Looking for an exceptionally worthwhile charity to support this year? Check out the Foundation Beyond Belief, which is officially launching today. Founder Dale McGowan, the author of Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers, started Foundation Beyond belief with the following goals.
To demonstrate humanism at its best by supporting efforts to improve this world and this life; to challenge humanists to embody the highest principles of humanism, including mutual care and responsibility; and to help and encourage humanist parents to raise confident children with open minds and compassionate hearts.
The Foundation features ten charitable organizations each quarter focusing on a number of different areas such as health, education, poverty, child welfare, human rights, etc. When you join and contribute, you determine where your contribution should go (among the ten charities for that quarter). At the end of the quarter, all the donations are distributed and a new set of charities is selected. [...]
Becoming the father of my daughter was a pretty big moment in my life. Ok, that’s an understatement. It was the big moment in my life, and the great thing about it is that it continues to be the big moment in my life. Becoming a parent gives you a wonderful perspective change regarding your life and the lives around you. I supposed it’s not so much a change as an expansion. It’s the one thing that I didn’t expect before my daughter Megan was born.
