MKB Gives Backmkb gives back We have carefully chosen highly rated charities in an effort to put MKB's funds to the most efficient and productive use --- All of our donations go to four-star organizations as rated by Charity Navigator.org. Approximately 5% of our profits will be donated to the causes listed below. JUMPSTART - Jumpstart is a national early education organization that works toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. Through extraordinary attention in yearlong one-to-one relationships, Jumpstart inspires children to learn, adults to teach, families to get involved, and communities to progress together. Headquartered in Boston, Jumpstart pairs 3,500 trained adults one-to-one with preschool children in need of assistance. During the 2007-2008 program year, Jumpstart is serving 13,000 children across 20 states, in partnership with 300 early learning centers and nearly 70 universities and colleges throughout the country. Jumpstart NRDC Natural Resource Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends. We work to foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment. We seek to break down the pattern of disproportionate environmental burdens borne by people of color and others who face social or economic inequities. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth. Natural Resources Defense Council Oceana Foundation - Clean Ocean Action ñ- Oceana founded in 2001, Oceana campaigns to protect and restore the world's oceans. Our teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life. Global in scope, Oceana has campaigners based in North America, Europe and South America. More than 300,000 members and e-activists in over 150 countries have already joined Oceana. Oceana seeks to make our oceans as rich, healthy and abundant as they were in our grandparents' youth. Oceana Save the Children Save the Children, founded in 1932, is the leading independent organization creating real and lasting change for children in need in the United States and around the world. Save the Children's unique self-help approach to relief, recovery and ongoing development has nurtured the seeds of hope for millions of children and their families. Our programs focus on the areas of: economic opportunities; education; emergencies and protection; health; hunger and malnutrition; and U.S. literacy and nutrition. We work in more than 50 countries, including the United States, and serves more than 37 million children and 24 million adults working to save and improve children's lives, including parents, community members, local organizations and government agencies Save the Children |