beat
United KingdomCommunity/Family
beat is the leading UK charity for people with eating disorders and their families. beat is the working name of the Eating Disorders Association, and we continue to build on the strong foundations of the past 20 years of work. Eating disorders are a serious mental illness affecting 1.6 million people in the UK. beat provides helplines for adults and young people, online support and a UK-wide network of self-help groups to help people beat their eating disorder.
Beatbullying
United KingdomHuman Rights
Beatbullying is the UK's leading bullying prevention charity, creating a world where bullying, violence and harassment are unacceptable. Beatbullying empowers people to understand, recognise, and say no to bullying, violence and harassment by giving them the tools to transform their lives and the lives of their peers. Working with families, schools, and communities to understand the problem, campaign for change and provide a sustainable efficient and proven solution. Beatbullying has gained significant recognition for it's anti-bullying work in schools and communities across the UK, working with more than 1.6 million children and young people since it's launch in 1999.
Beating Bowel Cancer
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Since 1999 Beating Bowel Cancer has been saving lives from bowel cancer, the UK's second biggest cancer killer, by raising awareness of symptoms, promoting early diagnosis and encouraging open access to treatments. Over the past decade, major developments in cancer policy and treatments have improved the quality of life of bowel cancer patients. As the charity enters its second decade, 'A Decade in Bowel Cancer' looks at the progress that has been made in tackling bowel cancer over the past ten years and sets out our vision of what can be achieved by 2020.
Beautiful Gate Lesotho
South AfricaChildren/Education
As a non-profit organisation we are reliant on the donations from churches, businesses, funding organisations and individuals. We have been amazed at the support we have received over time and coninue to hope for partners to come alongside us in these tough economic times that have affected us as well. The care centre for abandoned and HIV/AIDS-affected children in Maseru, Lesotho, opened its doors in 2001. Initially we started out as Little Feet Ministry, but later came under the umbrella of Beautiful Gate Ministry International, a ministry reaching out to children in need throughout Africa. This ministry was started as a calling from God to it's founders (Ray and Sue Haakonsen) to reach out to "the least of these". Many of the children who have come into our center have been neglected abused or abandoned and would have died without intervention.
Beautiful Gate Ministry
South AfricaCommunity/Family
Beautiful Gate South Africa is an interdenominational Christian organisation providing care and support to vulnerable children and families. We believe that the best place for each child is within a family, and that the best way to support families is to enable their community to provide support. In South Africa, our community based ministry is situated on the outskirts of Cape Town, in the informal area of Lower Crossroads. Here we aim to restore the capacity of the community and of families to care for their children or, where this is not possible, to find alternative families. In this regard Beautiful Gate has emerged as a trustworthy partner to the local community and to other NGO’s as well as government in addressing issues of HIV/AIDS and its impact on children, families and the community.
Beauty Night Society
CanadaWomen
Beauty Night Society was created in 2000 by Caroline MacGillivray. Caroline first became of aware of the plight of women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside while volunteering at the Women's Information Safe House (WISH), a drop-in centre for sex-trade workers. Beauty Night clients are primarily women, but we also have some programs for youth of both sexes. Beauty Night's first clients were primarily women living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, an area struggling to cope with high rates of unemployment, homelessness, addiction and reliance on the sex trade. Today, we offer our services to women and youth who experience any form of hardship that affects their self-esteem and self-worth, including addiction, poverty, homelessness, HIV-status, criminal convictions and mental illness.
Beauty Without Cruelty BWC
IndiaAnimals/Wildlife
BWC a charity for animals rights was stablished in 1959. The name BWC denotes that one can look beautiful and have beautiful things without being cruel to animals. In India BWC, an educational charitable trust for animal rights began by focusing on commercial exploitation of animals for vanity. Over the years the organization has expanded its scope of work to cover animals subjected to suffering, torture or death in the name of entertainment, exhibition, research, service and food.
Beaver Water World
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
We educate the public on the unsuitability of certain species as pets and encourage respect for reptiles. We want to build a lecture room suitable for school parties and youth groups so we can expand our educational programme. Our aim at Beaver Water World Reptile Zoo is to be a refuge - a Noah's Ark for rare and rescued reptiles, to ride out the storm of human persecution until they can be guaranteed a safe future in the wild. Beaver Reptile Zoo has the ability to carry through a Captive Breeding Programme - ultimately our plan is to develop the site "behind the scenes", as certain reptiles are difficult to breed in Zoo's as they are nervous and resent disturbance. We plan to try and create near natural conditions, in peaceful and secure surroundings. Due to habitat destruction or over trapping for the pet/fashion/far east medical trade, it will take many years for conservation to become effective.
Behind The Mask
South AfricaHuman Rights
Launched in May 2000, Behind the Mask (BTM) is a communication initiative around LGBTI i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex rights and affairs in Africa. The organization considers information and communication technology (ICT) and independent journalistic activism as its main tools. By way of publishing a website magazine, the organization gives voice to African LGBTI communities and provides a platform for exchange and debate for LGBTI groups, activists, individuals and allies.
Believe in Tomorrow National Children's Foundation
United StatesChildren/Education
We Believe in keeping families together during a child’s medical crisis, and that the gentle cadence of normal family life has a powerful influence on the healing process. We believe the highest standards of service and unparalleled hospitality help create a unique healing environment, where families find hope and comfort. Since 1986, Believe In Tomorrow has provided over 560,000 individual overnight accommodations, helping families stay together in the midst of a medical crisis.
Bellona Foundation
NorwayEnvironment
The Bellona Foundation is an international environmental NGO based in Norway. Founded in 1986 as a direct action protest group, Bellona has become a recognised technology and solution-oriented organization with offices in Oslo, Brussels, Washington D.C., St. Petersburg and Murmansk. Altogether, some 75 engineers, ecologists, nuclear physicists, economists, lawyers, political scientists and journalists work at Bellona. Climate change is an enormous challenge. It can only be solved if politicians and legislators develop clear policy frameworks and regulations for industry and consumers. Industry plays a role by developing and commercialising environmentally sound technology. Bellona strives to be a bridge builder between industry and policy makers, working closely with the former to help them respond to environmental challenges in their fields, and proposing policy measures that promote new technologies with the least impact on the environment.
Bellwoods Centres For Community Living Inc.
CanadaDisability
Established over fifty years ago, Bellwoods Centres For Community Living Inc. is a charitable, not-for-profit organization whose support services and independent living programs are offered to clients who live in the community or in one of our twenty-four hour supportive housing projects. There is a continuing and expanding need for support services and programs. Our non-medical personal support services, accommodation and independent living education programs are available to people sixteen years of age or older with permanent physical disabilities who live in the greater Toronto area.
Belmont Hill School
United StatesChildren/Education
The school life of Belmont Hill began September 26, 1923, just six months after its incorporation. Eighty-five years past its beginnings, in the 12th year of leadership of Rick Melvoin, and although a considerably larger and more complex body than Dr. Howe's intrepid and merry band, Belmont Hill still remains fundamentally about the business of helping boys develop in personal confidence, in their individual talents and passions, and in an agile, informed engagement with their world. Valuing difference, we seek students, faculty, and staff from a broad range of backgrounds who will embrace honest effort, curiosity, courage, and compassion. Working together, we seek to foster in each boy good character, commitment to service, global responsibility, and a passion for lifelong learning.
Belmont House Foundation
CanadaCommunity/Family
Belmont House is a charitable, non-profit, Christian home for seniors offering long term care, retirement living and apartments. For more than 150 years we have provided quality care to our residents in a safe and stimulating home environment. We are the "Seniors' Home of Choice" – helping our residents maintain independence, choice, dignity and privacy.
Beluga School for Life
GermanyResearch/Dev
The Beluga School for Life was established to afford the orphans and half-orphans of the tsunami catastrophe, as well as the surviving parents a new future. Since many of the children still suffer from their traumatic experiences, the BSfL additionally offers psycho-social care. The children live together with the adults in groups of various sizes - either in small family houses or larger community accommodations. Moreover, the "families" are embedded in neighborly and village-like structures. A main concern of the Beluga School for Life is education. In order to prevent the children from being trapped in the vicious circle of poverty as adults, their creativity and autonomy needs to be developed.
Ben
United KingdomEnvironment
Black Environment Network uses the word "black" symbolically recognising that the black communities are the most visible of all ethnic groups. We work with white, black and other ethnic communities. BEN works to enable full ethnic participation in the built and natural environment. We are positioned as a catalyst for change. The services, resources and expertise within the mainstream are enormous. There is no way in which a parallel provision can be set up. In order to benefit fully, ethnic participation must therefore be enabled to access everything that the mainstream has to offer. We do not intend to provide a permanent service for ethnic communities. All our projects are developmental and strategic. On the one hand we reach out to ethnic communities in order to stimulate participation. On the other hand we work to support mainstream organisations so that they may gain the necessary awareness and skills to work effectively with ethnic communities in a socially and culturally relevant way. The ultimate measure of our success is to do ourselves out of a job!
Beneficial Foundation
United KingdomDisability
The Beneficial Foundation is a Portsmouth based Registered Charity, established in 1979. It seeks to assist the disadvantaged, particularly those with learning difficulties and other disabilities. The Foundation encourages the personal and social development of Trainees, giving them every opportunity to gain nationally recognised qualifications through the Open College Network. The Foundation's aim is to enable Trainees to progress into paid employment, improving both their quality of life and the positive contribution that they are able to make to the community. The Foundation has established a number of Social Firms, where Trainees and other disadvantaged local people can further develop their skills, work ethic, confidence and self-worth and thus progress towards paid employment. We continue to look for and develop more social enterprises and meaningful activities.
Bengal Rural Welfare Service
IndiaResearch/Dev
The founders of BRWS originally united to provide aid to the victims of West Bengal's devastating flood in 1978. After having interacted at an intimate level with the state's underprivileged citizens and after having realized the demand for their services, the team decided to dedicate themselves to a broader goal: assisting rural Bengalis in raising themselves out of poverty. Thus, in 1981 BRWS formally registered as an NGO, and, ever since, the organization has been working to alleviate poverty through its women's empowerment and health care initiatives.
Benjamin Rose Institute
United StatesCommunity/Family
For more than 100 years, the Benjamin Rose Institute has worked to raise the standards of care for older adults. Founded in 1908 as a nonsectarian organization through the generosity of Cleveland industrialist Benjamin Rose, the Institute has been an innovator in service delivery, a leader in research, and an advocate for older adults in Northeast Ohio and nationally. With support from an endowment fund, grants, fees for services, and gifts, the Benjamin Rose Institute assists older people and their families in the Greater Cleveland area through cooperative, community-based efforts. Our service, research, policy, and administrative divisions work together and individually to fulfill our mission of raising the standards of care for seniors.
Benji Hillman Foundation
IsraelCommunity/Family
The Benji Hillman Foundation (BHF) was founded in August 2006 with a very specific project and goal in mind, helping the lone soldier and soldiers from deprived backgrounds in Israel, during and after their army service. The flagship project, a home for lone soldiers, has been named Habayit Shel Benji [Benji's Home.] Building commenced at the end of 2010. “Lone Soldiers,” young men who have decided to leave their country of origin and join the Israeli army, have no family in Israel; they often barely speak Hebrew, cannot usually rent an apartment because they don't get enough income from the army, and have nowhere to go when they do get leave from base.