The 2Simple Trust UK
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Essentially we are facilitators and enablers, providing those core services that make a charity work as well as being on tap for advice and support. A helping hand and a friendly voice, bringing assistance and guidance when it is most needed. Over the past three years the Trust has become best known for its fundraising on behalf of children with neuroblastoma, a severe and usually fatal form of childhood cancer. Children's hospitals in the UK, including Great Ormond Street, are only able to offer palliative care. This means that the best hope for even a partial or medium term cure lays in treatment at the Sloane-Kettering Memorial Hospital in New York. Treatment costs can reach in excess of £500,000. Following the success of our first campaign for Jack Brown, the son of two serving Metropolitan Police officers, eight other families have joined the Trust, working with us to raise funds to help treat children suffering from this disease.
The 92nd Street Y
United StatesEthnic/Religion
For over 133 years, the 92nd Street Y has been serving its community and the world in a remarkable way, providing exceptional programs across the spectrum in the arts and culture, Jewish life and education, health and fitness, personal growth and travel, and in classes for adults, families and children. A unique, multifaceted institution, the 92nd Street Y serves over 300,000 people annually, from newborns to centenarians, always remaining true to its mission.
The Abraham Fund Initiatives
United StatesEthnic/Religion
The Abraham Fund Initiatives views coexistence as the ability of people of different backgrounds and beliefs to live side-by-side in mutual respect. Coexistence is not assimilation. Rather, its objective is to enable individuals and communities to live cooperatively while maintaining their own unique cultural identities. The Abraham Fund Initiatives sees civic equality for Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens as a moral and pragmatic imperative, whereby individual rights and the political, cultural and religious character of the Arab minority must be clearly and unambiguously recognized and respected.
The Actors Fund
United StatesArts/Culture
The Actors Fund, a nonprofit human services organization founded in 1882, serves all professionals, not just actors, in film, theater, television, music, opera, and dance through programs that address their unique and essential needs. A national organization with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, The Fund directly serves nearly 12,000 performing arts and entertainment professionals across the country every year, and hundreds of thousand through our online resources. In providing care and service to professionals throughout the industry, The Fund's programs are wide in scope, responsive in nature, and produce significant results, affecting the lives of people in our community year after year.
The Adoption Exchange
United StatesCommunity/Family
The Adoption Exchange recruits families for children who have survived abuse and neglect, supports adoptive families throughout every phase of the adoption process, and trains child welfare professionals. The Adoption Exchange maintains a national training presence, and connects children in eight member states with American families living here and abroad. The Adoption Exchange envisions a world in which all children are valued and grow up in safe and permanent families, and where families are supported in their critical roles.
The Advocates for Human Rights
United StatesHuman Rights
The Advocates for Human Rights helps individuals fully realize their human rights in the United States and around the world. For over 25 years, The Advocates’ innovative programming has touched the lives of refugees and immigrants, women, ethnic and religious minorities, children, and other marginalized communities whose rights are at risk. The Advocates strengthens accountability mechanisms, raises awareness, and fosters tolerance. Adapting traditional human rights methodologies to conduct cutting-edge research, The Advocates has produced 75 reports documenting human rights practices in 25 countries.
The Africa-America Institute
United StatesChildren/Education
The Africa-America Institute (AAI) was founded in 1953 to help Africans build human capacity through education and training programs. Today, AAI continues to pursue this vision through a portfolio of programs aimed at both educating Africans and educating Americans about Africa. For over fifty years, AAI's African Higher Education and Training programs have provided university, graduate-level, and professional training scholarship programs for Africans in fundamental capacity-building fields, including agriculture, business and finance, education, government, health care, science and technology.
The Aims Project
United StatesHealth/Medical
Amrita Institute of Medical Science (AIMS) brings together a dedicated team of physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to provide the highest standards of medical treatment. Our full range of primary and specialty care medical services enables cross-specialty consultation, which assures outstanding treatment for each patient. Our extensive infrastructure offers extensive facilities comprising 25 modern operating theatres, 210 equipped intensive-care beds, a fully computerized and networked Hospital Information System (HIS), a fully digital radiology department, a 24/7 telemedicine service and a NABL accredited clinical laboratory.AIMS offers a total and comprehensive health solution comparable to the best hospitals in the world. The AIMS team is comprised of physicians, surgeons and other healthcare professionals of the highest calibre and experience.
The Air Ambulance Charitable Trust
United KingdomHealth/Medical
The Air Ambulance Charitable Trust is a registered charity (no 1017501). The Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance is a dedicated medical air service which first began operations in Lincolnshire in April 1994. Based at RAF Waddington, south of Lincoln, and unaffected by road congestion, country roads, heavy vehicles or road works the Helicopter can reach any destination in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire in 19 minutes.
The Akanksha Foundation
IndiaChildren/Education
Akanksha works primarily in the field of education, addressing non formal education through the Akanksha centre and also formal education through the Akanksha Schools. Over the past 20 years, the organization has expanded from 15 children in one centre to over 3500 children in 58 centres and 6 schools. A commitment is made to support each child by giving him or her a strong educational foundation, a good time, self esteem and values, and to help them plan how they can earn a steady livelihood as a step towards improving their standard of living.
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
United StatesChildren/Education
For decades, The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF) has supported emerging professionals in translating their idealism into effective action that addresses health disparities in the U.S. and Africa. Now, nearly 20 years later, ASF selects approximately 200 graduate students each year as U.S. Schweitzer Fellows. Over the course of a year, on top of their regular medical, nursing, or other health professional school responsibilities, each Schweitzer Fellow must develop and implement a service project of at least 200 hours with a direct and lasting impact on the health of local underserved communities. ASF now has 11 U.S. program sites, and Fellows have delivered more than 400,000 hours of high-impact service.
The Alliance for Children's Rights
United StatesCommunity/Family
The Alliance for Children's Rights provides free legal services for impoverished children and youth so they have stable homes, access the health care and the education they need to thrive. The Alliance works to change the most troubling statistics in Los Angeles, where over a quarter of children in L.A. live in poverty and over half a million lack medical care. L.A. has the highest number of kids in foster care in the country, each year 1500 youth age out of foster care in L.A. without a family or support system. The Alliance’s primary objective is to provide stability to foster children and those at risk of entering foster care by helping them obtain healthcare, educational services and financial support so that more of them reach permanency through adoption, legal guardianship or by returning safely to their biological families.
The American Chestnut Foundation ACF
United StatesEnvironment
The American Chestnut Foundation is restoring a species - and in the process, creating a template for restoration of other tree and plant species. We harvested our first blight-resistant nuts in 2005, and the Foundation hopes to begin reforestation trials with blight-resistant American-type trees before the end of this decade, using sound ecological principles. Meadowview , Virginia is home to the research farms of The American Chestnut Foundation with almost 34,000 trees planted on over 150 acres. The return of the American chestnut to its former niche in the Appalachian hardwood forest ecosystem is a major restoration project that requires a multi-faceted effort involving 6,000 members & volunteers, research, sustained funding and most important, a sense of the past and a hope for the future.
The Andrew Lees Trust
United KingdomResearch/Dev
The Trust develops and implements social and environmental education projects which aim to empower local communities to improve their self sufficiency and reduce the effects of extreme poverty. The Trust is also committed to building the capacity of Malagasy professionals to undertake the challenges of designing and implementing appropriate development strategies and projects at local and regional level. The Andrew Lees Trust (ALT) believes in empowering local people to find their own solutions to their social and environmental challenges. Our work has therefore included a strong commitment to build the capacity of ALT’s Malagasy team to take on the longer term strategic development and project implementation of the ALT programme in Southern Madagascar.
The Animal Medical Center
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
The Animal Medical Center in New York City is a federally recognized non-profit veterinary center that has been a national leader in animal care since 1910. As an academic veterinary hospital, the AMC promotes the health and well-being of companion animals through advanced treatment, research and education.
The Ant
IndiaCommunity/Family
The action north east trust (the ant) is registered as a Public Charitable Trust, based in Chirang District of Assam, India. It works at 2 levels - directly with village communities in villages of Chirang district north of Bongaigaon town and indirectly as a resource to organisations in other parts of northeast India. It works directly at the village level in about 90 villages on issues of health, women’s empowerment, information, livelihoods and sensitising people to press for their entitlements from the government; village pharmacists through women volunteers & community laboratory technicians; women’s groups; alternate income opportunities through weaving, agriculture and off farm activities; information collection & distribution in user-friendly ways.
The Anti-Cruelty Society
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
As Chicago's oldest and largest animal welfare organization, The Anti-Cruelty Society is building a community of caring by helping pets and educating people through our comprehensive programs and services. We are a private, non-profit humane society providing an open door to any animal in need 365 days a year.
The Arc of Florida
United StatesDisability
The Arc of Florida is a nonprofit charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life for persons with developmental disabilities. The Arc of Florida works with local, state and national partners and advocates for people with mental retardation, autism, spina bifida, cerebral palsy (CP), prader-willi syndrome and other developmental disabilities to be fully included in all aspects of their community. We also work to reduce the incidence of and eliminate the consequences of developmental disabilities through education, awareness, research, advocacy and support of families, friends and the community.
The Arc of the United States
United StatesDisability
The Arc is the world's largest community based organization of and for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It provides an array of services and support for families and individuals and includes over 140,000 members affiliated through more than 730 state and local chapters across the nation. The Arc is devoted to promoting and improving supports and services for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The Archer School for Girls
United StatesChildren/Education
Archer was founded in 1995 by three women, Dr. Diana Meehan, Megan Callaway and Vicky Shorr, all graduates of girls' schools and all parents of daughters about to enter middle school. Informed by current research on the clear benefits of single sex education for girls and guided by their founding principles of innovation, community and diversity, Archer opened in a converted Pacific Palisades dance studio with just over 30 sixth and seventh grade students. More than a decade later, Archer's tremendous growth to 500 students on an eight-acre historic Sunset Boulevard campus is a testament to our role as a model of the renaissance of girls' schools. Our founders' basic premise- that girls thrive in a learning environment of their own- is now playing out across the country: since our founding, over 25 girls' schools have started in the US.