Look for the logo. (updates).(Humane Charity Seal of Approval)

If your favorite health charity sports a rabbit logo this season, you'll know your contribution won't go toward funding experiments on animals.

The Washington, DC-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) unveiled its Humane Charity Seal of Approval in August 2002 as a way for organizations to show their support for cruelty-free research. In radio public service announcements, celebrities Ed Asner, Pamelyn Ferdin, Rue McClanahan and Noah Wyle talk about the importance of socially responsible giving.

About her involvement with PCRM, McClanahan, former star of The Golden Girls, told BN, "I always do what I can for PCRM, and this is an easy thing to do."

PCRM administers the Humane Charity Seal of Approval on behalf of the Council on Humane Giving, a coalition of physicians and animal-protection organizations. More than 200 charities have earned the seal. Following is a partial list of charities that have merited the rabbit logo. For a comprehensive list, visit humaneseal.org.

 
Arthritis 
 
Arthritis Research Institute 
  of America                                               727.461.4054 
 
Rheumatoid Disease Foundation                              615.646.1030 
 
Birth Defects 
 
Birth Defect Research for 
  Children, Inc.                                           800.313.2232 
 
National Craniofacial Association                           800.3FACES3 
 
Blindness/Visual 
Impairment 
 
Foundation for the Junior Blind                            323.295.4555 
 
National Federation of the 
  Blind, Inc.                                              410.659.9314 
 
VISIONS/Services for the Blind 
  and Visually Impaired                                    888.245.8333 
 
Burns 
 
Children's Burn Foundation                                 818.907.2822 
 
Cancer 
 
A.P. John Institute for Cancer 
  Research                                                 203.661.2571 
 
The Cancer Project                                         202.686.2210 
 
Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian 
  Cancer Registry                                          800.682.7426 
 
The Lymphoma Foundation 
  of America                                               703.875.9800 
  ...