NACWOLA
UgandaWomen
The National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (NACWOLA) was founded in 1992. NACWOLA promotes positive living for women with HIV and AIDS in Uganda through the provision of psycho-social support, economic empowerment and advocating for access to essential services including treatement. The main beneficiaries are women living with HIV and AIDS and their immediate families, especially children infected and or affected by HIV and AIDS. The organisation has 30 branches and over 60,000 members across the country.
Naga Foundation
NetherlandsEnvironment
Naga Foundation is a non-profit organisation that is based in the Netherlands. It is innovative in the work that it does in relation to water management in semi-arid parts of Africa and Asia. Thanks to ingenious water management, water supplies are built up both above and below ground and benefit humans, plants and animals. Natural water supplies form the basis for drinking water, food and energy and promote health and hygiene.
Naija Worldwide Charities
United StatesCommunity/Family
Naija Worldwide Charities (NWC) is a charitable organization, legally registered as a 501C3 in the state of Maryland, USA. We strive to build a foundation of self-reliance and lasting solutions for issues affecting the vulnerable – women, youth, and orphans – on a worldwide platform with special emphasis within the Continent of Africa. We develop and support initiatives, projects, programs and services that provide essential resources – funding and relationships. At Naija Worldwide Charities, our vision is a community in which the basic needs of everyone are met irrespective of race, creed or religion.
Nairobi Peace Iniciative - NPI
KenyaHuman Rights
Nairobi Peace Initiative - Africa (NPI-Africa) is a peace resource organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. Its strategies include direct initiation of processes, capacity building and and accompaniment of other organizations, individuals, communities and processes of peacebuilding. NPI-Africa also creates spaces for reflection, documentation and dissemination of ideas, lessons and issues emerging from conflict scenarios and peacebuilding practice.
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
United StatesArts/Culture
The Basketball Hall of Fame is the world's finest sports museum located in Springfield, Massachusetts - the birthplace of basketball. There are 258 individuals and five teams enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. As a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame benefits from the generosity of others to help fulfill its mission.
Nalamdana
IndiaResearch/Dev
Nalamdana, meaning "Are you well?" in Tamil, is a non-profit organization based in Chennai, South India. It uses innovative communication methods to provide knowledge about health to illiterate audiences. Response-driven participatory street theatre, interactive games and puzzles, audio and video cassettes, tele films, small group workshops, television serials - Nalamdana explores the full range of communicative possibilities to reach out to people. Initially, we addressed a wide variety of health topics ranging from alcoholism, cancer prevention and suicide prevention to clean water and personal health and hygiene. Starting in 2000, after seven years of working closely with communities, we zeroed in on HIV AIDS prevention and Maternal and Child Health as the two areas most critically in need of knowledge intervention.
Nancy Davis Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis
United StatesResearch/Dev
Funding research is the core focus of the Foundation and all funds raised support our Center Without Walls program, a selected network of the nation’s top MS research centers. This nationwide collaboration of physicians and scientists are on the cutting-edge of innovative research programs, working as a team on therapeutic approaches to eradicate MS. In addition to combating MS through research in a clinical environment, we hope to increase awareness by educating the public about this mystifying disease.
Nand And Jeet Khemka Foundation
IndiaResearch/Dev
The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation is an Indian public charitable trust. Our approach is one that is long-term, strategic and leveraged. We believe change can only be effected through multi-stakeholder collaboration both within India and internationally. Therefore, we are deeply committed to partnership and collaborative approaches. We seek not so much to be an implementing or programmatic agency as to build key pillars of strategic philanthropy and development infrastructure in the country.
Nanhi Kali
IndiaChildren/Education
Project Nanhi Kali was initiated in 1996 by the K C Mahindra Education Trust (KCMET) with the aim of providing primary education to underprivileged girl children in India. We believe that empowering the girl child with education will result in huge benefits for the nation in the long term. According to the World Bank some of the benefits associated with girls’ education include reduction of child and maternal mortality, improvement of child nutrition and health, lower fertility rates and improvement in economic production. Moreover the benefits in the form of reduction of abuse and exploitation of females are huge.
Nantucket Historical Association
United StatesArts/Culture
The NHA designs and delivers engaging, artifact-based educational exhibitions, programs and activities pertaining to Nantucket history and its material culture. Strategies for this include enhancing our interpretive programs at our historic properties, promoting our exhibition and program schedules, and encouraging and monitoring participation in our programs by the community. The NHA develops and manages its collections, including its properties, in order to enhance its role as a leader in preserving and interpreting Nantucket history. Strategies for this goal include continuing to document our collections and properties, expanding access to collections, and continuing to build collections that capture the history of Nantucket Island and its people.
Naples Botanical Garden
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
In 1993, a group of eight Naples residents founded the Garden with nothing more than the dream of creating a world-class botanical garden. In 2000, a gift from the Kapnick Family enabled the purchase of an extraordinary 170-acre site with seven different habitats just south of Old Naples. An existing strip mall and parking lot were transformed into a garden experience to introduce the community to what was to come.
Narayan Seva Sansthan
United KingdomDisability
Established in 1985 Narayan Seva Sansthan is a charitable organization having its office at Udaipur,Rajasthan and is rendering philanthropic services in the field of treatment and rehabilitation of polio affected persons of the society at large, without any discrimination on the ground of religion,region,caste,sex etc. At present it has been running 13 prestigious hospitals for polio patients and a big international hospital for treatment of disabled by birth in Udaipur where disabled person all corner of the world are being treated free of cost.
NARHA
United StatesDisability
NARHA was founded in 1969 as the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association to promote safe and effective therapeutic horseback riding throughout the United States and Canada. Today, NARHA has nearly 800 member centers and over 6,300 individual members in countries all over the world, who help and support more than 42,000 men, women and children with special needs each year through a variety of equine-assisted activity and therapy programs.
NARSAD
United StatesHealth/Medical
NARSAD, The World's Leading Charity Dedicated to Mental Health Research is the largest donor-supported organization in the world that supports research on brain and behavior disorders. Scientific research provides real hope for better treatments and eventual cures for psychiatric brain disorders.
NARSAD
United StatesResearch/Dev
We help the best and brightest scientific minds unravel the complexities of schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders such as PTSD and OCD and childhood disorders that include autism and ADHD. We continue to support them as they develop the next generation of diagnostics and treatments. Thanks to the thousands of donors who have shared in this effort since 1987, NARSAD has awarded more than $261 million. It has funded 3,832 research grants for nearly 3,132 scientists at over 494 universities, institutions and teaching hospitals in the U.S. and 28 other countries.
Nashville Symphony
United StatesArts/Culture
Led by Music Advisor Leonard Slatkin, incoming Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero, and President and CEO Alan D. Valentine, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Nashville Symphony has a growing international reputation for its recordings and innovative programming. With 140 performances annually, the 84-member Nashville Symphony is an arts leader in Nashville and beyond, offering a broad range of classical, pops and jazz concerts; special events; children's concerts and community outreach programs. In 2003, the Nashville Symphony broke ground on the $123.5 million Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the new home of the Nashville Symphony, which opened on September 9, 2006 to critical acclaim. Highlights of the Symphony Center include the 1,844-seat Laura Turner Concert Hall and the 3,000 square-foot Mike Curb Family Music Education Hall. This new cultural center in downtown Nashville has had a significant artistic, social and economic impact on the city, and in addition, has given the Nashville Symphony a venue equal to its growing reputation and superb music-making.
Nashville Zoo
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
In 1964, sisters Margaret and Elise Croft donated the Grassmere property to the Children's Museum of Nashville (Adventure Science Center). After the last sister's death in 1985, the Children's Museum began to develop about 40 of the property's 200 acres, which in 1990, became Grassmere Wildlife Park. That same year, Nashville Zoo opened its doors in Joelton, Tennessee.
National Children's Bureau
United KingdomChildren/Education
Established in 1963, NCB is a charitable organisation that is dedicated to advancing the health and well-being of all children and young people across every aspect of their lives and providing them with a powerful and authoritative voice. We promote many charitable networks, councils and partnership programmes. As a leader in providing the latest information on policy, research and best practice across the sector as a whole, NCB offers essential support to those working with and on behalf of children, their families and carers. NCB works from an evidence-informed perspective and across multi-disciplinary partnerships to influence policy, practice and service developments and undertake high-quality research. The accessible dissemination of information, ideas and resources to all underpins every aspect of our work and is central to our long-term success.
National 4-H Council
United StatesChildren/Education
4-H is a community of 6 million young people across America learning leadership, citizenship and life skills. The 4-H community also includes 3,500 staff, 518,000 volunteers and 60 million alumni. 4-H'ers participate in fun, hands-on learning activities, supported by the latest research of land-grant universities, that are focused on three areas: Science, Engineering and Technology; Healthy Living; Citizenship. The foundation of our community lies within the 106 land-grant universities across the country that deliver research driven programs through Extension agents in each of the more than 3,000 counties. The 4-H leadership builds on the strength of our state and local professionals in partnership with the National 4-H Headquarters.
National Academy Foundation
United StatesChildren/Education
The National Academy Foundation (NAF) is an acclaimed national network of high school career academies predominately based in urban districts-schools within schools-with rigorous, career-themed curricula created with current industry and educational expertise. Each year, NAF serves more than 50,000 students in over 500 Academies in 40 states and the District of Columbia through the Academy of Finance, the Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Hospitality & Tourism, and the Academy of Information Technology. NAF was founded by Sanford I. Weill, Chairman Emeritus of Citigroup Inc., as a partnership between business leaders and educators. Employees of more than 2,500 businesses support NAF students by securing paid internships, volunteering in classrooms, acting as mentors, and serving on local Advisory Boards. NAF's record of success with 90% graduation rates and more than 80% of these graduates going on to college, has garnered the support of corporations, public policy makers, and foundations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.