Yoga for Good Charity Donations


How It Works

Each Yoga for Good event donates all of the profits to charity.  We pay for the hall and supplies; the rest goes to charity.  A charity receives all the profits until we have donated $1,000 to that organization then we switch to the next member-chosen charity.  We alternate between local charities and global charities, signalling our desire to make a difference both near and far.

Here are the charities we have supported to date:

  1. Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance - Interfaith organization that helps AIDs victims in Africa. Our funds helped build a library for a center for AIDs orphans in Malawi.
  2. The Opportunity Center of the Midpeninsula - Center in Palo Alto to help the homeless via two separate service centers -- for singles and for families with small children -- that offer a broad range of services, as well as enabling people find stability and housing (89 units of housing in separate wings for singles and for families with small children); and service to the wider community through creative responses to homeless-related problems.  The center opens September 2006. 

  3. EL MESON DE LA MISERICORDIA DIVINA (in Spanish; to view this site in English, go to http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and enter "www.mesondelamisericordia.org/" as the web page and choose Spanish to English for the translation.)  A member's relative is the manager of an organization for low income people living with HIV virus... and their families, so it goes all the way fron giving them medication, a warm nutritious meal, to a place to spend the night in case they come from out of town to see the doctor in the city,  they offer psychological help as well. ...They are located in Guadalajara, Mexico,  they are the only one of their kind, with so many levels of commitment to the community, they have been there for 9 years and have grown a lot, taking care of over 900 people with the virus, that's around 10% of the infected population in the area.

Our current charity is Stanford Cancer Center