Charities We Support

SUB CITY, TAKE ACTION, AND SUB CITY ARTISTS HAVE RAISED OVER $1.9 MILLION DOLLARS IN OUR FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH OUR RELEASES, TOURS, AND SPECIAL EVENTS.

A PLACE CALLED HOME

A Place Called Home’s mission is to provide at-risk youth with a secure, positive environment where they can regain hope and belief, earn trust and self respect and learn skills to lead a productive lifestyle free of the gangs, drugs and poverty that surround them. They help inner-city youth find their dreams and lead a more self-reliant life.” A Place Called Home offers a unique family environment that features one-on-one mentoring, compassion and unconditional love. It is a nonprofit youth center located in South Central Los Angeles which focuses on building a stronger South Central LA community.

A Place Called Home is the benefiting charity for Thrice – The Illusion of Safety. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $120,509.85 to A Place Called Home.
www.apch.org

ANY POSITIVE CHANGE

Any Positive Change is a nonprofit organization based in Clearlake, California. They carry out various activities to prevent HIV & Hepatitis C transmission, fatal overdose, the spread of STDs, and other drug-related harm. Currently their work includes: lobbying local elected officials regarding legalizing syringe exchange, educating the public about syringe exchange and HIV/Hepatitis C, providing supplies to persons at risk of contracting disease from sex and drug use, providing services to seniors with diabetes, doing advocacy for persons with HIV and Hepatitis.

Any Positive Change is the benefiting charity for Fifteen – Extra Medium Kick Ball Star(17). As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $1,019.50 to Any Positive Change.
www.anypositivechange.com

ART CITY

Art City is a non-profit art center in Winnipeg, Canada, that provides free art programming to all ages; primarily youth and families of aboriginal descent. It fills a gap in services provided for Winnipeg’s inner city youth, and offers an alternative for people of all ages to express themselves creatively. The value of community centers has long been accepted as a necessary component for a thriving neighborhood, but they generally concentrate on sports related activities. Art City provides engaging alternatives.

Art City is the benefiting charity for The Weakerthans – Left and Leaving and The Weakerthans – Watermark. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $28,529.03 to Art City.
www.artcityinc.com

BERKELEY FREE CLINIC – NEED

Who is NEED? What is Needle Exchange? NEED is a volunteer-run needle exchange program in Berkeley CA. We were the first needle exchange in the East Bay, formed in 1990 by a group of activists, Persons with AIDS, HIV and health activists, active and recovering drug users, etc. We have been going strong ever since, and that this time, we are exchanging approximately 8,000 needles per week, We reach approximately 400-500 folks/week, including injection drug users, sex workers, persons injecting hormones and steroids, and friends and families of injection drug users. We conduct two street-based and one home-delivery needle exchanges. There are always a lot of punks at our site, working, or doing good outreach to squats, camps, warehouses, and other places where people hang out.

Berkeley Free Clinic – NEED is the benefiting charity for Against All Authority/The Criminals Exchange Split. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $3,723.11 to Berkeley Free Clinic – NEED.
www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org

CRITTENTON SERVICES

“We believe that every child is entitled to healthy relationships with a loving family.” The Vision:

* To continue to provide residential treatment services for abused children and troubled adolescents that are recognized for their quality and commitment.
* To expand services into the community so that children can remain in their homes while receiving the help they and their families need in a supportive setting.
* To help restore birth families where possible and otherwise to create new family relationships through foster care and adoption.
* To encourage educational excellence and vocational competence through Crittenton Schools, Independent Means and other programs within the agency and in the community.
* To extend a life-line to emancipating teens through Stepping Stones and other transitional services.
* To provide alternatives to early pregnancy welfare dependency.
* To foster a sense of self-reliance and personal responsibility.

Crittenton Services is the benefiting charity for Thrice – Identity Crisis. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $134,671.05 to Crittenton Services.
www.kidsmatter.org

DEBI ZUVER DEFENSE FUND

On Thanksgiving Day, 2000; Debi Zuver defended herself from a form of terrorism that takes thousands of American lives every year, “Family Violence.” Rather than being heralded as a hero in the war on terror, she was sentenced to 21 years in state prison. Debi Zuver, #W-93142 CCWF 506-23-3 low PO Box 1508 Chowchilla, CA 93610-1508

Debi Zuver Defense Fund is the benefiting charity for Jeff Ott – Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Real War on Terror. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $571.50 to the Debi Zuver Defense Fund.

DIANA PRICE FISH FOUNDATION

The Diana Price Fish Foundation is a Colorado non-profit organization devoted to helping people enjoy life during a time when cancer makes it difficult. The Foundation was founded by Felicia Diamond in honor of her close friend Diana Price Fish who died in 1986. Medical, psychological and sociological research indicates that simple acts of enjoyment promote healing. The healing may be physical, emotional and/or spiritual. The Foundation is an organization that works with people on an individual basis to create access to enjoyable activities. Diana Price Fish was 40 years old when she died of cancer. During the last months of her life, she fought to enjoy the people and activities that mean the most to her.

Diana Price Fish Foundation is the benefiting charity for The Nobodys/The Beautys Split, Hugh. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $2,045.66 to Diana Price Fish Foundation.
www.dpfcf.org

FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS

The Urgent mission of The Foundation Fighting Blindness is to discover the causes, treatments, preventive methods, and cures for retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, Usher syndrome, and other retinal degenerative diseases. As world leaders in private funding and coordination of quality scientific research focused on these goals, we also serve a crucial role as a communicator of research and information to individuals, families, and physicians who live with the day to day reality of these diseases. The donation total also includes Sub City Records corporate sponsorship of FFB events and donations outside record sales.

The Foundation Fighting Blindness is the benefiting charity for Sub City’s Take Action CD sampler. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $152,946.19 to The Foundation Fighting Blindness.
www.blindness.org

H.E.A.R.

Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of the real dangers of repeated exposure to excessive noise levels which can lead to permanent, and sometimes debilitating, hearing loss and Tinnitus. We’re here for musicians, DJs, sound engineers, music fans and anyone needing help with their hearing. If your hearing is fine, we’re here to help you keep it that way. If not, perhaps we can help you. H.E.A.R. is a volunteer-based hearing health non-profit organization serving the community since 1988. H.E.A.R. is neither state nor federally funded. We rely on volunteer support from musicians, DJs, sound engineers, music fans, audiologists, ear doctors, other health and music professionals, and contributors like you.

H.E.A.R. is the benefiting charity for the Sub City Compilation, H.E.A.R. This. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $2,207.60 to H.E.A.R.
www.hearnet.com

HOT TOPIC FOUNDATION

The Hot Topic Foundation aims to support programs and organizations that specifically focus on encouraging and educating youth in music, creative writing, painting, photography, filmmaking and more. Besides, what kid wouldn’t want the chance to wail on a trombone, bang on some drums or paint a masterpiece?

Hot Topic Foundation is the benefiting charity for Metal=Life Vol 1 & 2. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $59,606.65 to Hot Topic Foundation.
www.hottopic.com/services/ht_foundation.asp?LS=0

KRISTIN BROOKS HOPE CENTER, 1-800-SUICIDE, 1-877-YOUTHLINE

Since the suicide of his wife Kristin in April, 1998, Reese Butler has been on a crusade. Butler used the money from his wife’s life insurance to start the Kristin Brooks Hope Center, the organization behind 1-800-SUICIDE. His mission: to help present the option to live to people in the deepest of emotional pain. The means to that end – a nationwide, toll-free hotline number 1-800-SUICIDE and a hotline dedicated to youth in crisis, 1-877-YOUTHLINE. Callers who are looking for support dial this number and are seamlessly connected to an available support counselor somewhere in their area. If no one is available in their area, they are seamlessly connected to a suicide prevention hotline somewhere else in the country. By doing this the people who need the help will never get a busy signal – there will always be someone there waiting to talk to them. 1-800-SUICIDE and 1-877-YOUTHLINE are not just for people consider taking their own life either. It is a support network for people, young and old, who need support or an ear, though they are highly trained in suicide prevention. The Hopeline and Youthline benefited from Sub City Take Action! releases as well as the annual Take Action Tour (www.takeactiontour.com) through February 29, 2008.

Kristin Brooks Hope Center is the benefiting charity for Take Action! Vol. 3-6 and the annual Take Action! Tour. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $548,483.28 to Kristin Brooks Hope Center.
www.hopeline.com

MOUNT CARMEL CLINIC

Mount Carmel Clinic, a community health center located in the inner city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada has been helping those read since 1926. It offers a broad range of medical, nursing, diagnostic, pharmaceutical, dental, social and outreach services in addition to operating a neighborhood day care for families in the community. Mount Carmel Clinic believes in a respectful, nonjudgmental and collaborative approach to helping people work towards physical, emotional, and mental health.

Mount Carmel Clinic is the benefiting charity for The Weakerthans – Fallow. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $15,019.47 to Mount Carmel Clinic.
www.wpggc.org/html/mount_carmel_clinic.html

MR. HOLLANDS OPUS FOUNDATION

The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation supports music education and its many benefits through the donation of new and refurbished musical instruments to underserved school and community music programs and individual students nationwide.

Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation is the benefiting charity for Kaddisfly – Set Sail The Prairie and Ronen Kauffman – New Brunswick, New Jersey, Goodbye. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $4,614.81 to Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation.
www.mhopus.org

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SERVICE SOCIETY

The mission of the Multiple Sclerosis Service Society (MSSS) is to provide assistance to those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis through a variety of services. It is our goal is to help the general public and families of victims to better understand Multiple Sclerosis and the problems associated with the disease. Since 1952, the MSSS has been providing services to clients with Multiple Sclerosis in the ten county area surrounding Pittsburgh. The Multiple Sclerosis Service Society also provides many other services, including a home continuing care program and medical equipment.

Multiple Sclerosis Service Society is the benefiting charity for the 88 Fingers Louie/Kid Dynamite Split. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $4,525.53 to Multiple Sclerosis Service Society.
www.mspittsburgh.org

NEW DAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES

Mission: New Day Youth and Family Services, a non-profit community based agency, mission is to provide diverse, innovative, quality services for at-risk youth by offering shelter, treatment, education and advocacy, thus promoting the healthy and productive development of New Mexico youth and families.

Goals:
* To encourage the resolution of intra-family problems in order to reunite the family.

* To provide education, prevention, counseling and treatment services designed to assist in strengthening family relationships and encouraging stable living conditions in order to preserve the family.

* To provide comprehensive residential treatment services to alleviate the problems of runaways, homeless, abused/neglected, and at-risk youth.

New Day Youth and Family Services is the benefiting charity for Scared of Chaka – Tired of You. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $2,598.18 to New Day Youth and Family Services.
www.ndnm.org

ORANGEWOOD PALS

The Orangewood PALS are a group of young professionals eager to become involved with the issues of child abuse in the Orange County area and provide future leadership to the Orangewood Children’s Foundation. As volunteers, they do this by supporting the Orangewood Children’s Foundation and the Home through fundraising efforts and activities for the children. Since its inception in 1996, the Orangewood PALS have come together to make a positive impact on the lives of abused and neglected children in Orange County. The Orangewood PALS have tirelessly pursued their mission to create a consistent framework to provide fun-focused, interactive activities with Orangewood’s children to create joy in their lives, showing them that they matter; and to raise funds to support the programs of the Orangewood Children’s Foundation within Orange County.

Orangewood PALS is the benefiting charity for Melee – Everyday Behavior. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $8,673.45 to Orangewood PALS.
www.orangewoodpals.org

PEOPLE’S EMERGENCY CENTER

People’s Emergency Center (PEC) is the oldest and most comprehensive social service agency serving homeless women, children and teens in Pennsylvania. Since 1972, PEC has helped over 7,000 thousand women and children in crisis to rebuild lives of dignity through programs that help them to help themselves. PEC serves 150 families each year with emergency shelter, food and clothing; intensive case management and social services; parenting education; health, nutrition, and life skills workshops; welfare-to-work services; transitional housing; and help in obtaining permanent housing.

People’s Emergency Center is the benefiting charity for the Atom and His Package/Har Mar Superstar Split. As of 4/23/2007, Sub City has donated $ 362.19 to People’s Emergency Center.
www.pec-cares.org

PLEA FOR PEACE FOUNDATION

Founded in 1999, the PLEA FOR PEACE FOUNDATION is a 501C3 Non-Profit Organization. The message is simple: to promote the ideas of peace through the power of music. They believe that all individuals are created equal and through their efforts they hope to create a scene of positive minded people to help bring forth action and education in the process of sharing ideas of peace and practical uses of peace in everyday life. Currently the foundation has only been active in both national and global musical tours, but the hope is to raise enough money to open a functioning teen center in the Bay Area of Northern California. A center that will be open year round for kids who have interests other than sports or the normal medium that schools and peers deem normal. A center that will give youth an outlet to perform music, create art, dance, and talk to others of similar interests. Since its creation, the foundation has been involved in 3 benefit tours of the US and 2 benefit tours in Japan. They have helped raise over $100,000 for various charities and will continue to work towards positive change through music.

Plea For Peace Foundation is the benefiting charity for Mike Park – For The Love of Music. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $5,313.45 to the Plea For Peace Foundation.
www.pleaforpeace.com

POSITIVE IMAGES

Positive Images was created in 1990 by Jim Foster, MFCC and Beverlee Laird to provide advocacy, support and information to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning youth of high school and college age. Positive Images also provides education, training and assistance to health professionals, agencies and educators who deal with youth. Positive Images helps teenagers and young adults seeking an understanding of their sexual identity through weekly support meetings in Santa Rosa. Meetings provide a safe space for confidential discussion. By the process of “checking-in” members open up to their issues and become intimate through the safety of the group. Others listen and offer appropriate suggestions for support. Adult’s mentors are present at the meetings for peer support; especially for new members. Through group unity and understanding the shame and isolation of being in a sexual minority is lessened.

Positive Images is the benefiting charity for Jeff Ott – My World. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $2,719.50 to People’s Emergency Center.
www.posimages.org

PRISON RADIO

Mumia Abu-Jamal was born on Aril 24, 1954, in North Philadelphia. He has spent the last 18 years on Pennsylvania’s death row. At the time of his arrest on December 9, 1981, on charges of murdering a police officer, he was a leading broadcast journalist in Philadelphia and president of the Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia. He had no prior criminal record. Since 1992, Prison Radio has been producing and bringing the radio essays and written commentaries by Mumia Abu-Jamal to the public. Our mission is to challenge mass incarceration and racism by airing the voices of men and women in prison, and bring their voices into the dialogue. Our educational materials serve as a catalyst for public activism.

Prison Radio is the benefiting charity for Fifteen – Survivor. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $5,246.07 to Prison Radio.
www.prisonradio.org

PURPLE BERETS

The Purple Berets is a kick-ass women’s rights group dedicated to creating equal justice for women and girls now. We use direct action and public pressure campaigns to change the world for the women in our community, fighting to end violence against women, sexual harassment and discrimination in our schools and workplaces, and police brutality in our streets. See the website for examples of the Purple Berets direct action and other campaigns.

Purple Berets is the benefiting charity for Fifteen – Hush. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $10,066.92 to Purple Berets.
www.purpleberets.org

RADIATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH “TOOTH FAIRY PROJECT”

Want a healthy world free from radioactive pollution? Got Teeth? Then, give a tooth to the Tooth Fairy Project. The Tooth Fairy Project is a national scientific study looking for links between cancer and environmental radioactive pollution. Every tooth is a clue! The nonprofit Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) is conducting a national baby teeth study to measure the levels of man-made radiation (Strontium-90) in children’s teeth. The findings will help scientists determine whether low-level radiation is a causal factor in America’s cancer epidemic. For this study to be statistically significant, we need at least 5,000 teeth.

Radiation and Public Health is the benefiting charity for Against All Authority – Nothing New For Trash Like You. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $10,562.90 to Radiation and Public Health.
www.radiation.org

REDWOOD SUMMER JUSTICE PROJECT

UPDATE: Case has been tried! Verdict is in! Go here to read up on the results! Judi Bari was a revolutionary. From her college days at the University of Maryland where she said she majored in “anti-Vietnam War rioting,” through her years as a union organizer, as an activist in the women’s and Central America solidarity movements, and finally as a primary organizer for Northern California Earth First!, Judi was a fearless warrior for social and environmental justice who struck fear in the hearts of corporate and government villains from coast to coast. Car bombed and nearly killed in 1990 while organizing a national campaign to save Northern California’s old-growth redwood forests, Judi Bari struck back despite the constant pain and crippling injuries she suffered from the bombing. Until her death from breast cancer in 1997, she continued her frontline organizing and, with fellow Earth First!er Darryl Cherney, pursued their federal lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police for their conduct in the bombing investigation, charging the government with civil rights violations and conspiracy to neutralize the activists and Earth First!.

Redwood Summer Justice Project is the benefiting charity for Fifteen – Lucky. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $8,373.95 to Redwood Summer Justice Project.
www.monitor.net/~bari

RUCKUS SOCIETY

The Ruckus Society provides environmental and human rights organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals. Working with a broad range of communities, organizations, and movements – from high school students to professional organizations – Ruckus facilitates the sharing of information and expertise that strengthens the capacity to change our relationship with the environment and each other.

Ruckus Society is the benefiting charity for Jeff Ott – Will Work For Diapers. As of 4 /23/2010, Sub City has donated $1,261.84 to Ruckus Society.
www.ruckus.org

SCHOOLS FOR CHIAPAS

In December 1994, activists from several San Diego communities formed “San Diegans for Dignity, Democracy, and Peace in Mexico” to educate and activate ourselves and others about the indigenous people’s struggle in Chiapas. After many local initiatives and several visits to Chiapas, we began discussions with the indigenous communities about supporting their efforts to create schools. Based on the response to these discussions and to our initial proposal, in August 1996 we specifically offered to raise funds and organize volunteers for the physical construction of schools. In a meeting at Oventic, Chiapas, MEXICO on January 5, l997 the Zapatistas informed us that our volunteer efforts would be in Oventic Aguascalientes II and gave us a letter saying, “We would like to tell you that the project has been accepted and that it will be of much benefit for our peoples of the region. We appreciate your solidarity with our just cause.” With this, Schools for Chiapas was born on January 5, 1997. We affiliated with Grass Roots Events, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization based in San Diego and committed to educational and cultural democracy.

Schools For Chiapas is the benefiting charity for the Falling Sickness/Dysentary Split. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $2,354.11 to Schools For Chiapas.
www.mexicopeace.org

WOMEN’S JUSTICE CENTER

To provide advocacy, free of charge, for victims of rape, domestic violence, and child abuse, particularly in the Latina and other under served communities of Sonoma County. To provide advocacy training and community education. To coordinate the Task Force on Women in Policing with the goal of increasing the number of women and minorities in our law enforcement agencies. To commit to equal justice for all women and girls.

Women’s Justice Center is the benefiting charity for the Fifteen – Allegra. As of 4/23/2010, Sub City has donated $2,792.08 to Women’s Justice Center.
www.justicewomen.com