St Joseph and the Helpers Charity
IrelandHumanitarian Aid
Widespread ethnic cleansing in in the former Yugoslavia, left millions of families homeless and in dire need of help. This charity has been established to help restore stability in the lives of those most affected. A programme has been established to help with poverty relief, humanitarian aid for education and healthcare, sponsorship of orphaned children, building orphanages, school and homes for the elderly. St Joseph & The Helpers Charity is working with the survivors of wars and especially with the children, many of whom were orphaned and abandoned and still need support. The Charity sees education as one of the effective ways
St Lucy's School
AustraliaDisability
St Lucy's is a Dominican co-educational Catholic primary school providing an education of excellence for children with disabilities and is based at Wahroonga with satellite classes on the Northern Beaches. Our Dominican tradition encourages a love of learning, a love of the aesthetic and preaching the Gospel message of truth, justice, inclusion and joy. We believe that St Lucy's children are made in the image of God, that they are gifted with authenticity, honesty, innocence and unconditional love.
St Luke's Hospital Foundation
AustraliaHealth/Medical
Saint Luke's - a faith-based, not-for-profit health system - has had a history of innovation in Kansas City since 1882. In 2007, we celebrated the 125th year of our flagship hospital, Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City. Saint Luke's earns national recognition for excellence in health care. We've ranked among "America's Best" hospitals for heart, heart surgery, urology and gynecology, according to U.S. News & World Report. And we're among the Top 100 Hospitals nationwide, according to Thomson Reuters. We deliver award-winning "Saint Luke's Care" to 11 hospitals and related health care services in the Kansas City metropolitan area and surrounding region.
St Mary's College For Hearing Impaired Students
AustraliaChildren/Education
St Mary’s College for Hearing Impaired Students is an auditory oral Prep to Year 12 college for students with significant hearing losses. The College is registered as a Special school and is owned by the Archdiocese of Melbourne. The college has four campuses alongside and within four partner schools, providing inclusive educational pSt Mary'srograms. We offer continuation of the charism of its Dominican tradition, a rich and relevant Religious Education, an educational community for students with a significant hearing loss, whose needs can be met by the programs of the school.
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance, the world's first food bank, is a non-sectarian, nonprofit organization that alleviates hunger by efficiently gathering and distributing food to sites that serve the hungry. Serving 13 of Arizona's 15 counties, the organization is committed to volunteerism, building community relationships and improving the quality of life for Arizonans in need.
St Vincent de Paul Society
AustraliaCommunity/Family
The St Vincent de Paul Society's 40,000 members and volunteers work hard to assist people in need and combat social injustice across Australia. Internationally, the Society operates in 130 countries and has over 950,000 members. Members of the Society are people who live out their faith in action by visiting people in their homes to provide support, friendship and material assistance. This practice is known as home visitation, and is carried out by local St Vincent de Paul Society conferences. Conferences are typically Parish or school based groups of people who respond to calls for assistance from people in the local community and work closely with the Society's Vinnies Centres.
St. Ann's Infant & Maternity Home
United StatesCommunity/Family
Human life is inherently valuable and worthy of respect, support, and nurturance. These words encompass our philosophy. Staff and volunteers strive to live this belief by reaching out to the women and children in our community who are particularly vulnerable. St. Ann's is administered by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, a religious community of women who have dedicated their lives to serving the needy. The Sisters are assisted by a qualified and committed staff that includes child care workers and maternity program staff, which account for a majority of the positions, as well as physicians, nurses, psychologists, and social workers; teachers, child care specialists, and therapists. From its very beginnings, St. Ann's opened its doors to the poor of all races and faiths, a commitment that continues to this day. St. Ann's participates in federally-funded programs. No person will be discriminated against on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, age or handicap.
St. Baldrick's Foundation
United StatesResearch/Dev
What began as a challenge between friends has grown into the world's fastest growing volunteer-driven fundraising opportunity benefiting childhood cancer research. The Foundation now funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government. Since 2000, events have taken place in 28 countries and 50 US states, raising over $87 million. At a St. Baldrick's event, something amazing happens. People who normally shy away from the very thought of childhood cancer find themselves compelled to support this cause after looking into the face of these brave children who are beaming as their friends and family members proudly display their newly shorn heads. Volunteers and donors see it can be fun to support a serious cause. Young cancer patients and survivors see how many people care. And researchers see St. Baldrick's funds helping to find cures!
St. Bernard's School
United StatesChildren/Education
St. Bernard's offers able young boys of diverse backgrounds an exceptionally thorough, rigorous, and enjoyable introduction to learning and community life. We wish to inspire boys to value hard work and fair play, to develop confidence, consideration for others, and a sense of citizenship, and to have fun while doing these things. It is important both to challenge boys and to show them great affection. Young boys enjoy many benefits from an elementary school designed just for them. A regard for the beauty and power of English - in reading, writing, speaking, listening - and the confident manipulation of numbers, both delightful in themselves, are indispensable for future success. Learning how to learn is of great importance, and mastering a traditional body of knowledge is also fundamental.
St. Francis Health Care Services
UgandaHealth/Medical
St. Francis Health Care Services, located in Njeru Town Council near the Source of the Nile in Uganda, is an HIV/AIDS non-government organization established in 1998. Its main purpose was to respond to the growing challenges of HIV/AIDS epidemic through sensitization and awareness, provision of medical care and psycho-socio support to people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. We regularly provide services for clients in five districts (Mukono, Kayunga, Mayuge, Kamuli and Kaliro) with a total population of nearly 2.5 million people, and due to our reputation, some patients come from as far away as Bugiri, Iganga, Mayuge, Kayunga, and even other districts in the eastern Uganda. We are currently serving over 9,000 patients, 120 grannies, and 1,500 orphans.
St. James's Hospital Foundation
IrelandHealth/Medical
The hospital's fundamental purpose is the delivery of health treatment, care and diagnose as well as health promotion and preventative services at catchment, regional, super-regional and national levels. Its service remits ranges in complexity from secondary to tertiary level. St. James's hospital is also an academic teaching hospital. It is thus committed to the creation of an environment and the circumstances in which education and research in the health science and allied areas is possible and flourishes.
St. Luke's Parochial Trust
United KingdomCommunity/Family
St Luke's Centre and Trust is an historic but progressive neighbourhood charity working in one of the most diverse and deprived parts of inner-city London. We operate by identifying local needs, and tackle them with our own services, or pro-actively approach other organisations to offer them in our centre. For example, many of our services target older persons who suffer greatly from poor health, poverty and extreme isolation. The Trust owns a large community centre which provides the space for these services, and is on the cusp of starting a multi-million pound re-development project to improve and expand the building. Once completed, the new Centre will equip the charity to offer an even better local resource, attract the wider community, host more local services, and put us on a stronger financial base from which to serve the local community for another 450 years.
St. Mark's School of Texas
United StatesChildren/Education
As a college preparatory institution, St. Mark's School of Texas prepares boys and young men for each successive step of their academic careers. However, our ambitions are not limited to the scholastic alone. Additionally, as a boys' school we are able to address clearly and directly the particular characteristics and learning needs that boys exhibit. Our highly qualified and outstanding faculty has carefully crafted a rich and varied curriculum aimed at helping students acquire knowledge and develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Teachers make sure that students go well beyond simply learning the facts. Marksmen read, write, and think critically across the arts and sciences and at all grade levels.
St. Mark's School, Massachusetts
United StatesChildren/Education
The driving force behind St. Mark's continued success is its outstanding faculty, a diverse group of skilled and committed men and women who appropriately challenge and support students. On the one hand, our teachers hold students to high standards both inside and outside the classroom. At the same time, these talented educators use the best creative and sensitive strategies to help students reach those high standards. We are blessed as well with an outstanding group of students, committed to learning, eager to engage others, possessing a broad range of talents, and drawn from around the country and around the world. Supporting both faculty and students is a talented caring staff. St. Mark's School educates young people for lives of leadership and service.
St. Olaf College
United StatesChildren/Education
To study at St. Olaf is to engage with and make sense of the world, to learn how to think and to reason. A liberal arts education at St. Olaf offers programs that provide students with the skills to succeed in valuable careers. But our main purpose – rooted in the depth of a major course of study and the breadth of a general education – is to help students become effective citizens in an increasingly complicated world. The student-faculty ratio of 12.8:1 encourages individual learning and teaching, while the residential nature of the 300-acre campus helps students become part of an enduring community that takes pride in its traditions and innovations.
St. Richards Hospice Foundation
United KingdomHealth/Medical
St Richard’s Hospice cares for patients and families in Worcestershire who are living with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. Each year we give free care and support to around 2,100 patients and family members – helping them towards the best quality of life possible. Our care is unique to each individual - whatever his or her physical, emotional or spiritual needs. Our hospice team includes our own doctors, nurses, social worker, counsellors and therapists working alongside highly trained volunteers. Though Home Care, the In-patient Unit, Day Hospice and all our further support services, we are able to help patients and families at a very difficult time. One of our main aims is to enable patients to stay at home where possible, providing our care alongside their own doctors and nurses with the back up of the Day Hospice.
St. Rita Women Group
KenyaChildren/Education
St.Rita home for orphans has opened its doors to orphans of Kisumu. The home is a building on the farm of Bernadette Otieno, founder and one of the women taking care of children at the orphanage. Although the group was started by less than four members, its membership has increased to fifteen. The group strategizes its support by engaging each member to take care of between 2-3 orphans. This is done through support in clothing, education and food.
St.Vincent's Institute
AustraliaResearch/Dev
SVI is an independent medical research institute conducting medical research into the cause, prevention and treatment of diseases that are common and have serious effects on health. We strive through our research to help alleviate the enormous financial, emotional and physical impacts of these diseases on individuals their families and the community. SVI hosts the National Serology Reference Laboratory and is a member of Bio 21; the Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium; St Vincent's Diabetes Centre of Excellence; the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes; and is accredited by the NHMRC. Through these links SVI provides a valuable service to clinical medicine, graduate education and community welfare.
Staffordshire Bull Terrier Welfare
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
In August 1995, it was decided there was a need for a registered charity and "Staffordshire Bull Terrier Welfare" was created, to work alongside the other SBT rescue groups in the country, but to have a different unifying role. The “hands-on” work would be left to the regional groups, whilst "SBT Welfare" would become a support group, encouraging the others to work together, as in unity there is strength. Charitable status was conferred on “The Welfare” (as it's colloquially known) on 14th October 1996.
Stamford Center for the Arts
United StatesArts/Culture
Stamford Center for the Arts (SCA), a not-for-profit cultural arts organization, dedicated to serving as the region's premier center for the performing arts. SCA enriches our area by developing and supporting works of artistic excellence, advancing learning in the arts, strengthening arts in our community, and contributing to the area's economic development. SCA owns and operates two facilities: the recently renovated and restored historic Palace Theatre at 61 Atlantic Street and the state-of-the-art Rich Forum just four blocks away at 307 Atlantic Street in downtown Stamford, Connecticut. In addition to a full season of cultural and entertainment events, The Palace Theatre is also home to the Connecticut Grand Opera & Orchestra, Stamford Symphony, Ballet School of Stamford and Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic. The Palace Theatre Stamford Center for the Arts believes that bringing the Performing Arts to young people is critical to their path to becoming well rounded, successful and contributing members of our society. In short, the Arts make better human beings who can enjoy and appreciate the beauty of the arts as well as participate in the creation of its various forms.