After-School All-Stars
United StatesChildren/Education
Every day in the United States as many as 15 million children leave school with no place to go. And every day many of these at risk youth are involved in crimes, join gangs, or experiment with drugs, alcohol or sex. After School All Stars offers a proven alternative for these children. We engage them in activities and on-going relationships that increase confidence and encourage success in all areas of their lives - at home, in school and in the community. We provide comprehensive after school programs that are fun for kids and we also keep them safe and help them achieve success in school and life. After School All Stars has created a model after school program for middle-school kids that can be replicated anywhere across the country. ASAS currently serves 80,000 kids in 13 cities across the nation through comprehensive programs that are offered 5 days per week for three hours each day during the school year. Our national program content is designed to meet specific local needs and interests.
Aga Khan Development Network
United KingdomResearch/Dev
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is a group of development agencies with mandates that include the environment, health, education, architecture, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalisation of historic cities. AKDN agencies conduct their programmes without regard to faith, origin or gender. The AKDN works in over 25 countries. While each institution pursues its own mandate, all work together within the overarching framework of the Network so that their different pursuits interact and reinforce one another. Their common goal is to help the poor achieve a level of self-reliance whereby they are able to plan their own livelihoods and help those even more needy than themselves. A central feature of the AKDN's approach to development is to design and implement strategies in which its different agencies participate in particular settings.
Aga Khan Foundation
SwitzerlandResearch/Dev
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to their faith, origin or gender. he AKDN works in over 25 countries around the world. It employs approximately 60,000 people, the majority of whom are based in developing countries. Founded and guided by His Highness the Aga Khan, the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) brings together a number of development agencies, institutions, and programmes that work primarily in the poorest parts of Asia and Africa.
Aga Khan Foundation Canada
CanadaResearch/Dev
Aga Khan Foundation Canada is a non-profit international agency that supports social development programs in Asia and Africa. As a member of the world-wide Aga Khan Development Network, AKFC works to address the root causes of poverty: finding and sharing effective and lasting solutions that help improve the quality of life for poor communities. Our programs focus on four core areas: health, education, rural development and building the capacity of non-governmental organizations. Gender equity and protecting the environment are integrated into every program. For more than 25 years, Aga Khan Foundation Canada has worked with Canada and Canadians to support sustainable improvements in the quality of life of poor, marginalized communities in Asia and Africa, as well as foster dialogue on critical global issues to enhance Canada’s unique leadership in world affairs.
Against Breast Cancer
United KingdomResearch/Dev
Against Breast Cancer is the story of the personal crusade of our founders Dr Anthony Leathem and his wife Patricia in their search for a future free of breast cancer. Today, Against Breast Cancer funds pioneering research by expert clinical scientists at University College London. They use our exceptional collection of breast tissue and patient samples to identify markers that can detect the re-appearance of breast cancer in women already treated for this illness. Our national Diet & Lifestyle Study of breast cancer survivors involves 3,000 women in 56 hospitals across the UK. It was adopted by the UK National Clinical Research Network in 2005 and is the largest study of its kind in the world.
Agapao International
United KingdomResearch/Dev
We work with young people and communities to develop skills through leadership and vocational training. Health care and educational needs are addressed through sustainable projects which are managed by the community. Local people are given the skills to develop those around them through a simple ethos - learn a skill, use a skill, share a skill. Agapao International empowers Community Development Managers through training and personal development, working closely with them to enhance their skills. The CDM's are chosen based on their ability to assess community needs, identify leaders and solutions then implement change through motivation and enthusiasm.
Agape Foundation
United StatesHuman Rights
The Agape Foundation is a non-profit public foundation, which raises and distributes funds to groups working for nonviolent social change. Since its formation in 1969 by a group of pacifists and anti-war activists in Palo Alto, California, the Agape Foundation has provided millions of dollars to nonviolent, grassroots organizations throughout the western United States. We are committed to true human security through equitably redistributing resources, and challenging all forms of oppression. Our decisions and discussions are rooted in histories of nonviolent resistance. We promote community-based efforts towards creating systemic change for social justice.
Age Action
IrelandCommunity/Family
We are a national charity which works to improve policy and services for older people. We want to make Ireland the best place in the world in which to grow older. We provide key services for older people such as a home visitation and DIY service, specialist computer training for older people, and an information service for older people and their families. We also do research and lobby policy makers to improve policies for older people.
Age Concern New Zealand
New ZealandCommunity/Family
We work to serve the needs of older people by offering nationally contracted services, education, resources and national leadership. We work to serve the needs of older people by offering nationally contracted services, education, resources and national leadership. Age Concern New Zealand is the collective national office, serving to support, engage and promote the organisation’s development and quality best practice. Responding to directions set by the Board and feedback from Age Concern Councils, we advocate nationally and internationally on policy and issues relevant to older people and ageing. We depend on donations, bequests and grants to continue our work serving the needs of older people. We are a not for profit, voluntary, registered charity (Charities Commission number CC10939).
Age In Action
South AfricaCommunity/Family
Founded in 1956 as "The South African Council for the Aged", now known as "Age-in-Action", is the body representing more than 2.7 million older people. The Organisation also has over 800 NGO's as members who provide vital services to more than 150 000 older persons in need of care. We initiate and promote programmes aimed at advancing the status, well being, safety and security of vulnerable and needy older persons. We provide community based health care services for frail, bedridden, vulnerable and needy older persons, and initiate prevention and educational programmes on HIV/AIDS for older persons.
Age UK
United KingdomCommunity/Family
We believe that age needs respect. It needs kindness. Sometimes it needs help. Because there is strength in numbers, Age Concern and Help the Aged have joined forces to become Age UK – so that we can be here for everyone in later life. Age UK has a vision of a world in which older people flourish. We aim to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, campaigns, products, training and research.
Ageing & Alzheimer's Research Foundation
AustraliaResearch/Dev
Ageing and Alzheimer's Research Foundation (AARF) is a Division of the Medical Foundation of The University of Sydney, which raises funds to support research at the Centre for Education and Research on Ageing (CERA). CERA is a multidisciplinary Research Centre that aims to expand and share knowledge of human ageing, so that the health and quality of life of older people can be improved. CERA is a joint Centre of the University of Sydney and Concord Hospital. AARF supports research by members of CERA into the phenomena of ageing and disorders of ageing such as dementia and falls from the medical, biological, psychological, sociological and epidemiological points of view. We also promote ageing in the broader community and provide advocacy for the needs of older people
Agincourt Community Services Association
CanadaCommunity/Family
ACSA addresses a variety of issues including systemic poverty, hunger, housing, homelessness, unemployment, accessibility and social isolation. Over the years ACSA has been funded by all levels of government, several foundations, schools, local faith communities, and The United Way of Greater Toronto. Its strength remains in the original concept: To act as a bridge between people who need help and those who can provide it.
Agragamee
IndiaResearch/Dev
Agragamee, which means, "pioneer", is a group of activists and thinkers committed to working with marginalized and underprivileged communities in the tribal districts of Orissa, in India. Our efforts at initiating a people-centred development have combined an issue-based approach with programmes for socio-economic development. Agragamee has been engaged in people-centred, culturally sensitive and ecologically balanced sustainable development of remote tribal communities in Orissa for over two decades. Our efforts are directed at establishing total human development and bringing about social change through awareness as well as forming local level organisations to ensure social justice and self-reliance. We aim to better the econimic conditions of poor communities by realising the potential of personal skills and resources.
Agrisud International
FranceResearch/Dev
To fight extreme poverty, Agrisud helps poor people to become entrepreneurs and run small-holder farming activities which generate a regular flow of income. Since 1992, Agrisud has launched 19,100 small-holder enterprises in Africa, South Asia, and the Indian Ocean area. Over 80,000 stable jobs have been created. Small-holder farms supply local markets with local produce in demand: fruits & vegetables, food crops, etc. They are both profitable and viable. The survival rate of a typical enterprise after 4 years is 85%. Agrisud supports populations in critical situations caused by chronic poverty, armed conflict, natural disaster or epidemic. After an emergency humanitarian aide, economic reconstruction must be the next step to follow. This is when Agrisud helps bring the victim populations and regions back into economic activity. We have 22 development programs were underway, addressing 7. 200 small-holder activities in 10 countries: Angola, Cambodia, Gabon, India, Laos, Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, DR Congo, and Sri Lanka. Agrisud offers technical back-up through its local experts: agricultural techniques, small business management, legal support, market information, on-going technical advisory services.
Agros International
United StatesResearch/Dev
Agros International is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty for rural families in Central America and Mexico by enabling landless communities to achieve land ownership and economic stability. We have learned that the root causes of poverty extend across communities and are passed down from generation to generation, and so the Agros development model is holistic, sustainable, and focused on long term results. This commitment to the long-term sustainability of a whole community serves to break the cycle of poverty in all its forms.
AHEAD
South AfricaAnimals/Wildlife
Animal & Human Health for the Environment And Development was launched by WCS and a consortium of organizations in 2003. By assembling a ‘dream team’ of veterinarians, ecologists, biologists, social and economic scientists, agriculturists, wildlife managers, public health specialists and others from across East and southern Africa, the Wildlife Conservation Society, IUCN, and a range of partners tapped into some of the most innovative conservation and development thinking on the African continent- and AHEAD was born. Since then, a range of programs addressing conservation, health, and concomitant development challenges have been launched with the support of a growing list of implementing partners and donors who see the intrinsic value of what WCS has called the One World, One Health™ approach.
Ahepa Family Charitable Foundation of Canada
CanadaCommunity/Family
The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) is one of the largest Hellenic heritage groups in the world and an important community service organization in North America. The AHEPA Family is an umbrella organisation that encompasses four divisions: AHEPA, the men's division, the Daughters of Penelope, the women's division, the Sons of Pericles and the Maids of Athena, the youth divisions. The organisation was founded in the Atlanta, Georgia in 1922. Since then it has borne chapters across the world - Canada, Greece, Australia, New Zealand and Cyprus. The first Canadian chapter of AHEPA was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 1928. Since then, chapters have been established in many cities in Canada - Montreal, Ottawa, Belleville, Windsor, Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Regina and Vancouver..
Aiasport Of Bologna
ItalyDisability
Our interest is for the person on their whole, considering the limits and handicaps due to their pathology and potentialities. The relation between person and horse represents a rich and important experience in which are involved at the same time many aspects such as emotional relation and and communication capacities, getting new motory schemes, developing co-ordination, equilibrium skill that confronts ourselves with affective exchanging and with horse riding rules, and learning how to take care of horses in a responsible way.
Aid For Women
United StatesWomen
An uninformed choice is no choice at all. Aid for Women® gives practical help, complete information, and a plan of action. All services are free and confidential. Women's health and safety are important to us. Aid For Women® counselors offer a compassionate response and practical help.