Top 10 Causes had 2299 people on twitter vote for their favorite cause on Twitter. There were 53 amazing causes/charities recommended. Voting occured for a 3 week period from June 15 - June 30, 2009.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the voting for BlueRibbonCampaingforME.org as a Top 10 Cause.

According to the Top 10 Causes website:

"@Top10Causes will now work hard to promote, raise awareness and support the new Top 10 Causes on Twitter via Twitter, Facebook, Blog, and this website.

Our mission is, and always will be, to bring awareness to amazing causes/charities on Twitter. If one person finds the help they need, when they need it, through our awareness campaigns, we have succeeded."

1. Alex's Lemonade http://www.alexslemonade.org/

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation evolved from a young cancer patient's front yard lemonade stand to a nationwide fundraising movement to find a cure for childhood cancer. Since Alexandra "Alex" Scott (1996-2004) set up her front-yard stand at the age of four, more than $25 million has been raised towards fulfilling her dream of finding a cure for all children with cancer.

2. Hydrocephalus Association

  
http://www.hydroassoc.org/

Our mission is to provide support, education, and advocacy to people whose lives have been touched by hydrocephalus and to the professionals who help them.

3. Abundant Water http://abundantwater.org/

Abundant Water is a charitable group working to bring clean drinking water to those who need it in developing nations. We give 100% of the money raised to direct project costs, funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need.

4. Amazon Cares http://www.amazoncares.org/

Since being founded in 2004, our scope has expanded to address important topics. These include animal welfare, but also, human health, domestic violence prevention, humane education, conservation, environmental issues and assisted animal therapy.

5. Smile Train http://www.smiletrain.org/

Smile Train is the world's largest and most effective cleft charity - we help more children than all similar charities combined. The cleft surgery your donation provides is a true, modern-day medical miracle: it costs as little as $250 to give a desperate child not just a new smile, but a new life.

6. War Child Holland http://www.warchildholland.org/

War Child's goal is to empower children and young people in war-affected areas through community-based programs, which strengthen their psychological and social development and well-being

7. Caring Bridge http://www.caringbridge.org/

CaringBridge® is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit web service that connects family and friends during a critical illness, treatment or recovery. A CaringBridge website is personal, private and available 24/7. It helps ease the burden of keeping family and friends informed. Patients and caregivers draw strength from loved ones' messages of support.

8. Spirit Jump http://spiritjump.blogspot.com/

Spirit Jumps goal is to provide hope and comfort to the many men, women and children battling cancer one gift at a time. To let each and every cancer fighter know that they are not alone in their battle and that there are many of us who are rooting them on. When someone is looking for a reason to keep fighting we hope a little package of love arrives to give them the extra strength they need to get through the day.

9. Jessica's Trust http://www.jessicastrust.org.uk/

Our primary aim is to raise awareness of childbed fever: we would like every parent and every midwife and doctor to know that childbed fever (also called puerperal fever or puerperal sepsis) is still a very real threat to a mother's life.

In the same way that every parent knows the danger of Meningitis, we believe that parents should be told about sepsis and childbed fever in ante natal classes and at the point of post natal discharge.

10. Blueribbons4me http://www.blueribboncampaignforme.org/

The Blue Ribbon Campaign was started in April 2009 by an M.E./CFS patient in Canada. The purpose of the campaign is to raise awareness of a devastating disease known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). 


Our mission is :

* to centralize and promote the message that ME/CFS is a serious physiological disease
* to raise funds for awareness and exclusively biomedical research, including the development of a tissue bank.
* to end stigmatization of persons with ME/CFS
* to promote and facilitate proper biomedical research, diagnosis and treatment
* to advocate for patients for governmental recognition in terms of financial support, medication (e.g. Ampligen) and treatment coverage; to offer support and resources to ME/CFS patients and their families.
* to act as an umbrella organization to support other ME/CFS organizations around the world.