Fairbridge
United KingdomChildren/Education
Fairbridge works with young people aged 13-25 that other organisations find difficult to engage – giving them the motivation, self-confidence and skills they need to change their lives. Inside every disadvantaged young person, there is a confident, positive, individual trying to break out. Last year, Fairbridge helped more than 3,500 take their first step. Most were classed as having ‘multiple needs’, such as homelessness, substance misuse or a history of offending. For these young people, Fairbridge was a new start – a chance to show the world who they really are. Fairbridge worked. Fairbridge centres are based in 15 of the most disadvantaged areas of the UK. Each year hundreds of young people choose to engage with us. For many it is their first step back into education, training or work.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is truly a unique place. Here you can walk garden paths surrounded by the wonders and beauty of nature, talk to experts in horticulture, conservation and science, view impressive art, see butterflies and birds at every turn and take classes on everything from photography to grafting. We are one of the premier conservation and education-based gardens in the world and a recognized international leader in both Florida and international conservation. Currently Fairchild has field programs in over 20 countries including support to protected areas in Madagascar and Africa and botanic garden development and renovation projects in South and Central America, the Caribbean and the Middle East.
FairMed
SwitzerlandHealth/Medical
Our work is based on the fundamental principles of the Emmaus movement from which we emerged: "Serve those most in need". We have campaigned successfully for a leprosy-free world since 1959. Half a century of accumulated experience has taught us to adopt a holistic approach to leprosy relief work. Our endeavours extend way beyond combating the leprosy bacillus. Education and destigmatisation, medical treatment, rehabilitation and reintegration are as much a part of our work as training and research. Our help has made it possible to heal hundreds of thousands of people and save them from lasting disabilities. Ten of thousands of people with disabilities could be treated and reintegrated into society. Today, we also employ the expertise acquired in our successful leprosy relief work for all-embracing health work for poor people, irrespective of social, political, ethnic or religious affiliation.
Fairshare Educational Foundation
United KingdomHuman Rights
FairPensions is an award-winning campaigning organisation founded to promote Responsible Investment in the pensions and investment industry. Our mission recognises the simple but under-appreciated fact that the trillions of pounds invested in pensions have the power to change our world. The money people save every month for their retirement is the money that pension funds invest in corporations across the world. Those funds enable companies to go about their business – for better or worse. Following discussions with other civil society organisations, including WWF, Amnesty International, and Friends of the Earth, FairPensions was founded in 2005 with Alex van der Velden as the organisation's founder and first chief Executive. In 2006 FairPensions was granted charitable status. We believe that Responsible Investment (RI) is about recognising that the impacts of corporations on the environment, on workers and on communities can seriously affect the value of our investments in them. RI offers us an opportunity to improve corporations' environmental and social impacts while protecting the financial performance of our pensions.
Faith in Practice
United StatesHealth/Medical
Since 1992 Faith In Practice has expanded to provide continuity of medical care to the poorest of Guatemala. Currently, our medical teams travel to the most remote and poorest parts of Guatemala, setting up temporary clinics in rural villages. Working side by side Guatemalan volunteers, our medical teams provide general care and make referrals to the Obras, now a hospital that houses five state-of-the art operating rooms thanks to Faith In Practice supporters, and to four additional smaller hospitals throughout Guatemala. Patients now have a safe and pleasant place to stay at our guesthouse, the Casa de Fe, while awaiting and recovering from surgery in Antigua. Our public health initiative has seen the development of the VIA/Cryo Program designed to train Guatemalans to identify and treat pre-cancerous cervical cells. We have developed a Preventative and Restorative Dental Program. Through these programs, our more than 900 dedicated volunteers served more than 20,000 patients in 2010.
Falklands Conservation
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
Whilst visiting the Falkland Islands, Sir Peter Scott and other naturalists decided to set up a UK registered charity, The Falkland Islands Foundation (FIF), to protect the Islands’ wildlife and its historic wrecks. The Falklands Islands are an exceptional place for wildlife where nature is still in charge both on land and in the surrounding seas. There are spectacular seabird colonies, rare plants and insects, and two endemic birds. Falklands Conservation strives to improve knowledge and awareness about Falkland Islands wildlife to all sectors of the local community, visitors, and an audience worldwide, particularly in the UK. We support environmental education within the Falkland school system, including Camp Education, and organise a nature club in out of school time.
Falkor I.C.Y.
NetherlandsResearch/Dev
Falkor I.C.Y. is an international NGO that strives to create a global network of youth who are active in projects that protect the environment, develop a balanced media and promote human rights. We believe that creating a positive dialogue among individuals and organizations ensures the sustainable development of a functional civil society. By utilizing educational and cultural exchanges throughout a growing Europe, we help to generate an informed and understanding union.
FAME
United StatesHealth/Medical
We are a global leader in Envangelism through healthcare. We provide medical supplies and facilities for the developing world, while assisting nationals to become healthcare providers and educators. We also promote health and wellness through community development.
Families Are Best
United KingdomCommunity/Family
Faith in Families, formerly known as the Catholic Children's Society, Nottingham, was founded by Bishop Ellis, the Bishop of Nottingham in 1948. The Society was originally dedicated to helping children without parents to find a new loving Catholic family. Our belief in the importance of family life is as strong today as it was when we first began our work. We have found new families through adoption for more than 2,000 children. These are children who, for various reasons and through no fault of their own, are unable to continue living with their own families. They need a new start with a new family that can reflect their culture and heritage, and offer them what they need most: love, support, patience and stability.
Families Relief
United KingdomResearch/Dev
Families Relief is an international humanitarian aid and development organisation based in London, UK. Established in 1994, we work directly in communities helping families and orphans become self-sustainable and lift themselves out of poverty and destitution. Families Relief’s primary work concerns looking after and supporting orphans and broken families where in most cases, a woman is left with a family to maintain on her own without a breadwinner. In order to give women the best chance to earn a living, we organise appropriate vocational training for women, which teaches them relevant skills to compete in the job market and find work. Many millions of children are orphaned as a result of disasters – natural or human made - economic and social distress, floods, earthquakes, wars and famines. These children now face a dismal life, where the chance of entering education and fulfilling their dreams is taken over by the struggle to find enough food to even fulfil their hunger.
Family Action
United KingdomCommunity/Family
Family Action offers support to families when they most need it, giving practical, emotional and financial help so that parents and children can overcome their problems. The charity has been a leading provider of services to disadvantaged and socially isolated families since its foundation in 1869. We tackle some of the most complex and difficult issues facing families today, including domestic abuse, mental health problems, learning disabilities and severe financial hardship. We are England's leading family charity and our services help over 45,000 disadvantaged families every year.
Family Care International
United StatesHealth/Medical
Family Care International (FCI) was established in 1987. Our founding vision was a strong commitment to improving maternal health – and that commitment remains central to the organization’s mission. FCI has for more than two decades been a leading voice — globally, in the US and Europe, and in developing countries — on behalf of the half-million women who die needlessly each year in pregnancy and childbirth. Working through our field offices, FCI now invests over two-thirds of our budget to strengthen reproductive health programs in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. FCI creates tools and resources to strengthen services in more than 100 countries.
Family Care Trust
United KingdomDisability
The Family Care Trust are based in Marston Green, Birmingham, and provide care services throughout Solihull and the wider West Midlands. The charity has operated for over fifteen years, during which time it has built up a wide portfolio of services that support the community. The charity started in 1994 with a modest Community Support Team for adults with mental health issues and a Day Centre for Elderly Mentally Infirm (EMI) clients. Family Care Trust now operates an administration centre, the FCT Training unit, 2 substantial Community Support Services, an Extra Care Housing scheme, 3 Day Opportunities Centres, 1 Respite Unit, 2 independent living skills training projects for adults with a learning disability or mental health problem, a Community Befriending scheme and a small outdoor education program for children and younger people.
Family Drug Support
AustraliaCommunity/Family
Family Drug Support was formed in 1997 after its founder Tony Trimingham lost his son to a heroin overdose. Bereft, Tony felt frustrated by the general apathy and ignorance of his own experience. This was also the plight of many other families. Realising this was but the tip of the iceberg, a public meeting was called where hundreds of people attended. FDS was formed as a result. FDS is a caring, non-religious and non judgemental organisation. FDS is primarily made up of volunteers who have experienced first hand the trauma and chaos of having family members with drug dependency. They have travelled the same road.
Family House
United StatesCommunity/Family
Founded in 1981, Family House is a not-for-profit organization providing temporary housing to families of seriously ill children receiving treatment at the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital. Qualifying families live more than 50 miles from UCSF, and many live at or below the low-income status as determined by UCSF.
Family Initiatives Trust
United KingdomCommunity/Family
We are a ministry that aims at helping and supporting families for a better healthier living. Family rebuild is a ministry dedicated to helping the families go through the challenges that threaten their unity and cohesiveness. We seek to give advice on how to overcome the day to day challenges based on the Biblical teachings. We are not fixers of problems, we do not have instant ready made answers which a family can swallow and the problem is over. Rather we provide a frame work in broader term and ask the involved people to apply it on their situation. Marital relationship is a dual way and requires that the involved people put sufficient effort for them to reap the desired results. We have a passion for family stability. Absence of this stability has rocked many to tears, insecurity, hatred and other vices have followed which as Christians we should not succumb to. Think of domestic violence, divorce and marital unfaithfulness, vices that roams across couples of all ages. They create great instability and have a heavy casualty in terms of the children who are trapped in the saga not of their making.
Family Violence Prevention Fund
United StatesHuman Rights
For more than two decades, the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) has worked to end violence against women and children around the world. Instrumental in developing the landmark Violence Against Women Act passed by Congress in 1994, the FVPF has continued to break new ground by reaching new audiences including men and youth, promoting leadership within communities to ensure that violence prevention efforts become self-sustaining, and transforming the way health care providers, police, judges, employers and others address violence. The Family Violence Prevention Fund partners with communities and organizations around the world to find new ways to prevent violence in our homes and society and to help survivors of domestic violence.
FAMSA
South AfricaCommunity/Family
FAMSA Western Cape is a Non-Governmental Organisation committed to the building of sound relationships in “families” - in their various forms, and in communities. Due to the magnitude of issues that underprivileged South Africans face daily, most people lack the coping skills to deal with internal and external stresses. Relationship-counselling skills are thus vital in impoverished South African communities. We believe that “healthy” families inspire “healthy” communities.
Far East Prisoner of War Charitable Trust
United KingdomCommunity/Family
COFEPOW is a Registered Charity dedicated to perpetuating the memory of the Far East Prisoners of War and advancing knowledge of the suffering endured and sacrifices made by them during their years of captivity in World War II. The members of COFEPOW are the war babies and siblings of many thousands of men who died on the Thai/Burma railway, the Sumatra railway, the Sandakan Death Marches, in copper mines in Formosa, steel factories in Japan, building roads in Burma, air strips on Ambon, Haruka, Java, Rabaul, New Guinea and the Solomons. COFEPOW has established the Far East Prisoners of War Memorial Building. The building is situated within the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas in Staffordshire, which is a Millennium project. It is envisaged that this functional project will become an educational and cultural centre. We want to enlighten and teach children and people of today and the generation of tomorrow, of this tragic era in our Military history.
FAR International
CanadaCommunity/Family
The causes of poverty and marginalisation are complex; in large part they are rooted in broken relationships. FAR believes God values community and has a special concern for the poor and powerless. FAR is motivated by a Christian desire to reconcile people with each other, with God, and with the environment, and of a Christian responsibility to improve the spiritual, physical, and economic well-being of the marginalised.