Aspen Art Museum

Our innovative and timely exhibitions, education and public programs, immersive activities, and community happenings actively engage audiences in thought-provoking experiences of art, culture, and society.

Aspen Center for Environmental Studies

ACES is one of the few organizations that maintains direct involvement in natural science education for children from an early age. ACES educators conduct approximately 180 field study programs each school year at Hallam Lake, Rock Bottom Ranch, and various other outdoor sites in the community. ACES' school programs serve students from both public and private schools, and make some 20,000 contacts with students every school year. For more than forty years, ACES has led the community in promoting ecological literacy and environmental stewardship. Now, while remaining faithful to our roots, the study and stewardship of wild nature, we are adapting to current local and global conditions to be relevant and of service.

Aspen Institute

The Institute is based in Washington, DC, Aspen, Colorado, and on the Wye River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and has an international network of partners. Our core mission is to foster enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue. Through seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry and an appreciation for timeless values.

ASRA

The Action for Self Reliance and Alternatives (ASRA) came into existence in 1992, when a group of like minded people came together with a common objective of serving the marginalized segments of society with a special focus on persons with disabilities living in the slums, resettlement colonies, tribal and rural areas. It is a group of researchers, social activists, lawyers, academicians, social workers, doctors, planners and rehabilitation professionals. We identify the needy at an early stage, informing them of their rights; we give the physically handicapped first medical attention and we transfer them to hospitals, where appropriate. Our aim is to promote economic independence and rehabilitation through enhancing physical and functional competencies and skill development and to develop sustainable resources for prevention, early identifications & intervention, integrated education, employment, recreation, respite care and other needs in the community through partnership with disabled persons, their families and community.

ASSCOD

The Association of Sustainable Community Development (ASSCOD) registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act 1975, is a voluntary organization working for social and economic development in the rural areas of Kancheepuram and Thiruvannamalai Districts in Tamil Nadu, India. The team is focused on working mainly with the grassroots need gap - women and families from the deprived sections of the society such as the lower castes, who are especially vulnerable to poverty, social injustice, illiteracy and poor health. Founded in 1994, ASSCOD started its operations with core concentration on the health issues of the poor people in Tamilnadu, India. The organization made greater impact after expanding its focus on promoting the social and economic development of the rural poor, especially through the empowerment of women, education and disaster management. ASSCOD identified the weak links in the development of an empowered society and robust economy. Since 2003, ASSCOD’s centered its approach around the concept of self-help groups: organizing women into small groups, encouraging micro-savings and credit, and imparting skills and awareness training to its beneficiaries (refer to the side text for details). Furthermore, ASSCOD is committed to helping people in other ways as new opportunities and needs arise, and so in response to the Tsunami that devastated most of coastal regions Tamil Nadu in year 2004, ASSCOD collaborated with other development organizations in the regions to assist the disaster-hit individuals and families in a variety of ways. ASSCOD is also dedicated to working closely with smaller, local NGOs and supporting and promoting their efforts. ASSCOD is registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) of 1976 and has been granted tax-exemption status under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act of 1961.

ASSET India Foundation

We provide computer literacy in the form of information technology and conversational English training to children of women in prostitution ranging from ages 16-20 years. We partner with Indian non-profit organizations and leverage their existing relationships with the prostitute community. Together, we manage and run computer centers and train students in batches of 20. Our course is designed for 6-9 months, depending on the number of hours taught per week at each center. After the students complete our course, they apply for a competitive internship and upon satisfactory completion, they are placed at various IT and BPO firms. Prospective jobs include transcription, data entry and office suite application. Currently, our centers are located in major metropolitan Indian cities including Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad.

Assin Endwa Trust

It started in May 1999 when a young British volunteer - Kathryn Prosser was “Enstooled” as the "Development Queen-Mother" of a small settlement in the Central Region of Ghana called Assin Endwa. She was approached by Nana Ntiomah, who after consultation with the village elders, the head of the Royal Family and the District Chief Executive, requested that she assume the role of Development Queen - Mother to help publicise Endwa and attract some foreign interest and possibly aid. At the Enstoolment a joint Trust was proposed between Ghana and the UK where like minded people in both countries could help develop Endwa in a manner that would benefit the people of the village without destroying their culture.

ASSIST

ASSIST is a secular, not-for-profit organization working for the development of poor and marginalized communities in the rural areas of Prakasam, Guntur, Krishna, and Ranga Reddy Districts in Andhra Pradesh, India. With small beginnings in 1985, ASSIST is today known as a highly respected, trusted, and capable organisation in the State of Andhra Pradesh. A unique feature of the organisation has been in developing innovative and adaptable strategies based on experience and continuous communication at the village-level, in order to achieve the over-all objective: “Making the community a viable unit for its own development”.

Assist International

Assist International is a humanitarian organization addressing the critical needs of the world's most vulnerable people. This essential work is accomplished in emerging countries through High-tech Medical Projects (procurement, training, maintenance), Essential Infrastructure (power, water, capacity expansion), Caring for the Vulnerable (orphaned-abandoned children, HIV/AIDS, widows) and Education and Empowerment (schools, vocational training, enterprise endeavors). From our beginning in 1990 to this very day, Assist has a successful history working with a wide variety of partners including foundations, hospital groups, service clubs, corporations, faith-based groups and individual donors. Projects have been completed in over sixty countries lifting thousands beyond mere existence to a hopeful and productive future.

Assistance Dogs Australia

Assistance Dogs Australia obtains, trains and maintains dogs in community settings to assist people with their disabilities, to give them more confidence and to help them achieve a greater level of independence. The Assistance Dogs are fully trained to international standards and provided to recipients with physical disabilities free of charge. Each Assistance Dog costs the organisation just over $25,000, which covers the two year training period and follow up support. Assistance Dogs are already making a dramatic difference in the quality of life for individuals with physical disabilities. Not only do they assist them physically, but also these special dogs relieve loneliness and social isolation, helping their owners integrate more with their local communities. This increase in independence allows them to get on with their lives, often attending college, getting employment or just mixing more. An Assistance Dog can save the community significant monies by reducing the attendant care needs of their disabled recipients.

Assistance Medicale Toit Du Monde

Since its inception in 1992, the association carried out a medical skill during its missions through to the availability and the dedication of many doctors, pharmacists and nurses. Every year, they provide care and treatment to underprivileged populations of Nepal and India. Throughout the year, these populations also benefit from local partnerships established over meetings. From mission to mission, they can measure the impact of their actions in each site where the association operates. Through its actions on the spot, Assistance Médicale Toit du Monde has become a global agent for development. Especially it has rapidly expanded its work to the poor populations in Nepal and India, particularly to women and children. Our approach is non-exclusive, open and ecumenical.

Association des Amis de la Garenne

Association Enfance et Maladies Orphelines

Association for Children's Palliative Care

Founded in 1992, ACT is the only organisation working across the UK to achieve a better quality of life and care for every life-limited or life-threatened child or young person and their family. ACT works hard to raise awareness of the needs and experiences of children with life limiting conditions and their families so we can lobby to improve services and ensure that children and their families receive the best quality of life and care.

Association for India's Development

AID's holistic vision enables it to address underlying causes rather than just responding to symptoms, by using powerful tools for bringing out change, such as campaigning against corruption, in addition to constructive and creative work through various projects. Compassion wherever there is suffering, conviction that the compassion is strong enough to eliminate suffering, courage to make this conviction a reality... This is AID.

Association For Rural Advancement

AFRA is an independent NGO working on land rights and agrarian reform in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. AFRA's work focuses on black rural people whose rights to land have been undermined, whose tenure is insecure, and who do not have access to sufficient land to fulfill their development aspirations or even their basic needs. AFRA works for a peaceful, secure, productive and prosp erous society through the equitable redistribution of land, resources and opportunities. AFRA is committed to a non-racial society in which there is gender equality and participatory democracy.

Association for World Education

AWE means ”Association for World Education”. AWE was founded in the early 70’es by Aage Rosendal Nielsen who passed away in the autumn of 2003. He also founded the world famous ”World University” in the Denmark. Among some of his most famous visitors were John Lennon and Yoko Ono who became his personal friends. The purpose of the AWE Center is to support the education of 25 homeless Kenyan street children in Nairobi and support a group of 30 AIDS widows in Komarock.

Association Laafi

Association North-South Solidarity

North-South Solidarity Association is a charitable organization aimed to the integration and education of newcomers in Canada. As an educational institution, the role of NSSA is the dissemination of informations and to promote connections between institutions and newcomers (refugees and immigrants). By promoting the human rights, NSSA facilitates the resettlement of newcomers (refugees and immigrants) and connects them to the desired institutions services.

Association ODDFEA