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Playhouse Square Foundation
Based in USA
United States
Arts/Culture

Playhouse Square has undertaken an Endowment Initiative to build its' permanent endowment fund. We hope to build the fund over time to equal or exceed the annual budget. The success and financial health of Playhouse Square over the next generation will be determined by many factors. But certainly our ability to develop a significant endowment in addition to the generous annual contributions we receive each year will play a role in our success.


Plunket
Based in NZL
New Zealand
Community/Family

Plunket is a national not-for-profit organisation, community-owned and governed. We provide a caring, professional well child and family/whānau service. We are committed to providing universal access to services for all children and families regardless of ethnicity, location or ability to pay. This is at the heart of who we are and is essential to provide a positive environment for parents. We offer information, support and children developmental assessments. Plunket nurses provide support through home and clinic visits, mobile clinics and PlunketLine, a free telephone advice service for parents (24 hours a day, 7 days a week). Plunket also organises car seat rental schemes, parent groups, parenting education and toy libraries – most of which are available nationwide and free of charge.


Point Foundation
Based in USA
United States
Children/Education

Point Foundation provides scholarships, mentorship, leadership training and hope for students of merit who have been marginalized due to sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Additionally, Point Foundation provides programs that affect social change by challenging attitudes that contribute to social stigma and its resulting prejudice, which is often experienced by those in the LGBT community. In addition to financial support, Point Foundation matches each scholar with a mentor who is a successful professional in fields such as the arts, science, education, business, law, medicine and other humanities. Point Foundation Mentors build rewarding, personal relationships and serve as exemplary role models for the organization’s scholars.


Point of Light Institute
Based in USA
United States
Community/Family

Points of Light Institute embraces service and civic engagement as fundamental to a purposeful life and essential to a healthy world. We have the history, the scale and reach, the leadership and the strategy to mobilize millions of people to tackle concrete, significant challenges. With more than 20 years of history, we are a bi-partisan presidential legacy, the largest national volunteer footprint in the nation. We are acutely aware that the most promising strategies for critical challenges of our nation require civic action. Effectively supporting and unleashing the full potential of this untapped resource requires a new generation of service that responds to a vastly changing landscape.


Polar Bears International
Based in USA
United States
Animals/Wildlife

Polar Bears International (PBI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the worldwide conservation of the polar bear and its habitat through research, stewardship, and education. PBI has forged relationships with preeminent scientists, biologists, and other professionals who are primarily engaged in studying and documenting polar bears and their arctic habitat. Our mutual goal is to disseminate only fact-based, scientifically-gathered, peer-reviewed information to assist the global community in understanding and evaluating the true status and condition of polar bear populations and their arctic habitat, as well as the impact of human-caused and natural-occurring events on their survival.


Polaris Project
Based in USA
United States
Human Rights

Named after the North Star that guided slaves towards freedom along the Underground Railroad, Polaris Project has been providing a comprehensive approach to combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery since 2002. Polaris Project is one of the largest anti-trafficking organizations in the United States and Japan, with programs operating at international, national and local levels through our offices in Washington, DC; Newark, NJ; Denver, CO; and Tokyo, Japan. Polaris Project is one of the few organizations working on all forms of trafficking and serving both citizen and foreign national victims of human trafficking.


Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Based in USA
United States
Children/Education

Founded in 1854, NYU-Poly is the second oldest private engineering school in the United States. Among our graduates and faculty are Nobel laureates, notable inventors, world class scientists and successful entrepreneurs. In 1931, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Polytechnic alumnus of 1898, James Truslow Adams heralded the concept and coined the phrase The American Dream–a pervasive concept in the United States and recognized throughout the world. For 75 years–half of its 150-year history–NYU-Poly has been the embodiment of this concept borne of the school itself and has sent tens of thousands of alumni on the path to their dreams.


Pomona College
Based in USA
United States
Children/Education

Small classes, top-notch facilities and distinguished professors who work closely with students are key elements of a Pomona education. Established in 1887, Pomona College is widely regarded as one of the premier liberal arts colleges in America. The college is located in Claremont, California, a charming town 35 miles east of Los Angeles. Pomona is the founding member of The Claremont Colleges, a consortium of seven independent institutions blending the intimate atmosphere of small colleges with the academic and social resources of a university. Famous beaches, ski resorts and Los Angeles' many cultural offerings all are within easy driving distance of the campus.


Pompiers De L'urgence Internationale
Based in FRA
France
Humanitarian Aid

Firefighter Emergency International (PUI) is a French humanitarian organization that works to bring relief and assistance to countries affected by natural disasters or humanitarian. Professionals or volunteers, the firefighters decided to volunteer their experience and expertise to serve populations in need.


Pond Conservation
Based in GBR
United Kingdom
Environment

Pond Conservation is the national charity dedicated to protecting pond wildlife. We give advice, carry out research, promote practical action and lobby policy makers to ensure pond wildlife and pond habitats have a secure future. We also work to protect the biodiversity of other freshwaters including rivers, streams, ditches, lakes and canals


Pop-Up-Foundation
Based in GBR
United Kingdom
Environment

Pop-Up-Foundation addresses one of the central challenges of our time: decoupling human progress from resource use and environmental decline. Bringing sustainable living to people in a simple, accessible form, focused on results, Pop-Up-Foundation encourages everyone to participate in the changes and create and share solutions. In this way, all these small changes can connect, consolidate and have a bigger compound effect. This is how Pop-Up-Foundation uses its local perspective to address the global ecological challenge – how to live our lives sustainably. We see this challenge as an educational issue, and act to respond through schools, communities and businesses worldwide, evolving through social, economic and technological networks. Our focus is on thinking and action upon the key themes of water, waste, energy, food, growing, buildings, health and wellbeing. The emergent ideas and action serve to demonstrate different ways that people can change their lives to the mutual benefit o


Population Action International
Based in USA
United States
Research/Dev

Population Action International uses research and advocacy to improve access to family planning and reproductive health care across the world so women and families can prosper and live in balance with the earth. By ensuring couples are able to determine the size of their families, poverty and the depletion of natural resources are reduced, improving the lives of millions across the world. PAI's International Advocacy department works to bridge the organization's work with governments and influential institutions and, increasingly, key regional institutions, to our partners and colleagues worldwide. We seek to influence and raise awareness about the international policies and funding of these various stakeholders, and ensure that they are considering the linkages between sexual and reproductive health and rights, family planning, HIV and AIDS, and gender equality, and other key development concerns such as the environment and climate change, and security and conflict.


Population Council
Based in USA
United States
Health/Medical

"Most [NGOs] claim to promote change for the better; the Population Council actually has hard evidence of having changed the lives and expectations of hundreds of millions of people." The Lancet, 7 June 2003.


PORCHLIGHT
Based in GBR
United Kingdom
Community/Family

In June 2008 we changed our name from East Kent Cyrenians to Porchlight to better reflect the services we now deliver across Kent. Porchlight works to change people's lives for the better. By helping the most vulnerable and isolated people in our communities to access housing and related support services, we help change lives. We work with individuals, organisations and government to prevent the breakdown of our communities and reduce poverty. Through our success we challenge the negative attitudes and beliefs surrounding exclusion. By changing lives we can change attitudes; and through a change in attitudes, we can change more lives.


Portland Museum of Art
Based in USA
United States
Arts/Culture

As the largest and oldest art museum in the state of Maine, the Museum (founded in 1882) serves as a vital cultural resource for all who visit. The Museum's collection of more than 17,000 objects is housed in three historic and remarkable buildings showcasing three centuries of art and architecture. Whether this is your first visit or 131st, our changing exhibitions and permanent collection offer you a diverse selection of fine and decorative arts to view. Portland Museum of Art preserves, documents, and interprets four significant architectural landmarks and a rich variety of art drawn from its collections and from loans to encourage its visitors and community to experience original work.


Positive Coaching Alliance
Based in USA
United States
Children/Education

Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is transforming youth sports so sports can transform youth. We train youth and high school sports coaches to become Double-Goal Coaches®, whose first goal is winning, and whose second, more-important goal is teaching life lessons through sports. We cultivate student athletes who strive to improve themselves, their teammates and their sport as a whole. PCA gains support from elite coaches and athletes, including Los Angeles Lakers Head Coach Phil Jackson as PCA National Spokesperson. There are many people in this nation who want to change the culture of youth sports, but they do not feel equipped to do so. Positive Coaching Alliance has developed practical tools to change the culture of youth sports and is making them available to coaches, parents, league organizers and others who will fire this movement.


Poverty Eradication Network (PEN)
Based in KEN
Kenya
Research/Dev

Poverty Eradication Network (PEN) was registered in Kenya by the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Coordination Bureau on December 1, 2001 and began operations, from its headquarters in Nairobi, on November 4, 2002. PEN was founded for the specific purpose of strengthening not-for-profit groups and organisations across the complete spectrum of civil society throughout East Africa. PEN’s founders recognized that a high percentage of grassroots development initiatives and locally driven civil society organisations died a natural death after the initial motivation and energy behind their formation had subsided.


Povertyfocus
Based in GBR
United Kingdom
Research/Dev

At Poverty Focus, our main goal is to provide financial and material support in health, education and development to the African people. We act to ensure that everybody, regardless of where they are born has the basic right, education, services and infrastructure that will allow them to move beyond poverty. All across Africa, economic growth and increased financial security are becoming more and more prevalent. However, children are still left out and almost forgotten on the road to progress and social change. At Poverty Focus, we aim to change the fortunes and future of Africa's children through the power of education. We aim to provide users with the knowledge and resources they need to become advocates for change on issues related to extreme poverty and encourage meaningful actions on these issues such as fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS. Our goal is to develop education, healthcare and policies for social change in conjunction with the people we support throughout Africa.


POWER International
Based in GBR
United Kingdom
Disability

POWER International is a charity that ensures people with disabilities in developing countries can change their lives and communities for the better. Our work creates genuine choices in life, and promotes equal access to education, healthcare and employment - basics that others take for granted. POWER is currently operating in Mozambique, Zambia and Laos. Working with local partners, our work enables people with disabilities to improve their lives in different ways. By listening to the voices of people with disabilities we come to know what is needed and then work with them, local organisations and their governments to enable people with disabilities bring about the desperately needed change to improve their lives.


Power To Be
Based in CAN
Canada
Disability

Although Power To Be looks very different today than it did ten years ago, our greatest impact is still on the ground, in our programs delivered by our skillful staff, volunteers and partnering agencies. The Power To Be Adaptive Recreation Program provides people living with a disability access to year round activities such as: kayaking, skiing, rock climbing, gardening and camping, that are adapted to the participant's unique abilities and needs. We achieve our mission by providing a unique and inclusive year-round outdoor education curriculum that promotes physical heath and emotional well-being, advocates for accessibility, develops interpersonal and leadership skills, teaches environmental and social stewardship, offers peer mentorship and supports vocational opportunities.


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