Harlem Children's Zone
United StatesChildren/Education
Harlem Children's Zone, Inc. has experienced incredible growth - from the number of children we serve to the breadth of our services. But one thing has stayed the same: the agency's "whatever it takes" attitude when it comes to helping children to succeed. The organization began 1970 as Rheedlen, working with young children and their families as the city's first truancy-prevention program. Under the visionary leadership of its President and CEO, Geoffrey Canada, HCZ continues to offer innovative, efficiently run programs that are aimed at doing nothing less than breaking the cycle of generational poverty for the thousands of children and families it serves.
Harpeth Hall
United StatesChildren/Education
For nearly 60 years, Harpeth Hall has educated girls who become leaders in their careers and in their communities. By offering our young women not only equal opportunity, but every opportunity, we cultivate a love of learning, a commitment to honor and integrity, and the leadership skills they will need for life in the 21st century. As an independent college-preparatory school, we are committed to encouraging every girl to realize her highest intellectual ability, become fluent in the sciences, the humanities, and the arts, and discover her creative and athletic talents. We at Harpeth Hall believe that our essential role in the life of each of our girls is to nurture a sense of wonder, to instill a will and a facility for learning, and to promote cultural understanding, environmental stewardship, and service to others.
Harris Center for Conservation Education
United StatesChildren/Education
Since its founding in 1970, the Harris Center has been bringing environmental studies to local schools throughout the school year. If you live in the Monadnock Region, chances are that your children or your neighbors' children have participated in Harris Center programs. Classroom lessons and activities, combined with active exploration of local schoolyards and conservation land, builds a strong foundation for a continuing appreciation and respect for the natural world. Harris Center teacher/naturalists work with classroom teachers to plan age-appropriate programs for students in the elementary grades through high school. Topics range from local bird and mammal studies, interpreting mammal tracks and signs, observing the life cycle of frogs in a natural wetland (not in formaldehyde!) to Geology and Astronomy.
Harris Hospiscare
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Harris HospisCare was founded in 1984 to serve the southern part of Bromley. Last year 732 patients were referred to the home care service and 232 people received inpatient care at St Christopher's. The home care services operate a 24 hour visiting service, 7 days a week. On any one day Harris Hospiscare with St Christopher's cares for over 300 people in their own home. As well as a home care service we also run a thriving day care service and a comprehensive lymphodoema service to Bromley residents whatever the cause of their limb swelling. The service to families and carers extends into bereavement.
Harrison's Fund
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Harrison's Fund is named after our eldest son; a charming and cheeky little man. To most people Harrison looks completely healthy. But on the inside, our powerful little boy is struggling. His muscles are deteriorating at an alarming rate. Because he has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). By the time he's a teenager Harrison will lose the ability to walk. Eventually he'll lose all muscle function in his body. Like all boys with DMD he'll die in his late teens or early twenties from heart or respiratory failure. Our goal is to stop Duchenne, or at least find a way to slow it down significantly, before it has a chance to dim the twinkle in Harrison's eye. Having spoken to some of the best organisations in the world fighting DMD, it's clear that for the very first time there may actually be a chance of a major breakthrough. Over the past few years, scientists have made giant strides in gene therapy and molecular medicine, and pharmaceutical companies have begun investing in research that may well bring DMD therapies to market. We need your help to take advantage of this momentum. And make sure that there doesn't need to be another Harrison's Fund.
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
United StatesCommunity/Family
Since 1925, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has quietly helped make good things happen in the Capitol Region of Connecticut. We've been a reliable resource for the local charitable community, including donors, community leaders, and nonprofit organizations of all types and sizes. Over the years, the Hartford Foundation has received gifts from thousands of generous individuals, invested them in a permanent endowment valued at nearly $570 million, and awarded grants totaling more than $450 million. But the Foundation's role in the community goes well beyond grants to nonprofits. We bring people together to discuss important local issues and to find creative solutions. And, we help donors ensure that their gifts will have maximum impact - now and for generations to come.
Harvard University
United StatesChildren/Education
For nearly a century, our University has drawn on its passion for teaching, our experience in working with organizations worldwide, and the insights gained from our research to educate generations of leaders who have shaped the practice of business in every industry and in every country around the world. Due to the generosity of its alumni as well as the continuing success of its own operations, we have exceptional flexibility in meeting the needs of our educational and research activities. The College encourages students to respect ideas and their free expression, and to rejoice in discovery and in critical thought; to pursue excellence in a spirit of productive cooperation; and to assume responsibility for the consequences of personal actions. Harvard seeks to identify and to remove restraints on students’ full participation, so that individuals may explore their capabilities and interests and may develop their full intellectual and human potential. Education at Harvard should liberate students to explore, to create, to challenge, and to lead. The support the College provides to students is a foundation upon which self-reliance and habits of lifelong learning are built: Harvard expects that the scholarship and collegiality it fosters in its students will lead them in their later lives to advance knowledge, to promote understanding, and to serve society.
Harvard-Westlake School
United StatesChildren/Education
Harvard School for Boys, a military school with 42 students, was established in 1900 by Grenville C. Emery in a barley field at what is now the corner of Western Avenue and Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles. Four years later, Jessica Smith Vance and Frederica de Laguna opened the doors of Westlake School for girls on Sixth and Alvarado across from what is now MacArthur Park. Harvard-Westlake ranks among the top high schools in the country in number of National Merit Semifinalists. 118 students received National Merit Recognition, with 47 students as National Merit Semifinalists.
Harvest International
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Harvest International is a non-denominational Christian-based ministry dedicated to “making a difference” in the physical and spiritual lives of the poorest of the poor, throughout the world, one person at a time.
Harvest Project
CanadaCommunity/Family
Since 1993, Harvest Project has been reaching out to individuals and families in an attempt to help them cope with difficult life circumstances such as family break-ups, illness, job loss, addictions and mental health issues. We help clients to overcome challenges and move towards being self-sufficient. Harvest Project nurtures the potential of every client, while coaching them towards a more positive future. Harvest Project was founded upon the core elements of dignity, respect and accountability. Clients will find the support network they need for success at Harvest Project. Through client care meetings, free clothing and groceries, life skills classes and connections to other resources in the community, Harvest Project can provide the safety net between temporary setbacks and crises.
Hathaway Brown School
United StatesChildren/Education
Over the past 130 years, Hathaway Brown School has devoted vast resources to create the ideal academic and social environment for the development of young women. The School was born as "afternoon classes for young ladies" at the Brook School, a church-school for boys. In spite of a series of moves and changes in name, HB has provided a challenging education for young women for 130 years. HB was created and nourished by the extraordinary generosity of Cleveland civic leaders; they imagined an institution devoted to the intellectual development of women at a time when few believed the minds of women mattered. At Hathaway Brown School, we strive to foster in the minds of our students an abiding passion for learning, and in their hearts a constant devotion to strong character and public service. To achieve this, unique opportunities are available for HB students.
Haven Night Shelter Swartland
South AfricaCommunity/Family
The Haven Night Shelter Welfare Organisation provides temporary shelter, physical care, social welfare and family re-unification services to adult homeless persons typically described as "street people" or "vagrants" in the Western Cape. At the Haven, we focus on our core business of 'getting the homeless back home'. To this end, we build strong partnerships with the Province, City of Cape Town, Business and Community Organisations.
Haverford College
United StatesChildren/Education
One of America's leading liberal arts colleges, Haverford is a close-knit intellectual community located on a serene campus just outside Philadelphia. Founded on the Quaker values of individual dignity, academic strength, and tolerance, we combine a rigorous academic program with an informal atmosphere of mutual respect and collaboration among students, faculty and staff. The College operates more than 50 academic, athletic, and residential buildings. The most recent additions are the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Science Center and the Douglas B. Gardner '83 Integrated Athletic Center. Haverford's Magill Library boasts more than a half million of its own volumes and has access to nearly two million more through its unusual Tripod computerized catalog system, which integrates our library with those of neighboring Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges.
Hawaii Community Foundation
United StatesCommunity/Family
Established in 1916, the Hawai‘i Community Foundation is one of the oldest community foundations in the United States. Today, Hawai‘i Community Foundation ranks among the top 40 largest community foundations out of 600 across the nation, and we distribute more than $30 million in grants each year. Endowment funds make up a majority of our over $405 million in charitable assets, which means, we will be here to help the community and the people of Hawai‘i for centuries to come.
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
More than 75 Years of Raptor Conservation Located in east-central Pennsylvania, Hawk Mountain is the world's first refuge for birds of prey. Open year-round, visitors enjoy scenic vistas, 8-miles of ridge and valley trails, a Visitor Center, Bookstore, and native plant garden, and each autumn, the chance to observe large numbers of hawks, eagles and falcons as they migrate past our lookouts. Hawk Mountain's conservation science program works internationally to protect birds of prey along the entire length of their flyways. The Hawk Mountain Conservation Science Internship Program has trained more than 300 young people from 62 countries on six continents.
HawkWatch International
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
We believe that through our efforts to monitor and protect birds of prey (also known as raptors), we can also protect our shared environment, our rich natural heritage, and ourselves. We have programs in long-term monitoring, ecological research, applied conservation, and public outreach and education. Through these programs, HWI promotes an ethic of ecological sustainability and conservation for this and generations to follow.
Hazon Yeshaya
IsraelCommunity/Family
Hazon Yeshaya Humanitarian Network is leading the fight against poverty in Israel today. We operate Israel’s most efficient network of soup kitchens, vocational training courses, free dental clinics and food distribution centers, with help from teams of volunteers. Throughout the 13 years of our operation, we have been able to witness the difference Hazon Yeshaya has made in people's lives. With your support, our central facility will be able to accommodate the needs of all who seek our help.
Hazon Yeshaya
IsraelCommunity/Family
Hazon Yeshaya Humanitarian Network is leading the fight against poverty in Israel today. We operate Israel's most efficient network of soup kitchens, vocational training courses, free dental clinics and food distribution centers, with help from teams of volunteers. Hazon Yeshaya was established in 1997 by Abraham Israel, a successful businessman from New York who was born in Egypt. As a child, after the Suez War of 1956, when the situation for Jews in Egypt worsened, he and his family had to flee the country to escape persecution. On relocating with his family to Israel, Abraham chanced upon a destitute woman in Israel, with empty shelves in her kitchen and no idea where her next meal would come from. He was astounded by her situation, and even more so when he learned that there are hundreds of thousands of sick and elderly Jews and children living in unbelievable poverty in Israel. This was the turning point in Abraham's life when he resolved to help as many as he could, in order to pay forward the kindness that he and his family had received in France. He opened a small kitchen with his own funds to feed 17 starving Jerusalem residents, and this has grown to become the largest soup kitchen network in Israel.
Headstrong
IrelandCommunity/Family
Headstrong is working to change the way Ireland thinks about youth mental health so that people feel connected to their community and have the confidence and strengh they need to deal with challenges to their mental health. We have developed Jigsaw - a new programme which brings together all of the supports and services for young people in a community in a way that better supports their mental health and wellbeing. We are working to further develop and expand this programme, so that every young person in Ireland will have somewhere to turn to and someone to talk to when facing difficult times. Headstrong values young people, and through our Advocacy and Research programme we ensure that they are given a voice nationally and locally in matters relating to youth mental health.
Headway
IrelandDisability
Headway provides support and services to people affected by brain injury. Founded in 1985, we also work to heighten public and political awareness of acquired brain injury and the impact it has on individuals, families and carers. We have a range of community based rehabilitation services for people affected by ABI, including rehabilitative training, day rehabilitative services, psychology, therapy and family support, information, outreach, community access and employment services.