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PPFA depends on medical fees and contributions for its financial support, and relies heavily on volunteers to staff its programs. If you wish to volunteer your time, make a financial contribution, or avail yourself of Planned Parenthood services, contact the PPFA clinic nearest you. If there is no clinic in your area, write to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.. 810 7th Ave., New York NY 10019.

SEEDS

SEEDS, a hunger-relief organization that was launched in 1977, publishes a magazine with the same name. We'll let Gary Gunder son—SEEDS editor and one of the group's founders—tell you about the organization's work:

"SEEDS focuses on informing, mobilizing, and enlarging the community of people who respond to domestic and world hunger. Our office is on the top floor of a church, and we are unabashedly Christian, though many of our supporters hold opposing worldviews; re lieving hunger is our reason for being.

We publish the bimonthly magazine SEEDS and the newsletter 'Sprouts'. We also put out a few books—such as our current release, A Guide to World Hunger Organizations, which advises people how to give wisely. We offer workshops on providing shelter for the homeless and other practical relief measures. Everything SEEDS does offers a handle for personal response and action.

"SEEDS was honored in 1982 with the first annual Hunger Media Award for best magazine coverage of hunger issues. We mail SEEDS to just under 5,000 paid subscribers. Our readership has doubled during the Reagan administration years—at least in part because of the large numbers of hungry people showing up on America's doorsteps. Our primary commitment for the coming year is to help mobilize the scale and type of response that can end Africa's crushing hunger crisis and help move the African people toward the self-sufficiency they clearly would prefer to our charity "

You can subscribe to SEEDS for $10 a year (222 E. Lake Dr., Decatur, GA 30030). Contributions over the subscription price are taxdeductible. They'll be happy to send you a sample copy for $1.00.

SIERRA CLUB

The Sierra Club is the "biggie" of environmental groups. It was founded by John Muir in 1892 and currently boasts some 350,000 members, 54 grass-roots chapters, 298 special groups, 180 staff members, ten regional conservation committees, and ten field offices.

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