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We donate to multiple charities, here are the ones we most appreciate, in no particular order:
(Descriptions are from their respective websites.)
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Visit Big Bear Alpine Zoo with your family, friends or alone to see some of the world's most beautiful creations! The Zoo is a home for more than 85 species. All species live in a safe, comfortable and stress-free environment which is the key to the well-being of the animals. You are given an unforgettable opportunity to discover all the amount of work the zoo does for the preservation and rehabilitation wildlife. |
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N Street Village supports women in Washington, D.C. experiencing homelessness by offering a broad spectrum of services, housing, and advocacy in an atmosphere of dignity and respect. We partner with women to achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery goals. |
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At Guide Dogs of America, we transform lives through partnerships with service dogs. We breed, raise, and train guide dogs for individuals who are blind/visually impaired and service dogs for veterans and children with autism. We also place facility dogs with professionals in hospitals, schools, and courtrooms. Our highly skilled canines become trusted companions that increase people’s confidence, mobility, and independence. All programs and services, including transportation, personalized training, room/board, and postgraduate support, are provided at no cost to the recipient. |
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| Kitty Bungalow |
Kitty Bungalow is a community cat organization and kitten socialization facility. We focus our attention on providing services for the most vulnerable of felines. Our cats and kittens come from the mean streets of Los Angeles, whether it be directly from TNR, pulling from LA Animal Services, or working with our remarkable rescue partners. Kitty Bungalow provides the community with access to free TNR services, which allows for thousands of cats to be fixed, receive vaccines and flea treatment, and get returned to the people who care for them. Kitty Bungalow intake hundreds of kittens each year into Charm School. Our dedicated family of onsite volunteers and foster parents care for our "students" and use force-free socialization techniques to take street cats from 'hiss to home.' As a No Kill facility, we believe that working together is how the best life-saving strategies come to be. |
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For people affected by poverty or disaster, health is essential to a better future. With good health, they can attend school, be productive at work, care for their families and contribute to strong communities. Poor health puts all of those opportunities at risk. Health is fundamental to all aspects of development. |
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More than 1.7 billion people around the world are unbanked and can’t access the financial services they need. Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 in San Francisco, with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive. We do this by crowdfunding loans and unlocking capital for the underserved, improving the quality and cost of financial services, and addressing the underlying barriers to financial access around the world. Through Kiva's work, students can pay for tuition, women can start businesses, farmers are able to invest in equipment and families can afford needed emergency care. By lending as little as $25 on Kiva, you can be part of the solution and make a real difference in someone’s life. |
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| Habitat for Humanity |
Habitat for Humanity partners with people in your community, and all over the world, to help them build or improve a place they can call home. Habitat homeowners help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage. With your support, Habitat homeowners achieve the strength, stability and independence they need to build a better life for themselves and for their families. Through our 2020 Strategic Plan, Habitat for Humanity will serve more people than ever before through decent and affordable housing. Non-proselytizing policy - Habitat for Humanity and its affiliate organizations will not proselytize. Nor will Habitat work with entities or individuals who insist on proselytizing as part of their work with Habitat. This means that Habitat will not offer assistance on the expressed or implied condition that people must adhere to or convert to a particular faith or listen and respond to messaging designed to induce conversion to a particular faith. |
Website:
Our website is located on commercial servers in California, and as such, subject to Unites States and California law. (Our email is hosted on a server in Switzerland, for our email policies, see that section.) This site is a personal site, with no business operations, and therefore should have no need to comply with EU or other foreign laws and regulations regarding security as we do not do business in their jurisdiction. What limited information we do collect, we do not disclose to third parties unless directed by the proper law enforcement agencies of the proper jurisdiction.
Information we collect:
When you visit our website we may collect various types of information, such as:
- Your browser – including the version.
- Your Operating System – including the version.
- The IP Address you are using to connect to our website.
Cookies: We do use cookies while visiting our website, but these are used only on our website. They are not designed to track how you arrived, nor where you go when you leave our site. We do not have any third-party cookies active on our website nor use FLoC, or other tracking technologies that track you between websites.
We collect the above information for security purposes and analyze the performance of our website. Users who attempt to cause any harm to our website will be identified using the above collected information and automatically blocked from accessing our website.
Security:
- We use SSL encryption to help keep information between our server, and your browser private, without corruption.
- Since we do not perform financial transactions or require any personally identifiable information we only use a DV Level SSL certificate.
- The lock icon at the start of the URL shows that the encryption is working. Click on the icon for information about the connection security.
- All queries to an unsecured address are redirected to an SSL address.
Alternate URL’s:
We may have alternative URLs, and variations, which point to this domain. Any such redirections will point to, and show burdo.net in the address bar.
We use an encrypted email service with their servers based in Switzerland.
- Switzerland has stricter privacy laws than most other countries, including the United States.
- When you send us an email, the message is generally secured using STARTTLS while in transit, though it may not be encrypted if it is paused before it reaches, the server of your email service, or certain transit points before reaching our email server. When it arrives at our server it is encrypted for storage and remains encrypted when relayed to our devices. Our devices decrypt these emails. The hosting service we use cannot read the emails stored on it.
- When we send an email to you, it leaves our device encrypted, and the Swiss based server then decrypts it before sending it using STARTTLS.
- If you want fully secure email, we can use either PGP, or Protonmail for security purposes. Both provide end-to-end encryption which means that only the sending/receiving devices can see the actual content. If you use a free email service such as Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, or others, they may have the ability to read your messages once they arrive on their servers, and before you open it yourself. We also have the ability to send encrypted messages to these services that will prevent them from reading the message, but you will need a separate, pre-arranged password to view them.
- We may archive email messages, either on the Swiss based server, and/or locally on our own systems for future reference.
- For additional information on the email system we use, visit: https://proton.me/mail/security
- We do not perform mass mailings.
Contact Form:
If you use our Contact Us Form, in addition to the above information, whatever information you enter on the form including your name, email address, and any additional information that you enter, is collected by us. Please do not send any sensitive information via this form.
Data Retention:
- Parties that we have a business relationship with may have their emails retained for what we consider an appropriate period.
- Other emails may be deleted after use and purged on a regular basis.
- Email retention may be done on a system other than the mail server, but not publicly accessible from the internet.
- Contact Form usage is treated as email.
- Server logs are updated/deleted automatically as determined by its security settings.
A solid walnut coffee table, of mixed styles for a weekend cabin.
For more details: https://www.burdo.net/index.php/furniture-construction/coffee-table