Find a charity that speaks to your heart and makes the change in the world you want to see.
Here are a few of my favorites:

The Gathering Place
TouchedByCancer.org
Anyone touched by cancer can walk in the door and have access to free support groups, counseling, yoga, reiki, etc. Yes, everything is free. It���s run entirely on donations.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure:
ww5.komen.org
A great way to help fight breast cancer and unite survivors with hope.

American Cancer Society
cancer.org
If you���d like to help eradicate cancer once and for all, this is the key organization that offers research, education and services that save lives. For anyone diagnosed, it offers great resources to help them -- and you -- cope.

The Jesuit Retreat House
www.jrh-cleveland.org
My spiritual home since 1981. The retreat house offers a wide array of programs and solitude on more than 50 acres for anyone seeking peace and renewal.

The Maryknoll Brothers
My friend Kevin Conroy serves as a Roman Catholic priest in Cambodia helping the Little Sprouts, 250 children orphaned by AIDS. Meet these HIV positive kid at http://bit.ly/4G5VmY To help, make a check out to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. Write "Fr. Kevin Conroy Mission Account" in the memo line.
Mail it to:
Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
P. O. Box 302
Maryknoll, N.Y, 10545.