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replyforall spotlight on: Petfinder.com Foundation

Monday, March 1st, 2010

hi all,

Meet Petfinder.com Foundation, one of the non-profits representing our defend animal rights cause.

What is the mission of your organization?
We help homeless pets by saving lives through adoption, helping shelters prepare for, and recover from, disaster and working to make shelters across the country more sustainable.

What sets your organization apart from other groups in a similar field?
We solely support animal shelters dedicated to serving the greater good of animal welfare. We provide grant funding to animal organizations to ensure that no pet has to be euthanized for lack of funding.

In what new ways have you reached out to supporters in the last year?
We’ve been really focusing on providing the public with excellent customer service and providing grants to encourage it. This helps ensure the public has the best experience possible, and encourages a positive view of the animal welfare field. We’ve also introduced a Foundation photo store to assist with animal welfare awareness.

Aside from donations, what is the one thing that supporters can do to support your organization’s work?
Donations are always welcome as well as getting the word out about the Foundation. Our best way of supporting our mission to helping homeless pets is by making the community aware of them!

visit Petfinder.com Foundation to find an animal shelter near you and helpful video tips for adopting, training, and caring for your animal.

stay tuned next month for our next profile! email us if you have any questions to include for any of our partner orgs.

thanks for your continued support,

the replyforall team

Tags: Adoption, animal rights, Animal shelter, Animal welfare, Petfinder.com Foundation, Replyforall
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Foie Gras the Faux Pas

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Survey Results Petri Pork Well, the results are in! Two weeks ago we surveyed our users to find out if they would eat lab-grown pork, and if they supported cosmetics testing on human skin cells. Over half of our users believe that they would maybe try Petri Pork, citing that if it tastes good, why not? One respondent even wrote, “We eat produce that’s been genetically modified-is this such a stretch?” Very true– who can forget about the strawberries with fish DNA? When it comes to cosmetics testing, 91% of our survey respondents support the use of human skin cells in place of animals.

This week, we wanted to tell you about some legislation going through a couple of states. First, if you’ve been following replyforall on Facebook, you may have seen a post we published about Leona Lewis, who refused to perform at a British awards show until they took Foie Gras off the menu.

Now, in Hawaii, a bill hopes to ban the dish completely from the state. Foie gras, french for “fat liver,” depends on force feeding ducks and geese several times a day until they develop liver disease. This causes the liver to swell up to ten times their normal size; and yes, that is the delicacy people pay so much money to eat.

Some food bloggers, including former pastry chef Edward T. Morita, says the force feeding isn’t cruel, citing that “ducks and geese don’t have a gag reflex, so it doesn’t bother them at all.” Regardless of the force feeding, is he implying that liver disease isn’t painful?

Hawaii isn’t the first state to take this legislative step to protect the rights of geese and ducks in factory farms. California has passed a ban to take effect in 2012– this coming from a state where half of the US production of foie gras takes place. Even Chicago voted to ban the dish, but it was repealed just two years later.

What do you think? Take our quick poll below!

Fight the Good Fight,

Johanna Hudgens

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Most captive parakeets die within 2 years of birth, compared to 8 in the wild, usually due to negligence.

By using this email signature, Johanna and ASPCA provided an hour of protective services for 47 animals.

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End the horror of foie gras (thepetitionsite.com)
Britain Embraces Faux Gras, An Alternative To Unethical Delicacy (huffingtonpost.com)
Chef criticized for foie gras on menu (cbc.ca)

Tags: animal rights, California, ducks, Factory farming, Foie gras, Force-feeding, geese, Hawaii, Johanna Hudgens, Leona Lewis, Liver, Replyforall
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replyforall spotlight on: Partners in Health

Monday, February 8th, 2010

hi there, everyone!

we’re excited to kick-off the 1st of a new series in which we feature one of our partner organizations each month. quickly skim it to learn a bit more about our partners’ great work!

we kick off with our non-profit partner Partners in Health. they’ve been working in Haiti for over two decades.

What is the mission of your organization?
Partners In Health (PIH) works in 12 countries to deliver quality health care to people and communities devastated by joint burdens of poverty and disease. PIHs work has three goals: to care for patients, to alleviate the root causes of disease, and to share lessons learned around the world.

What sets your organization apart from other groups in a similar field?
First, while our health centers and hospitals provide a full range of medical care, we take a comprehensive view of health, which includes programs that address potable water, nutrition, housing, and education. Second, we invest in both the public health infrastructure by accompanying Ministries of Health in their activities, and in the local workforce by relying on paid and trained community health workers in the countries where we work. Lastly, PIH stands out because of our extremely low overhead rate: 94% of every dollar raised goes directly to our programs around the world.

What’s the context for PIH’s presence in Haiti?

For more than 20 years, PIH has been providing vital health care services in Haitis Central Plateau and Artibonite Valley. Working alongside the Ministry of Health to serve a catchment area of 1.2 million people, PIH has become one of the largest health care providers in the country. PIH already had more than 100 doctors, 600 nurses, and a total of 4,000 employees on the ground in Haiti working from 12 existing PIH medical facilities in Haiti before the earthquake struck.

In what new ways have you reached out to supporters in the last year?
We have been working extensively with our supporters to help them form Communities of Concern, supporter-driven groups that raise awareness and funds for PIHs work around the world. We have also released online tools that allow our supporters to initiate personalized fundraising campaigns, connect with other advocates and PIH supporters, and communicate with PIH staff. Learn more at http://act.pih.org.

Aside from donations, what is the one thing that supporters can do to support your organization’s work?
Stay informed and raise awareness:

· Friend us on Facebook

· Follow us on Twitter

· Join our mailing list

stay tuned next month for our next profile! email us if you have any questions to include for any of our partner orgs.

thanks for your continued support,

the replyforall team

Tags: Haiti, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Partners in Health, provide clean water, Replyforall
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Tech alternatives to testing, eating animals

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Cruelty is a big topic when considering the rights of our animal friends, and science seems to be taking the lead over legislation. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in US v. Stevens that selling videos of dog fights and animal brutality and such is completely protected under our First Amendment rights. (For the record, dogfighting is illegal in all 50 states and a felony in most. The message here: apparently it’s not okay to harm animals, but if you just so happen to have video of the heinous crime, it’s totally fine to sell it for a profit.) This is going on at the same time New Zealand is working to toughen penalties for those who harm animals.

Luckily, it looks like science is making some forward strides in animal rights when it comes to cosmetic testing and what I like to call Petri Pork. Both take the animal out of the situation and use cells instead. L’Oreal helped to fund research at the Hurel Corp. to create technology that uses lab-grown human skin cells. There’s still a long way to go to make sure that the results are accurate, but if so, mice and guinea pigs could be spared. That’s huge, since it’s estimated that 50 to 100 million vertebrate animals are used for testing each year (almost all die, either from the testing or euthanasia). Is it worth it to manipulate human cells if it means sparing the lives of millions of animals?

What about stem cells? Scientists in the Netherlands have developed a way to use the stem cells of pigs to grow meat in a petri dish. They believe that, once embraced, the practice could alleviate world hunger, save the lives of pigs, and offer a green solution to raising livestock. The only question is, who will eat Petri Pork? While factory farming isn’t all that natural, either, meat from a petri dish may be a hard sell… what do you think? Take our poll at the bottom of this page!

If you have any news that you’d like to see shared with our replyforall users, email Johanna with your article, video, or link! We’d love to hear from you.

Fight the Good Fight,

Johanna Hudgens

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To make foie gras birds are force-fed huge amounts of food, leading to enlarged livers & internal damage.

By using this email signature, Johanna and ASPCA provided an hour of protective services for 19 animals.

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Court takes up free-speech case of pit bull videos (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Lawmakers Forced to Choose Between Welfare of Budget, Animals (takepart.com)
Animal welfare victories prompt farmers’ PR moves (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Food and Feelings: Animals and the Ethics Behind Eating (replyforall.com)

Tags: animal research, animal rights, animal testing, Animal welfare, Factory farming, Johanna Hudgens, New Zealand, pig stem cells, protect animal rights, Replyforall, United States
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Supporting Haiti with replyforall

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

This morning, a 6.1 aftershock quake hit Port-au-Prince. While families search for food, water, and missing people, replyforall keeps Haiti in the forefront of our thoughts.

Americans are showing that little by little, individual actions are making a difference. After last Tuesday’s devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti, over $200 million have been raised through texts, calls, and mail. And over $22 million was raised for the Red Cross through ten dollar donations made by texting “HAITI” to 90999.

Our nonprofit partner, Partners In Health, has been on the ground in Haiti for over 20 years. PIH co-founder, Paul Farmer, wrote an op-ed in the Miami Herald about what can be done right now to best help the survivors in Haiti, because “there are lessons to be learned from our efforts, not always honorable or effective, to help Haiti over the past two centuries. This can change and must do so, if we are to be real partners in responding to this latest misfortune.”

One of Farmer’s suggestions was not to give in-kind donations, but financial ones. We know that small amounts can make a huge difference, and we are urging our replyforall users to do their part by sending emails. One thing that is needed by the earthquake survivors, and by the PIH doctors who are caring for them, is clean water. Your clean water cause signature raises donations for Partners In Health (and Engineers without Borders) with every email you send.

And you’ll notice that, in our sponsor section of the signature, there is a link for your email recipients to learn more about how to help Partners In Health in their relief efforts in Haiti. It’s important that we do as much as we can, as soon as we can. So if you can donate, text GIVE to 25383 to donate $10 to Partners in Health. If you can’t donate, please put out the word through your emails for others who can!

You can also keep up with what Partners In Health is doing in Haiti by following them on Twitter, @PIH_org.

Fight the Good Fight,

Johanna Hudgens

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1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation.

By using this email signature, Johanna and Partners In Health provided an hour of clean water for 846 people.

If Haiti is to `build back better’ (3quarksdaily.com)
Local donors dig deep for quake victims (windsorstar.com)
Haiti devastation emerges (theworld.org)

Tags: Caribbean, clean water, Earthquake, Haiti, Johanna Hudgens, Miami Herald, Partners in Health, Paul Farmer, Port-au-Prince, Replyforall
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Check out our new Facebook App!

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

replyforall has developed a new and easy way to share your support for causes and your personal impact. Now you can share your mission to those beyond your email. With the help of our very own Facebook application, your impact will be posted on your newsfeed. It’ll look something like this:

replyforall facebook app

It is super easy! You’ll probably see one or two posts a month– only for important milestones. You’ll be sharing facts with your friends about the cause you support, sure to spark awareness and understanding of the issues our world communities face.

Enable the application today and show the world your cause and your impact!

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thank you for your help to end human trafficking

Monday, October 12th, 2009

replyforall wants to send a quick shout-out to all of our users to say thank you for supporting children rights. With our nonprofit partner, Polaris Project, we are working to end the second largest criminal industry in the world. One day our children will no longer suffer abuses of long hours on an assembly line, or walk the streets in search of money, but rather go to school, play kick ball, color family pictures, and do all the other things that children are supposed to enjoy.

Thank you for your emails this month with the Protect Children’s Rights signature, and for all of your interactions on our Facebook page and Twitter account. For our users, it looks that the free replyforall signature is just the beginning of our efforts to end human trafficking.

You can continue your support for this cause by checking the Polaris Project Action Center page, which will tell you what needs to be done immediately to fight human trafficking. There’s everything from calling CA’s governator to sign an anti-trafficking bill or signing a petition to the Department of Labor to release its list of goods made with slave labor.

Please continue to fight the fight, invite your friends, and spread the word with replyforall and Polaris Project to end modern slavery.

Johanna Hudgens

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Among confirmed cases of child maltreatment, 40% involve the use of alcohol or other drugs

By using this email signature, Johanna and Polaris Project provided an hour of abuse recovery services for 13 children.

Choose Slave-Free Products (iflizwerequeen.com)
Slavery By Another Name (timesunion.com)
International Weekend of Prayer and Fasting for Victims of Sexual Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery (cballan.wordpress.com)

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A word from our founder on Ling and Lee

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Today replyforall kicked off its Free Laura and Euna effort, which you may have noticed at the bottom of your emails in your replyforall signature. In addition to a corporate sponsor, the signature is dedicated to the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea, where they have been held since March following their arrest. They have recently been convicted of a “grave crime” against North Korea, and have been sentenced to twelve years hard labor.

Enmi Kendall, the founder of replyforall, is– like many of us– outraged with the sentencing of Ling and Lee. Many grassroots efforts like Facebook causes (51,252 supporters) YouTube (53,752 views) and Twitter are under way creating hundreds of thousands of impressions to support the journalists. We would like to fortify these efforts by donating our email signature to continue to spread the message.

Help replyforall raise awareness about these US journalists through your signature, and sign the petition at Amnesty International.

Thank you again!

Fight the Good Fight,

Johanna Hudgens

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Fewer than 20% of students in Brazil, India, and Paraguay have access to a science laboratory.

Johanna and DonorsChoose.org provided an hour’s worth of school resources for 315 students. What’s replyforall about? Click to learn more »

Tags: Enmi Kendall, Euna Lee, Johanna Hudgens, Laura Ling, North Korea, Replyforall
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Thanks for fighting.

Friday, May 1st, 2009

April is almost over and replyforall is wrapping up our spotlight on the fight against global warming. Thank you to all of the users who joined replyforall or spread the word about us to their friends, family, and coworkers.

With the help of your inviting your friends to join replyforall, we were able to take an additional 4500 kg of CO2 out of our skies!

This month, we’ve seen a new climate bill enter Congress, Obama begin work on a cap-and-trade emissions plan, and the EPA declare CO2 and other greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare. The United States is moving forward to fight global warming and it all starts with individuals like you!

Even though Earth Day and replyforall’s Fight Global Warming month is over, please continue to drive support for sustainability — for every 12 of us that us the fight global warming signature, we can take 500kg of carbon dioxide out of our skies. That’s like taking one car off the road for a month!

Don’t forget to add one of our partner organizations to your signature, too, so everyone can learn about the great work they do in the fight against global warming!

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thank you water supporters!

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

in March, we encouraged you to support our efforts to provide clean water. we are happy to report back that we will now be able to build 2 wells for 2 villages of 2,500 people that will serve clean water for up to 15 years each!

just using your replyforall signature for one month will provide water for 12 people that month.

dont forget to include one of our great partners below in your signature to help spread awareness of the great work they do everyday to provide clean water.

Partners In Health

Student Movement for Real Change USA

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