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Smart Consumer Tips (Consumer) -- It's the fast, fun and free way to learn vital consumer tips -- knowledge that can powerfully enhance your health, safety and financial freedom. They'll be clearly explained to you by a responsible consumer advocate, so you won't have to search and dig for them. With the free Special Report "The World's Best Consumer Tips" you can quickly pick up a great deal of essential consumer know-how. Discover the top twelve medically proven keys to good health. Find out surprisingly easy steps to help you squash those high energy bills. Would you like to find out the 25 worst consumer mistakes that each year tragically sabotage the lives of millions? Uncover them all now so you can be sure you never make them. Plus five more benefit-packed tipsheets!
The Dollar Stretcher (Conserve) -- The Dollar Stretcher is for those of us who are interested in `Living Better...for Less'. Over 200,000 readers receive their newsletters and another 40,000 people visit the website each week.
Its goal is to provide you with useful ways to make the most of your money and time. Practical ideas that you can put to use right away. It also offers a monthly print newsletter for those involved with a group teaching money management and budgeting principles.
SmartFinancialTips.com (Finance) -- As a Certified Financial Planner and Registered Investment Advisor, Mark has
helped hundreds of families simplify their financial life. He spends hours
and hours and invests thousands of dollars annually updating his financial knowledge and refining his planning expertise to give his clients the abundance, financial independence and peace of mind they seek.
FunBrain.com (Education) -- Play interactive, educational games on the Web to improve your math, science, and grammar.
P.A.S.E. Elves (Living) -- Play interactive, educational games on the Web to improve your math, science, and grammar.
QuoteLand.com (Other) -- Searchable collection of famous, funny, inspirational, literary, and romantic quotations. Also features user ratings, quotes for special occasions, and an index of quotes by author.
National Institute on Media and the Family (Other) -- The National Institute on Media and the Family is the world's leading and most respected research-based organization on the positive and harmful effects of media on children and youth. Its MediaWise® movement is being adopted in communities throughout the country to help families make wiser media choices and encourage parents to “Watch What their Kids Watch.”
Quintessential Careers (Career) -- Quintessential Careers is the ultimate career, job, and college site, offering comprehensive free expert career and job-hunting advice (through articles, tools, tips, samples, and tutorials), as well as links to all the best job sites. Special sections for teens, college students, and all other job-seekers (by industry, geography, and job-seeker type) make this site a comprehensive resource for all.
Dynamic Drive (Career) -- Dynamic Drive is recognized by many established sources as the finest DHTML/JavaScript site on the net.
TURN, The Utility Reform Network (Conserve) -- As your utility watchdog, we stand up for consumer rights, affordable rates and a more livable California. For more than 30 years we have challenged California’s powerful energy and telephone companies, saving consumers and small businesses millions, and demanding reliable service and environmentally sound policies. We advocate for better utility policies, provide consumer assistance, and mobilize people statewide to take action for change.
Greener Choices (Conserve) -- GreenerChoices.org, launched on Earth Day 2005 by Consumers Union, is a Web-based initiative to inform, engage, and empower consumers about environmentally-friendly products and practices. GreenerChoices.org offers an accessible, reliable, and practical source of information on buying “greener” products that have minimal environmental impact and meet personal needs.
Consumer World (Consumer) -- Consumer World is a public service, non-commercial guide with over 2000 of the most useful consumer resources. Edgar has been a consumer advocate for 29 years. He is a consumer lawyer who has authored a number of consumer protection laws, including the regulations under which the Massachusetts Lemon Law operates. Edgar is a former Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General in consumer protection, and was a consumer education consultant for the Federal Trade Commission.
TroubleShooter.com (Consumer) -- The Troubleshooter Network was created by Tom Martino to disseminate all of the valuable information gathered by Tom, his staff, trusted experts and listeners. While Tom’s radio shows are at the heart of this effort, troubleshooter.com features a wealth of consumer information plus ReferralList.com, listing pre-screened and monitored merchants and service professionals. The Troubleshooter HelpCenter is where friendly consumer counselors provide all of the same information and referrals by telephone and give direct help in solving consumer problems or answering consumer questions.
Education Consumers Clearinghouse (Education) -- The Education Consumers ClearingHouse is a subscriber supported, online forum that serves as a kind of Consumers Union for the consumers of public education. It affords subscribers an opportunity to consider education issues from a consumer's point of view. Subscribers participate by asking questions, posting information and opinion, searching the archives, or participating in the various discussions.
The Clearinghouse helps education consumers network with their fellows, experts, stay informed, discuss issues, participate in local groups, and find consumer-friendly educational experts.
Childbirth Connection (Health) -- hildbirth Connection promotes safe, effective, and satisfying care that is consistent with the best scientific research. It helps women, health professionals, policymakers, and the media understand the best available research, take steps to make care more consistent with the best research, and fill in gaps in knowledge about safe and effective maternity care. They support improved clinical decision making and changes in policy and education to ensure that childbearing women have access to high-quality care.
InCharge Foundation (Finance) -- InCharge® Education Foundation, Inc. is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational products, services and research supporting the personal financial literacy of consumers across America. They develop a variety of innovative personal finance tools, from content-rich magazines and websites to print, CD- and web-based educational programs and more, to meet the needs of unique groups of consumers.
Psych Central (Health) -- Psych Central is the Internet's largest and oldest mental health social network created and run by mental health professionals to guarantee reliable, trusted information and support communities to consumers, for over 12 years. We are the exclusive online partner with Mental Health America, the nation's oldest and largest non-profit organization devoted to helping all people live mentally healthier lives.
RealEstateABC.com (Home) -- RealEstateABC.com candidly informs homebuyers and home sellers about the real world of real estate, without puff, hype or sensationalism. There is a quality-focused Agent Directory and the Home Values tool. The Home Values tool helps consumers with the central mystery of buying or selling a home, "what is it worth?" By providing an estimate of value of the selected property based on recent home sales. Their "how to" guides appear on over 30,000 real estate web sites.
NeighborWorks America (Home) -- NeighborWorks® America, local NeighborWorks organizations and Neighborhood Housing Services of America make up the NeighborWorks system, which has successfully built healthy communities since 1978. Together, with national and local partners, NeighborWorks creates new opportunities for residents while improving communities.
This national network of more than 240 community-based organizations in 50 states is involved in creating healthy communities through the work of thousands of residents, business people, government officials and other partners.
Mr. Good Man (Living) -- MrGoodMan.com was designed to provide you with the benefit of their years of insights in the most direct way possible, without wasting your time. They produce various electronic guides (e-Books), electronic courses (e-Courses) and write tons of articles.
Their goal is to assist you to figure out who you are, what you want out of life, what makes you happy, and help you to identify, meet, keep and love a good man or good woman.
Humane Society USA (Nature) -- The Humane Society of the United States is the nation’s largest animal protection organization representing nearly 10 million members and constituents. The non-profit organization maintains programs supporting companion animals and equine protection, disaster preparedness and response, wildlife and habitat protection, animals in research and farm animal welfare. The HSUS protects all animals through education, investigation, litigation, legislation, advocacy, and field work.
They work to reduce suffering and to create meaningful social change for animals by advocating for public policies to protect animals, investigating cruelty and working to enforce existing laws, educating the public about the issues, and conducting hands-on programs, such as assisting animals when disasters strike.
Union of Concerned Scientists (Nature) -- The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.
What began as a collaboration between students and faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 is now an alliance of more than 200,000 citizens and scientists. UCS members are people from all walks of life: parents and businesspeople, biologists and physicists, teachers and students. Our achievements over the decades show that thoughtful action based on the best available science can help safeguard our future and the future of our planet.
International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (Safety) -- The ICPHSO was founded in 1993 as an organization dedicated to addressing health and safety issues related to consumer products marketed globally. ICPHSO is the only organization which attracts an international membership of health and safety professionals who meet annually to exchange ideas, share information, and take leadership roles in addressing health and safety concerns affecting all consumers.
ICPHSO members represent government agencies (local, state, federal, international), manufacturers, importers, retailers, certification/testing laboratories, law firms, academia, standards writing organizations, media, and consumer advocacy groups.
Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (Safety) -- Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) is a consumer-led nonprofit organization formed to be a collective voice for individuals, families and healers who wish to prevent harm in healthcare encounters through partnership and collaboration. CAPS is committed to exploring and contributing the wisdom and experience that consumers can offer to patient safety research, education of both consumers and providers, reporting of bad outcomes and near misses, development and implementation of solutions that can prevent harm, and policy making that will help create healthcare systems that are safe, compassionate and just.
Health, Safety and Financial Freedom For All (Finance) -- It's the fast, free way to learn vital consumer tips, knowledge that can powerfully enhance your health, safety and financial freedom. These tips that took us hundreds of hours to research, you can learn in just minutes.
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