Lima Cares
Lima Gives Back
Lima Beads customers have been helping us support charities since 2004. When you place an order at Lima Beads, you'll notice the option to choose a charity at the bottom of your shopping cart. Lima Beads will donate a portion of the profit from your order to the charity you select. This does not add any cost to your order -- we just like to let our customers decide where our charitable donations should go. You are the reason we're here and the reason we're in a position to help others. Thank You!
These 5 charities will be the 2009 Lima Beads Giving Back charities that will appear on the shopping cart. Starting this year, we plan to select 5 new charities each January.
Who We Support:
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital is not a community hospital - it is a hospital for all communities. Mott is the only children's hospital in Michigan to take care of patients from all 83 counties, as well as children from across the United States and the world. But our care and compassion extend beyond the walls of our hospitals and health centers. Because prevention is just as important as the delivery of quality care, Mott faculty and staff make it a priority to be involved in initiatives that contribute to increasing health awareness and safety in families' daily lives. "This isn't something "extra" that we do... It's an extension of our commitment to the health and safety of all children, and it's part of the Michigan Difference."
Every day, University of Michigan scientists are developing the next generation of therapies for children...and Mott patients are among the first to benefit from these discoveries.
Their clinical research - the most funded pediatric research in the state - has improved outcomes for childhood cancer, led to better treatment for premature infants with lung disease, and advanced non-surgical therapy for problems that used to require open heart operations. In addition, the UM researchers formed one of the very few units in the country that conducts pediatric health services studies that shape state and national health care policy.
Food Gatherers exists to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes in our community by: reducing food waste through the rescue and distribution of perishable and non perishable food; coordinating with other hunger relief providers; educating the public about hunger; and developing new food resources.
Food Gatherers is not only Michigan's first food rescue program, but the first program of its kind to be founded by a for-profit business, our own Zingerman's Delicatessen. In 1997, Food Gatherers also assumed responsibility for the county food bank. Today, it is an independent 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization governed by a board of directors and operated by 15 staff people and 4,500 different dedicated volunteers. Food Gatherers is now the primary distributor of food in Washtenaw County.
Food Gatherers glean surplus food from more than 300 sources such as restaurants like Tio's Southwestern Cafe, food retailers like Busch's Family Markets, food wholesalers like Gordon's Food Service and dormitories like Eastern Michigan University's Dining Services. Through the food bank system, locally we are networked to extensive state food donation and nationally, through America's Second Harvest, we are connected to large corporate donors such as Kraft, ConAgra and Kellogg. Then there are people like you who donate canned items, food from gardens, dry goods and money. Food Gatherers exists because of the generosity and caring of many individuals in the community!
Food Gatherers provides enough food for more than 7,500 meals a day. Food Gatherers brings the food to more than 150 community programs serving our neighbors - mostly families and children, in need of food. The agencies receiving our food include St. Andrews Breakfast Program, Dawn Farm, Salvation Army, SOS Community Services and Hope Clinic.
Hope Clinic provides compassionate and practical help to those in need. We offer medical care and dental care to the uninsured, plus a variety of social services to minister to the whole person.
Hope Clinic, an interdenominational Christian organization, provides compassionate and practical help to those in need, ministering to the whole person with dignity and respect. They provide a broad range of services:
Hope Medical Clinic provides free medical services to low income children and adults without medical insurance.
Hope Dental Clinic provides preventative and restorative dental care to low income children and adults without dental insurance.
Hope Social Services provides other basic services including 10,000 hot meals and groceries to more than 1,700 households a year
Sasha Farm - Along a quiet back road in rural southeast Michigan rests a farm on 65 acres of rolling land. The smell of new-mown hay hangs in the air as a rooster crows to welcome the day. The verdant hillside pasture becomes a playland for the horses and donkeys, goats and sheep. Cows graze on fresh green grass while pigs wallow lazily in puddles of mud. Dogs run freely and have fun chasing each other around the huge fenced-in yard. Cats have their choice of cozy places to curl up inside the massive barns. Everything is soothing, safe and secure for all the residents at this pastoral countryside sanctuary. The mission of SASHA Farm is to provide a safe and secure environment, lifetime care and medical treatment for unwanted, neglected, misused, and abused farmed and domestic animals, as well as fostering through education a better understanding of these animals.
SASHA Farm is the Midwest's largest farm animal sanctuary. At our shelter, not only do we provide food and water, veterinary care and a roof over their heads, we also give the animal residents affection, social interaction with others of their own species, and a sense of security.
SASHA's founders, Dorothy Davies and Monte Jackson, started saving animals a couple decades ago. Among the first bunch was a nine-month-old pet shop puppy that a family had purchased, but couldn't appropriately care for. A female Border Collie/Spaniel mix with a white tip on the end of her tail, she quickly worked her way into Monte's and Dorothy's hearts. She was the farm dog in charge of it all, keeping tabs on every other animal that came to live at the farm over the years.
Sasha was a wonderful canine companion, a true friend, who lived and loved for 17 years. In honor and in memory of this beloved dog, her caretakers chose to name their sanctuary "SASHA Farm." The name SASHA is also an acronym for the animal rescue operation - Sanctuary And Safe Haven for Animals.
The sanctuary currently shelters over 200 animals, each with its own story to tell. Some were dumped and discarded, some left to die. They have come from unhappy circumstances, often mistreated or neglected, but now have a safe, permanent home at SASHA Farm.
Women Thrive develops, shapes, and advocates for policies that foster economic opportunity for women living in poverty. They focus on making U.S. international assistance and trade programs prioritize women. They bring together a diverse coalition of over 50 organizations and 25,000 individuals united in the belief that women are the key to ending global poverty, and empowering them is not only right, it's also the most effective long-term solution to world poverty.
Women are at the greatest risk of being poor worldwide. Research and experience have shown that women in poor countries are more likely to use their income for food, healthcare, and education for their children, helping to lift entire communities out of poverty. Their work ensures that U.S. policy is addressing the barriers women face and supporting women's efforts to find their own path out of poverty.
"When you teach a woman to fish, everyone eats"
