National Alliance on Mental Illness - NAMI
United StatesHealth/Medical
From its inception in 1979, NAMI has been dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness. For three decades, NAMI has established itself as the most formidable grassroots mental health advocacy organization in the country. Dedication, steadfast commitment and unceasing belief in NAMI's mission by grassroots advocates have produced profound changes. NAMI's greatest strength is the dedication of our leaders and members. We are the families, friends and individuals that serve to strengthen communities across the country. Due in large part to generous individual, corporate, and foundation donations, NAMI is able to build on its success and continue to focus on three cornerstones of activity that offer hope, reform, and health to our American community: Awareness, Education, and Advocacy. AMI's support and public education efforts are focused on educating America about mental illness, offering resources to those in need, and insisting that mental illness become a high national priority. Mental illness is a serious medical illness that affects one in four families. No one is to blame. Treatment works, but only half of people living with mental illness receive treatment. NAMI has engaged in a variety of activities to create awareness about mental illness and promote the promise of recovery.
National Alopecia Areata Foundation
United StatesResearch/Dev
The National Alopecia Areata Foundation (NAAF), headquartered in San Rafael, CA, supports research to find a cure or acceptable treatment for alopecia areata, supports those with the disease, and educates the public about alopecia areata. NAAF is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors and a prestigious Scientific Advisory Council. Founded in 1981, NAAF is widely regarded as the largest, most influential and most representative foundation associated with alopecia areata.
National Animal Welfare Trust
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
National Animal Welfare Trust (NAWT) was founded in 1971 as an independent charity, and was originally known as Animal Welfare Trust (the word national was added in 1996 as part of our 25th Anniversary celebrations). The roots of the organisation can be traced back to 1958, when the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) established BUVA Dog Rescue. The Aims and Objectives of the charity are the provision of care and shelter for stray, neglected and unwanted animals of all kinds, the protection of animals of all kinds from ill-usage, cruelty and suffering, and in particular, to rescue and provide care and shelter for stray, neglected and unwanted animals of all kinds and find suitable homes for any such animals.
National Anti-Vivisection Society
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
The National Anti-Vivisection Society promotes greater compassion, respect and justice for animals through educational programs based on respected ethical and scientific theory and supported by extensive documentation of the cruelty and waste of vivisection. NAVS’ education programs are directed at increasing public awareness about vivisection, identifying humane solutions to human problems, supporting the development of alternatives to the use of animals, and working with like-minded individuals to effect changes which help to end the suffering of innocent animals.
National Aquarium in Baltimore
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
The National Aquarium in Baltimore is Maryland's most exciting and popular cultural attraction, as well as one of the region's leading conservation and education resources, hosting more than 1.6 million visitors per year. Through transforming experiences, the National Aquarium Institute inspires people to enjoy, respect, and protect the aquatic world.
National Art Collections Fund
United KingdomArts/Culture
The Art Fund is the national fundraising charity for works of art and plays a major part in enriching the range and quality of art in the UK. We campaign, fundraise and give money to museums and galleries to buy and show art, and promote its enjoyment through our events and membership scheme. Current initiatives include sponsoring the UK tour of the ARTIST ROOMS collection, and running a major campaign in partnership with the National Trust to raise £2.7 million to save Brueghel's The Procession to Calvary for Nostell Priory. We are funded by our art-loving and museum-going members and supporters who believe that great art should be for everyone to enjoy.
National Association for the Blind
IndiaDisability
NAB believes preventing blindness is as important as providing rehabilitative services to the blind; in fact blindness prevention is one of NAB's mission statements. So, around five decades ago, in June 1959 – to be precise - NAB constituted under its auspices, the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness (NSPB). NSPB through support of the Government and international funding agencies significantly contributed to ophthalmic research and community eye health, at national level. Blindness can be preventable. However, lack of awareness about eye ailments delays treatment thereby leading to sight loss. Bearing this in mind, the committee trained some 1300 teachers in detecting eye defects in children and took remedial action. In 1996 NAB decided to establish a special department to manage this activity. Hence came into being NAB Kaikhushroo H. Chinoy Centre for Prevention of Blindness.
National Ataxia Foundation
United StatesResearch/Dev
NAF is a membership supported, nonprofit organization established in 1957 to help persons with ataxia and their families. The Foundation's primary purpose is to support promising ataxia research and to provide vital programs and services for ataxia families. NAF research programs fund promising ataxia research studies throughout the world. The Foundation has developed an extensive library of NAF brochures, fact sheets, books, and videos on ataxia.
National Audubon Society
United StatesEnvironment
Our national network of community-based nature centers and chapters, scientific and educational programs, and advocacy on behalf of areas sustaining important bird populations, engage millions of people of all ages and backgrounds in positive conservation experiences.
National Autism Association
United StatesDisability
We will educate society that autism is not a lifelong incurable genetic disorder but one that is biomedically definable and treatable. We will raise public and professional awareness of environmental toxins as causative factors in neurological damage that often results in an autism or related diagnosis. We will encourage those in the autism community to never give up in their search to help their loved ones reach their full potential, funding efforts toward this end through appropriate research for finding a cure for the neurological damage from which so many affected by autism suffer.
National Aviary
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
The National Aviary is America's only independent indoor nonprofit zoo dedicated exclusively to birds. Located in West Park on Pittsburgh's historic North Side, the National Aviary's diverse collection comprises more than 600 birds representing more than 200 species from around the world, many of them threatened or endangered in the wild. The National Aviary's large walk-through exhibits create an experience unlike any other - an intimate, up-close interaction between visitors and free-flying birds, including opportunities to hand-feed and meet many species rarely found in zoos anywhere else in the world.
National Blind Children's Society
United KingdomDisability
The National Blind Children's Society (NBCS) was founded in December 1995 by Roderick Carne, who himself is registered blind. His belief was that a child who has a visual impairment and their parents, having come to terms with the burden of a disability, should not also have to struggle in the search for help in gaining what is rightfully theirs. We offer help and support from the moment a child is diagnosed, usually at birth, through each key stage of their education to the age of twenty-five.
National Braille Press
United StatesDisability
National Braille Press is a Boston-based nonprofit braille printing and publishing house founded in 1927. One third of our staff has a disability, predominantly blindness, filling positions at all levels. A fundamental belief at NBP is that blind people can, want to, and should work for companies that value talent and hard work above all.
National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.
United StatesHealth/Medical
NBCF is committed to spreading knowledge and fostering hope in the fight against breast cancer. By funding free mammograms for women who could otherwise not afford them and supporting research programs in leading facilities across the country, NBCF helps inspire the courage needed to win this monumental battle. Our mission includes increasing awareness through education, providing diagnostic breast care services for those in need, and providing nurturing support services.
National Building Museum
United StatesArts/Culture
The National Building Museum has always offered visitors the chance to see many interesting objects, from drawings by famous architects to a full-scale, sustainable house built in our own galleries. Indeed, the care, interpretation, and thoughtful display of such artifacts are central to our mission. The Museum is, however, much more than a repository of things, beautiful and intriguing though they may be. It is above all a forum for the development, exploration, and exchange of ideas. Created by an act of Congress in 1980, the National Building Museum has become one of the world's most prominent and vital venues for informed, reasoned debate about the built environment and its impact on people’s lives.
National Cancer Coalition
United StatesHealth/Medical
The National Cancer Coalition (NCC) is a non-profit Delaware corporation. The NCC was formed in August of 1993 and has been recognized by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3). The NCC is seeking to improve survivability rates throughout the world by providing relief and by increasing understanding and participation in early detection, prevention, and cancer treatment programs.
National Center for Learning Disabilities
United StatesDisability
NCLD provides essential information to parents, professionals and individuals with learning disabilities, promotes research and programs to foster effective learning, and advocates for policies to protect and strengthen educational rights and opportunities. Since its beginning, NCLD has been led by passionate and devoted parents committed to creating better outcomes for children, adolescents and adults with learning disabilities. Founded in 1977 by Pete and Carrie Rozelle as the Foundation for Children with Learning Disabilities, the organization provided leadership, public awareness and grants to support research and innovative practices in learning disabilities.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
United StatesChildren/Education
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children - NCMEC - was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit organization to provide services nationwide for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children. Pursuant to its mission and its congressional mandates NCMEC serves as the national resource center and information clearinghouse for missing and exploited children, it operates a national 24-hour toll-free hotline to intake reports of missing children and receive leads about ongoing cases. We also provide technical assistance and training to individuals and law-enforcement agencies in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing and exploited children.
National Child Safety Council
United StatesChildren/Education
In 1955, after learning that more children die of accidental causes than of all the communicable diseases combined, H.R. Wilkinson, a Jackson, Michigan business executive, began visiting police agencies and schools to explore ideas for mitigating this tragedy. Wilkinson and his wife, Glennis, borrowed $500 from a friend and began their effort to reduce, through prevention education, the number of children dying from accidents. Their nonprofit organization, originally named Police Safety Service, was soon changed to Child Safety Council and then National Child Safety Council (NCSC). NCSC, still maintains its headquarters in Jackson, is the world's largest and oldest nonprofit organization dedicated entirely to the safety of children. NCSC's nationally recognized character, Safetypup®, serves as an entertaining, nonthreatening educational tool for law enforcement officers and teachers across the United States.
National Children's Centre
United KingdomChildren/Education
We are a medium sized charity based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire serving communities locally, regionally and through its lobbying work in a national capacity. The Centre provides practical services aimed at improving the lives of children, young people and families most in need and in working to influence national policy and delivery of services for children.