Relief Fund for Romania
United KingdomHumanitarian Aid
We are a British charity, based in the UK, that raises funds and spends them in Romania. By UK standards we are relatively modestly sized. However in Romania we are a significant funder and one of the leading UK Romanian aid groups. We are generally seen as "punching way above our weight" - in terms of what we manage to achieve with the resources available to us. Our work focuses on the principles of self-help and aims to spread successful project models.
Relief International
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Founded in 1990, Relief International provides emergency, rehabilitation and development services that empower beneficiaries in the process. RI's programs include health, shelter construction, education, community development, agriculture, food, income-generation, and conflict resolution. RI employs an innovative approach to program design and a high quality of implementation performance in demonstrating deep and lasting impact in reducing human suffering worldwide.
Relief International
United KingdomHumanitarian Aid
Relief International, (RI) is a humanitarian non-profit agency that provides emergency relief, rehabilitation, development assistance, and programme services to vulnerable communities worldwide. RI is solely dedicated to reducing human suffering and is non-political and non-sectarian in its mission. We provide holistic, multi-sectoral, sustainable, and pro-poor programmes that bridge emergency relief and long-term development at the grassroots level, while empowering communities by building capacity and by maximizing local resources in both programme design and implementation. We aim to promote self-reliance, peaceful coexistence, and reintegration of marginalized communities.
Religions for Peace
United StatesEthnic/Religion
Respecting religious differences while celebrating our common humanity, Religions for Peace is active on every continent and in some of the most troubled areas of the world, creating multi-religious partnerships to confront our most dire issues: stopping war, ending poverty, and protecting the earth. Religious communities are the largest and best-organized civil institutions in the world, claiming the allegiance of billions across race, class, and national divides. These communities have particular cultural understandings, infrastructures, and resources to get help where it is needed most. Founded in 1970, Religions for Peace enables these communities to unleash their enormous potential for common action.
Renewable Energy Foundation
United KingdomResearch/Dev
The Renewable Energy Foundation is a registered charity encouraging the development of renewable energy and energy conservation whilst emphasizing that such development must be governed by the fundamental principles of sustainability. REF is supported by private donation and has no political affiliation or corporate membership. In pursuit of its principal goals REF highlights the need for an overall energy policy that is balanced, ecologically sensitive, and effective.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United StatesChildren/Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is the nation’s oldest technological university. The university offers degrees from five schools: Engineering; Science; Architecture; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; and the Lally School of Management & Technology; as well as an interdisciplinary degree in Information Technology. For almost two centuries, Rensselaer has maintained its reputation for providing an undergraduate education of undisputed intellectual rigor based on educational innovation in the laboratory, classroom, and studio. The Institute is especially well-known for its success in the transfer of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace so that new discoveries and inventions benefit human life, protect the environment, and strengthen economic development.
Reprieve
United KingdomHuman Rights
We investigate, we litigate and we educate, working on the frontline, providing legal support to prisoners unable to pay for it themselves. We promote the rule of law around the world, and secure each person’s right to a fair trial. And in doing so, we save lives. Reprieve prioritises the cases of prisoners accused of the most extreme crimes, such as acts of murder or terrorism, as it is in such cases that human rights are most likely to be jettisoned or eroded. Reprieve focuses on cases involving the world’s most powerful governments, especially those that should be upholding the highest standards when it comes to fair trials.
Rescue Argentina
United KingdomDisability
The centre was set up 20 years ago by Fr. Liam Hayes, of Co. Limerick, Ireland. It was in response to the subhuman conditions of the poor and disabled people who were trying to survive. Today there are over 30 staff members supporting over 100 residents, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. The foundation consists of St Teresa’s – the home for people with severe disabilities, and Our Lady of Lujan – a home for elderly and abandoned citizens.
Rescue Task Force
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Rescue Task Force was founded in 1988 – Over 20 years of alleviating suffering and bringing support, relief and love. RTF goes where others do not, doing what others will not - From the jungles of Central America to the mountains of Kosovo, from tsunami ravaged Thailand and Sri Lanka and the interior of Afghanistan to hurricane and fire disaster stricken communities in the United States RTF wipes away tears of those that have all but been forgotten. RTF brings hope to those that are often without anything… RTF to so many is life… Precious Life. Around the World, Around the Clock. Help us – Help others…
Rescued Animals In Need
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
Rescued Animals in Need is made up of a group of hard working volunteers in the Sevenoaks area. Animals find their way to RAIN for all kinds of reasons. They are found straying; are left behind at the vets after an accident; are either left in a house or locked out of it when people move away; need new homes when elderly people die or move into residential care; or are unwanted due to changes in family circumstances. As soon as animals come into RAIN's care they are taken to a Veterinary Surgeon where they receive any necessary attention. All animals are vaccinated and neutered, if this has not already been done, and are routinely treated for worms and fleas. On veterinary advice, any cats felt to be at risk are blood-tested for certain diseases. Animals are then settled into the cattery, kennels or foster home and cared for whilst a permanent home is sought for them. Homes are sought for the animals through advertising and in local papers. As RAIN does not have its own Sanctuary, other means of caring or the animals have to be found. It is our ultimate aim to have a Sanctuary of our own, but have to face the fact that we would need an enormous windfall to achieve this in the foreseeable future. The charity also has contacts with welfare organisations dealing with wild animals, birds, and other animals.
Research & Education Foundation
IrelandResearch/Dev
The Research & Education Foundation is a registered charity set up to support training, education and research in health care in Sligo General Hospital and its catchment area in the HSE North West Area. The Research & Education Foundation is dedicated to the improvement of health and healthcare delivery by promoting the development of a culture of research and education. The Foundation considers the improvement of patient care to be at the core of its activities.
Research Australia
AustraliaResearch/Dev
Founded in 2001, Research Australia is the largest, most respected not-for-profit alliance working to make research to improve health, a higher national priority. As a national not-for-profit advocate, our 170 member organisations include universities, research institutes, business, voluntary health and patient advocacy organizations, professional groups, hospitals and philanthropic foundations. Together we advocate for growth in research funding and policies that will fast track Australian Research discoveries to deliver new cures or treatments. We aim to raise public support for research to improve health and build strong economy, and encourage governments and the public to become active champions for research.
RESEARCH AUTISM
United KingdomResearch/Dev
Research Autism is the only UK charity exclusively dedicated to research into interventions in autism. Established in 2003 as the Autism Intervention Research Trust, we carry out high quality, independent research into new and existing health, education, social and other interventions. Our goal is the improvement of quality of life and outlook for the individuals affected and those around them. We have the active support of some of the world's leading figures in autism and research. They have given freely of their time and expertise to work with us. We also work closely with our research sponsor, the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, as well as with the National Autistic Society.
Resolve International
United KingdomResearch/Dev
Resolve International is helping to rid the world of poverty by working to improve health, education and social welfare for children and their families in developing countries. We have made a start in Nepal, the poorest country in South Asia. We believe that children should be free from harm, well fed, cared for, and given the opportunity to improve their lives through education and training. Our strategy is based on consultation with local people and their organisations in Nepal. The work we have completed and the projects we wish to support result from a local need identified by local Nepali people.
Resources for the Future
United StatesEnvironment
RFF is an organization that conducts independent research – rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences – on environmental, energy, natural resource and public health issues.Although RFF is headquartered in Washington, D.C., its research scope comprises programs in nations around the world. For more than 50 years, RFF has pioneered the application of economics as a tool to develop more effective policy about the use and conservation of natural resources. Its scholars continue to analyze critical issues concerning pollution control, energy and transportation policy, land and water use, hazardous waste, climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem management, public health, and the environmental challenges of developing countries.
Respond
United KingdomDisability
Formed in 1991, Respond provides psychotherapy for people with learning disabilities, advice and support for staff and families, training for carers and professionals, education for people with learning disabilities, influencing generic services in order to make their services accessible, influencing learning disability services to consider the psychological impact of living with learning disabilities, undertaking research and disseminating our findings.
Respond!
IrelandCommunity/Family
Respond! was established in 1982 and is Ireland’s largest non-profit Housing Association. We have built almost 5200 homes nationwide with a further 350 under construction. Respond! have provided homes for traditional families, lone-parent families, the elderly, the homeless and disabled people. We establish and maintain vibrant, socially integrated communities rather than simply providing just shelter or accommodation while providing advance education among residents of our estates. We prevent and relieve hardship and distress amongst those who are homeless and amongst those in need who are living in adverse housing conditions. We provide housing for some of the most vulnerable groups in society including those who have lived for long periods in hostels, temporary and insecure accommodation.
Response International
United KingdomHumanitarian Aid
Response International is charity established in 1993 to support victims of violent conflict. We have successfully worked in Angola, Bosnia, Kosovo, Lebanon and Pakistan and have on-going projects in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. For 17 years Response International's medical staff have worked in war zones and troubled places around the world. Teams of British, US and Irish nurses, doctors, surgeons and landmine action specialists have brought emergency support services to areas of conflict and remained to implement recovery and reconstruction programmes. Recognising the devastating effect that landmines and UXO (unexploded ordnance) have on the physical, psychological and social well-being of individuals and whole communities, Response International provides landmines awareness education, survey and rehabilitation of traumatic amputees.
Restavek Freedom Foundation
United StatesChildren/Education
Haiti has a culturally accepted system of domestic servitude known as restavek. Nearly one in ten children lives in restavek, a form of modern day child slavery. Not only are these children worked to exhaustion, in most cases they are denied education and are isolated from family and communities. Children in restavek need hope. Restavek Freedom is working in Haiti and around the world to advocate for the education and better treatment of children living in restavek. Being able to go to school changes the course of a child’s life and opens the door to freedom. We identify restavek children and work with their owners to allow them to release the child to attend school. Through generous child sponsors, we pay for our children's school tuition, provide a school uniform and required books, and give one meal a day. Our Child Advocates continually monitor the health and well-being of the children in our program. In addition to working directly with almost 500 children, we also work with biological and host parents to influence their attitudes and behaviors toward children and we mobilize people in Haiti and around the world to stand up for the rights and freedom of ALL children.
Restorative Justice Chatham-Kent
CanadaCommunity/Family
Restorative Justice Chatham-Kent (RJCK) is an incorporated non-profit organization that offers an alternative to the traditional criminal justice system for youth aged 12 - 17. We aim to repair the community relationships that are damaged when a crime is committed. Instead of simply punishing and labeling young people who have committed crimes, RJCK gives them the opportunity to take responsibility for their behavior, understand the full impact of their actions on others, and repair the harm done to their victims and the community as a whole.