Ronald McDonald House Charities
United StatesChildren/Education
We believe that when you change a child’s life, you change a family’s, which can change a community, and ultimately the world. We strive to be part of that change and part of the solution in improving the lives of children and their families. We extend our reach and impact by leveraging our 35 years of experience and strong relationships with local communities and people in the field to continually establish Chapters across the globe. We continually work to improve and expand our core programs, while also developing new services to address the unique needs of the communities we serve.
Ronald McDonald House Charities
AustraliaChildren/Education
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) is an independent, non-profit organisation, that helps seriously ill children and their families. We carry out our mission by creating, finding, operating and supporting programs that help seriously ill children and their families while they receive medical treatment, and assist recovering children return to normal life. Ronald McDonald House Charities is now helping more children and families that we have ever been able to. We’ve just completed a dramatic overhaul of our House facilities across the country and we’ve expanded programs that are really making a difference such as the Learning Program. We continue to grow and could not do it without our volunteers, employees, House boards, and other support staff. They are our frontline helpers.
Ronald McDonald House of New York
United StatesHealth/Medical
2008 marked the 30th year of our support of 25,000+ families who, to date, have walked through our House’s front door in emotional and medical confusion. They have found here a “home-away-from-home” that provides much more than just a temporary dwelling. With each family that arrives, there is a uniting Hope and a common search for health and healing. At Ronald McDonald House of New York, we support each family and coordinate emotional and physical services, psychological care, ministry support, wellness programs, tutors, music, art, transportation, activities for siblings, holiday and birthday parties and camaraderie for parents struggling with their child’s cancer diagnosis. The House is located on East 73rd Street between First and York Avenues and offers thousands of children and their families these extraordinary services. The House is supported by individuals, foundations and corporations, all of whom share a primary concern for our brave young children and their families who are desperate to find a place where Hope has a Home.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation
United StatesArts/Culture
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation is the nonprofit organization created by President Reagan himself and specifically charged by him with continuing his legacy and sharing his principles - individual liberty, economic opportunity, global democracy and national pride.
ROOM TO READ UK LIMITED
United KingdomChildren/Education
John Wood, Founder and Executive Chairman, launched Room to Read after a trek through Nepal. He visited several local schools and was amazed by the warmth and enthusiasm of the students and teachers, but also saddened by the shocking lack of resources. Driven to help, John quit his senior executive position with Microsoft and built a global team to work with rural villages to build sustainable solutions to their educational challenges. Room to Read began working with rural communities in Nepal in 2000 to build schools and establish libraries. We partner with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries, creating local language children's literature, constructing schools, and providing education to girls.
Rose Charities
CanadaCommunity/Family
We are Canadian volunteers who want to make a difference to world poverty. Rose Charities Canada is a member of the Rose Charities International Network. We raise money, resources and personnel to support Rose Charities field (and other) projects that have strong local leadership and dedicated volunteers in communities around the world. We work with them as they find their own solutions to the problems of poverty.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
United StatesChildren/Education
The vision of Rose-Hulman is to be the best in engineering, mathematics andscience education, to make an impact upon the world in which we live, and to be a leader in every aspect in the delivery of education and the development of tomorrow's leaders. U.S. News & World Report's 2009 survey of higher education for the tenth consecutive year lists Rose-Hulman as the No.1 engineering institution whose highest degree is a bachelor's or master's.
Rosies - Friends On The Street
AustraliaCommunity/Family
We are a not for profit organisation with a volunteer base of over 600 active volunteers across Queensland, who provide unconditional acceptance and friendship to people who are marginalised within our community. At Rosies we aim to provide friendship and practical support to some of the most abandoned people in our society. We are not primarily trying to feed, clothe and house people (although we sometimes offer these elements); we are trying to build friendships. The basic building blocks of friendship are to spend time with, listen and talk to people. As such at Rosies, the main job of the volunteer is to spend time building relationships with the people that use our service.
Rotaplast International
United StatesHealth/Medical
Rotaplast International is a non-profit humanitarian organization providing free reconstructive operations and treatment for children in need worldwide. We provide long-term solutions by funding and mentoring local physicians; launching public education projects; and advancing research. Through collaborative programs throughout the world, Rotaplast efforts expand far beyond surgical intervention and help foster international goodwill, peace and understanding.
Round Table Childrens Wish
United KingdomChildren/Education
A group of Round Table members got together and had an idea to make a very poorly child's dream come true, and that dream was to visit Disney. By holding fundraisers and events before long they had enough money to send the child and their family on a lovely holiday to have a well earned break and a bit of time to relax. They enjoyed helping so much that they decided they would like to make many more dreams a reality. To date we have granted in the region of 1400 wishes and have brought many a smile to some very poorly children. We hope to reach as many children as we can who need a bit of sunshine brought into their lives at a time when it seems like there is nothing to look forward to. We have a dedicated team of staff, trustees and patrons who believe passionately in the charity.
Roundabout
United KingdomDisability
Roundabout is a registered charity, number 297491 and conduct long-term and short-term Dramatherapy projects with a range of clients. We work with individuals and groups of all ages. Dramatherapy involves verbal and non-verbal work and makes use of a wide range of theatrical and dramatic techniques, such as story-telling, story-making and enactment, improvisation, role-play, mime, puppets, movement, music and voice work. Roundabout works with children and adults. Our group members have: learning disabilities, physical disabilities, Autistc Spectrum Disorders (ASD), Aspergers and acute and chronic mental health.
Roundabout Theatre Company
United StatesArts/Culture
Over the last forty years, Roundabout has grown from a small, off-Broadway theatre into one of the leading cultural institutions in New York City. Roundabout is proud to serve New Yorkers and tourists alike, bringing to the stage a special combination of plays and musicals, both classical and contemporary, which contribute immeasurably to the cultural life of our City and our country. Roundabout's continues to reach national audiences through PBS broadcasts of its productions of The Man Who Came to Dinner and The Women. Through such live broadcasts, as well as national tours, cast recordings, education and outreach programs, and its work on three stages, Roundabout touches the lives of millions of theatregoers, students, and artists across the country.
Roundabout Water Solutions
South AfricaResearch/Dev
Roundabout Water Solutions, who has an agreement with the South African Department of Water Affairs and the Governments of Malawi, Lesotho and Swaziland, is raising donor funds to supply rural communities, with clean drinking water, by means of a sustainable pumping system, called a PlayPump, that is powered by the play of children. As the children play on the roundabout, borehole water, which has been tested at a recognized laboratory as being fit for human consumption, is pumped into and stored in a 2,500 litre tank, allowing access to the water when needed.
Royal Blind Society
United KingdomDisability
The Royal Blind Society has, for the last 140 years, given assistance to people who are blind or partially sighted and in charitable need. We do this by giving cash grants to provide essential support for those on low incomes, and by providing a range of holidays and leisure opportunities. Every year we make more than 500 grants totalling more than £100,000 to blind and visually impaired people on low incomes. These are given for a wide range of purposes, and make dramatic changes to people’s lives, helping them live with dignity and independence. Our grants also help young people to have adventure holidays, such as with the Calvert Trust or on a tall ship voyage, and can help provide IT equipment, reading and literacy aids. This can transform their educational and employment prospects.
Royal Children's Hospital Foundation
AustraliaCommunity/Family
The Foundation has the vital role of raising, managing and distributing donated funds to The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. The Foundation gives everyone a chance to care for the sick children of Victoria, and by supporting pioneering research, leadership and training, the Foundation also benefits the lives of sick children around the world.
Royal Children's Hospital Foundation, Queensland
AustraliaResearch/Dev
The Royal Children's Hospital Foundation is the fundraising arm of Queensland's Royal Children's Hospital. The Foundation raises around $13 million annually, and since inception in 1986 more than $100 million has been invested into working wonders for sick kids. Every year, the Royal Children's Hospital treats more than 30,000 children from all over Queensland, as well as interstate and overseas. This adds up to more than 280,000 hospital visits every year. As the major tertiary referral hospital for children in our state, our hospital is a home away from home for many families from regional and remote areas who require specialised care. The Foundation funds groundbreaking medical research and equipment, to find faster diagnoses, better treatments and ultimately cures for childhood illnesses. Funds also support services within the Royal Children's Hospital and wider Health Service District to ease the lives of sick kids and their anxious families every day.
Royal District Nursing Service
AustraliaHealth/Medical
Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) is one of the most respected providers of home nursing and healthcare in Australia. Every day, RDNS staff provide professional nursing and healthcare to more than 9,500 people throughout Greater Melbourne, some parts of rural Victoria, New South Wales and in Auckland, New Zealand. In any given year, RDNS delivers more than 1.7 million visits to over 33,000 people, mainly in their own homes. RDNS offers a wide range of general and specialist care and operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year. The care provided by RDNS enables people to remain in their own homes, providing them with more independence, choice and control in relation to their healthcare. Other benefits include helping people to return home from a hospital stay more quickly, allowing people to remain close to family, carers and friends, and assisting people to regain their health in the familiarity and security of a place of their choosing.
Royal Far West
AustraliaChildren/Education
Royal Far West provides a wide range of essential specialist health services to meet the needs of country children and their families. Demand is increasing and Royal Far West is committed to enhancing our services and reaching more country kids, especially in the important areas of mental health, oral health and early intervention. Royal Far West works in partnership with rural health professionals, other healthcare providers and specialist centres such as children’s hospitals. We also offer a respite program for country children with special needs. Some of our services are provided on an outreach basis in rural locations including Cobar, Lightning Ridge, Walgett and Collarenebri. An outreach program, operated in partnership with North Coast Area Health Service, is based in Casino, in northern NSW.
Royal Freemasons Benevolent Institution
AustraliaCommunity/Family
In 1880, when the RFBI was founded, no government social welfare programs existed. Assistance to the poor, the disadvantaged and the needy was left to charitable organisations, including the Freemasons, which provided this form of support. Now, more than 125 years later, when most people in need receive social service funding from the government, the RFBI still helps where special needs or circumstances exist. In recent years, the RFBI has diversified its caring and benevolent role through the establishment of residential retirement villages providing comfortable and attractive self care units, hostels and nursing homes.
Royal Horticultural Society
United KingdomCommunity/Family
The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK's leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. Our goal is to help people share a passion for plants, to encourage excellence in horticulture and inspire all those with an interest in gardening. The activities of the RHS are focused on delivering our strategic aims and ensuring that we deliver a real benefit to all those involved and interested in horticulture and gardening in the UK.