Compassion
The world presents some of us with good fortune, just as it presents others with great difficulty. If you have been fortunate enough to experience excess in your resources, please consider giving back to worthy causes. I have been personally involved with these wonderful organizations, and would humbly suggest these groups as excellent targets for your generosity and compassion.
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." -Mahatma Gandhi
Cherry Children's Music Outreach
Cherry Children's Music Outreach is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization formed in the spring of 2005 to bring research-based, skill-building, music education to disadvantaged young children in the Metro DC area.
These classes enhance brain development and motor coordination, and foster a joy of music and learning. With more than 10 years of success, our outreach program proudly serves children ages 1.5 to 6 years through class programming in daycare and HEAD START centers that support poverty level and low-income families, and also children ages 3 to 13 years through tuition assistance to performing arts classes/camps. CCMO offers these classes at NO COST to the children OR the centers.
From a pilot program of just 4 classrooms at Martha’s Table in DC in 2005, CCMO now delivers musical education to 900 disadvantaged kids throughout 12 centers in Maryland and the District of Columbia!.
World Peace and Reconciliation
World Peace and Reconciliation (WP&R) is a 501c-3 independent, non-governmental, non-profit, and non-partisan global organization that bolsters the transformation of war-torn communities through the implementation of peace education, Conflict Prevention and Relief for Peace, and the development of Peace Economies and Cultural Development projects. WP&R partners with the local community and existing systems and structures to aid the advancement of a secure environment, and the promotion of Civil Rights, Economic and Social Development.
World Peace and Reconciliation (WP&R) works to bolster the transformation of war-torn communities through the implementation of peace education and the provision of basic needs such as clean water, health, and education. WP&R emphasizes its role as a facilitator and a partner to the teachers, peace education facilitators, local community based organizations, artists, activists and universities.WP&R creates programs in war-torn regions such as Darfur, to teach children to develop an understanding of peace and conflict both on an individual and communal level, so that they can be empowered to become caring citizens who will contribute positively to creating peaceful communities.