Jifundishe
TanzaniaChildren/Education
In rural Tanzania most children who finish primary education are unable to continue their education at the secondary level. Poverty, lack of schools and HIV/AIDS are the three biggest reasons. Jifundishe is committed to providing the knowledge and access to resources that allow young people to learn more about the world around them as well as skills to help them gain employment. Jifundishe was formed to establish rural libraries in rural areas that have a high concentration of government educational institutions for the purpose of promoting literacy at all age levels. Our intention is to provide educational opportunities that are relevant to and fit the needs of the local community. We want to promote the sharing of skills and ideas between rural Tanzanians and volunteers from abroad in an effort to strengthen positive community ties among people of diverse cultures and create a global awareness of the developing world. Jifundishe was formed to promote opportunities for financial assistance for the education of orphans and marginalized children.
Jifunze
TanzaniaChildren/Education
Jifunze, which was founded in 1999, initially set out to improve the educational resources available to young girls in the rural Kiteto District of Tanzania. To that end, by working with the local community and government officials, we created Tanzania's first Community Education Resource Centre (CERC) in the Kiteto District's largest town, Kibaya. Over the last ten years of development, the Kiteto CERC has become a model for sustainable educational development in rural Tanzania, and now stands as an example of what communities can achieve when provided with the right resources. Upon our success in Kiteto, which included phasing out of the day to day management of the Kiteto CERC in July 2008, Jifunze has now dedicated itself to restructuring the organization to be able to provide support and advice to others who are interested in starting similar community development projects throughout the world. We strongly believe that the process of development is as important as the product, along with a healthy balance of patience and persistence. We take things slowly. We listen deeply. We build local capacity. In 1999 we had hopes and dreams. Today, we believe we have the basis, both physical and ideological, to assisting others develop truly sustaibable solutions to community development.
Jigsaw
IrelandCommunity/Family
Jigsaw is Headstrong's response to the challenge of making sure young people have access to support where and when they need it. Jigsaw is a network of projects across Ireland, working with communities to better support young people's mental health and well being. Jigsaw projects bring people and services together to give young people somewhere to turn to and someone to talk to in their community.
Jigsaw4u Limited
United KingdomChildren/Education
Jigsaw4u is a child-centered charity supporting children and young people through loss and trauma whilst also empowering them to have a voice in decision-making about their own lives, the development of Jigsaw4u and policy and practice locally, regionally and nationally. The Advocacy and Independent Visiting Service supports children and young people who are in the care of a local authority to have a voice in decision-making about their lives. The service provides advocates who support young people through befriending and ultimately, representation according to their wishes. This could take the form of attending meetings with them, writing letters and/or making telephone calls on their behalf or lastly, to raise or follow up issues with appropriate agencies. Independent visitors are assigned to young people who want an adult friend to visit them regularly and share in ensuring that they are looked after well and supported.
Jobsupport Inc.
AustraliaDisability
Jobsupport is a non-profit organization established in 1986 as a demonstration open employment project for the Commonwealth Government to show that people with a significant intellectual disability could achieve open employment. The demonstration open employment project was very successful and today Jobsupport is part of a Disability Employment Network across Australia funded by the Commonwealth Department of Employment and Workplace Relations. For more than 20 years Jobsupport has assisted people with a significant intellectual disability to achieve independence and dignity through a worthwhile job in open employment.
Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation
United StatesCommunity/Family
There's nothing more devastating than a climate of abuse and violence at home. A home should be a safe home, a sanctuary, and a harbor from any storm. Yet, for many people, home is a place of danger and fear of abuse. The Foundation's mission is educating to end the cycle of domestic violence and save lives. Through awareness campaigns we strive to shed light on this mostly hidden national tragedy. In order for communities to be able to support victims they need first to be educated on the issue of abuse. To prevent the cycle of violence from perpetuating into the next generation, we must educate and support the children of today. Our Foundation has educated thousands of students, parents, teachers and school faculty about the devastating effects of domestic violence.
Johannesburg Child Welfare Society
South AfricaChildren/Education
We can take pride in the fact that JCW is one of the oldest NGOs in South Africa and is renowned for its work ethic and its ability to deliver since 1909. As Johannesburg has grown, so has JCW, adapting and evolving to changing city and national dynamics, and charting the direction of relevant services for vulnerable, urban children living in a densely populated city. We are recognised as leaders in the field of Children’s Services in South Africa and our strong business approach is enhanced by the commitment and empathy shown by all our staff. We also benefit from ongoing encouragement and support from dedicated volunteers such as those serving on our Board of Management. Our work at Johannesburg Child Welfare Society addresses truly global challenges in a local context. In our imminent Centenary year, we can be proud of our ongoing relevance and committed contribution to children, families and communities in South Africa and indeed, the world as a whole.
John Burroughs School
United StatesChildren/Education
Burroughs was founded in 1923 by a group of parents who wanted to follow the philosophy of John Dewey. The school was to be progressive, coeducational, non-sectarian and college preparatory. The founders believed, as we believe today, in the service ethic, in simplicity, in concern for nature, in democracy, in diversity and in the highest academic standards. Every parent instinctively knows that the ideal school will have motivated teachers, as Burroughs does, and attract children who want to learn and behave appropriately together. Learning to live together and fully engage in such a community is the first step to a life of service and active participation in the democratic process. We hold true to our founders' belief that our nation's future depends on schools like Burroughs teaching the importance of such participation and service. Living appropriately and fully for life itself and with the good of others in mind is our goal as a school.
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
United StatesArts/Culture
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides financial support, staffing, and creative resources for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The Kennedy Library Foundation has its origins in the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Inc., a non-profit corporation that was chartered in Massachusetts on December 5, 1963, to construct and equip the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Massachusetts. In 1984, the work of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Corporation was reorganized and incorporated under Massachusetts law as the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The Foundation currently employs 21 full and part-time staff who work closely with the Library's federal employees to help fulfill the mission of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
John Huntingdon Charity
United KingdomCommunity/Family
JHC is a diverse and wide ranging charity. We work closely with a number of different organisations and statutory services including local GP's and other health professionals, local schools, childrens services and many other people who help us to make a difference in Sawston. We own property and land in the village, including sixteen almshouses, charity allotments and Sawston Nursery. We have acquired the old Unwins and Parish Council offices in the High Street and the extension & refurbishment of this property continues. We give grants to individuals as well as other organisations and groups whose work benefits Sawston residents. We have a team of Support Workers who help with advice on housing, debt, benefits, form filling or just someone to talk to.
John Tracy Clinic
United StatesDisability
For over 65 years, John Tracy Clinic’s Education Services have helped children with hearing loss and their parents develop the skills and confidence they need through the Parent/Infant and Preschool programs, which include Education Classes and Support Groups and ongoing developmental and audiological guidance. Now, with early diagnosis and advances in hearing technology, it is possible for children who are deaf and hard of hearing to grow up in a rich sound environment, learning to listen, talk and succeed on par with their hearing peers prior to kindergarten.
John Wayne Cancer Institute
United StatesHealth/Medical
Since 1981, the John Wayne name has been committed by the Wayne Family to leading-edge cancer research and education, in memory of their father who died of stomach cancer in 1979. Today, the tradition of excellence continues as JWCI spearheads new research advances while training the next generation of surgical oncologists. The Institute conducts multidisciplinary basic, clinical and translational research on many complex cancer problems, focusing in particular on melanoma, breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, neuroendocrine cancer, gastro-intestinal cancer and sarcoma.
Johns Hopkins University
United StatesChildren/Education
The Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876, with the inauguration of its first president, Daniel Coit Gilman. "What are we aiming at?" Gilman asked in his installation address. "The encouragement of research ... and the advancement of individual scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell." The mission laid out by Gilman remains the university's mission today, summed up in a simple but powerful restatement of Gilman's own words: "Knowledge for the world." What Gilman created was a research university, dedicated to advancing both students' knowledge and the state of human knowledge through research and scholarship. Gilman believed that teaching and research are interdependent, that success in one depends on success in the other. A modern university, he believed, must do both well. The realization of Gilman's philosophy at Johns Hopkins, and at other institutions that later attracted Hopkins-trained scholars, revolutionized higher education in America, leading to the research university system as it exists today.
Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation
United StatesResearch/Dev
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation at UCLA (JCCF) was founded in 1945 by a group of volunteers dedicated to cancer research at UCLA. They began JCCF's legacy by investing in the work of promising young cancer researchers through seed grants. For more than two decades, the Seed Grant Program has helped JCCC break new ground in the quest to defeat cancer. The program uses funds raised from private sources to launch innovative start-up projects. During the last eight years, $1.7 million in philanthropic funding for interdisciplinary seed grants generated $26.7 million in external peer-reviewed funding of program grants. The program uses funds raised from private sources to launch innovative start-up projects.
Joshua Orphan Care Trust
United KingdomChildren/Education
A Malawi-based charity for orphan care working in nineteen isolated rural communities around Blantyre. Joshua is running an ever-expanding programme of education, health, feeding, water and income-generation projects to address orphans’ needs. These programmes are tightly managed by an energetic team, who ensure that revenue is applied directly to address these projects. We involve both local people and international volunteers on working holidays, gap years and sabbaticals, or with corporate groups.
Josie's Dragonfly Trust
United KingdomHealth/Medical
We work alongside Clic Sargent and the Macmillan teams in Children's Cancer Hospitals & Young people's Cancer units. There are now 15 hospitals providing the Cash Gift from Josies Dragonfly Trust to children and young people where treatment is no longer considered curative. We are now getting on average two or 3 Cash Gift requests each week although we given 15 Cash Gifts in one month alone. We have given well over 350 Cash Gifts since we started. Because of Josie’s own experience she understood exactly what was needed.The cash gift gives young people a sense of independence as they can spend the money as they wish. This is particularly important for young people who have been unable to earn there own money.
Joslyn Art Museum
United StatesArts/Culture
As Nebraska's largest and most distinguished art museum, Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha has served as the premier center for visual art since opening in 1931. Joslyn's collection features work from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century European and American art. The original building is one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the nation, with 38 marbles from seven countries. Joslyn Art Museum Foundation was founded in 2000 following the completion of the Realizing Greatness campaign, which raised $45.5 million to build the Scott Pavilion. Established as a non-profit organization, the Foundation currently employs two full-time staff and supports the mission of the Museum by raising major gifts in support of capital projects and endowment.
Joyce Theater Foundation
United StatesArts/Culture
Founded in 1982, The Joyce Theater was created by dancers for dance. Today, The Joyce is considered one of the premiere performance venues for dance and attracts an annual audience of more than 140,000. Since its inception, The Joyce has welcomed over 270 New York City-based, national and international dance companies to its stage. It would be difficult to imagine the dance world today without The Joyce Theater. At The Joyce, artists and audiences come together to experience the very best of dance. When you contribute to The Joyce, you'll do more than help us bring thousands of remarkable dance works to our theaters; you'll help us commission new work, provide rehearsal space grants and bring dance education to public schools. Programs at The Joyce Theater and Joyce SoHo embrace a spectrum of styles and traditions, from the time-honored to the untried and are designed to encourage, sustain, and educate a diverse audience.
Joyful Heart Foundation
United StatesCommunity/Family
Everybody knows that rape, sexual assault and child abuse happen. Society is willing to look at this reality from time to time, but is just as willing to forget the horrible truth about how many survivors are walking among us. The Joyful Heart Foundation is working to build a community that is strong enough not to push this reality away, a community that acknowledges the dark side of this issue, but endeavors to turn toward the light of healing, the path to possibility and the clarity of honest dialogue. We envision a community that says to a survivor "We hear you. We believe you. We feel for you. You are not alone. And your healing is our priority." The cornerstones of our community are safety, trust, diversity and continual support. We believe it takes courage and strength to survive, seek help and heal from violence. We are committed to the population we serve and to deeply listening to their needs and responding with compassion and non-judgment. As an organization, we operate in a tender place between interrupting isolation and honoring boundaries. We seek to create safe, open and restorative spaces as sanctuary for those we serve and for ourselves. We humbly recognize ourselves as part of a much larger community striving for freedom from suffering.
Joys Memorial Educational Foundation
IndiaResearch/Dev
We are a not-for-profit, non-governmental social service group committed to educating underprivileged groups in Andhra Pradesh, women and children in rural areas, dalits, landless labourers, widows, destitutes and orphans, who need our specialist care for their survival. It is our firm conviction that unless women, as the very backbone of social structure, are moved from inertia and inaction, the very notion of integrated rural development remains little more than an enthusiastic fertility project.