Front Line
IrelandHuman Rights
Front Line is the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. Front Line was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk, people who work, non-violently, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Front Line aims to address the protection needs identified by defenders themselves. Front Line seeks to provide rapid and practical support to at-risk human rights defenders through international advocacy and grants to pay for the practical security needs of human rights defenders. In emergency situations Front Line can facilitate temporary relocation of human rights defenders. Front Line promotes strengthened international and regional measures to protect human rights defenders including through support for the work of the UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders. Front Line seeks to promote respect for the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. We also run an an emergency 24 hour phone line for human rights defenders operating in Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Russian.
FSD
SwitzerlandHuman Rights
The Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD), is an international mine action organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland. This private, independent, and non-profit organisation was created in 1997. Since then, it has implemented a number of mine clearance projects in more than 15 different countries. FSD develops and operates an increasing number of mine action projects and programmes in countries affected by landmines and unexploded ordnance. FSD seeks to develop activities either by developing its own programmes with support from donors or by undertaking mine action contracts for the UN or other bodies. FSD works with its own trained workforce and develops human resource locally wherever possible. All FSD operations are carried out in strict compliance with International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) and the FSD Standard Operating Procedures. These operations provide the best value for the money that is invested while ensuring the highest possible level of safety for its operators and clients.
FST
SwitzerlandDisability
For over 25 years now, FST has now been carrying out its mission, set out in its articles of association, of making available to the disabled technologies adapted to their needs and improving their quality of life. It has meant not only developing the most efficient products and adapting them to suit each individual case as closely as possible, but also training the people concerned. These benefits may seem natural and ordinary to us today, but we must not forget the efforts, the tenacity and persuasion that all those who work at the Foundation have had to demonstrate to make sure acceptance for the new technologies by the professionals, the users themselves and their immediate family, friends and care providers.
Fuchs Mizrachi School
United StatesChildren/Education
"Fuchs Mizrachi School is an Orthodox Jewish college preparatory day school offering educational programs for preschool though twelfth grade. The school seeks to foster allegiance to God's Torah, both written and oral, and its precepts, as interpreted by our sages. Our school identifies with the ideology of religious Zionism and seeks to foster love of the land of Israel...The school is committed to the unity of the Jewish people, the inculcation of ethical standards and the belief in the dignity of every human being. Of paramount importance is the teaching of values inherent in Torah-based moral practice. A Fuchs Mizrachi School education strives to enable each student to achieve the love of God and humankind, and be imbued with the joy found in these relationships."
Fulfillment Fund
United StatesChildren/Education
As a college access organization, the Fulfillment Fund provides first-generation, low-income students with the support necessary to graduate from high school and go on to college. Through classroom instruction, college counselling, mentoring and scholarships, we transform the lives of students, beginning in high school and extending to college graduation. Our impact spans beyond the students we serve directly. They, in turn, influence siblings, peers and their community by becoming role models, volunteers, mentors and donors. The Fulfillment Fund's programs are designed to increase high school graduation and college access rates among disadvantaged and minority youth. We build relationships with our students and provide resources and support in order to inspire them to overcome a culture of low expectations. As many of our students are the first in their family to graduate from college, we know our work is making a significant difference in breaking the cycle of poverty for future generations.
Fuller Center for Housing
United StatesCommunity/Family
We are dedicated to continuing the legacy of Millard Fuller, our inspirational leader for 40 years and the Founder of The Fuller Center for Housing in 2005. In just four years, Millard led the Fuller Center to have Covenant Partners in 47 cities around the U.S. and 13 countries overseas. Fuller Center projects are building and renovating homes across the country and around the world with those in need. Millard always said that he had never seen an organization grow like the Fuller Center has. We are an ecumenical Christian movement that welcomes anyone who wants to join with us to eliminate poverty housing.
Fund for Armenian Relief
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
FAR provides short-term emergency relief and implements long-term programs for the economic growth and social development of Armenia. It has catered its general relief and development programs to meet the changing needs of the people in Armenia. FAR’s programs are as diverse as the needs of Armenia. Generally, programs focus on child protection, economic development, education, health care, and social services. Within these broad categories, some specific examples of FAR supported programs are the Homeless Children’s Center, the Gyumri Information Technology Center, FAR’s educational scholarship programs, and FAR’s continuing Medical Education Program. Please learn about these and other programs by clicking on the tabs above.
Fund for the Arts
United StatesArts/Culture
The Fund for the Arts is the oldest united arts fund in the country and has raised over $157 million since its establishment in 1949. Today the Fund provides financing, facilities and administrative support for twenty-seven area arts groups and programs. In addition, over 200 community access grants are awarded annually to community groups and schools in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. In addition to operating the only community-wide fundraising effort for the arts, a sister organization of the Fund for the Arts owns and manages ArtSpace. ArtSpace is a mixed-use development that includes the Brown Theatre, as well as a non-profit business incubator, arts administrative offices, classrooms, meeting spaces, a rehearsal hall and costume shop.
Fundacion Francisca Mateos
SpainResearch/Dev
The "Francisca Mateos, Fight for Peace" Foundation was formed on the 28th February 1993. The objectives of the Foundation are to study and carry out research about the ideas for which Francisca Mateos marked the path throughout her life and to continue the work she undertook, disseminating Culture in its multiple manifestations (artistic exhibitions, libraries, conferences, courses on how to read and write, etc.) attending to the sick and elderly, and at an international level, in the event of a war, to offer itself as neutral mediator, speaker organisation, and as a last resort, as hostage, to create a bond of union, based on fraternity and solidarity among all countries world-wide.
Fundacion Natura
SpainEnvironment
Fundación Natura is a pioneering non-profit Spanish NGO exclusively devoted to the protection, improvement and restoration of natural ecosystems. Since 1997 we have carried out more than 70 studies as well as many environmental restoration and conservation projects. Politically and economically independent, Acciónatura promotes dialogue, consensus and the participation of the whole society in our projects. We work in a constructive and non-belligerent manner which has encouraged many people, authorities and companies to support our initiatives.
Furman University
United StatesChildren/Education
Furman University is the oldest, largest and most selective private institution in South Carolina. Founded in 1826, Furman moved three times in its early years before being charted as Furman University and settling in Greenville in 1850. The most recent move was in 1961, when Furman relocated to its current 800-acre location on the outskirts of Greenville. The move to the stunning, new campus served as a catalyst for Furman's ongoing transformation from a primarily regional college to one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the United States. Today Furman offers majors and programs in 42 subjects and is one of the select group of colleges that qualify for a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's most prestigious academic honorary society. Undergraduates come from 46 states and 31 countries.
Furniture Now
United KingdomEnvironment
Furniture Now! is a re-use, recycling and training charity which has operated in East and West Sussex since 1994 and is concerned with addressing the problems of poverty, waste, the environment and social exclusion. FN!'s furniture service and training programme both support some of the most socially excluded and disadvantaged within our community, i.e. people on low incomes and people with enduring mental health needs and associated problems.
FusionARTS
United KingdomArts/Culture
FusionARTS was founded in 2004 by Janie Harland, a professional artist with a previous career as an advertising Art Director. Initially frustrated by the lack of decent workspaces in Kingston, she sought out other artists who felt the same to investigate the possibilities of setting up a small studio operation. With our strong relationships within the borough, FusionARTS is now being used as a meeting place for relevant Arts bodies and Art tuition.
Gabrielle's Angels Foundation for Cancer Research
United StatesHealth/Medical
Gabrielle' s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research was created in 1996 by her mother, Denise Rich and her sisters Ilona and Daniella in memory of their beloved Gabrielle Rich Aouad, who passed away at the age of 27 after a long and valiant struggle with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML). The Foundation funds innovative clinical or basic science research that will lead to novel therapeutic approaches that could replace, or be used in combination with existing effective therapies. Such therapeutic approaches could include alternative or complementary medicine.
GAIN
SwitzerlandHumanitarian Aid
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an alliance driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. Created in 2002 at a Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Children, GAIN supports public-private partnerships to increase access to the missing nutrients in diets necessary for people, communities and economies to be stronger and healthier. In less than a decade, GAIN has been able to scale its operations by investing in and working alongside more than 600 companies in more than 30 countries, reaching 530 million people with nutritionally enhanced food products. Half of the beneficiaries are women and children. GAIN is a Swiss foundation headquartered in Geneva with a special international status granted by the Swiss government.
Gainey Foundation
CanadaChildren/Education
Established in memory of Cathy and Laura Gainey, the Gainey Foundation is committed to supporting charitable organizations across Canada that offer environmental education and arts education programs for youth.
Gala-salvador Dali Foundation
SpainArts/Culture
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation is a private cultural institution with the mission, as stated in its bylaws, to promote, boost, divulge, lend prestige to, protect and defend in Spain and in any other country the artistic, cultural and intellectual oeuvre of the painter, his goods and rights of any nature; his life experience, his thoughts, his projects and ideas and artistic, intellectual and cultural works; his memory and the universal recognition of the genius of his contribution to the Fine Arts, culture and contemporary thought.
Galapagos Conservation Trust
United KingdomEnvironment
GCT works to contribute to the successful management of the Galapagos ecosystem and is the primary source of information and comment in the UK on conservation in the Galapagos Islands. GCT was launched in April 1995 at the Royal Society in London, with the aim of conserving the ecosystems and biological diversity of the Galapagos archipelago. GCT works with the key institutions in Galapagos. It is affiliated to the international network of Friends of Galapagos organisations, which is also represented in the USA, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the Nordic Countries, and New Zealand.
Gallmann Memorial Foundation
KenyaResearch/Dev
The GMF/GAC is a non- for- profit charitable organization active in Ol ari Nyiro, West Laikipia, Northern Kenya. The GMF/GAC promotes coexistence of people and nature in Africa through harmonizing the protection and the creative sustainable and ecological utilization of the natural resources. The GMF aims to make of Ol ari Nyiro an example of this conservation principle and a monument to nature. In addition to Environmental protection, Antipoaching, Biodiversity, Wildlife, Educational, Cultural and Artistic projects, the GMF/GAC is active in reconciliation, peace and sport gatherings, and poverty alleviation through jobs, and public health care, and has built and equipped a model local clinic and health centre, schools and laboratories, constructed/ donated roads, water reservoirs, offices, solar systems and posho mills for the neighbours, and scholarships to secondary school.
Galop
United KingdomHuman Rights
Galop has provided over 25 years of advice, support, research and lobbying around the issues of LGBT policing. Reflecting back on this history proves an inspiration in how far the gay communities (and the police) have come since the early days of intimidation and fear. Galop continues to lead the way, most notably launching a ground-breaking project providing the only specialist LGBT sexual abuse support in the country and publishing a landmark report increasing understanding of unreported LGBT hate crime and of services available to victims of these crimes.