The Day of Vesak is celebrated by millions of Buddhists around the world in honor of the day in the year 623
B.C. that the Buddha was born, and for some Buddhists, marks his enlightenment (the moment he discovered life's meaning). This year the holiday is celebrated on Friday, May 5th, 2023.
Check out CharityWatch’s
Top-Rated Civil Rights & Social Justice charity list if you are considering
donating to charity in celebration and honor of Vesak Day. CharityWatch has
been helping donors make more informed giving decisions for over 30 years.
Examples of Top-Rated
Civil Rights & Social Justice charities include: 
Center
for Community Change works to build the power and capacity of
low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change their
communities and public policies for the better.
Fortune
Society works to support successful re-entry from prison &
to promote alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of
communities.
Interfaith Alliance Foundation works to advance an inclusive vision of religious freedom, rooted in the Constitution and affirming people of all religious traditions and the nonreligious.
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