Charities Castle RuMar Supports

COVID-19 Memorial dedicated to preserving the memories of all lost to the pandemic worldwide starting in 2019

https://CV19M.org

 COVID-19 Memorial 501 (c) (3) nonprofit

 DUKE LEMUR CENTER founded in 1966 on the campus of Duke University in Durham, NC, the Duke Lemur Center is a world leader in the study, care, and protection of lemurs—Earth’s most threatened group of mammals.

With more than 200 animals across 14 species, the DLC houses the world’s largest and most diverse population of lemurs outside their native Madagascar.

To advance science, scholarship, and biological conservation through non-invasive research, community-based conservation, and public outreach and education

https://lemur.duke.edu

World Central Kitchen uses the power of food to support communities in need around the world. 

Founded in 2010 by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a nonprofit organization that is first to the frontlines providing fresh meals in response to crises, while working to build resilient food systems with locally led solutions. Applying our model of quick action, leveraging local resources, and adapting in real time, WCK has served more than 200 million nourishing meals around the world.

When disaster strikes, WCK’s Relief Team mobilizes with the urgency of now to start cooking and serving meals to people in need. By partnering with organizations on the ground and activating a network of local restaurants, food trucks, or emergency kitchens, WCK serves comforting meals to survivors of disasters quickly and effectively. To support regional economies, WCK prioritizes purchasing local ingredients to cook with or distribute directly to families in need.

WCK knows that good food provides not only nourishment, but also comfort and hope, especially in times of crisis.

https://wck.org

©2022 World Central Kitchen

501(c)3 nonprofit

 MusiCares provides a safety net of critical health and welfare services to the music community in three key areas:

Mental Health & Addiction Recovery Services: Support, referrals, and emergency financial assistance for counseling, psychiatric care, inpatient treatment, coaching, intensive outpatient care, sober living and more.

Health Services: Financial assistance during medical crises and preventive services such as dental and medical screenings, hearing clinics, vocal health workshops, and assistance obtaining low-cost health insurance.

Human Services: Support for basic living expenses like rent, utilities, car payments and insurance premiums in times of hardship, plus programs addressing affordable housing, career development, legal issues and senior services.

MISSION

MusiCares helps the humans behind music because music gives so much to the world.

https://www.musicares.org

 As the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service, the National Park Foundation generates private support and builds strategic partnerships to protect and enhance America’s national parks for present and future generations.

Chartered by Congress in 1967, the National Park Foundation is rooted in a legacy that began more than a century ago, when private citizens from all walks of life took action to establish and protect our national parks. Today, the National Park Foundation carries on that tradition as the only national charitable nonprofit whose mission is to directly support the National Park Service.

https://www.nationalparks.org/

© 2022 National Park Foundation

The National Park Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Tax identification number: 52-1086761.

The Elton John AIDS Foundation funds frontline partners to prevent infections, fight stigma and provide treatment with love, compassion and dignity fo

The Elton John AIDS Foundation was established in 1992 and is one of the leading independent AIDS organizations in the world. The Foundation’s mission is simple: to be a powerful force in the end to the AIDS epidemic. Elton John Foundation is committed to no more discrimination. No more HIV infections. No more AIDS deaths. No matter who or where you are.

We believe AIDS can be beaten. But only if everyone at risk of HIV, no matter who they are or where they have access to the non-discriminatory HIV information and compassionate care that allow them to stay healthy and safe and live with dignity.

https://www.eltonjohnaidsfoundation.org

Providing Support for Communities Affected by Industrial Accidents - Clean Futures Fund  

The Clean Futures Fund raises awareness and provides international support for communities affected by industrial accidents and long-term remedial activities.

 We identify and finance humanitarian aid projects and the exchange of information and experiences from affected communities in order to support long-term remedial activities around the world.

We are currently focusing our efforts on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, the site of the world’s largest nuclear disaster.

https://www.cleanfutures.org/

©2022 Clean Futures Fund

501(c)3 nonprofit

 Operation USA is a Los Angeles-based international disaster relief and development agency helping communities at home and abroad overcome the effects of disasters, disease, violence and endemic poverty. 

 Operation USA is a hands-on agency with a small, dedicated staff overseeing our projects and disaster response work. Free of the bureaucracy and overhead of a larger organization, creative solutions allow us to respond to real needs in real time. As Founding Board member Julie Andrews says, “Operation USA is the little ship that gets in the harbor where the big ships cannot go.” 

https://www.opusa.org

 When a child is diagnosed with cancer, it impacts your whole family. The Valerie Fund makes sure all the children get treated with the most comprehensive care, close to home.

MISSION

 The Valerie Fund's mission is to provide individualized care to children at medical centers close to home, because they believe the most effective way to heal the children in our care is to treat them emotionally, socially and developmentally, as well as medically. 

https://www.thevaleriefund.org

©2022 Valerie Fund

501(c)3 nonprofit

 Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming, advocate for institutional reforms. 

Farm Sanctuary fights the disastrous effects of animal agriculture on animals, the environment, social justice, and public health through rescue, education, and advocacy. 

https://www.farmsanctuary.org

 Hockhockson Farm Foundation and Hey Friend Foundation, is a collaborative organization. Our mission is to unite community leaders and other like-minded organizations to better serve communities in need and alleviate nutrition insecurity. Together they can facilitate interest and access to healthy, sustainable, and kind food options. 

Their programs provide educational outreach that supports whole food plant-based nutrition, food justice initiatives, and the prevention of cruelty to animals. 

The foundation’s programming, events, and animal sanctuary at The Hey Friend Foundation provide opportunities to give back and spotlight leading-edge advances in health, nutrition, and food systems. We must work to make good nutrition available to all. A healthy life doesn’t come at the expense of another’s.

https://heyfriendfoundation.org

  501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to promoting healthy, sustainable, & kind living.  

One Tree Planted is an environmental charity, they are on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees!

As an environmental charity, One Tree Planted is dedicated to making it easier for individuals and businesses to give back to the environment, create a healthier climate, protect biodiversity and help reforestation efforts around the world. All by planting trees!

Started in 2014, One Tree Planted has more than doubled the number of trees planted year over year. Fast-forward to today, we now work with awesome reforestations partners in North America, South America, Asia, and Africa who help them get trees in the ground to restore forests after fires and floods, create jobs, build communities, and protect habitat for biodiversity.

https://onetreeplanted.org

One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3) non-profit