New Zealand Herpetological Society
New ZealandAnimals/Wildlife
The Society endeavours to cater for all levels of interest in herpetology, from the school pupil who finds that lizards and frogs make interesting pets, to the person engaged in serious scientific study or captive breeding programmes. The majority of members keep and breed native geckos and skinks in captivity, or are engaged in the field study of these animals. Other members have an interest in keeping exotic species such as tortoises, terrapins, frogs and axolotls. New Zealand's reptiles and amphibians are unique in many ways. A high proportion are endangered. There is a need for a strong body of people dedicated to ensuring the continued survival of this important but little known group of animals. Specialist groups have a vital role to play in providing the data required to complement the activities of the larger conservation organizations.
New Zealand Historic Places Trust
New ZealandArts/Culture
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT) is New Zealand's leading national historic heritage agency and guardian of Aotearoa New Zealand’s national heritage. The environment in which NZHPT is operating continues to be characterised by a growing interest in heritage, recognition of its social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits, and awareness of its importance to national identity. The distinctive characteristics of New Zealand's land and buildings are important to the way we shape our communities; socially, economically, aesthetically and culturally. The NZHPT believes the conservation of this heritage enables New Zealanders to develop a greater understanding of their history and identity.
New Zealand Landcare Trust
New ZealandEnvironment
NZ Landcare Trust is an independent, non government organisation that was first established in 1996. Over the years the Trust has flourished and now works on a range of field based projects, from large 'catchment based' projects that deal with complex landcare issues to smaller, landcare groups with a specific biodiversity focus. Throughout New Zealand hundreds of farmers and landowners have been encouraged to review and improve their land management practice. They have planted trees, protected waterways, controlled pests and fostered native flora and fauna, in an effort to maintain a productive, sustainable environment.
New Zealand Marine Sciences Society
New ZealandResearch/Dev
The New Zealand Marine Sciences Society is a non-profit organization, established in 1960, to foster an understanding and appreciation of our marine environment. We provide a means of communication within our marine science community, encourage and assist marine science students and young scientists, and provide advice to government on marine policy issues.
New Zealand Red Cross
New ZealandHumanitarian Aid
New Zealand Red Cross is part of the largest humanitarian organisation in the world, helping people wherever they might be - internationally or in our own communities. New Zealand Red Cross has been part of the fabric of our country for over 75 years. Whether delivering meals on wheels, providing assistance in the aftermath of natural disasters at home and overseas, or training kiwis in first aid skills, New Zealand Red Cross works to assist communities in need. In 1931, the New Zealand Red Cross Society was formed in the wake of the Napier earthquake and was officially recognised by the International Committee of the Red Cross. New Zealand Red Cross shares our Fundamental Principles with 185 other National Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. Across this vast geographic and cultural diversity, almost a hundred million members and volunteers share the seven common principles, which guide us in all that we do.
New Zealand Trust For Conservation Volunteers
New ZealandEnvironment
Our focus is providing a web based platform for environment groups, and for all those interested in the environment. We encourage environmental volunteerism nationwide, and support environmental groups and projects nationwide. We provide a sector wide notice-board and information source, while encouraging and building relationships in the sector.
New Zealand Whale and Dolphin Trust
New ZealandAnimals/Wildlife
The New Zealand Whale and Dolphin Trust was launched in 1992 by researchers Associate Professors Liz Slooten and Steve Dawson, along with Trust Patron Sir Geoffrey Palmer to foster research and effective conservation of whales and dolphins in New Zealand. We need your help to protect the endangered Hector’s dolphin - including the critically endangered North Island population known as Maui’s dolphin. The Trust is actively involved in research projects. Based on our studies, we actively promote the extension of the boundaries of the Banks Peninsula sanctuary, and the need to create sanctuaries in other areas. Our research on the effects of bycatch has included population surveys around the South Island and off the North Island west coast, to estimate population size. Without an accurate population estimate it is not possible to assess the risks caused by bycatch. We are also actively involved in research on survival, reproductive rate, movements, habitat requirements and risk analyses to assess the effects of bycatch on Hector’s dolphins around the country.
New Zealand Wildlife Health Centre
New ZealandAnimals/Wildlife
A primary activity of the New Zealand Wildlife Health Centre is the advancement of understanding of diseases of wildlife through the application of collaborative research techniques. The mission of the wildlife diagnostic service is to protect the health and welfare of captive and free-living wildlife and New Zealand biosecurity through the application of high quality and timely diagnostic pathology services. We protect the welfare of sick and injured wildlife, promote the conservation of New Zealand native wildlife through the provision of high quality health care, and promote the health and welfare of wildlife through the provision training in best outcome health services.
Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Disabled children have been at the heart of the charity since 1991. As more babies and children survive conditions, accidents and infections, more children face enduring disability. Newlife Foundation cares for all disabled and terminally ill children. Newlife gives practical support for disabled children throughout the UK, cares for the carers, funds medical research, creates awareness and campaigns for change. We give equipment grants quickly and with the child’s needs uppermost in our minds. Our awareness raising and campaigns put children and their families first in people and decision maker’s minds.
NewSchools Venture Fund
United StatesChildren/Education
NewSchools Venture Fund was created by social entrepreneur Kim Smith and venture capitalists John Doerr and Brook Byers, each of whom had witnessed the power of entrepreneurs to create change in other sectors, such as technology. Since our founding in 1998, NewSchools has worked to transform public education, particularly for low-income and minority children in historically underserved urban communities. To achieve this goal, we support education entrepreneurs, help them grow their organizations to scale, and help connect their work to broader systems change. NewSchools Venture Fund believes that all children are entitled to a high-quality public education and that the best way to reach this goal is to transform our current systems of public schools into performance-driven organizations that focus on student achievement. We believe that education entrepreneurs can spark this broader transformation in the public school system. As a nonprofit venture philanthropy firm, we raise capital from both individual and institutional investors; we then use those funds to support promising education entrepreneurs, help them grow their organizations to scale, and connect their work with public school systems particularly within targeted urban areas.
newTree
SwitzerlandEnvironment
Our project provides the materials necessary for the protection of the natural vegetation. Additionally, we participate with local populations by conducting trainings on the sustainable use of the forests. In addition, newTree helps to create income-generating activities (apiculture, nurseries, gardening, etc.) and promotes activities that reduce the pressure on natural resources (improved cooking stoves, and the use of living-hedges rather than timber for fencing). In the medium-term newTree will create an agro-environmental training centre for farmers and students including a natural forest of about 8 hectares in Gampéla a village next to Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso.
NFTE
United StatesChildren/Education
Founded in New York City in 1987 by Steve Mariotti, a former entrepreneur turned high school math teacher in the South Bronx, NFTE began as a program to prevent dropouts and improve academic performance among students who were at risk of failing or quitting school. Combining his business background with his desire to teach at-risk students, Steve discovered that when young people from low-income communities are given the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship, their innate "street smarts" can easily develop into "academic smarts" and "business smarts." Through entrepreneurship, young people discover that what they are learning in the classroom is relevant to the real world. To date, NFTE has worked with nearly 350,000 young people from low-income communities in programs across the U.S. and around the world.
Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary
UgandaAnimals/Wildlife
CSWCT was established as a combined national and international initiative and a globally recognized collaborative conservation effort, geared towards developing and implementing a long-term strategy for conservation of chimpanzees and their habitat, with the immediate purpose of establishing a chimpanzee sanctuary on Ngamba Island in Lake Victoria, and such other places in Uganda as the trustees may acquire. CSWCT established Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in 1998 for the care and welfare of entrusted animals while conserving as far as possible the ecosystem of the island. Our activities include welfare of individual captive chimpanzees entrusted to its care, long-term management of a sanctuary for confiscated individuals that cannot be returned to the wild, intervention to assist individuals in the wild when deemed necessary, conservation education of the general Ugandan public with particularly emphasis on chimpanzees, ecotourism, community participation, capacity building through training, and building viable national, regional and international partnerships on chimpanzee conservation.
NHRF
NorwayHuman Rights
The NHRF was established in 1988 by Norwegian non-governmental organisations with the aim to protect and promote human rights internationally. One of the key objectives was to establish a channel for support to sensitive human rights initiatives effectuated in an informal and effcient manner. The founding organisations and owners in the first year were the Norwegian Institute (now Centre) for Human Rights, the Norwegian Federation of Trade Unions, The Church of Norway Ecumenical Council and the Norwegian Red Cross.
Niagara Aquarium Foundation
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
The Aquarium of Niagara Falls opened as a privately owned corporation on June 12, 1965. Founded by a small group of chemists and scientists to introduce an artificial seawater, the Aquarium of Niagara Falls quickly became a model for the operation of inland aquaria. Technology was applied for the first time on a large scale in the preparation, handling and management of synthetic seawater. Perhaps as important, the Aquarium was established as an institution for education and recreation. The Niagara Aquarium Foundation, Aquarium of Niagara, is committed to carrying on the institution’s tradition of education, research, and wildlife conservation. The pioneering spirit of its founders and their dedication to increasing the understanding of aquatic life has been a guiding force of the Aquarium’s present operation.
Niall Mellon Township Trust
IrelandCommunity/Family
Since 2002, The Niall Mellon Township Trust has housed over 80,000 South Africans, replacing squalor and abject poverty with a new-found sense of hope and dignity. For those who volunteer to participate on a Building Blitz, the week-long stay is filled not just with lifting and carrying, but meeting the local communities whose lives you will change forever. And it’s not just the lives of South Africans that it’s changed. The thousands of Irish Volunteers who take a week out each November are also changed permanently. They form friendships that will last a lifetime, and find a new sense of purpose and of self-worth that comes with giving such an amazing gift to the poorest of the poor.
NIEMANN-PICK DISEASE GROUP UK
United KingdomHealth/Medical
The Niemann-Pick Disease Group (UK) is a charitable organisation. It offers support and information to families affected by any type of Niemann-Pick disease and to associated professionals. The organisation was formed in 1991, as the 'Niemann-Pick Support Group', by parents, Susan and Jim Green, following the diagnosis of Niemann-Pick Disease Type C in two of their three children. To make a positive difference to the lives of those affected by Niemann-Pick disease (NPD) and their families, through the provision of care and support, accurate information and the promotion of relevant research.
Niramaya Health Foundation
IndiaHealth/Medical
Niramaya Health Foundation, founded in June 2001, is a non-profit, non-government, community based health services organization, committed to improving the health of communities. Niramaya has over the years changed its focus from primarily preschool children to one that covers different aspects of community health. Niramaya’s field areas in Mumbai include Ghatkopar, Vikhroli, Mankhurd, Govandi, Wadala, Dharavi and Kurla on the Central Railway, and Kurar, Poisar and Madh on the Western side. Niramaya is also working with communities in the cities of Pune, Surat and Delhi, and in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Niramaya Health Foundation is committed to ensuring a disease free childhood for a healthy and responsible adulthood.
Nirvanavan Foundation
United KingdomResearch/Dev
The Nirvanavan Foundation is based in Rajasthan, India. Founded by Nirvana Boddhisatva in 2001, we are a small group of people committed to encouraging others to help themselves, working to better the environment and to improve the quality of life of the local population. The Nirvanavan Foundation is a grass roots organization working in Alwar and the surrounding countryside. We are supported by friends from around the world.
No peace without justice
ItalyHuman Rights
No Peace Without Justice is an international non‑profit organisation founded by Emma Bonino and born of a 1993 campaign of the Transnational Radical Party that works for the protection and promotion of human rights, democracy, the rule of law and international justice. Priorities for action for all programs are selected on the basis of the needs as determined on the ground, involving all stakeholders in the design and implementation of activities. In advocacy activities, NPWJ raises awareness and fosters public debate through explicitly political campaigns and the implementation of key programs, such as international and regional meetings, often co-hosted and co-organised with Government of the country in which they are held, fostering partnerships between public institutions, non-governmental organisations and other actors in society, to attain stakeholders’ ownership both of the political drive and of the results.