Glenn Gould School
CanadaArts/Culture
Building on a century-old tradition of musical excellence, The Glenn Gould School was founded in 1997 to provide talented students with the skills and attributes necessary for professional success. Glenn Gould School graduates are widely acclaimed on the world's stages, and have successfully assumed leadership positions in Canada's cultural organizations.
Global Action Plan
United KingdomEnvironment
Global Action Plan was created in 1993 as a different kind of environmental organisation, focusing on people and how they can take practical action in their everyday lives for a better world. It was a simple idea with big implications. Global Action Plan offices have opened around the world to take up the challenge. In the UK, we have helped thousands of people and organisations to make substantial environmental and financial savings.
Global Aid Network
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Originally started in 1991 as a humanitarian project to the former Soviet Union, Global Aid Network is now overseeing projects in more than 30 countries having distributed greater than $125 million worth of aid and mobilized more than 10,000 short-term mission participants to foreign lands.
Global Angels
United KingdomHumanitarian Aid
Global Angels is partnering with many excellent projects in developing countries through our "Feed A Child For A Year" program. All of the work of the charity promotes self-sufficiency. Training in skills such as bee keeping, farming, sewing and small business management help the children learn and develop capabilities that will allow them to support themselves and their community in the future. Be an Angel and help us to protect and empower these children. Global Angels is currently also raising funds for educational materials, microfinance for heads of families and malaria projects. Providing clean water, food and education will empower a new generation of children. We have a bold belief that we can turn things around. While Governments and their policies make some impact, it is only when the public at large becomes involved, that social justice and change can spread across a nation and eventually the world.
Global Canopy Programme
United KingdomEnvironment
The GCP is a tropical forest think-tank working to demonstrate the scientific, political and business case for safeguarding forests as natural capital that underpins water, food, energy, health and climate security for all. GCP works through its international networks – of forest communities, science experts, policymakers, and finance and corporate leaders – to gather evidence, spark insight, and catalyse action to halt forest loss and improve human livelihoods dependent on forests. We seek a world that recognises, accounts for, and safeguards natural capital as vital to lasting human wellbeing and economic prosperity.
Global Charity Sports
SwitzerlandOther
Located in Zug, Switzerland, Global Charity Sports was founded in 2007 as a private club for elite sports-minded and sports - interested Noble - and Gentlemen with a limited membership of four hundred worldwide. Coming from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds, active members share in common the belief to live according to the Gentleman's maxims and morals and to uphold the virtues of justice, courage, bravery, responsibility, tolerance and fairness.
Global Education through Sport
DenmarkChildren/Education
In January 2004 GES is established as an NGO in coorporation with DGI-Copenhagen. Later that year Global Education Through Sport started a sports project at ASCHIANA children’s center for street working children in the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul. The project is financially supported by DANIDA’s “mini-funds”. Today, GES works as a sports NGO with a focus on Afghanistan as its area of effort.
Global Emergency Care Skills
IrelandHealth/Medical
GECS was founded in 2008 as an Irish voluntary, non-profit organisation with a core objective of providing emergency care training to doctors and nurses in countries with developing healthcare systems. GECS objective of reducing morbidity and mortality is undertaken through the provision of a skills based course in trauma care, resuscitation skills and major incident management every year in a different region. The curriculum has been developed by an expert body of Irish Emergency Medicine doctors and is based on best international evidence. It is tailored to local epidemiological patterns of injury and illness and to available local healthcare resources.
Global First Aid
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Global First Aid is an independent non profit, non government organisation, who's aim is to educate ordinary people in life saving skills key to their survival. Training those most vulnerable and those with no access to medical care or supplies. In the UK an ambulance arrives in approximately 8 minutes and takes the casualty to hospital. In the developing world access to medical care may be up to 5 hours away - with no access to an ambulance. Our courses are unique, having been specifically designed using Accelerated Learning Techniques & NLP to ensure the highest caliber of training. Our instructors, as PARAMEDICS have first hand knowledge of First Aid situations, bringing real life stories & experiences to the training, with fun and humour.
Global Focus Aotearoa
New ZealandChildren/Education
Global Focus Aotearoa is a specialist provider of information and education on global and development issues. We provide services to support critical analysis and a deeper understanding of global and development issues. Our website gives quick access to our lending library, magazines, teaching resources, email updates, training information and much more. Global Focus Aotearoa consists of two teams: Education Services and Information Services. Education Services (formally the Global Education Centre) provides resources and services to schools, teachers, youth workers, and community groups. These services include training, publications, resource kits, and two magazines - Global Perspectives and Global Issues.
Global Forum for Health Research
SwitzerlandHealth/Medical
The Global Forum for Health Research is an independent, international organization committed to demonstrating the essential role of research and innovation for health and health equity, benefiting poor and marginalized populations. The Global Forum is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, close to international organizations such as the World Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Global Fund for Children
United StatesChildren/Education
GFC makes small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the world's most vulnerable children and youth, complemented by a dynamic media program that, through books, documentary photography, and film, highlights the issues affecting children and celebrates the global society in which we all live. GFC made its first grants in 1997 using royalties from its children’s book publishing venture. Since then, GFC’s grantmaking capacity has grown dramatically.
Global Green USA
United StatesEnvironment
Founded in 1993 by activist and philanthropist Diane Meyer Simon, Global Green USA is the American Arm of Green Cross International (GCI), which was created by President Mikhail Gorbachev to foster a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future by reconnecting humanity with the environment. Global In the United States, our work is primarily focused on fighting global climate change through our green affordable housing initiatives, National Green Schools Initiative, national and regional green building policies, advocacy and education. Internationally, Global Green and its affiliates are working toward: Eliminating weapons of mass destruction that threaten lives and the environment and providing clean, safe drinking water for the 2.4 billion people who lack access to clean water.
Global Greengrants Fund
United StatesEnvironment
Global Greengrants Fund is part of a community of activists working towards social justice and environmental sustainability. We are a network of passionate change-makers, our belief is that everyone deserves the right to a healthy environment. The reality is that millions of people are denied this right. Toxic contamination; destruction of natural resources; disappearance of water, food, and work; displacement from traditional lands; these are the sad truths for too many communities. Environmental degradation is common, and so are the social injustices that accompany it. Our strategy is to support local leaders—primarily outside the United States and Western Europe—in fighting these injustices. Through activist-led grantmaking, we find these leaders and provide resources that enable grassroots action on the front lines of social change.
Global Harmony Foundation GHF
UgandaChildren/Education
Foundation for Education and Development (FED) is an innovative, indigenous non-governmental NGO registered under the non-government Act as a non-government organization with the registration as a community-based organization to administer orphans and other vulnerable children. Its head office is in Jinja town, Jinja District. Founded in 2003, FED aims at providing education to the needy and disadvantaged children with great emphasis on girl child by sponsoring them with school fees and improving their social economic welfare and that of the communities We aim at providing education to the needy and disadvantaged children with great emphasis on girl child by sponsoring them with school fees, medical and other needed basics to improve their social economic welfare and that of the communities. The locations we work in are slums where the people are in dare need of our services. Foundation is to provide assistance and lifelong enrichment opportunities in support of exceptional vulnerable
Global Human Rights Defence
NetherlandsHuman Rights
Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) is an international human rights organization with the objective of promoting human rights for those areas where severe violations have victimized relatively large populations. Up until date millions of people continue to live in the margin of society lacking effective attention from the perspective of governments, development aid, human rights organizations and media authorities, in spite of mankind’s joint effort to build a detailed human rights legal framework, based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN 1948) and followed by covenants, treaties and implementation mechanisms.
Global Impact
United StatesOther
Global Impact is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the world's most vulnerable people. Established in 1956, it is the national leader in raising awareness and funds for humanitarian organizations such as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, CARE and Save the Children that provide help to people in need in virtually every developing country. Through programs such as disaster relief, education, health care training and economic programs, Global Impact funded charities promote self-sufficiency, strengthen communities and offer hope. Since its inception, Global Impact has raised more than $1 billion to help others.
Global Invasive Species Programme
South AfricaEnvironment
The Global Invasive Species Programme is an international partnership dedicated to tackling the global threat of invasive species. GISP provides support to the implementation of Article 8(h) of the Convention on Biological Diversity and has contributed extensively to the knowledge and awareness of invasive species through the development of a range pf products and publications including the Global Strategy on Invasive Alien Species and Invasive Alien Species. The GISP Secretariat is currently hosted by CABI Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, headed by an Executive Director and supported by a team of Directors located in GISP partner organisations around the world.
Global Links
United StatesHealth/Medical
Global Links recovers unused medical supplies, surplus equipment and furnishings from the U.S. healthcare system for distribution to hospitals and clinics that serve the poorest segments of the population in developing countries. Global Links collaborates with U.S. healthcare facilities and the community to redirect still useful materials away from landfills to public health improvement efforts in targeted countries throughout the hemisphere.
Global Medic - DMGF
CanadaHumanitarian Aid
DMGF was created in the spring of 1998 in honour of David McAntony Gibson, who tragically lost his life on February 7, 1998. A remarkable man who believed in taking the time to help those around him both near and far, Mr. Gibson will be remembered by his friends, family and peers as caring, compassionate and dedicated. In keeping with David's spirit, DMGF is designed to help those in need around the world by providing relief supplies and equipment, and has adopted "Serving the Global Community" as its motto. DMGF will launch programs designed to strengthen the delivery of emergency medical services in the Third world. These objectives will be obtained by the procurement of equipment, medicine, and supplies, as well as funding the delivery of training packages. The bottom line is simple: DMGF will strive to be an efficient aid agency that delivers the maximum amount of aid with a minimum operating cost.