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• American Institute of Philanthropy - "The American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP) is a nationally prominent charity watchdog service whose purpose is to help donors make informed giving decisions."
  
• Bridging "At Bridging, we collect and distribute donated furniture and household goods that provide our clients with a bed to sleep on, a chair to sit on, and a dish to eat from, which turns their house into a home. Bridging benefits those in desperate need including refugees, immigrants, victims of domestic abuse, natural disasters and the homeless, who are given a sense of dignity and stability as they rebuild their lives. You can help make a world of difference by helping someone establish a new home and a better life."
  
• Catholic Charities - "Catholic Charities is one of the Twin Cities' largest private providers of social services in the Minneapolis and St. Paul metropolitan area."
  
• Charitable Recycling - "The Charitable Recycling Team wants to assist you and the environment by making it easy to dispose of used cell phones. Because cell phones and their batteries contain many hazardous materials that can harm the environment if not disposed of properly, it's important to know how and where to recycle e-waste in an environmentally-responsible way."
  
• Charities Review Council "The Charities Review Council is an independent resource for people who make contributions to support charities. We are dedicated to empowering you in making informed and thoughtful giving decisions, so that you can be more effective in helping charities advance their important community work. No other state has a similar independent resource for donors."
  
• CharityNavigator works to guide intelligent giving. We help charitable givers make intelligent giving decisions by providing information on over five thousand charities and by evaluating the financial health of each of these charities. We ensure our evaluations are widely used by making them easy to understand and available to the public free of charge. By guiding intelligent giving, we aim to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace, in which givers and the charities they support work in tandem to overcome our nation's most persistent challenges.
  Charity Navigator is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization under the Internal Revenue Code and does not accept any contributions from any charities we evaluate.
  
• Disabled American Veterans - "Formed in 1920 and chartered by Congress in 1932, the million-member DAV is the official voice of America's service-connected disabled veterans -- a strong, insistent voice that represents all of America's 2.1 million disabled veterans, their families and survivors. Its nationwide network of services -- free of charge to all veterans and members of their families -- is totally supported by membership dues and contributions from the American public. Not a government agency, the DAV's national organization receives no government funds."
  
• Donate For A Cause is an assumed business name of Project Philanthropy, Inc. a 501(c)(3) District of Columbia not-for-profit organization. Our Tax I. D. or EIN # is 20-4862885. Founded August 2, 2004, Donate For A Cause has raised over $3,000,000.00 for dozens of local and national charities all over the U.S. We are the #1 charity in the United States that focuses solely on converting donated timeshares and turning them into needed revenue for the charities you love.
  
• Epilepsy Foundation "The Epilepsy Foundation will ensure that people with seizures are able to participate in all life experiences; and will prevent, control and cure epilepsy through research, education, advocacy and services."
  
• FREECYCLE™ - The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,864 groups with 7,603,875 members around the world. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them's good people). Membership is free. To sign up, find your community by entering it into the search box above or by clicking on 'Browse Groups' above the search box. Have fun!
  
• GiveMN.org is an innovative online resource that will change the way Minnesotans give and help create a stronger nonprofit community for Minnesota.
  
• Goodwill Industries, you can search here by zip code to find a store near you.
  
• Humane Society for Companion Animals - "Every day we work toward our mission of "Improving Animals Lives--Fostering Human-Animal Bonds" with all of our programs and services. We continue to educate the public about the responsibility and the lifelong commitment needed to care for a companion animal."
  
• The ReUse Center "The ReUse Center's Mission is to Keep Quality Building Materials Out of the Landfill and Make Living Wage Jobs for Phillips and Other Twin Cities' Neighborhoods. Our inventory is procured by donation, and our program is funded by the sale of those materials. We look forward to serving you and the community The ReUse Center's Mission is to Keep Quality Building Materials Out of the Landfill and Make Living Wage Jobs for Phillips and Other Twin Cities' Neighborhoods. Our inventory is procured by donation, and our program is funded by the sale of those materials. We look forward to serving you and the community."
  
• The Salvation Army, Northern Division
       St. Paul Hillcrest
       1654 White Bear Ave.
       651-771-7779
       Donation Hours:
       Monday – Friday
       10 a.m.– 4 p.m.
       Saturdays
       9 a.m.– 3 p.m.
  
       Call for pickup, 612-332-5855
  
• Second Harvest Heartland works to reinvent hunger relief through leadership and innovation. As the Upper Midwest’s largest hunger relief organization, our goal is not only to help our hungry neighbors today, but to provide the means for everyone to be fed tomorrow. We’re known for distributing great amounts of food quickly and efficiently; in 2010 alone, we’ll collect, warehouse and distribute nearly 60 million pounds of food—but we’re also constantly pioneering ways to reduce waste and better use the abundant resources available in this land of plenty.
  
• Steeple People's Surplus Store
       2004 Lyndale Ave South
       Minneapolis, MN 55405-3024
       (612) 871-8305
• Union Gospel Mission (St. Paul) helps people in trouble look beyond the surface facts of their lives. They might be homeless and jobless, in the grips of an addiction to alcohol or other drugs, or carrying the physical and emotional scars of domestic abuse. These facts, while powerful influences which must be dealt with, do not comprise the whole truth. Our approach is to ignite their imaginations, allowing them to see all the possibilities for health, wholeness, and spiritual vitality.
• Union Gospel Mission Twin Cities
  

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