Look for the logo - updates - Humane Charity Seal of Approval

If your favorite health charity sports a rabbit logo this season, you'll know your contribution won't go toward funding experiments on animals.

The Washington, DC-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) unveiled its Humane Charity Seal of Approval in August 2002 as a way for organizations to show their support for cruelty-free research. In radio public service announcements, celebrities Ed Asner, Pamelyn Ferdin, Rue McClanahan and Noah Wyle talk about the importance of socially responsible giving.

About her involvement with PCRM, McClanahan, former star of The Golden Girls, told BN, "I always do what I can for PCRM, and this is an easy thing to do."

PCRM administers the Humane Charity Seal of Approval on behalf of the Council on Humane Giving, a coalition of physicians and animal-protection organizations. More than 200 charities have earned the seal. Following is a partial list of charities that have merited the rabbit logo. For a comprehensive list, visit humaneseal.org.

Arthritis

Arthritis Research Institute
  of America                                               727.461.4054

Rheumatoid Disease Foundation                              615.646.1030

Birth Defects

Birth Defect Research for
  Children, Inc.                                           800.313.2232

National Craniofacial Association                           800.3FACES3

Blindness/Visual
Impairment

Foundation for the Junior Blind                            323.295.4555

National Federation of the
  Blind, Inc.                                              410.659.9314

VISIONS/Services for the Blind
  and Visually Impaired                                    888.245.8333

Burns

Children's Burn Foundation                                 818.907.2822

Cancer

A.P. John Institute for Cancer
  Research                                                 203.661.2571

The Cancer Project                                         202.686.2210

Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian
  Cancer Registry                                          800.682.7426

The Lymphoma Foundation
  of America                                               703.875.9800

National Alliance of Breast Cancer
  Organizations                                            888.80.NABCO

Skin Cancer Foundation                                     800.754.6490

United Cancer Research Society                             800.222.1533

Children

Children's Health Environmental
  Coalition                                                609.252.1915

Deaf/Hearing Impaired

Deaf Action Center                                         214.521.0407

League for the Hard of Hearing                             212.741.7650

Disabled

Access to Independence, Inc.                               608.242.2255

Disabled Resource Services                                 970.482.2700

Independence Crossroads                                    612.854.8004

United Amputee Services                                    407.678.2920

HIV/AIDS

Caring for Babies with AIDS                                323.931.9828

Children's Immune Disorder                                 313.837.7800

Design Industries Foundation
  Fighting AIDS                                            212.645.0534

Kidney

American Kidney Fund                                       800.638.8299

Stroke

Palm Springs Stroke Activity
  Center                                                   619.323.7676

Substance Abuse

Family Service Association                                 717.823.5144

Friendly Hand Foundation                                   213.389.9964

Trauma/Injury

Brain Injury Association, Inc.                             703.236.6000

Trauma Foundation                                          415.821.8209

Veterans

Disabled American Veterans                                 859.441.7300

Help Hospitalized Veterans                                 909.926.4500

Miscellaneous

American Fund for Alternatives to
  Animal Research                                          212.989.8073

American Vitiligo Research
  Foundation, Inc.                                         727.461.3899

Heimlich Institute                                         513.559.2391

Thyroid Society                                             800.THYROID

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