Giving Back
Acupuncture Denver is proud to support many worthy charitable organizations and devotes a significant portion of its profits to philanthropy every year. Part of our philosophy of practicing gratitude includes sharing our abundance with others, especially women and children in need. Some of the non-profits we regularly support are included below.
Mudula Water is a partnership between adoptive families and Children's
Home Society and Family Services to raise funds and develop a water
scheme to deliver clean, safe water to Mudula and the surrounding areas.
This cause is near and dear to our hearts, since Ezra was born in
Mudula and still has birth family living there. Acupuncture Denver
contributed $1000 to this project in December 2010.
International Child Welfare is division of the Children's Home Society & Family Services that
provides international adoption programs and other outreach efforts to
help vulnerable children in need. Acupuncture Denver sponsors an HIV
positive child in the AHOPE community outreach program every year. For
just $365 per year, this sponsorship funds one child's education,
medical treatment, and care so that they get the vital support that they
need.
Pathfinder International: An organization that supports reproductive health and family planning all around the world. We regularly support pathfinder in their efforts to promote family planning, train lay midwives and ensure access to women's healthcare around the world.
Heifer International is an
organization whose mission is to work with communities to end hunger
and poverty and care for the earth. Acupuncture Denver gives "in honor"
gifts from Heifer every Holiday. This year, we gave a "Flock of Hope" in
honor of one of our favorite physicians.
The Girl Effect:
Powerful social and economic change can be brought about when girls
have the opportunity to participate. We doonate to causes that
support education, family planning, and empowering women and
girls through Globalgiving.org.
CARE: A
leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty, with
a special focus on working alongside poor women to improve basic
education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and
sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources.
Amnesty International:
A worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally
recognized human rights for all. Their mission is to conduct research
and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and
to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated. Acupuncture
Denver maintains a membership with Amnesty International yearly.
Orgyen Khamdroling is a non-profit organization that fundraises for select projects that
support the culture and the spiritual tradition of Tibet, including
sponsoring Tibetan children living in rural parts of the Amdo province
to attend school.
Acupuncture
Denver makes regular monthly contributions to this organization to
support their projects and the development of Buddhist center here in Colorado.
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Located in Montgomery, Alabama, SPLC is internationally known for its
tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white
supremacists and its tracking of hate groups. Acupuncture Denver
maintains a membership yearly to support SPLC.
UNICEF's
mission is to provide special protection for the most disadvantaged
children in the world: victims of war, disasters, extreme poverty, all forms of
violence and exploitation, and those with disabilities