Where Next Association
United KingdomDisability
Where Next provides supported employment, work experience and training to people disadvantaged by a learning disability or other special needs. We are different from other service providers in that care takes place in a real working environment, with a real product or service for real customers. Clients may choose to work in any of our social enterprises in Redditch, Worcestershire and Studley, Warwickshire. As an accredited training centre we also offer certificated employability skills training. Clients may choose to work in a horticultural nursery and garden centre, a factory doing light assembly and/or packing and manufacturing wooden garden furniture, or provide garden maintenance and landscaping. For people who have not had the opportunity to work Where Next provides purpose, self-esteem, a culture of independence and improves quality of life. Working gives a feeling of belonging and for those socially excluded by their disability the ability to contribute and integrate into society.
Wherever the Need
United KingdomHumanitarian Aid
Wherever the Need is a UK charity offering a new look at giving and supporting. Our aim is a holistic approach to the provision and use of eco-sanitation toilets and clean water, which we believe to be vital to the good health of both people and the planet. Once these fundamentals are in place, our focus is the development of sustainable livelihoods. It is our priority to implement projects that will directly benefit individuals over the long-term in the most efficient way possible. This enables sponsors of the charity to respond specifically to the needs of local people (rather than indirectly through Governmental or large Non-Governmental Organisations) thus enabling, where wished, a connection to be established between those making the donation and those benefiting from it. In tandem with the provision of sanitation, water and livelihoods, WTN has responded to the building of houses and community centres in areas stricken by disaster
WHITE RIBBON CAMPAIGN LTD
United KingdomWomen
In 1991, a handful of men in Canada decided they had a responsibility to urge men to speak out against violence against women. They decided that wearing a white ribbon would be a symbol of men's opposition to men's violence against women. After only six weeks preparation, as many as one hundred thousand men across Canada wore a white ribbon. The WRC is the largest effort in the world of men working to end men's violence against women. It relies on volunteer support and financial contributions from individuals and organizations.
Whitman-Walker Clinic
United StatesHealth/Medical
In November 1973, the Gay Men’s VD Clinic, part of the Washington Free Clinic, began operating in the basement of the Georgetown Lutheran Church. This was the birth of what was to become Whitman-Walker. For nearly four decades, WW has been renowned – locally, nationally and internationally – for the high-quality, culturally sensitive care it provides. This work remains critical in an area with the highest HIV infection rate in the country.
Whitney Museum of American Art
United StatesArts/Culture
The Whitney Museum houses one of the world's foremost collections of twentieth-century American art. The Permanent Collection of some 12,000 works encompasses paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, drawings, prints, and photographs–and is still growing. The Museum was founded in 1931 with a core group of 700 art objects, many of them from the personal collection of founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
Whizz-Kidz
United KingdomDisability
Whizz-Kidz' service is focused on meeting the special needs of children and young people with mobility impairments. By providing them with customised mobility equipment, training, advice and life skills, we actually give them something much more important; the independence to be themselves. We make an immediate and life changing difference to their lives and their families.
Who Cares? Trust
United KingdomChildren/Education
The Who Cares? Trust was set up as a charity in 1992 to improve the everyday lives and future life chances of these children, of whom there are currently 74,000 around the UK. The charity grew out of the magazine Who Cares? (started in 1985) which we still publish today. As well as helping thousands of children in care directly through our publications and projects, we also help bring about change by guiding and influencing those responsible for children in care. We help them to think and do differently, with the needs and perspective of the child at the centre. We give young people in care a voice through their involvement in our magazines and publications, and by helping them relay their concerns and views to decision-makers in local and central government.
Widows and Orphans International
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
Our aim is to provide the highest quality service geared towards promoting, protecting and developing the health and training needs of Black and ethnic minorities in the community. Most of our projects in the UK are based in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Our programmes promote the interests of disadvantaged BME groups living in the UK, our main beneficiary target group though not exclusively are refugees, asylum seekers and those affected by HIV/AIDS. Children living and working on the streets have no access to education, healthcare and a stable supportive family environment. These children are at extreme risk of physical violence and sexual abuse, yet they are denied their basic rights every day.
Wiggles and Squiggles
South AfricaDisability
We provide a specialized, stimulating and caring environment for 34 children between the ages of 2 and 13, who have a variety of special needs. We have children with CP (Cerebral Palsy), Autism, various syndromes and multi-sensory impairments, as well as those without a diagnosis. We offer children with varied special needs a nurturing educational environment, with specialized input to enable them to grow and develop at their own pace. It is our aim to ensure that each and every child is happy, settled and enjoys coming to and being at school. The children are offered as many first hand experiences and varied opportunities as possible in order to involve them actively in their learning. Communication in any form is highly valued and all efforts to communicate are encouraged.
Wikimedia Foundation
United StatesResearch/Dev
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, the fourth most visited website in the world.
Wild Again Reforestation Trust
United KingdomEnvironment
The Wild Again Reforestation Trust is structured as a Company Limited by Guarantee so that it may own property in its own right. Its Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association require that no funds may be distributed except for purposes of land acquisition, land management, and related expenses. The Wild Again Reforestation Trust relies on public donations to purchase deforested land, ensures that land reverts to its natural, forested state and places that land in a permanent trust so it is never exploited again.
Wild for Life
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Wild for Life: Center for Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Inc. was founded out of love for wildlife and respect for the environment. Incorporated in 1999, we are a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization, located in Asheville, North Carolina. Wild for Life is the only established wildlife rehabilitation 501(c) 3 organization within a 50 mile radius of Asheville. Wild for Life provides medical, nutritional, and supportive care to wild animals that have been injured or orphaned. Our goal is to rehabilitate animals and return them back to their native habitats. We provide educational programs, internship opportunities, and a great place for groups or individuals to complete service learning projects.
Wild for Life Foundation
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Wild for Life Foundation (WFLF) is a 501 (c)(3) grassroots volunteer based nonprofit charity dedicated to saving, protecting and preserving wild and domestic equines. At Wild for Life Foundation, we help build connections between people and animals, increasing awareness about responsible equine and canine ownership and care through education. Through our equine protection program and the Saving America's Horses Initiative, we research, investigate and document crucial information and toward the advancement humane education. Through WFLF's Lifetime Equine Refuge, we provide medical care, food, shelter and a 2nd chance at life for rescued wild and domestic equines across the US. OPERATION OTTB is our Thoroughbred rescue and sanctuary program for off track racehorses in need. We save, rehabilitate and re-train off track Thoroughbred racehorses for a second chance at life. We provide for their ongoing care through sanctuary and facilitate appropriate transition and new forever homes through our adoption and foster care programs. WFLF's BACK TO THE WILD provides long term sanctuary for wild horses removed from the open ranges and educational resources for the preservation of wild equines.
Wild Life Alliance
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Wildlife Alliance is the leader in direct protection to forests and wildlife in the Southeast Asian tropical belt. Since its inception in 1994 as the Global Survival Network, the organization now known as Wildlife Alliance has worked with local governments, communities and other like-minded non-governmental organizations to implement cutting edge programs in Southeast Asia, Russia, South America, and the Western Pacific. These programs aim to conserve the environment and stop the illegal wildlife trade by directly protecting wildlife in the field, reducing consumer demand for wildlife, and providing alternative livelihoods for local communities.
Wild Life Trust
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
With more than 800,000 members, we are the largest UK voluntary organisation dedicated to conserving the full range of the UK's habitats and species, whether they be in the countryside, in cities or at sea. We are working for an environment rich in wildlife for everyone.
WildAid
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
WildAid is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco with representation in China, India, Galapagos, London and Canada. WildAid uniquely focuses on raising awareness to reduce the demand for threatened and endangered species products and to increase public support for wildlife conservation. The fight against the illegal trade in wildlife has achieved a rare degree of international consensus, as have the related issues of rule-of-law, good governance, conflict resolution and the fight against corruption. Over 150 nations are active parties to the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which regulates global trade in a number of threatened species including rhinos, tigers, corals and orchids.
WildCare
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
We work to make sure all species can coexist, not just by treating sick or injured animals (over 3,000 of them a year), but also by teaching people how to live peacefully with wildlife and by advocating for better protection of wildlife and our remaining open spaces. This integrated approach is essential to WildCare, and we address both the symptoms of human/wildlife interaction and their underlying causes. By doing so, we hope to create a more sustainable world for all. In addition to operating our wildlife rehabilitation hospital, we also provide numerous other resources to the local and larger community.
Wildcliff Nature Reserve
South AfricaAnimals/Wildlife
The trust was founded by Ian & Genevieve Giddy in 2007. It is guided by a Board of Trustees. Goals: To contribute to the preservation of an important part of the Cape Floral Kingdom; To further knowledge of the region's flora and fauna, by supporting a research program (described here;)To improve understanding by offering access and accommodation for visiting students and conservationists. Means: The primary means of achieving this goal has been the protection of a property whose flora represents important elements of the Cape Floral Kingdom. We call this property Wildcliff.
WildEarth Guardians
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Founded as Forest Guardians in 1989, the original mission of the grassroots effort was to fight a logging project on northern New Mexico's Elk Mountain. As the evidence of environmental threats continued, the efforts of the Guardians expanded. Though significantly expanded our scope, our core mission to confront the threats facing the beauty and diversity of the American West has not changed. We’ve added an in-house legal team that works closely with our program directors to reform policy and uphold environmental laws. In addition, our program directors use public awareness campaigns and political pressure to protect wildlife, wild places, and wild rivers.
Wilderland Trust
New ZealandCommunity/Family
Wilderland is owned and operated by Wilderland Trust (a charitable trust of New Zealand) and actively pursues the Objectives set-out in the Wilderland Trust Deed. Wilderland's charitable purpose is to provide educational experiences to the wider community. Learning occurs mainly through hands-on experience and participation. Wilderland promotes the physical and emotional wellbeing of individuals, families, and the community through a balanced lifestyle including diet, physical activity, creativity, and cooperation