Amani Children’s Home
TanzaniaChildren/Education
Amani provides a safe and loving home, nutritious meals, and medical care to homeless children in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania. Amani’s trained caregivers make sure that each child rescued from the streets is given love and attention as well as important life skills, restoring hope to their lives. The children receive three healthy meals a day. Many children arrive at Amani malnourished from living on the streets. With good, nutritious food, they quickly become healthy and active. Medical care is an important service that Amani provides to the children. Amani has a full time nurse who cares for all the children’s medical needs, from bandaging scrapes and bruises to treating more serious illnesses like malaria, TB and HIV. She gives weekly health lessons to the children on topics such as personal hygiene, STDs and nutrition. There’s a real family atmosphere at Amani, with the older children taking care of the younger ones. Amani caregivers have created a cheerful, happy place that warmly welcomes children who have faced many hardships in their lives.
Amani Peoples Theatre
KenyaArts/Culture
Amani Peoples Theatre (APT) was founded in December 1994 by a group of African Trainers in Conflict Transformation, Peacebuilding and Community Development. APT has over the years developed to become a leading Training Provider in participatory methodologies especially forum theatre and the application of the same in Conflict Transformation, Community Development and Child Rehabilitation. APT is heavily rooted in African Traditional models of communication and also informed by the theories and works of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal.
Amar Lata Gramin Seva Foundation
United KingdomResearch/Dev
Amar Lata focuses it’s efforts on remote Indian villages and works together with specialized organizations and the local community to set up and sustain the infrastructure, expertise and financial framework to raise health awareness, provide a range of primary healthcare services and improve access to education for the village people. We do not bring in ready-made solutions from outside, but have an intimate knowledge of the local culture and customs, enabling us to initiate sustainable change in a way that people can understand, accept and embrace. Based on our belief that a basic level of health care and education is the key to the development and sustainability of a community, we have created a model around which we plan our projects. It consists of two areas – health and education – with each key health initiative linking to an education effort.
Amar Seva Sangam
IndiaDisability
The organisation, started with just a handful of children, has grown into an Institution of significant social relevance rendering immeasurable services to thousands of needy disabled. Our center takes care of the needs of the disabled boys and girls who are under our residential care. The home for the disabled caters to the needs for the residential care children up-to 50. In this home deserving children from poor families are taken for complete care and boarding, lodging, rehabilitation and education is given free of cost.
AMARA
United KingdomChildren/Education
AMARA is a new charity whose name is derived from the Mongolian word that means ‘to comfort'. AMARA connotes a safe emotional journey ‘home' for children who have suffered some of the most terrible ordeals and traumas in their lives. The children we help often live in orphanages and centres all around the world having experienced ordeals such as abandonment, loss of parents, sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, prostitution or having lived on the streets. There are worthy organisations working very hard to meet the primary needs of the children by providing food, clothes and shelter. Only when these primary needs are being met can AMARA begin to approach their emotional well-being.
Amara Conservation
KenyaAnimals/Wildlife
Amara originally supported the work of others in anti-poaching and rural school support. We quickly identified other projects that we are currently implementing to impact areas where the need is great. We hope to act as a bridge from this most special place, with its seriously endangered species and communities that are struggling to survive, to those individuals and entities in the western world who have the ability and will to help make a difference. Amara Conservation is an organization dedicated not only to preserving the wildlife, but perhaps more importantly, devoted to helping the rural people improve their future by providing educational and community assistance. Amara is a small organization. We work efficiently as a tight unit on the ground in Kenya. We have two Land Rovers, thanks to the generous support of Land Rover Corporation. A lot of people are donating their time and knowledge to help Amara succeed. We focus our efforts in the Tsavo Conservation Area. This area (including Tsavo East, Tsavo West and Chyulu Hills) covers over 60,000 sq. km and is the largest National Park in Kenya well as one of the largest in the world.
Amarc-Africa
South AfricaCommunity/Family
AMARC-Africa is the African regional section of AMARC grouping together radios from all the continent. Through service to members, networking and project implementation, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters AMARC, brings together a network of more than 4,000 community radios, Federations and community media stakeholders in more than 115 countries. AMARC advocates for the right to communicate at the international, national, local and neighbourhood levels and defends and promotes the interests of the community radio movement through solidarity, networking and Cooperation.
Amathuba
South AfricaCommunity/Family
Operating at grassroots level, Amathuba involves the community in the decision making process to identify and prioritise projects – and unites people in working together to clear land and provide labour for the building operations. It also offers opportunities for caring and compassionate individuals and businesses – both locally and around the world to get involved in sharing their wealth, their experience and their skills to guide others towards a better quality of life.
Amazon Conservation Association
United StatesEnvironment
The Amazon Conservation Association (ACA) is a nonprofit organization that is active in Peru and Bolivia. Our directors and staff are experienced ecologists and conservationists. We work to protect biodiversity by studying ecosystems and developing innovative conservation tools to protect land in the region while supporting the livelihoods of local communities. Since 1999, ACA has been a pioneer in conserving Amazonian forests. Its founding program provided support for Brazil nut harvesters in Peru, as an incentive for protecting the forest. ACA’s Los Amigos Biological Station has become one of the most active research centers in the Amazon. Then in 2005, ACA created Peru’s only permanent research center focused on Andean cloud forest ecology and management.
Amazon Conservation Team
United StatesEnvironment
The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), an efficient and effective interdisciplinary team of conservation professionals, was founded in 1996 by ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin and conservationist Liliana Madrigal. ACT achieves its conservation successes by working in true partnership with indigenous peoples of the Amazon to protect both their cultures and their ancestral lands—some of the largest tracts of both pristine and sustainably managed rainforest on the planet. Our work begins in the forest - with the people who actually live there - and then expands to the state, national, regional and international level.
Amazwi
South AfricaCommunity/Family
Amazwi is a South African nonprofit organization supported by an American 501(c)(3), The Amazwi Foundation. Amazwi, meaning “voices” in Zulu, is currently based in Limpopo, South Africa. The Villager (a South African news magazine) is written by rural African female journalists of Sotho and Shangaan descent and distributed in their home communities within the Lowveld region of South Africa. Amazwi, a non-profit organization, publishes the Villager monthly. Amazwi’s Hoedspruit-based team of volunteers, including Amazwi’s Founder, are using the year 2008 to focus on the professional development of Amazwi SOMA graduates and the further establishment of the Amazwi Villager as a local news source, a medium through which issues are discussed and investigated, and a trusted publication supported entirely by local businesses who advertise.
AMC Cancer Research Center
United StatesHealth/Medical
AMC aims to create hope through science by raising funds through engaging corporations, civic organizations and individuals in special events, education and outreach efforts. As an independent entity, we are committed to raising funds and awareness for the innovative cancer research, treatment, prevention and control programs conducted by UCCC members. We recognize that our donors are the key to our success and we therefore commit to organizational transparency so they can confidently invest in our mission. We celebrate survival while we work toward a world without cancer.
Amcal Family Services
CanadaCommunity/Family
Amcal Family Services is a not-for-profit, community-based agency offering residential services for adolescents, and counselling for families. As well, Amcal offers skill-building groups on various topics in response to the needs of the community, and school-based programs for professionals and children. Amcal Family Services' team of professionals is committed to promoting and preserving healthy family relationships. As a community-based organization, we will anticipate, advocate and advance the role of families, thereby strengthening communities.
Amcha
IsraelHealth/Medical
About 200,000 Holocaust survivors live in Israel today, many of whom were children during the war. They experienced persecution, deportation, selection, forced labor, hunger, torture and loss of families. Amcha was founded in 1987 by a group of devoted Holocaust survivors and mental health professionals, led by the late Manfred Klafter. Aware of the survivors' distrust of clinical psychiatry, they decided to focus on non-material, psychosocial and largely preventive support, rather than on mental health treatment per se. Amcha has steadily expanded, and today there are 12 centers that operate throughout the country, and various programs are provided also in many other locations.
Ame Foundation
IndiaResearch/Dev
AME Foundation is a development-oriented, non-government organization, devoted to promoting sustainable agriculture practices. It is born out of the concern for people in difficult farming circumstances in the midst of widespread environmental degradation. We adopt equitable and gender sensitive participatory development processes for capacity building, and seek institutional collaborations for ensuring sustainabilty in development processes.
America SCORES
United StatesChildren/Education
America SCORES is a soccer league with the purpose of providing boys and girls with an alternative to spending after-school time on the streets. In 1994, a public school teacher in Washington, DC started a soccer league with the purpose of providing girls with an alternative to spending after-school time on the streets. She discovered her students were eager to learn the sport and in the process developed greater self-esteem, positive peer interactions, stronger attachments to school, and a motivation to exercise. Within the next several years, America SCORES expanded upon this innovative model and brought it to more than 6.000 youth in urban public school districts serving 14 cities.
America the Beautiful Fund
United StatesCommunity/Family
America the Beautiful Fund® is a national non-profit organization started in 1965 to encourage volunteer citizen efforts and to protect the natural and historic beauty of America. The America the Beautiful Fund® was born of a desire to preserve our national heritage by assisting community-level programs and projects to save the natural and historic environment and improve the quality of life. The America the Beautiful Fund now provides support and direction to volunteer community projects in all 50 states operating as a clearinghouse of ideas for thousands of community projects and as a catalyst for new ones. America the Beautiful Fund® now draws on over a third of a century of experience, knowing what works and what does not work.
America's Promise Alliance
United StatesChildren/Education
Building on the legacy of our founder, General Colin Powell, we are the leader in forging a strong and effective partnership alliance committed to seeing that children experience the fundamental resources they need to succeed at home, in school and out in the community.
American Academy in Berlin
United StatesArts/Culture
The American Academy in Berlin was established in 1994. The Academy offers residential fellowships at its Hans Arnhold Center to American scholars, writers, policymakers, and artists, permitting them to pursue their work in a manner that encourages participation in the vibrant life of Berlin and Germany. The Academy also brings leading Americans to Berlin for briefer visits to facilitate a robust exchange of views between the people of Germany and the United States.
American Academy in Rome
United StatesArts/Culture
The Academy awards the prestigious Rome Prize to a selected group of artists and scholars invited to Rome to pursue their creative goals in an atmosphere conducive to artistic innovation and progressive scholarship. Over the years, the Academy paid tribute to grand ideologies and fostered collaborative relationships which became the legacy of Rome Prize Fellows. Today, the Academy remains a dynamic, inspirational cultural site, a unique intellectual community involved in a complex and changing network of individuals and institutions with similar values. The Academy provides a multi-disciplinary environment where groups of talented and ambitious artists and scholars come together, influence each other, and contribute to the artistic movements and scholarly culture of their time. Central to its mission are encounters with the Eternal City, deepening and intensifying all the Academy has to offer.