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The Red Cross (www.redcross.org) - most people recognize the Red Cross as one of the finest organizations helping mankind throughout the world. We hope that
you will join us and give the Red Cross as much financial help as you can give.
Kiva.org - Vic (our founder) loves to make interest free loans to people in developing countries. Vic has made over
1,600
interest-free loans to people in over 35 different countries.
For those of you who wish to join Vic to help fight poverty, but can't afford to do a lot at this time, one option is to sit down at your computer and become a micro-financier as our founder Vic has done.
You can lend as little as $25 each to a farmer in Peru, or a grocery store owner in Ghana, the owner of a TV repair shop in Afghanistan, a baker in Vietnam,
a single mother running a clothing shop in the Dominican Republic, or maybe even loan $25. interest-free to a young dreamer who wants to open up a soda shop in Senegal.
As our founder has done, you can do all of that through www.Kiva.org which is a web site that provides information about entrepreneurs in poor countries. They include their photos, loan proposals and credit histories and allows you to make direct loans to them.
Vic believes in helping others less fortunate than himself to attain their dreams as well.
You can see some who he is helping at: www.Kiva.org/lender/plumbingsupply .
Big Brothers Big Sisters (www.bbbs.org) is a wonderful organization that helps kids that need role models and adult "friends".
Doctors Without Borders (www.doctorswithoutborders.org) - is one of the finest organizations that helps the poor throughout the world. We have chosen them
as one of our primary charities as well.
Shriners Hospitals for Children (www.shrinershq.org) - is also a very fine organization that we give moneys to. April 2008 we received their four-star Gold Book Society award.
El Porvenir (www.elporvenir.org) - few people have heard of this small organization. They help bring fresh water and sanitation to rural Nicaraguan villages.
Since in our business we make our profit from selling plumbing related products, as of October 2001 we have chosen El Porvenir as an organization
that we will give some of our profits to.
"When you consider the contributions that plumbing and sanitation make to the quality of all of our lives,
then much of the other things that we do just seem so much less significant."
- Vic (our Founder) 1995
Other charities that PlumbingSupply Group, LLC has recently
given significant amounts of moneys to:
American Cancer Society
Americares
America's Second Harvest
Unicef - Childrens Fund
Water For People
CASA
Special Olympics (No. Calif.)
Work Training Center For The Handicapped Inc
Rotary International
Red Crescent
US Funds for Unicef (for Tsunami victims)
Foundation For the Children of Haiti
Special Olympics Northern California, Inc.
United Way Of Butte & Glenn Counties
Child Abuse Prevention Center Inc
Boy Scouts Of America National Council - 47 Golden Empire Council
Friends Of The Library - Chico
Chico Creek Nature Center Inc
Butte County Humane Society
Oceana (oceana.org)
Direct Relief International
Population Connection
Bridges to Community
Butte Hospice
Paradise Hospice
Boy and Girls Club
Salvation Army
Rotary International - Chico
Community Living Center
KVIE (public television)
KCHO - KFPR (public radio)
KZFR (public radio - we are currently sponsoring 8 shows)
Oxfam America
United Way
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
The US Committee for UNFPA
Chico Breakfast Lions
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In 2009, even with a depressed economy we
are able to give to charities.
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In 2008 we continued to give all profits of all of our toilet
tank cover sales to charities.
Our founder promised that we would give a minimum of $5,000. per month to charities and
we far exceeded that promise.
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In 2007 we donated ALL of our profits of our sales of toilet tank lids to charities.
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In 2006 we donated enough to buy 100 of LN-4 Prosthetic hands.
see www.ln-4.org
Note that an estimated 500,000 children worldwide have been maimed by land mines.
We hope that you can help the Rotary LN-4 prosthetic project as well.
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2006 - We gave 150 sinks to Chico's Habitat for Humanity.
In addition we gave a lot of money to the Red Cross.
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Year 2005 we gave $15,000. to the Tsunami Relief Funds.
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Year 2004 we gave 120 sinks to Habitat for Humanity
(www.habitat.org) for local Chico, California.
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Year 2003 we gave 15 drinking fountains to the Arizona chapter of
Water for People
(www.water4people.org) for a project in Agua Prieta, Mexico.
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Safe drinking water and basic sanitation facilities are nonexistent for many impoverished people in developing countries.
It is our hope that if you are doing well, that you consider helping others who are less fortunate than you.
The more you share, the more you will have.
If you would like for us to consider your organization - please click here
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