Friends of the Earth - Norway
NorwayEnvironment
Founded in 1914, Norges Naturvernforbund (Friends of the Earth- Norway) is Norway's oldest environmental and nature protection organisation. We are concerned with a wide range of issues in environmental and nature conservation, but work specifically with the areas conservation, climate change, energy and transportation. Although we have a national agenda, many environmental questions have proven to have an international or even global character. Issues concerning development, resource allocations and international cooperation are very much part of our everyday activities.
Friends of the Earth Australia
AustraliaEnvironment
FoE Australia was founded in 1974 at a meeting on French Island in Westernport Bay, Victoria, which was then the site for a proposed nuclear reactor. Over the last 35 years, FoE has evolved into a diverse and vibrant network of groups that are working at the local, regional, national and international level. FoE sees that pursuing environmental protection is inseparable from broader social concerns, and as a result uses an environmental justice perspective in its campaigning. A strong social perspective means FoE is well placed to develop alliances at the grassroots level with other organisations and communities.
Friends of the Elderly
United KingdomCommunity/Family
Friends of the Elderly will support older people, particularly those in need due to frailty, isolation or lack of adequate resources. We will do this by providing high quality caring services, personalised to the needs of the individual, integrated with local communities and dedicated to promoting the independence, well-being, dignity and peace of mind of each person with whom we work. We provide a range of services to support older people who wish to live independently. Our aim is to improve people’s quality of life and promote real choices for each person so that they can continue living in their own homes and communities.
Friends of the Elephant
NetherlandsAnimals/Wildlife
Friends of the Elephant is a organisation dedicated to the protection of elephants, both the African and Asian Elephant, and that is because elephants are very special animals who are still endangered by Ivory poachers, by farmers who find them troublesome and by the tourist industry that kidnap baby-elephants and if necessary shoot down the mother. With financial support to definite projects and giving information we support the elephant. With that support elephants can keep on living in their natural environment.
Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
AustraliaChildren/Education
Founded in Sydney in May 1936 by Ruby Rich (later Ruby Rich-Schalit MBE), the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was established for the benefit of the Hebrew University. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel's first university and a symbol of the cultural rebirth of the Jewish nation in its ancestral homeland, is a multidisciplinary institution of higher learning and research. We raise funds and encourage bequests in support of the University, both for specific projects and for general purposes. We provide a medium for the exchange of information and literature between Australia and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and we encourage and assist Australian students wishing to undertake study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Friends Of The Helderberg
New ZealandEnvironment
The Helderberg Nature Reserve is recognised as one of the areas in the South Western Cape which has a rich palette of indigenous flora preserved in its natural environment. During the past fifty years the Reserve has experienced changes and development which attract international and local visitors throughout the year. The Reserve has also attracted numerous hikers and walkers who have enjoyed the wide open panoramic views and indigenous vegetation on the slopes of the Helderberg. Today the Reserve boasts an Environmental Education Centre, a nursery, a tea kiosk, a popular picnic area with benches, tables and toilet facilities, a gift shop and information centre and a curator’s house.
Friends Of The Lake District
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
Friends of the Lake District is a registered charity, founded in 1934, to promote and organise concerted action for the protection and conservation of the landscape and natural beauty of Cumbria and the Lake District, and to work with other bodies with similar objectives or interests. We seek to influence decision-makers to understand the importance of conserving and enhancing the irreplaceable landscape of Cumbria and the Lake District. Our campaigning issues have the common theme of protection and conservation of the special qualities of the landscape and natural beauty of Cumbria and the Lake District.
Friends of the Orphans
United StatesChildren/Education
For more than 40 years, Friends of the Orphans has worked to end the vicious cycle of poverty by giving safe and loving homes and brighter futures to children in Latin America and the Caribbean. We do this through fundraising and volunteer efforts that support Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH, Spanish for “Our Little Brothers and Sisters”). Together, we transform the lives of orphaned, abandoned and disadvantaged children by creating families for life through values of unconditional love, shared responsibility and education. This enables children to grow into caring and productive members of their communities. By making a difference in the lives of the children, our supporters’ lives may be enhanced as well. Friends of the Orphans is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, Federal Tax ID# 65-1229309 that meets all 20 BBB Charity Standards. Friends of the Orphans is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. In addition to our national office located in Illinois, we have six regional offices, each of which has its own volunteer Board of Directors. The members of our boards have diverse professional backgrounds and expertise, but each actively works to raise funds for and awareness of Friends of the Orphans and our mission.
Friends of the River
United StatesEnvironment
Friends of the River was founded in 1973 during the struggle to save the Stanislaus River from New Melones Dam. Following that campaign, the group grew to become California's statewide river conservation organization. Friends of the River is dedicated to preserving and restoring California's rivers, streams, and their watersheds as well as advocating for sustainable water management. Today, Friends of the River has nearly 6,000 members, 12 staff members, and a 12 member Board of Directors. The organization's 2009 budget was $1.06 million. The organization's flagship publication, Headwaters, is published bi-annually, and has a distribution of 6,000. Friends of the River is based in Sacramento with field offices in Monterey and Valencia.
Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
United StatesArts/Culture
Friends of the San Francisco Public Library is a member-supported nonprofit organization that advocates, fundraises, and provides critical support for the San Francisco Public Library and related literary and educational programs. We provide the community with opportunities to invest in the success of the Library as well as literary and education communities by donating funds or by donating time through volunteering. We raise money and we raise our voices to ensure a first-class public library for San Francisco.
Friends Of The Third World
United StatesResearch/Dev
Friends of the Third World (FOTW) began in 1972 when students and teachers formed a fundraising project to aid the hungry. FOTW currently operates job training programs at its building in Fort Wayne and markets handmade crafts from 80 partner groups in 35 countries. In addition to job-training for needy people in Fort Wayne, the house of the Friends of the Third World helps sell products made by exceptional enterprising groups in the Third World, including the Bombolulu Workshop for the Handicapped in Mombasa, Kenya, as well as trying to help Nicaraguan Medical Aid.
Friends of the World Food Program
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Friends of WFP is a U.S.-based, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that focuses on building support in the United States for the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and other hunger relief operations. Friends of WFP unites organizations and individuals committed to solving world hunger. Our education, advocacy and fundraising efforts in the United States support WFP's life-saving global food assistance and development programs.
Friends of Trees
United StatesCommunity/Family
Since 1989, thousands of volunteers have planted more than 390,000 trees and native plants in the Portland-Vancouver metro area. Through our Neighborhood Trees program, homeowners buy discounted trees to plant with their neighbors at weekend plantings. Through our Green Space Initiative, trained crew leaders guide volunteers at weekend events to restore public natural areas and green spaces between freeways and neighborhoods.
Friends of Valence School
United KingdomDisability
Valence School is a well established centre of excellence offering high quality learning opportunities and excellent social and health care to children and young people who have physical disabilities and complex medical needs. The School has 100 places for both day and residential (54 places) students. It also has many outstanding specialist facilities. The School is an EXCITING, INNOVATIVE and DYNAMIC place – we are proud of our specialist work in which students’ achievements, progress and development is at the heart of everything we do.Our work is about enabling children and young people who have special physical, medical and sensory needs to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding together with the confidence, self-esteem and self dependence necessary for them to participate in and contribute to society in the way each chooses.
Friends of Warm Hearth
United StatesDisability
Warm Hearth, the first long-term group home in the Republic of Armenia, opened in January of 2006 and provides long-term rehabilitative care to orphaned individuals with disabilities or mental illness who have outgrown the orphanages. Warm Hearth is operated by the Armenian nonprofit, Jermik Ankyun (“Warm Hearth”) Foundation and supported by US nonprofit, Friends of Warm Hearth, Inc. Warm Hearth is the FIRST long-term group home in Armenia. Jermik Ankyun (“Warm Hearth”) Foundation is responsible for implementing the project and the day-to-day oversight of the home. Additionally, the Directors of Friends of Warm Hearth, Inc. provide oversight and visit the home on a regular basis to monitor and develop the program.
Friendship Bridge
United StatesMicrofinance
Friendship Bridge is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that provides microcredit and non-formal educational programs to Guatemalan women. We believe that when offered microcredit, education and encouragement, women embrace the hand-up they desire to make a better life for themselves, their families and their communities. We promote women's empowerment through access to education and capital. We offer a means to self-employment and self-sufficiency. And, we inspire women to become leaders and agents of change. Today, we currently empower more than 13,000 women in Guatemala.
Friendship Force International
United StatesCommunity/Family
Friendship Force International provides opportunities to explore new countries and cultures from the inside by bringing people together at the personal level. Through the signature program of home hospitality, local hosts welcome international visitors into their culture, sharing with them meals, conversation, and the best sights and experiences of their region. In a typical Friendship Force program, a local club (chapter) prepares an itinerary of cultural activities, inviting members from clubs in other countries to come for four to seven days and stay with them in their homes.
Friendship Force Of Nashik
IndiaResearch/Dev
The Friendship Force of Nashik is part of a worldwide network of clubs of Friendship Force International, an organization that advances the mission of promoting global understanding across barriers that separate people. FFI is involved in connecting people from different countries at the personal level. When local hosts open their homes to visitors from other countries and cultures, true understanding can develop through the sharing of meals, conversation and the routines of daily life. Since its founding in 1977, FFI has brought together millions of people. In 2007 alone, over 5000 friendship ambassadors traveled to 58 countries, with thousands more serving as hosts. The Friendship Force of Nashik has come into existence due to sustained initiative of Dr. C. R. Pardeshi, MD, who along with his friends took exhaustive efforts to start the club in Nashik. The Friendship Force of Nashik is at present one of the most active clubs and has members of age group 40 to 50 years. The Friendship Force of Nashik is the first and only club in India which is actively involved in cultural exchanges under programs of The Friendship Force International.
Frishta Children's Village
United KingdomChildren/Education
Frishta Children's Village provides children's homes and education for street children through the establishment a school in a children's village in the Chandigarh area of Punjab, Northern India. We give these children a home, an education, a hope and a future. We create individual family homes with small families of no more then 12 children, each with their own facilities and dedicated house parents.
From the Top
United StatesArts/Culture
From the Top is an independent non-profit organization based in Boston. For the past decade, From the Top has been the preeminent showcase for America’s best young musicians. Through award-winning NPR and PBS programs, online media, a national tour of live events, and education programs, From the Top shares the stories and performances of pre-collegiate musicians with millions each week. Each program provides a compelling and entertaining window into the world of a diverse group of young people, who pursue life with passion, determination, and joy. From the Top’s training and mentorship programs prepare young musicians to connect with new audiences, serve as positive peer role models, and give back to their communities in many ways.