Institute for Food & Development Policy
United StatesResearch/Dev
In the United States, the livelihood struggles of low-income, African-American, Native-American, Latino-American, Asian-American and immigrant communities are at the center of our programs for food justice and agricultural sustainability. Food First’s “added value” in this effort resides in our ability to produce information, analysis and learning materials that help people improve and control their own food systems. Our research informs and documents these experiences, contributing directly to the national and global debates on food and development.
Institute For Global Dialogue
South AfricaResearch/Dev
Founded in 1994 - the same year as South Africa's transition to democracy - it has built up valuable experience, and made an important and sustained contribution to research and analysis on international affairs. As South Africa has progressively engaged more intensively with the region, the rest of Africa, and the global community, the IGD has also broadened its scope and increased its resources in order to focus on the critical challenges that confront South Africa, the region, and the continent in a fast-changing global environment.
Institute for Human Centered Design
United StatesChildren/Education
The Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD), founded in Boston in 1978 as Adaptive Environments, is an international non-governmental educational organization (NGO) committed to advancing the role of design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages and abilities through excellence in design. IHCD’s work balances expertise in legally required accessibility with promotion of best practices in human-centered or universal design. Due to the extensive international network of individual and organizational collaborators, IHCD has an unusually rich and flexible expertise and a capacity well beyond its core staff of twenty designers, educators and humanists.
Institute for Humane Studies
United StatesChildren/Education
The Institute for Humane Studies was founded in 1961 by Dr. F. A. "Baldy" Harper, a former economics professor at Cornell University. Part of a generation that had lived through two devastating world wars and seen the rise of numerous totalitarian dictatorships, Harper set up an institute devoted to research and education in the conviction that greater understanding of human affairs and freedom would foster peace, prosperity, and social harmony. Based for many years in Menlo Park, California, the Institute moved in 1985 to Fairfax, Virginia, and associated with George Mason University. At George Mason, the Institute has been able to pursue its mission more effectively in cooperation with other organizations affiliated with the university. Today, with a primary focus on students, the Institute continues the work begun by Baldy Harper. Each year IHS awards over $600,000 in scholarships to students from universities around the world. IHS also sponsors the attendance of hundreds of students at its summer seminars and provides various forms of career assistance, including sponsored internships, to students and recent graduates pursuing careers in academia, journalism, public policy, and film and writing.
Institute for Justice
United StatesHuman Rights
Founded in 1991, the Institute for Justice is what a civil liberties law firm should be. As our nation's only libertarian public interest law firm, we engage in cutting-edge litigation and advocacy both in the courts of law and in the court of public opinion on behalf of individuals whose most basic rights are denied by the government--like the right to earn an honest living, private property rights, and the right to free speech, especially in the areas of commercial and Internet speech. As Wired magazine said, the Institute for Justice “helps individuals subject to wacky government regulations.” Simply put, we challenge the government when it stands in the way of people trying to earn an honest living, when it unconstitutionally takes away individuals' property, when bureaucrats instead of parents dictate the education of children, and when government stifles speech. We seek a rule of law under which individuals can control their destinies as free and responsible members of society.
Institute for Student Achievement
United StatesChildren/Education
ISA (Institute for Student Achievement) uses a proven, research-based educational framework to transform underperforming public high schools into rigorous and supportive learning environments that prepare students to be college-ready. Our schools, often located in areas where graduation rates have been as low as 35%, have been able to increase their graduation rates — some to 90% with nearly 90% of those graduates continuing on to college. ISA achieves these results through the implementation of a research-based model, implemented in partnership with schools and school districts. The ISA model provides extensive, customized professional development and more on-the-ground support for districts, principals and teachers than other whole school reform intermediaries provide. Furthermore,the ISA model delivers sustainable outcomes and is scalable — as evidenced by its growth to 80 effective small public high schools in just 9 years. ISA schools focus on accountability — as does the organization — so that the entire school community is responsible for the ultimate success of the students.
Institute for Women's Policy Research
United StatesWomen
The Institute works with policymakers, scholars, and public interest groups around the country to design, execute, and disseminate research that illuminates economics and social policy issues affecting women and families, and to build a network of individuals and organizations that conduct and use women-oriented policy research. IWPR, an independent, non-profit, research organization also works in affiliation with the graduate programs in public policy and women's studies at The George Washington University.
Institute Gustave-Roussy
FranceHealth/Medical
The Institute Gustave-Roussy (IGR), the leading European anticancer centre, assembles on the same site 2,500 men and women. In the 400-bed hospital with its 124 statutory physicians, annually over 11,000 new patients are recruited, 130,000 patients attend its clinics and 42,000 patients receive treatment. Research is conducted by 400 research scientists under the oversight of a scientific council, a therapeutic trials commission and a clinical research committee. Over 5,000 hours of instruction are taught in its School of Oncology in collaboration with the University of Paris.
Institute of International Education
United StatesChildren/Education
The Institute was created to act as a catalyst for educational exchange. It met a real need for a central point of contact and source of information both for U.S. higher education and for foreign nations interested in establishing educational relations with the United States. An independent nonprofit founded in 1919, IIE is among the world's largest and most experienced international education and training organizations. We are committed to delivering program excellence to a diverse range of participants, sponsors, and donors.
Institute Of Social Studies Trust
IndiaResearch/Dev
ISST attempts to bridge the gaps between research, action and policy debate, with a focus on issues concerning the poor, especially women. We believe that academic research can provide valuable inputs into grassroots activism and policy debate, but equally that activist experience and policy concerns need to influence the directions of research. ISST, thus, positions itself at the interface between research, action and policy.
Integra Foundation
CanadaDisability
Integra is an accredited Children's Mental Health Centre located in Toronto, Canada. We deliver services in a manner that strengthens the family, in the belief that the family can be the most valuable resource for children and youth. We are dedicated to helping children and adolescents who experience social, emotional and behavioural problems related to their learning disabilities. Founded in 1967, Integra was incorporated in Ontario as a non-share capital corporation and is a registered charity. Integra provides information, advocacy and therapeutic support for children and youth between the ages of 8-18 and their families.
Inter Aide
FranceResearch/Dev
Founded in 1980, Inter Aide is a French non-governmental organization that specializes in the implementation of development programmes. We focus exclusively on the design, implementation and assessment of development programmes and always seek to work with the most disadvantaged families. We take every possible action to build the capacities of the beneficiary families, by insisting on their full involvement and by training them to replicate the activities. Whenever possible, priority is given to productive activities and access to employment; indeed, social activities are necessary but cannot alone lead families toward self-reliance.
Interact Worldwide
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Interact Worldwide (IW) is a UK-based international Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) NGO. It works on issues of sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS in solidarity with indigenous partner organisations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We take a rights based approach, which is a framework that allows poor and marginalised people to demand as a 'right' the basic conditions that allow them to live in dignity. Our work focuses specifically on the most marginalised communities and individuals: those who most commonly experience abuse or denial of rights.
InterAction
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Collectively, InterAction's 175 members work in every developing country. Members meet people halfway in expanding opportunities and supporting gender equality in education, health care, agriculture, small business, and other areas.
Intercooperation
SwitzerlandResearch/Dev
Intercooperation is a leading Swiss non-profit making organisation engaged in development and international cooperation since 1982. Registered as a foundation, we are governed by 21 organisations representing the development community, civil society and the private sector. Intercooperation is both an implementing and an advisory organisation, providing professional resources and knowledge combined with social commitment .
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
SwitzerlandResearch/Dev
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), established in 1998 by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), is the leading international body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide. At the request of the United Nations, the Geneva-based IDMC runs an online database providing comprehensive information and analysis on internal displacement in some 50 countries. Based on its monitoring and data collection activities, the Centre advocates for durable solutions to the plight of the internally displaced in line with international standards. The IDMC also carries out training activities to enhance the capacity of local actors to respond to the needs of internally displaced people (IDPs).
International Aid Services
SwedenResearch/Dev
IAS is working in some of the most extreme environments in the world, trying to assist the most vulnerable and un-reached people groups. For the last 10 years IAS has implemented a special needs project in Somaliland, one of the worlds most vulnerable and fragile countries to work in. Hundreds of physically or emotionally challenged children who were not included in schools have been helped and are now well functioning boys and girls attending regular schools. Parents networks have been created and teachers trained in special curriculums to meet these children's needs. A special school has also been put up and has become a resource center for the country.
International Aid Services
DenmarkHumanitarian Aid
IAS is a non-political and non-profitable humanitarian relief- and development organisation standing on a biblical foundation with the goal to meet all the needs of a person and restore him/her physically, psychologically and spiritually. Since 1989 IAS has grown considerably and is now represented in 18 countries with approximately 350 employees. During the first 15 years the organisation used 'Sweden' in its logo; and was therefore called International Aid Sweden. In the last couple of years, IAS northern offices have expanded to also include Denmark, Norway, Germany and USA. To make the organisational name more suitable for the partners in these countries, IAS changed its name to 'International Aid Services' with effect from January 2004.
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
United StatesResearch/Dev
Our core mission is to support in every way the development of preventive AIDS vaccines that are not only safe and effective, but also accessible to all people. To that end, IAVI invests the bulk of its resources in the research and clinical assessment of candidate vaccines against strains of HIV that are prevalent in the developing world, where some 95% of new HIV infections occur.
International Alert
United KingdomResearch/Dev
International Alert is a 25-year old independent peacebuilding organisation. We work with people who are directly affected by violent conflict to improve their prospects of peace. And we seek to influence the policies and ways of working of governments, international organisations like the UN and multinational companies, to reduce conflict risk and increase the prospects of peace. We work in Africa, several parts of Asia, the South Caucasus, the Middle East and Latin America and have recently started work in the UK. Our policy work focuses on several key themes that influence prospects for peace and security - the economy, climate change, gender, the role of international institutions, the impact of development aid, and the effect of good and bad governance. We are one of the world's leading peacebuilding NGOs with more than 155 staff based in London and 15 field offices.