Oprah's Angel Network
United StatesCommunity/Family
In a 1997 episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, Oprah invited viewers to join her in using their lives to improve the lives of others. What began as a campaign to encourage viewers to collect spare change for 150 scholarships given through The Boys & Girls Clubs of America and to volunteer time to build 200 homes for the needy with Habitat for Humanity International™, evolved into the charity known today as Oprah’s Angel Network. The Angel Network was established to encourage people around the world to make a difference in the lives of others. Oprah’s vision is to inspire people to help others rise to their potential.
Optimist International Foundation
United StatesCommunity/Family
Established in 1971, the Optimist International Foundation i a not-for-profit charitable organization. OIF works with Optimistic Clubs located in over 3800 communities in the USA, Canada, Europe, Caribbean. We have an increasing number of friends who now are benefiting from life income gifts, gift annuities and other plans.
Options for Life
United KingdomDisability
Options for Life is a non-profit making voluntary organisation, which enables people with learning disabilities living in the Borough of Sandwell to advance their personal development and lead a full life within the community, using the support and friendship of staff and volunteers. The organisation has a Christian ethos that is the foundation of all of the services and activities that we provide.
Orange County Performing Arts Center
United StatesArts/Culture
The Orange County Performing Arts Center is committed to supporting artistic excellence on all of its stages and engaging the entire community in new and exciting ways through an array of inspiring programs. The Orange County Performing Arts Center opened in 1986 with its 3,000-seat Segerstrom Hall and intimate 250-seat Founders Hall. In 2006, the Center expanded its venues to include the 2,000-seat Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and 500-seat multi-functional Samueli Theater. The Center's new facility, which also includes a studio theater and education lab, joins the adjacent Tony® Award-winning South Coast Repertory and a site for a future visual arts complex to create Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
Orangutan Foundation
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
Founded in 1990, Orangutan Foundation is the foremost orangutan conservation organisation working actively across the entire range of the orangutan species. We are a small organisation operating a diverse range of programmes that reflect the challenges involved with successfully conserving a highly threatened species and ecosystem. At the heart of our conservation strategy is the involvement of local communities who live close to areas of orangutan habitat. We have come to learn that through education, awareness and inclusion, our projects have greater success and sustainability.
Orangutan Foundation International
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
OFI is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of wild orangutans and their rainforest habitat. Founded by Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas and associates in 1986, OFI operates Camp Leakey, an orangutan research area within Tanjung Puting National Park. OFI also runs the Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ) facility in the Dayak village of Pasir Panjang near Pangkalan Bun, which is home to 330 displaced orangutans, and helps manages the Lamandau Wildlife Reserve, where rehabilitated wild born ex-captive orangutans are released into the wild. Through its field programs, OFI also provides employment at these facilities for over 200 local Indonesians.
Orari River Protection Group
New ZealandEnvironment
One of the threats to the river is a proposed dam for an irrigation scheme. This will destroy the natural character of the river. We want to protect the environmental and cultural integrity of the Orari River, and retain the gorge, both in their free-flowing state. We want to maintain public access to the Orari River as an educational and recreational resource, and we advocate for greater protection of the river and catchment in District and Regional plans.
Orbis International
United StatesHealth/Medical
ORBIS International, a non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to blindness prevention in developing countries, stands out from other charities in several respects. Our world renowned Flying Eye Hospital, numerous endorsements from heads of states, highly educated and experienced volunteer medical staff, and our focus on long-term sustainability place ORBIS International in a class of its own. Rather than delivering short-term emergency assistance, ORBIS is dedicated to building up the long-term capabilities of local eye care institutions. ORBIS works with local and national governments, as well as private sector, community-based and nongovernmental organizations, to help its partners reach a state where they can provide, on their own, quality eye care services that are affordable, accessible and sustainable.
ORCA
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
Organisation Cetacea (ORCA) promotes the conservation of the marine environment through research, partnership and education and provides a forum for the enjoyment of whales, dolphins, seabirds and other marine life. Founded in August 2000 Organisation Cetacea (ORCA) seeks to provide a forum for raising interest and participation in conservation research.
Orchid
United KingdomResearch/Dev
Formed in 1996 by former testicular cancer patient, Colin Osborne, Orchid is the only UK registered cancer charity to focus entirely on the male-specific cancers; prostate, penile and testicular. We offer support and information to people affected by or interested in male cancer through a dedicated medical research programme, education and awareness campaigns and a range of support services.
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
United StatesArts/Culture
In 1980, Saint Paul resident Sally Ordway Irvine challenged her community to help her create a performing arts venue in which her dream of offering "everything from opera to the Russian circus" could be realized. She set an example by making the first donation to a fund that eventually built Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. The $46 million center opened to the public on January 1, 1985, Sally had contributed $7.5 million–and her family had matched that amount. Certainly, Sally's vision is alive today in Ordway Center's dizzying schedule of theater, dance, music, family events, and educational programs.
Oregon Health & Science University Foundation
United StatesChildren/Education
OHSU has designated two independent nonprofit foundations – the Oregon Health & Science University Foundation and Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation. The foundations exist to secure private philanthropic support for OHSU, and to invest and manage gifts responsibly in accordance with donors' wishes. Each year tens of thousands of donors contribute millions of dollars in financial support to OHSU through these organizations. The foundations also oversee the efforts of hundreds of volunteers who participate in community-based fund-raising programs and events supporting OHSU. This broad range of support places OHSU among Oregon's top beneficiaries of private philanthropy. And it makes the OHSU Foundation, with more than $419 million in assets, the largest public university foundation in Oregon – and among the top higher education funds in America.
Oregon Ridge Nature Center
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Constructed in 1983, the Nature Center structure houses wildlife and nature displays to delight all ages, as well as the library, gift shop, and an auditorium for classes, meetings and colloquia. Shown is a view of the rear of the Nature Center building, seen from a hiking trail. The Nature Center offers a variety of exhibits explaining the history, wildlife, and natural environment of the Park. There are exhibits of the local fauna and flora and displays of our archaeological findings inside the Nature Center. Our wildlife exhibits include live snakes, fish, amphibians, honeybees, and other creatures. The new aquatic turtle exhibit is our latest addition.
Orfund
United KingdomChildren/Education
Partnering and establishing orphanages, orphan centres, and children's homes in Asia and Africa, Orfund have worked to rescue and care for needy orphans since 1983. We provide a decent stable home, food, clothing, medical care, all educational needs, and much more besides. Orfund has a small office, manned exclusively by unpaid volunteers; in this way ALL sponsor donations and funds raises go to the children's projects we support. We give our time freely to make sure ALL the Sponsor giving gets to the needy and the needy get what they need - monitoring our friends in every aspect of their spending.
Organisation Of Civic Rights
South AfricaCommunity/Family
The OCR is a community organisation formed in 1984 and is involved in tenants rights, homeless, inner city redevelopment, anti-crime & other community issues, social facilitation. 25 years later, the OCR continues to work with the disadvantaged, the elderly, the poor and those suffering as a result of unjust socio-economic conditions and laws. We provide a nation-wide service to tenants, while conducting workshops nation-wide to empower and educate them. We run internship programmes with students from tertiary institutions, and provide placement for local and overseas post-graduate students.
Orion Organisation
South AfricaDisability
Dedicated to caring and providing for the educational, training and therapeutic needs of children, youth and adults with physical, intellectual and/or mental disabilities, Orion proves a model of promise and hope to many. Orion’s ultimate aim is to provide a dynamic, emotionally secure and containing community around children and adults in need of special care.
ORM
IrelandChildren/Education
ORM was founded in 2000 to provide for children that have been abandoned or orphaned, children with special needs and children with terminal illness and palliative needs in the Republic of Moldova. ORM’s vision is that each person who is physically, mentally or socially disadvantaged deserves to be given special treatment, education and appropriate care required by their particular condition regardless of circumstance.
Ornithological Society Of New Zealand
New ZealandAnimals/Wildlife
Founded in 1939 the OSNZ was incorporated in 1953 and now has about 1000 financial members world-wide. A feature of OSNZ is the diversity of its membership, which ranges from professional ornithologists and government institutions in New Zealand and overseas through secondary and tertiary students and experienced amateur observers to learners and beginners. We encourage, organise and promote the study of birds and their habitat use particularly within the New Zealand region. We foster and support the wider knowledge and enjoyment of birds generally, and promote the recording and wide circulation of the results of bird studies and observations.
Orphan Grain Train
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Orphan Grain Train is a Christian volunteer network that shares personal and material resources with needy people in America and around the world. Grain Train volunteers gather donations of clothing, medical supplies, food, Christian literature, and other aid to meet real needs. The Orphan Grain Train movement is a loving response to Jesus Christ’s example as a servant and His love for us. Since 1992, Orphan Grain Train’s 19 regional divisions have delivered more than 63 million pounds of humanitarian aid to needy people in more than 40 countries on five continents. An additional 330 semi loads of hay and forage products were delivered in 2002-03 to drought-stricken farmers in the Midwest during Operation Hay and Grain Lift.
Orphanact
United StatesChildren/Education
OrphanAct, founded in 2002, provides on-going supplemental humanitarian aid to orphanages, homeless children's shelters, hospitals for abandoned babies, and other facilities for children-in-need on every continent. OrphanAct uses the power of the internet to display pictures of children and projects so that service organizations and individuals may easily select a project to sponsor or a facility to adopt. We work with in country Rotary clubs that have a good relationship with their local orphanage to provide aid.