Difference between revisions of "Atheist Organizations Descriptions"

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In addition to the longest list of atheist urls ever created. We will also have nice descriptions and write ups about each group. I haven't figured out ow to best display them, but we will have them. Instead of hoping to write up something about every atheist org, group, and site in the world we will isolate that project to the top 50 groups maybe some other notable groups (just for now).

Here we will take Secular Students list and start expanding upon it. (totally stealing, but they're cool)

We can add anything we want to each description, to build it up so it's the size of an article. You can start taking information from their own websites and their history maybe from Wikipedia and start linking them. I might even give each group a wiki page on this site to help expand on the descriptions.

Please add names that you have a description for that are worthy. Also add descriptions.

American Atheists www.atheists.org American Atheists is dedicated to working for the civil rights of Atheists, promoting separation of state and church, and providing information about Atheism. American Atheists has been a premier organization laboring for the civil liberties of Atheists, and the total, absolute separation of government and religion.

American Ethical Union www.aeu.org The American Ethical Union works to advance the ideal that the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society.

American Humanist Association www.americanhumanist.org The American Humanist Association is a national organization founded in 1941 to promote humanism in the United States. The AHA represents both secular and religious naturalistic humanism, and cooperates with other national and international humanist organizations to advance the ideals of humanism.

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State www.au.org Since 1947, Americans United has worked to protect the constitutional principle of church-state separation, a vital cornerstone of religious liberty. Americans of many faiths and political viewpoints, individuals from all walks of life, have come together to defend freedoms.

Atheist Alliance International www.atheistalliance.org AAI is a democratic association of independent, autonomous atheist societies. The goal of the Alliance is to establish strong, democratic atheist organizations in every state, and indeed, worldwide.

Atheist Alliance America www.atheistallianceofamerica.org AAA's vision is to transform society into one that supports and respects a worldview based on the values of reason, empiricism and naturalism, and respects and protects the separation of religion and government.

Atheist Nexus www.atheistnexus.org The world's largest social networking site exclusively for nontheists.

The Brights' Net www.the-brights.net This website of The Brights' Network registers brights into an Internet constituency of Brights and serves as a communications hub for actions that align with the aims and principles of the Brights movement.

Camp Quest www.camp-quest.org Camp Quest is a network of secular summer camps for the children of atheists, humanists, and other freethinkers. Many college students volunteer as counselors at week-long Camp Quest sessions.

Center for Inquiry www.centerforinquiry.net The Center for Inquiry International is a nonprofit educational organization working to promote and defend science, reason, and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor. It is also the parent organization of CFI On Campus, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), and the Council for Secular Humanism (CSH).

The Clergy Project http://www.clergyproject.org/ The Clergy Project is a confidential online community for active and former clergy who do not hold the supernatural beliefs of their religious traditions. The Clergy Project launched on March 21st, 2011.

Currently, the community's nearly 100 members use it to network and discuss what it's like being an unbelieving leader in a religious community. The Clergy Project’s goal is to support members as they move beyond faith.

EvolveFISH www.evolvefish.com FISH is an enterprise based in Colorado, and dedicated to countering the destructive aspects of religious zealotry. FISH creates and gathers enlightened symbols and materials and advertises these products (such as T-shirts, buttons and CDs) throughout the United States; with special focus on areas where zealots are trying to usurp the freedoms of the targets of their bigotry.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) www.thefire.org The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America's colleges and universities, including freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience.

Foundation Beyond Belief www.foundationbeyondbelief.org Foundation Beyond Belief is a 501(c)(3) charitable and educational foundation created (1) to focus, encourage and demonstrate the generosity and compassion of atheists and humanists, and (2) to provide support and encouragement for nontheistic parents.

Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) www.ffrf.org The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a membership organization for freethinkers - atheists, agnostics, secularists, humanists, and rationalists. The Foundation acts as an umbrella for those free from religion, and is committed to the treasured principle of separation of state and church. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. is an educational group working for separation of state and church.

Freethought Association of Canada freethoughtassociation.ca The Freethought Association of Canada is a non-profit organization promoting education and outreach and the principles of various secular worldviews (humanism, non-theism, skepticism, atheism, etc.).

Institute for Humanist Studies www.humaniststudies.org The Institute for Humanist Studies is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing humanist principles through education and publicity. It researches and distributes comprehensive information about humanist beliefs, organizations, and services. The IHS supports the SSA in a big way. Please let them know you appreciate their support of the student movement.

Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) www.ifyc.org The Interfaith Youth Core is an organization working to bring young people of all worldviews together to strengthen social cohesion, build social capital, and address social problems. While the Secular Student Alliance encourages its affiliates to participate in interfaith work, we always stress how important it is for our affiliates to retain their identity as non-theists and be openly skeptical of and critically approach supernatural claims.

International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) www.iheu.org IHEU was founded in 1952 in Amsterdam and is the only umbrella organization of Humanist, rationalist, atheist, secularist, ethical culture and agnostic groups around the world. IHEU's member organizations range from large membership groups to publishers, universities and development agencies. The IHEU also supports the International Humanist and Ethical Youth Organization (IHEYO). You can visit them at www.iheyo.org

Internet Infidels www.infidels.org/index.shtml The Secular Web is an online community of nonbelievers dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge, understanding and tolerance.

James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) www.randi.org The JREF promotes critical thinking by reaching out to the public and media with reliable information about paranormal and supernatural ideas. They also provide educational materials to help teach critical thinking and science.

Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers (MAAF) www.maaf.info The Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers is an Internet-based grassroots organization that exists to provide a forum for service members to express their views and find a community of like-minded individuals. Where necessary, MAAF tries to identify, examine, and respond to insensitive practices that illegally promote religion over non-religion within the military or unethically discriminate against minority religions or differing beliefs.

The National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies (AHS) www.ahsstudents.org.uk/ The AHS is an umbrella organization which represents atheist, Humanist and secular student societies in the United Kingdom. It provides support and resources for established and newly-forming societies as well as a national voice.

Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science / OUT Campaign www.richarddawkins.net RichardDawkins.net is The Official Richard Dawkins website, and is maintained by an international team of like-minded volunteers. The site hosts exclusive content and articles from Professor Dawkins, as well as other content, videos, audio and popular forums for fans of Dawkins and his work.

SECULAR Center www.secularcenterusa.org The mission of the Secular Center is mobilize secular volunteers to contribute toward improving our communities, to coordinate non-theist charitable efforts, and to increase awareness and acceptance of our worldview, contributions, and values.

Secular Coalition for America www.secular.org The mission of the Secular Coalition for America is to increase the visibility of and respect for nontheistic viewpoints in the United States, and to protect and strengthen the secular character of our government as the best guarantee of freedom for all.

Society for Humanistic Judaism www.shj.org Humanistic Judaism embraces a human-centered philosophy that combines the celebration of Jewish culture and identity with an adherence to humanistic values and ideas.

United Coalition of Reason www.unitedcor.org The United Coalition of Reason is a national organization that works to raise the visibility of local groups in the community of reason. The organization promotes informal cooperation among local groups by hosting a local coalition website, providing group leaders with free public relations training, and funding a publicity campaign in local areas.