Autism Victoria
AustraliaDisability
Autism Victoria (Australia) is the first place to call for information and advice for anyone interested in finding out more about Autism Spectrum Disorders, especially if you live in Victoria, Australia. We also provide a range of services to individuals and agencies with an interest in Autism Spectrum Disorders, including Asperger Syndrome and PDD-NOS. Autism Victoria believes in the importance of cooperative partnerships between parents, services and professionals. Our membership is made up of parents, agencies and professionals working together to achieve the association's mission - quality services, systemic acknowledgment and public awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorders, and the minimisation of the distress caused by Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Autistica
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Autistica was founded by autism campaigner and philanthropist, Dame Stephanie Shirley in 2004 to act as a catalyst in increasing funds available for biomedical autism research in the UK. The exact causes of autism are only now beginning to be understood, but we are confident that accelerating autism research will transform our understanding of autism and lead to more effective interventions and treatments. Autism research struggles to attract the sympathy and the money of the wider world because autism does not kill; it merely disables. That disability can be extreme and it is life-long. While fifteen years ago there was only a small number of scientists working on autism research across the world, now there are several hundred. There is still much work to be done, as despite strikingly high prevalence, autism research remains one of the lowest funded areas of medical research by both public and private sources.
Avaaz
CanadaHuman Rights
Avaaz.org is a community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today. Our members act for a more just and peaceful world and a globalisation with a human face. We are a new global online advocacy community that brings people-powered politics to global decision-making. Avaaz, meaning "voice" in several European, Middle Eastern and Asian languages, was launched in January 2007 with a simple democratic mission: organize citizens everywhere to help close the gap between the world we have and the world most people want. In 3 years, Avaaz has grown to 5.5 million members from every country on earth, becoming the largest global web movement in history. Avaaz empowers its members to take action on pressing issues of international concern, from global poverty to the crises in the Middle East to climate change. Its model of internet organising allows thousands of individual efforts, however small, to be rapidly combined into a powerful collective force. The Avaaz community is served by a small team of global campaigners working in many countries to identify and develop opportunities for members to take action.
AVERT
United KingdomCommunity/Family
AVERT is an international HIV and AIDS charity, based in the UK, working to avert HIV and AIDS worldwide, through education, treatment and care. AVERT supports and builds partnerships with local organisations who are working to directly avert the spread of HIV & AIDS. Our current HIV & AIDS projects & partnerships are taking place in southern Africa, particularly in areas where there are extremely high rates of HIV infection. AVERT’s Information and Advocacy Service also provides help and advice to the general public through specific enquiries, as well as campaigning for improved responses on specific issues, such as preventing children being born with HIV.
Aviation Sans Frontieres
FranceHumanitarian Aid
For 29 years, Aviation Sans Frontières has strived, alongside other NGO's, to offer a helping hand to relieve those who suffer, to help victims, to break the isolation of forgotten populations and thus bring hope to them all. As an important link in the humanitarian chain, Aviation Sans Frontières provides the aeronautical logistics which the other NGO's need. Accompanying sick children, transporting the unwell or teams of medics, conveying medical packages, tons of humanitarian freight or powdered milk, helping the handicapped to discover the skies, are the daily actions 'carried on the wings of hope' by our volunteers and by the aeronautical family at large. We intervene over a much of the planet with teams working on location or by correspondents, but it's the African continent where we concentrate a large part of our efforts.
Aviation Without Borders
United KingdomHumanitarian Aid
Aviation Without Borders' objective is to follow in the admirable footsteps of the French aviation charity Aviation Sans Frontières and to try and emulate our French colleagues' amazing record of almost 30 years of extensive charitable work. The seeds of Aviation Sans Frontières were sown in the late Sixties during the Nigerian civil war. A group of brave French pilots and flight engineers, offering their services free, operated a Super Constellation, chartered by the Red Cross and the Order of Malta, on mercy missions from Libreville to Biafra. Over the years Aviation Sans Frontières has slowly spread its wings across Europe and now Belgium, Germany, Holland, Spain and the UK, with Aviation Without Borders, all form part of a joint European family.
Avocats Sans Frontières France
FranceHuman Rights
The first association named ASF (Avocats Sans Frontières - Lawyers without Borders) was created in 1992 in Belgium by lawyers aiming the respect of Human rights everywhere in the world. The goal of this association was to secure the defence of every person of whom the fundamental rights are not respected and who cannot benefit from the help of a free and independent lawyer. Registered to the Prefecture of Haute-Garonne in France, this association is governed by the French law on associations and therefore enjoys a juridical personality. Today, ASF France brings together some 720 members, as private lawyers as well as a large part of the Orders of French lawyers and French professional organizations. It benefits from the support of the Conseil National des Barreaux Français (the National Council of French Bars) and of the Conférence des Bâtonniers de France (the Conference of the French Presidents of Bars) and it maintains close relations with international organizations of lawyers. Its members have also been able to deserve in the field the trust of national and international organizations with which partnership relations have been set up.
Avon Old Farms School
United StatesChildren/Education
Avon Old Farms is a student-centered school; its mission is the education of adolescent males. To this end, Avon seeks to create a structured and supportive environment advantageous to the intellectual and physical growth as well as the social and moral development of young men. Avon offers a thorough, straightforward, and structured program to students diverse in their academic abilities. In their efforts to succeed, all students are at once challenged and supported by faculty members who are consistently available to students for extra help outside the classroom. Avon believes that this approach, designed to nurture self-confidence and a healthy sense of self-worth, is excellent preparation for the demands and rigors of college.
Avrica
United KingdomResearch/Dev
Avrica is dedicated to providing a wide range of aid assistance via aviation to the people of rural Africa who are less than adequately served by modern health and welfare resources. Totally reliant on donations, (Administration and operational costs are privately sponsored) we disburse every penny of our donated resources where they provide direct help or indirectly support the work done by other agencies in the region.
Award
South AfricaResearch/Dev
AWARD (Association for Water and Rural Development) is an NGO in South Africa that works on water supply in the broader context of managing water resources and their wise use, with a focus on learning about water security issues in the Sand River Catchment area. In taking up the new challenges, the organisation has interacted with and influenced institutional changes and in turn contributed and responded to the evolution of change in context.
AWD Conservancy
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Having lived and worked in the African bush for many years, we believe that investing in people and taking an adaptive grassroots approach are necessary to make wild dog conservation efforts sustainable, and indeed truly important to enable those most directly affected. The African Wild Dog Conservancy's community conservation project is in the Biodiversity Hotspots of northeastern and coastal Kenya, a rich mosaic of protected areas and community lands under extreme threat. Our approach differs from a number of other projects, because we have taken the time to learn why many community-based conservation efforts have not succeeded.
Awely - Des Animaux Et Des Hommes
FranceAnimals/Wildlife
Awely is an international organisation created in 2005. Since its inception, we have aimed to put our enthusiasm and our competence in the service of the conservation of endangered species and the ecosystems. Our organization is based in the Center East of France, and we develop our actions in Africa, Asia and later on in South America. As the human population is constantly growing and wildlife habitats are destroyed, conflicts between people and animals are becoming a severe threat to both sides. Together with our partner organisations, we are developing solutions to benefit human and wildlife sharing the same environment and reducing the massive threat to biodiversity. We employ people from the local communities, we provide them with education and equipment, and they in turn are most often assisted by a local organisation who shares our orientation and with whom we have signed a partnership contract.
AWSS
South AfricaAnimals/Wildlife
AWSS stands for "Animal Welfare Society Stellenbosch" we are a non-profit organisation with the aim to serve the community of Stellenbosch and greater Stellenbosch by taking care of the community's unwanted, mistreated and neglected pets. We also advocate and promote the sterilisation of cats and dogs to curb unwanted breeding in an already overpopulated pet community. We sterilise, dip, vaccinate, deworm and treat illnesses of animals in our indigent population.
Axis
DenmarkHumanitarian Aid
Axis is a Danish NGO founded in 1995. Focus areas are education, organisational development and sustainable development in third world countries. Recently focus has broadened to include reproductive health and ecological farming. Each year Axis sends volunteers and interns to the partner organisations in third world where they help make a profound difference in people's lives.
AYF
United StatesEthnic/Religion
Responding to the need for Indigenous Peoples to realize our own community development initiatives, indigenous leaders from throughout the Americas gathered in 1994, in Oakland, California, to create the Abya Yala Fund (AYF). AYF is the first foundation to be founded and run by Indigenous Peoples from Central and South America and Mexico. We decided that we must represent ourselves directly to funders in order to receive financing relevant to our reality and needs. In addition, the unique Indigenous approach to development based on principles of harmony with all beings, community cohesion, and respectful care for nature provides the world with valuable tools and a vision for addressing the threat to human survival which recent Homo Sapiens have created.
Azad India Foundation
IndiaCommunity/Family
Azad India Foundation was formed in the year 1998 based in Kishanganj district of Bihar. We started our activities with a non formal education and vocational training center for women in the village Chhattergach. In last ten years our activities have broadened in the fields of female literacy, formal education for children, rural employment, income generating skills, community health and awareness programmes on various social issues. The activities reach out to poor and marginalized women,adolescents and disadvantaged and marginalized children from rural and urban areas of Kishanganj district.
Azim Premji Foundation
IndiaChildren/Education
The Foundation works in the area of elementary education to pilot and develop 'proofs of concept' that have a potential for systemic change in India's 1.3 million government-run schools. The Foundation focuses on working in rural areas where the majority of these schools exist. We contribute to systemic change and not merely create islands of excellence, partnering with Government(s) in quality initiatives, while significantly invest in people resources and continuously build capability within the organization to work on quality initiatives.
Österreichischer Kinderschutzbund
AustriaHuman Rights
We consider the Austrian - style which means prohibition of all corporal punishment of children a vital strategy for reducing all forms of violence and abuse. "Moderate every-day violence" even if socially accepted is no trivial issue and never has been, because it may well serve as the breeding ground for any form of violent behaviour including sexual exploitation, pornography and child abuse. Physical punishment therefore cannot be scientifically divided into acceptable and not acceptable forms. It simply is wrong - and indeed it is not only wrong but useless and dangerous.
B'Ahavat Yisrael
IsraelCommunity/Family
B'Ahavat Yisrael means "With Love of Israel", is an organization that strives to find what Jews have in common with each other during these very fractious times. B'Ahavat Yisrael staff and volunteers have made thousands of hospital visits to those injured from terror attacks and road accidents always with gifts and a warm smile. Many needy residents of the Shomron (Samaria), who otherwise would not have received aid from larger organizations simply because they live in Yesha, have benefited from food distribution sponsored by B'Ahavat Yisrael.
B'nai B'rith International
United StatesEthnic/Religion
B'nai B'rith International, the global voice of the Jewish community, is the most widely known Jewish humanitarian, human rights, and advocacy organization. Since 1843, BBI has worked for Jewish unity, security, continuity, and tolerance. BBI's reach extends to more than 50 countries around the world.