It might sound cheesy but we feel the grate-est gift you could give us is your company at our wedding! However, if you happen to have some cash burning a hole in your pocket, we’d love it if you gave a small donation (or even feta, a big ol slice) to a charity who's work we believe in.
- It's where we got Pretzel. Donate if you love dogs!
Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
- It's where we got Starbuck. Donate if you love cats!
- This really cool charity teaches inmates to train and socialize at-risk shelter dogs, enabling the doggos to become highly desirable for adoption as well as creating real-world employment opportunities for the program's inmates upon parole. By rescuing each other, both human and canine graduates of the New Leash program can look ahead to a bright and successful future!
City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
- The nation’s largest public art program (woot woot! Go Philly!), providing unique, project-based learning opportunities for thousands of youth and adults. These guys are dedicated to the belief that art ignites change!
- Publicolor helps at risk students transform their schools from dull institutions into brightly colored, safe workspaces that make them feel empowered! Publicolor also tutor students all year long, helping them to successfully attend college. How cool is that?!
Philadelphia School Partnership
- Investing money in Philadelphia's schools (public as well as charter), specifically educator training and development, and parent empowerment. Donate if you feel passionately about educating America's youngsters!
- This Philadelphia charity starts by housing people directly from the streets, without precondition. Then Pathways addresses their underlying issues around mental health, addiction, medical care, income, and education to help integrate and welcome them back into the community. Donate to help the homeless!
- NOW MORE THAN EVER IT IS IMPORTANT TO DONATE TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD! Your support would mean so much to Genevieve (and frankly all women).
- These guys do SO MUCH! They work to fight hate by monitoring hate groups and other extremists throughout the United States and expose their activities. They promote tolerance by producing and distributing an array of anti-bias resources to educators. And they tirelessly seek justice, standing up for the powerless, the exploited and other victims of discrimination through litigation in the areas of children's rights, economic justice, immigrant justice, LGBT Rights, and Criminal Justice Reform. Donate if you care deeply about social justice!
- A charity particularly dear to Jack, who spent time working with death row inmates in Georgia.
- PLA is dedicated to helping those who cannot afford legal counsel navigate the legal system and understand and safeguard their rights. For 20 years it has provided Philadelphians, 30% of which live below the federal poverty level, with legal assistance crucial to protecting their homes, children, and livelihoods. Legal Aid rules.
- This charity is focused on preventing gun violence across the country by educating the public about the nation's gun violence epidemic, exposing the lethal activities of the firearms industry and gun lobby, and advocating for effective solutions.
- The Innocence Project exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. DNA testing has exonerated more than 350 innocent people in the United States – and others are still waiting for justice.
- Through its fierce independence, impartiality, and neutrally, Doctors Without Borders works to provide the best possible medical aid where it's needed.
- A revival of Martin Luther King's 1968 Poverty Campaign, The Poor People's Campaign seeks to engage America in mass nonviolent moral direct action, believing we must no longer be silent on the war on the poor. Donate or even better, participate!