Water Research Commission
South AfricaResearch/Dev
The WRC was established in following a period of serious water shortage. It was deemed to be of national importance to generate new knowledge and to promote the country’s water research purposefully, owing to the view held that water would be one of South Africa’s most limiting factors in the 21st century. In the future (short- to long-term), it is envisaged that South Africa’s water problems may intensify. Issues such as water for all, quality of life, and a sustainable environment are an essential part of the country’s national priorities and require considerable attention.
Water.org
United StatesEnvironment
Co-founded by Matt Damon and Gary White, Water.org is a nonprofit organization that has transformed hundreds of communities in Africa, South Asia, and Central America by providing access to safe water and sanitation. Water.org traces its roots back to the founding of WaterPartners in 1990. In July 2009, WaterPartners merged with H2O Africa, resulting in the launch of Water.org. Water.org works with local partners to deliver innovative solutions for long-term success. Its microfinance-based WaterCredit Initiative is pioneering sustainable giving in the sector. Since 1990, Water.org has impacted millions of lives throughout the developing world with safe water and improved sanitation systems.
WaterAid
United KingdomResearch/Dev
WaterAid is an international non governmental organisation focused exclusively on improving poor people's access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation. We work in Africa, Asia and the Pacific region and campaign globally with our partners to realise our vision of a world where everyone has access to these basic human needs. We work in Africa, Asia and the Pacific region and campaign globally with our partners to realise our vision of a world where everyone has access to these basic human needs.
WaterAid America
United StatesEnvironment
Together with local organizations, WaterAid uses practical, sustainable solutions to provide safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene education to the poorest people in developing countries. WaterAid works with individuals and their families, paying special attention to the most vulnerable people, to help them set up, operate, manage and maintain their own projects.
WaterAid Australia
AustraliaResearch/Dev
WaterAid enables the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. These basic human rights underpin health, education and livelihoods and form the first, essential step in overcoming poverty. We work with local partners, who understand local issues, and provide them with the skills and support to help communities set up and manage practical and sustainable projects that meet their real needs. We also campaign locally and internationally to change policy and practice and ensure water and sanitation’s vital role in reducing poverty is recognised.
Waterford Volunteer Centre
IrelandCommunity/Family
Volunteer Centres Ireland is the national Volunteer Centre. We are a representative body, support agency and membership organisation for a growing number of local Volunteer Centres in Ireland, currently 22. Local Volunteer Centres put people who want to volunteer in touch with community and voluntary or nonprofit organisations seeking volunteers, providing a host of supports to both volunteers and volunteer-involving organisations. Volunteer Centres Ireland was established to increase the extent, range and quality of volunteering in Ireland and we believe this is best achieved through the development and support of a national volunteering infrastructure with a network
Waterkeeper Alliance
United StatesEnvironment
There are presently nearly 200 Waterkeeper Organizations on six continents defending their communities against anyone who threatens their right to clean water—from law-breaking polluters to unresponsive government agencies. Without Waterkeepers on patrol, these enemies of the public good pose a clear danger to one of the most precious resources of every community — clean water. Part scientist, teacher, and law officer, every Waterkeeper combines firsthand knowledge of their waterway with an unwavering commitment to the rights of their community and to the rule of law. Whether they’re on the water tracking down polluters, in a courtroom advocating for stronger enforcement of environmental laws, rallying community support in town meetings, or in a classroom educating young people, Waterkeepers speak for the waters they defend.
Watershed Watch Salmon Society
CanadaAnimals/Wildlife
Watershed Watch Salmon Society was formed in 1998 by salmon advocates who had been active as analysts, writers, editors and ecologists for more than a decade. Watershed Watch believes that real changes in attitude and behaviour are based on understanding, and that significant understanding requires a broad and deep appreciation of a wide range of habitat, harvest, and management issues. Through scientific expertise, strategic alliances, outreach programs, and innovative projects, Watershed Watch is at the forefront in sounding the alarm on threats to salmon, and in prompting action to help them.
WBCSS
SwitzerlandEnvironment
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led, global association of some 200 companies dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development. The Council provides a platform for companies to explore sustainable development, share knowledge, experiences and best practices, and to advocate business positions on these issues in a variety of forums, working with governments, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations. Members are drawn from more than 35 countries and 20 major industrial sectors. The Council also benefits from a global network of about 57 national and regional business councils and regional partners.
We Yone Child Foundation - Sierra Leone
Sierra LeoneChildren/Education
We Yone Child Foundation - Sierra Leone (WYCF-SL) is an non-profit NGO operating in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We are committed to providing sustainable education to 1,072 children in the communities of Kroo Bay and George Brook. WYCF-SL is guided by strict principles of honesty, fairness, commitment and fun. We are small, but so far these principles are guiding us firmly towards our goals. By remaining consistent with our objectives and creative with our strategy, we aim to continuing managing three Primary Schools, training of teachers,construction of George Brook school, empowering local women to produce safe and reusable sanitary pads to help keep girls in school and local women healthy including providing sustainable security for caregivers through family business grants and scholarship to children at risk of dropping-out and out of school. We will continue and ensure the growth of our campaign on sexual gender based violence and gender equality within our communities.
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
United KingdomArts/Culture
The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum was launched in 1967 by a small group of enthusiasts led by the Museum's founder, the late Dr. J.R. Armstrong MBE. The principal aim of the founding group was to establish a centre that could rescue representative examples of vernacular buildings from the South East of England, and thereby to generate an increased public awareness and interest in the built environment. The Museum offers advice to people involved in the conservation of buildings.
WEAVE
United StatesCommunity/Family
WEAVE was established in 1978 as a private nonprofit organization to serve domestic violence survivors and their families in Sacramento County. In 1988, WEAVE added services to help survivors of sexual assault. The organization has grown from a small, grassroots organization to a large, nationally recognized agency We provide crisis intervention services to women, men and children in Sacramento County who have experienced domestic violence or have been sexually assaulted.
WED Trust
IndiaWomen
The Founders hails from Denotified Tribes Piranmalai Kallar community, native of Usilampatti taluk, Madurai Dt. Usilampatti was known for female foeticide and infanticide and violence against women and they both had the chance of experiencing them through their own families. They worked with NGOs for few years and gained experience in implementing projects. Having found that the female infanticide is widely practiced by their own community, dedicated themselves to stop these injustice to the women partner of the society, developed their own improved ways of finding solutions for female foeticide, infanticide and violence against women. They founded the Women’s Emancipation and Development Trust on 9th October 1992 (Reg.No. (26/92) with the aim of making women themselves free from all struggles and empower them in all walks of life. They selected Chellampatti block of Usilampatti taluk in Madurai District as their target area.
Wed-Trust
IndiaWomen
The WED - Trust is working with the most disadvantage sections of the society in CHENNAI, THIRUVALLUR AND VELLORE Districts for the past ten years (i.e. from 1994 ). The WED - trust aims at Community based WOMEN AND CHILD development (particularly in Nature ) through leadership formation and Community Organization that forms as a base for a sustainable development. In general, it works for the most needy sections of the society.
Welcome to Dreams Come True
United KingdomChildren/Education
Dreams Come True is a children's charity serving the whole of the UK. Over the last 10 years we have brought happiness and joy to more than five thousand children seriously and terminally ill as well as their friends, family and carers. We ensure that each child has an unforgettable experience fulfilling their dream, with wonderful memories to share with loved ones and friends.
Wellbeing of Women
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Unlike any other charity we fund right across the speciality of obstetrics and gynaecology, and support projects from basic science through to clinical research. We support obstetricians and gynaecologists at all levels of their career, from their elective project when they are training, to their first steps in research when they may undertake a Research Training Fellowship or Entry Level Scholarship, to the full project grants we award to established researchers. And we have been doing this for over 40 years.
WellChild
United KingdomHealth/Medical
WellChild is the national charity for sick children. We help sick children and their families throughout the UK as they deal with the consequences of serious illness and complex conditions. Our mission is to reach as many children and young people as we can, year after year. We focus on three key areas - care, support and research - and our involvement in so many aspects of children's health puts us in a unique position. Our team of WellChild Children's Nurses work with families across the UK. These specialist nurses help to ensure that children with complex care needs can leave hospital and return home, and they are vital in the prevention of re-admissions.
Wellcome Trust
United KingdomResearch/Dev
The Wellcome Trust is a global charity dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. Established in 1936 and with an endowment of around £13 billion, it is the UK's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research.
Wellesley College
United StatesChildren/Education
Wellesley is a college for the student who has high personal, intellectual, and professional expectations. Beyond this common ground, there is no typical Wellesley student. Students come from all over the world, from different cultures and backgrounds, and they have prepared for Wellesley at hundreds of different secondary schools. Through the Davis Degree Program, women beyond the traditional college age, many with families, are part of the student body working toward a Wellesley degree. Women and men from other colleges and universities study at Wellesley through various exchange programs. This diversity is made possible, in large part, by the College’s need-blind admission policy. Students are accepted without consideration of their ability to pay. Once admitted, those with demonstrated need receive financial aid through a variety of services. Within this traditional liberal arts framework, the Wellesley curriculum is dynamic and responsive to social change and new fields of study. The dramatic expansion of information of the last decades has led to an increasingly interdisciplinary course of study. Single majors in traditional disciplines have been joined by double majors and specially designed interdisciplinary and interdepartmental majors.
Wellington Free Ambulance
New ZealandHealth/Medical
Since 1927 Wellington Free Ambulance, New Zealand's only free metropolitan ambulance service, has been the sole emergency ambulance provider for the people of greater Wellington. As an essential service provider for the community, Wellington Free Ambulance is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care in emergency situations, pre-hospital care, rescue & patient transport services - and all at no cost to the patient. Wellington Free Ambulance assists more than 50,000 people in the greater Wellington region each year - an average of more than 136 people per day, and about 1 in every 8 people living in this area that need our help annually.