come in many shapes and sizes, and not all of them can be described as ‘religious’.
"Many religious people think that a secular society is a good thing, because it offers freedom of choice to everybody."

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/secular-believers/

Comment by Claire on July 30, 2010 at 2:32pm

Become a Foundation member...for free! We have dropped the $9 a year membership fee. For the first sixth months of our operation, this fee provided a small, reliable income stream to see us through the early days. Those of you who joined under that system helped provide that extra support we needed, and we thank you.

But now we've now decided to drop the membership fee entirely. New members can now sign up for our charitable giving program with no additional fee.

We still have operational costs, of course, but it's now entirely up to each member whether to contribute to the running of the Foundation. We hope this organization is valuable enough for members to designate a small percentage of their monthly donation to the care and feeding of the Foundation itself.

Sign up! https://foundationbeyondbelief.org/products

Comment by Claire on July 2, 2010 at 2:57pm

The third quarter is upon us! In the second quarter our wonderful members raised over $21,000 - twice what was raised in the first quarter! - for our beneficiaries. Let's see if we can double our numbers again for this quarter and raise over $42,000! Check out the line up of beneficiaries for our third quarter:

Animal Protection: Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary
"Big Bang": Camp Quest
Child Welfare: Gift of Adoption Fund
Education: Uganda Humanist Schools Trust
Environment: Energy Action Coalition
Health: National Association of Free Clinics
Human Rights: Compassion and Choices
Peace: Quaker Peace and Social Witness
Poverty: The Mountain Fund

To learn more about our current beneficiaries go to: http://foundationbeyondbelief.org/current_beneficiaries

And if you're on Facebook don't forget to "Like" our Facebook Page to keep up to date with all the Foundation happenings and news about our beneficiaries!

Comment by Claire on June 12, 2010 at 9:38am

We've hit a milestone! We now have over 500 Foundation Beyond Belief members who have raised over $30,000!

Comment by Claire on May 27, 2010 at 1:53pm

Want to help spread the word about the Foundation Beyond Belief? Now there are cool FBB badges and banners that you can add to your website! Check it out: http://foundationbeyondbelief.org/node/366

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