Free Form Arts Trust
United KingdomArts/Culture
Since the 1980's Free Form Arts Trust has been pioneering its 'art at the heart' of urban regeneration projects from a myriad of sites speread across London in its unique mission of providing services for the arts and creative industries. As an artist-led organisation, Free Form's strategic creative services and innovative leadership delivers imaginative urban renewal & regeneration through art and design-led solutions to humanise the social and physical environment locally, nationally and increasingly internationally.
Free Press
United StatesResearch/Dev
Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism, and universal access to communications. Media play a huge role in our lives. TV, radio, the Internet, movies, books and newspapers inform and influence our ideas, opinions, values and beliefs. They shape our understanding of the world and give us the information we need to hold our leaders accountable. But our media system is failing.
Free the Children
CanadaChildren/Education
Free The Children empowers children in North America to take action to improve the lives of fellow children overseas. Our local leadership initiatives bring leadership and inspiration to tens of thousands of youth in the US and Canada. Our international projects, led by our adopt a village program, have brought over 500 schools and water projects to communities around the world. The primary goals of the organization are to free children from poverty and explita-tion and free young people from the notion that they are powerless to affect positive change in the world. Through domestic empowerment programs and leadership training, Free The Children inspires young people to develop as socially conscious global citizens and become agents of change for their peers aroung the world. Free the Children has built more than 500 schools around theworld and has reached more than one million young people through outreach in North America.
Free The Kids
United StatesChildren/Education
At our Hope Village in Haiti, we have planted a farm, built dormitories and schools and begun vocational training to teach the children viable trades to secure their future. We have over 750 children living at Hope Village and over a thousand more coming to our schools each day from poor neighboring communities. Hope Village provides hundreds of children with shelter, food, clothing, education, basic medical care and a family. But what we really offer the children of Southern Haiti is HOPE.
Free the Slaves
United StatesHuman Rights
Free the Slaves is a not for profit organization made up of people who don't want to live in a world with slavery. And they're willing to do something about it. We believe there are no easy answers to eradicating slavery. But there are answers from the people who are enslaved and those helping them to freedom. There is no single path to liberation - the paths are many - we will tread them all before our job is done. Free the Slaves works on the ground with liberators around the world. We do what it takes to free men, women and children and help them stay free. Basic needs for food, shelter and safety from angry slave owners must be met. Then the system that allows slavery to flourish has to be dismantled and another created by former slaves learning to live in freedom.
Free Wheelchair Mission
United StatesDisability
Founded in 2001, Free Wheelchair Mission is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to providing wheelchairs for the impoverished disabled in developing nations. Headquartered in Irvine, California, FWM works around the world in partnership with a vast network of humanitarian, faith-based and government organizations, sending wheelchairs to hundreds of thousands of disabled people, providing not only the gift of mobility, but of dignity, independence, and hope.
Freedom from Hunger
United StatesMicrofinance
Freedom from Hunger is an international development organization working in seventeen countries across the globe. Established in 1946, Freedom from Hunger is recognized for fighting hunger with innovative self-help programs. Throughout our history, we have been guided by evidence of impact, scientific rigor and our commitment to helping families achieve food security for the long term. Freedom from Hunger developed the world's first integrated microcredit/health and nutrition education program. Today, our value-added microfinance programs are serving over 14 million people in some of the poorest countries on earth. Freedom from Hunger believes in sustainability and lasting impact.
Freedom From Hunger India
IndiaResearch/Dev
Freedom from Hunger develops training and technical “products” to train microfinance institutions (MFIs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Africa, Asia and Latin America to deliver value-added microfinance—financial services integrated with education and/or access to health-protection products and services. We offer a variety of publications to inform, demonstrate and stimulate imitation and innovation. For current and would-be practitioners of value-added microfinance, Freedom from Hunger also offers training and technical assistance customized to organizational needs.
Freedom From Religion Foundation
United StatesHuman Rights
The Foundation acts on countless violations of separation of state and church on behalf of members and the public, including: Prayers in public schools, payment of public funds for religious purposes, government funding of pervasively sectarian institutions, and the ongoing campaign against civil rights for women, gays and lesbians led by churches. The Foundation keeps several challenges in the courts at all times, and has ended a variety of violations of the First Amendment.
Freedom House
United StatesHuman Rights
Freedom House is a strong voice for a U.S. foreign policy that places the promotion of democracy at the forefront. Freedom House representatives regularly testify before Congress, provide briefings to Congress, the State Department, and other agencies, and argue the case for freedom at conferences, in op-eds and through media appearances. Since 1941 freedom House continues to serve as a leading advocate for policies to advance the democratic idea. It supports critical reforms of the United Nations to make its work in human rights and democracy more effective. Freedom House speaks out for religious freedom for practitioners of all faiths.
Freedom Institute
United StatesHealth/Medical
In 1976 Mona Mansell, recognizing the limitations of professional help available in New York City for individuals and families affected by alcoholism, founded Freedom Institute. Its original mission focused on Interventions. Today, the Institute has developed into a resource center with a national reputation distinguished by its uniquely specialized services. Freedom Institute offers a comprehensive program of family consultations, Interventions, assessments, individual and group counseling and referral to Inpatient treatment centers. We assist at each step in the recovery process.
Freedom Village
CanadaChildren/Education
Freedom Village is North America's Premier Home for Troubled Teens. The 150-acre campus is located just north of Watkins Glen in Western New York State. Freedom Village, founded in 1981 is an "intensive care ward" for America's youth and is the largest home of its kind. Thousands of young people from across America, Canada, and around the world, once labeled "hopeless" and "unreachable," have turned their lives around through this Christian based program.
Freedom's Door
CanadaCommunity/Family
Freedom's Door is a non-profit registered society that uses the Twelve Step program and Christian principles to rehabilitate men struggling with alcoholishm and drug addiction in the Kelowna, BC area. The Freedom's Door program gives men the strength and faith they need to overcome their addictions and enables them to find a stable, fulfilling future as positive, contributing members of society. During the program, participants live in one of the safe, clean, encouraging homes operated by Freedom's Door. Addiction is not a hopeless condition from which there is no recovery. We believe that an addict, any addict, can stop using drugs, lose the desire to use, and find a new way to live.
FreedomWorks Foundation
United StatesHuman Rights
FreedomWorks Foundation represents hundreds of thousands of Americans who are passionate about advancing freedom. We hold several educational events a year with volunteer members, as well as policy workshops with opinion-leaders and policy makers. The Foundation produces easy-to-read educational materials on our values and issues. These include booklets in plain English, online videos, and pocket cards with key facts. We believe in the power of ideas and work to make sure citizens understand the benefits of free trade, market competition, as well as the importance of fair and transparent regulatory, tax, and tort policy. We recruit, educate and train citizens to fight for their beliefs. Freedom Works Foundation has active members in every state and congressional district across the United States. Our education and recruitment programs combine traditional communications methods such as mail, earned and paid media, newsletters, and publications with new methods such as email, interactive web sites, online education and petitions, local conference calls, community events and face-to-face relationships between activists and Freedom Works Foundation staff.
Freemuse
DenmarkHuman Rights
FREEMUSE - THE WORLD FORUM ON MUSIC AND CENSORSHIP is an independent international organisation which advocates freedom of expression for musicians and composers worldwide. FREEMUSE is a membership organisation with its secretariat based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Freemuse receives funding from The Swedish International development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), The Sigrid Rausing Trust, Roskilde Festival Charity Society, Björn Afzelius International Culture Foundation (BAIK) and Sweden's Special Initiative for Democratisation and Freedom of Expression. FREEMUSE was born of the 1st World Conference on Music and Censorship held in Copenhagen in November 1998.
Freeplay Foundation
United KingdomResearch/Dev
Energy poverty is a key impediment to millions of people who strive everyday to better their lives. We collaborate with governments, international aid organisations, in-country NGOs, local communities, individuals and corporations working across a range of disciplines: education, health, agriculture, complex emergencies and peacemaking. We build coalitions that bring the public and private sector together for the most effective and efficient use of resources. When communication is a key component of development success, the Freeplay Foundation can ensure that information is delivered the 'last mile' to communities in the most remote, inaccessible locations. Over the years we have worked closely with local partners to develop and refine a system to distribute Lifeline radios for projects of any size. Our approach is holistic. Radios are never just given away. Community involvement is paramount in forming radio listening groups to ensure that the radio's potential is maximised. We help them select radio 'guardians' to care for the radio on behalf of their listening group or classroom. Guardians are often teachers or local leaders or child heads of households and at least 50% percent of the guardians are female.
Fresh Start Foundation
United KingdomChildren/Education
The Fresh Start Foundation was established in 2006 by Lamin and Rebecca Daffeh in order to support orphans and other vulnerable children in The Gambia, West Africa. The Fresh Start Foundation is a registered charity in the United Kingdom and a registered Non Government Organisation (NGO) in The Gambia. FSF supports children between the ages of 7 to 18 years old, whom, due to poverty are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. FSF's main focus is to provide access to education and health care. The Foundation provides these children with access to mainstream schools, educational resources, Health Care and clean water and sanitation.
Fresh Youth Initiatives
United StatesCommunity/Family
Recognizing that young people in Washington Heights lack safe, structured, and engaging ways to spend time in the non-school hours of the day, Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI) was launched in 1993 as a community-based youth organization that focused on community service. Throughout the years, FYI realized that leadership skills were being developed through the community service activities. Since then, FYI has redefined itself to become a youth development organization that uses community service and enrichment activities as a vehicle to teach young people leadership and life skills.
fresh2o
United KingdomResearch/Dev
fresh2o is a unique charity initiative dedicated to enabling the provision of clean safe water for drinking and sanitation purposes to the 1.1 billion people worldwide who do not have access to it. fresh2o was founded by Oscar-winning photographer Candice to raise awareness for issues of access to safe and clean water. By photographing modern icons underwater Candice has created a unique photographic campaign to communicate a vital message. Four children die every minute from dirty water, and the water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
Freshfields Animal Rescue
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
Freshfields Animal Rescue is a non profit making animal charity with two rehoming centres, caring for abandoned, abused and unwanted animals. Everyday at least one more unfortunate creature finds itself with Freshfields as its only hope for a future. We tend to any health issues, usually at expense, caring for the animals, nurturing them in the hope that we can re-home them to loving people in the future.