X-Spam-Status: No -- Hits: -2.532 Required: 5 X-Spam-Summary: BAYES_00,RCVD_BY_IP Sender: -2.532 (spamval) -- NONE Return-Path: Received: from smtp.eecs.umich.edu (smtp.eecs.umich.edu [141.213.4.43]) by boston.eecs.umich.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBOFiwhe020203 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:44:58 -0500 Received: from cryforhelp.mr.itd.umich.edu (cryforhelp.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.93.144]) by smtp.eecs.umich.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBOFioav018973; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:44:50 -0500 Received: FROM wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) BY cryforhelp.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 41CC37B6.CF7F4.16347 ; 24 Dec 2004 10:37:27 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so170426wra for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:37:26 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pBn4+oxSyQkiA9OnFX+7ko9X6Eg17W/R2lM45yA5/M3bipfVtWzXS88F3Nzo7UbYxpCwOAxdiWDrhOPq6JHgX+crM6EnOisKBXA4q28ZBEjeSpRKIVDbNagutPxNpIr05HJDFVDO5bDlFr+6/awsfvzksYwiGGUV+m+mkBJvNHg= Received: by 10.54.35.71 with SMTP id i71mr70836wri; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:37:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.41.77 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:37:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Reply-To: Brian Renaud Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 141.213.4.43 Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:37:26 -0500 To: improvetheworld Æ umich.edu From: Brian Renaud Subject: charities Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 55 This group (Heifer International) was mentioned on NPR the other night. They seem to do a relatively efficient job of turning money into into something that enables people/communities to step up from abysmal poverty. (Not that I'm necessarily against providing food or goods directly in emergencies, but that sort of safety net typically further disrupts the economies of subsistence/low tech agrarian communities.) http://catalog.heifer.org/start_order.cfm (You can now return to your regularly scheduled political discourse.) -Brian