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Sales of 'Tis a Gift: Christmas by Guitar directly support BBP, which assists children and youth in Brookings, SD, who are at risk of hunger by discreetly providing them with nutritious and easy-to-prepare meals and snacks for weekends and school vacations during the academic year. By helping to sustain these students until school resumes, BBP seeks not only to meet their nutritional needs but also to promote their physical, cognitive and social development, and to enhance their overall sense of well-being.

Sales of Phyllis's Child of All Earth CD directly support this nonprofit organization founded by humanitarian Marla Ruzicka. Ruzicka was killed in Baghdad in 2005 while advocating for the families of Iraqi civilians injured and killed in the crossfire. CIVIC has helped to create and fund legislation for war victims in Afghanistan and Iraq, to obtain urgently needed medical care, and to shine a spotlight on the devastating effects of war on innocent lives.

Sales of Phyllis's Friends CD and The Book of the World directly support this independent medical organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.

Sales of The Emptiness of Our Hands directly support this nonprofit organization in Columbus, Ohio, which provides shelter and support services for homeless families as well as an extensive tutoring and enrichment program for homeless and at-risk school-age children.

Sales of The Emptiness of Our Hands directly support its work educating the Central Ohio community about homeless issues and advocating in a unified voice for social and economic justice for all people, especially those who are most vulnerable.

Some sheet music sales directly support HI, dedicated to ending world hunger in the U.S. and abroad by providing impoverished families with livestock and agricultural training.