“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

Sites with databases of various opportunities:

• ABC News Be the Change: Save a Life Campaign
  http://saveone.net/
• DoSomething.org
• MU Serves Database of Volunteering Opportunities
  https://muserves.missouri.edu/

Columbia, Missouri opportunities:

• Columbia Raiders Football
• The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri
  http://www.sharefoodbringhope.org/
• Salvation Army Safe Harbor House Emergency Shelter
  http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/06/19/q-inside-look-salvation-army-harbor-house/
• True North of Columbia
  http://www.boonecountysafeshelter.com/
• Voluntary Action Center of Boone County, Missouri
  http://www.vacmo.org/
• Volunteer Columbia– Volunteer Opportunities with the City of Columbia, Missouri http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/Volunteer/index.php

Global charities:

• Nicholas Kristof’s list of international charities
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/opinion/19kristof.html?_r=1

General information about giving:

• Charity ‘ratings’
  http://www.charitywatch.org/
  http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111649/the-best-charities-in-america
• Tips to help the homeless
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cristina-carlino/five-ways-to-change-a-hom_b_798934.html?ref=fb&src=sp
• The Dragonfly Foundation’s I’m Still Me program