Bnai Zion Foundation
United StatesEthnic/Religion
Bnai Zion, one of the oldest Zionist organizations in America, established in 1908, has been serving the needs of the Jewish people throughout the world with particular emphasis on the support of Israel and the resettlement of new immigrants in the United States. Now in its second century, the organization has completed hundreds of initiatives for the people of Israel and for Jewish people worldwide. Bnai Zion strongly supports the significant, enduring tie between America and Israel and is continuing its projects toward the advancement of the physical, mental and social wellbeing of the citizens of Israel.
Bo's Place
United StatesCommunity/Family
Bo's Place began in 1990 as a grief support Information & Referral Line, providing callers with free grief resources and support contacts in the greater Houston area. Today, Bo's Place remains Houston's oldest and only on-going, free-of-charge, grief support program for children. Bo's Place is founded on the belief that grieving children sharing their experiences with each other greatly helps in their grief journey.
BOAT
New ZealandArts/Culture
The Blue Oyster Arts Trust (BOAT) was founded in Dunedin in 1999 as the governing body of the Blue Oyster Art Project Space that provides a high quality, dynamic program of experimental and innovative contemporary art practice. BOAT is a non-profit and non-commercial organisation that is made up of practicing artists, curators and other creative professionals. The art project space allows a diverse range of artists to work experimentally, free from commercial restraints and irrespective of the stage of their career. We aim to broaden the interest and understanding of contemporary arts by providing a forum for discussion and debate regarding contemporary art issues.
Bobby Dodd Institute
United StatesDisability
People with disabilities have consistently faced an approximately 65% rate of unemployment despite the ability and willingness to work. Bobby Dodd Institute (BDI) is committed to reducing that unemployment rate by helping people with disabilities and disadvantages overcome barriers to work. We provide a variety of high-quality job training programs at our facility. Our lines of business also allow us to provide meaningful full or part-time employment. As a result of BDI's work over the years, thousands of people with disabilities and disadvantages have transitioned from being a welfare recipient to becoming a proud wage earner.
Body Positive
New ZealandCommunity/Family
Body Positive was officially incorporated in 1992 as New Zealand's only national HIV peer support organisation. Body Positive Inc. is a group founded by and and run for people with HIV/AIDS. We welcome all people living with HIV and AIDS in New Zealand. Anyone affected by HIV can drop-in and have a chat whether you have a specific question or problems or issues you want discuss. Body Positive provides a broad range of services for people living with HIV in an attempt to break down the sense of isolation HIV people often experience and to build a sense of community.
Bodywise
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Founded in 1986 and situated in the heart of the vibrant East End of London, Bodywise yoga and natural health centre is a community focused charity dedicated to providing quality and affordable classes, workshops and holistic therapies. Our aim is to help you transform to an optimum state of well-being and our team of highly experienced and qualified teachers and practitioners are here to provide the support and encouragement to help you on your way. We are informed by Buddhist values and believe we are all interconnected in our community. This is why we put profits we make into providing low cost products and services for those who otherwise couldn’t afford them. So, when you come to Bodywise you have the peace of mind that not only are you realising your own potential for optimum well-being, but you are also helping others to do the same.
Bolton Conservation Volunteers
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
Based in Bolton, Lancashire, the Bolton Conservation Volunteers (BCV) was established in 1976 to care for and maintain Bolton's natural habitats and wildlife. Over the years the group has evolved and grown to be one of the oldest and most respected groups of its kind in the country. Our work has taken us across Lancashire, Salford, Manchester on regular tasks, and even to Derbyshire, Flintshire and Cumbria on our working weekend residentials. In addition to carrying out practical habitat management tasks we have regular indoor meetings to discuss issues affecting the group and often have guest speakers from groups such as the RSPB, BTO, and Wildlife Trust.
Bombay Leprosy Project
IndiaHealth/Medical
Bombay Leprosy Project (BLP) is a registered non-profit voluntary organization working for more than three decades towards achieving the goal of "World Without Leprosy". Bombay Leprosy Project is an NGO founded by Dr R Ganapati, an eminent Leprologist, who has transformed leprosy work from a closed institutionalized endeavor to a widespread community based work. BLP has been working relentlessly to help miserable sufferers of leprosy "existing" with a bleak, almost hopeless future. The distinct commitment and true devotion of the team has set a mark in the history of leprosy. This has brought hope into the lives of thousands of individuals suffering from leprosy.
Bombay Natural History Society
IndiaResearch/Dev
Bombay Natural History Society is today the largest non-government organization (NGO) in the Indian subcontinent engaged in nature conservation research. In the 125 years of its existence, its commitment has been, and continues to be, the conservation of India's natural wealth, protection of the environment and sustainable use of natural resources for a balanced and healthy development for future generations. The Society's guiding principle has always been that conservation must be based on scientific research.
Bone Growth Foundation
AustraliaResearch/Dev
The Bone Growth Foundation began in 1991, with interest to find better, less painful ways to help straighten and lengthen children's limbs. The Bone Growth Foundation’s work is already providing better, less painful treatments for children with crippling growth problems. But we still have a long way to go. Straightening and lengthening the limbs of children with crippling growth problems aims to help those children to grow up and live a normal life.
Bone Marrow Foundation
United StatesHealth/Medical
The Bone Marrow Foundation supports patients, their families and caregivers every step of the way during a bone marrow, stem cell or cord blood transplant. No transplant patient should ever feel alone. The foundation is the only organization of its kind that does not limit assistance to a specific disease, type of transplant or age range. All of the foundation’s services are offered free to patients and their families. The Bone Marrow Foundation is guided by a medical advisory board of nationally recognized physicians in the field of transplantation.
Bont Voor Dieren
NetherlandsAnimals/Wildlife
Bont voor Dieren campaigns against the production and use of fur by raising public awareness on issues such as animal cruelty and welfare, fur farming, trapping, sealing, dog and cat fur, karakul lambs and fur in fashion. We do so using entirely legal and non-violent means. Bont voor Dieren achieves its goals through political lobby at a local, national and European level, by persuading fashion designers and retailers to not include fur in their collections, through education and, of course, maintaining a high media profile. Bont voor Dieren is also active on an international level. We offer our support and information to organisations in other countries were fur is still widely worn. Our motto is ‘When you stop buying, the animals stop dying’. In other words, if fur is no longer traded anywhere in the world, the suffering of all fur-bearing animals at human hands will come to an end.
Book Aid International
United KingdomChildren/Education
We are one of the world's foremost library development charities and provide around half a million books to libraries sub-Saharan Africa and the Occupied Palestinian Territories every year. We support libraries in schools, refugee camps, prisons, universities, communities and more. As well as donating books, we also support libraries by providing grants for purchasing books locally, maintaining library buildings or training for library staff. We work with a wide range of partners in 12 countries in sub-Saharan Africa who help us to ensure that the books we send match the local need and that they are distributed to the libraries and communities that need them the most. Books and libraries are a crucial resource in sub-Saharan Africa. They are vital for quality education; they raise literacy levels, provide information and underpin development.
Book-Cycle
United KingdomCommunity/Family
Book-Cycle is a UK based volunteer run Charity. We seek to empower communities in developing countries through the provision of free books and educational resources. We also encourage the reforestation of rural England by offering free trees and information on self-sustainability. Book-Cycle also works to benefit the local community; establishing projects to encourage self-reliance through home food growing, engaging in global issues and promoting wildlife through the planting of trees. We also provide FREE internet access, seed banks, independent film screenings, 'Bring Your Own Art' exhibitions and a variety of workshops too.
Bookmates
CanadaCommunity/Family
Bookmates is a Manitoba based non-profit organization established in 1984 that promotes and supports family literacy through developing family literacy and learning programs in partnership with community organizations and parents. We train people to facilitate programs for families in their own communities. We provide programs for groups of parents and children through the support of a community organization. Our programs are ideal for family resource centres, child care facilities, schools, libraries and other organizations that care about families, and are designed to enhance the learning of young children, their parents and other caregivers.
BookRelief UK
United KingdomChildren/Education
BookRelief UK is a literacy charity that started life as a community group in Bideford, North Devon in October 2006 and became a registered charity in March 2010. As a literacy charity, BookRelief UK has coordinated several programmes in North Devon beginning with a North Devon Schools Reading Programme in 2007 delivered in association with the National Literacy Trust’s Reading is Fundamental programme. In 2011 BookRelief UK introduced and coordinated a one-to-one mentoring programme in the Bideford area for school children who are slow or reluctant readers – in association with Reading Matters of Bradford and the Bideford Learning Community. This programme has worked very successfully and will be extended over the 2013/14 academic year thanks to financial support we recently received from the Big Lottery Fund's Awards for All programme. In 2012 BookRelief UK began an association with Read Easy UK to introduce their very successful volunteer-led adult literacy programme - which delivers one-to-one literacy coaching to adults with reading difficulties - to the North Devon area. This began with a pilot programme in Barnstaple. As of November 2013 we are pleased to report that our Read Easy Barnstaple group has trained over 40 volunteer reading coaches and has over 40 new readers/learners undergoing one-to-one basic literacy tuition. In February 2013 we established Read Easy Bideford &Great Torrington and we are currently working to establish a Read Easy group in Ilfracombe. BookRelief UK also have programmes for collecting and storing used books – which are either sold to raise funds for local literacy programmes or sent abroad through our Books Overseas Programme – which is currently run in conjunction with Book-Cycle of Exeter.
Books for Africa
United StatesChildren/Education
Books donated by publishers, schools, libraries, individuals, and organizations are sorted and packed by volunteers who carefully choose books that are age and subject appropriate. We send good books, enough books for a whole class to use. They are shipped in sea containers paid for by contributions from people like you. It costs about 50 cents to send a book from the United States to Africa. Since 1988, Books For Africa has shipped more than 22 million books to 45 African countries. They are on once-empty library shelves, in classrooms in rural schools, and in the hands of children who have never before held a book. Each book will be read over and over again. When the books arrive, they go to those who need them most: children who are hungry to read, hungry to learn, hungry to explore the world in ways that only books make possible.
Boomer's Legacy
CanadaHumanitarian Aid
The foundation has been developed to aid the women and children in Afghanistan, and in doing so we will honour all of our soldiers who have served there, especially those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. "Boomer's Legacy" is named in remembrance of Corporal Andrew James Eykelenboom, a Canadian military medic who was killed by a suicide bomber in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan in August 2006 at age 23. While serving in Afghanistan, Andrew (known to his friends as "Boomer") recognized numerous opportunities for assisting the Afghan people through the distribution of medical supplies, educational material, books and warm clothing. In small, personal ways, Boomer and his comrades felt they were able to make a special contribution to bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan. Boomer's Legacy has been created to further these accomplishments.
BORDA - Bremen
GermanyResearch/Dev
BORDA was founded in 1977 as non-profit organization in Bremen, Germany. Since 1981 our programs have been supported by the Federal German Ministry for Economic Cooperation & Development (BMZ). Since 2001 we are focusing on development co-operations that aim to provide sustainable and environmentally sound services for basic needs to disadvantaged segments of society. We are facilitating basic-needs service projects in Indonesia, China, India, Vietnam, the Philippines and neighboring regions. Projects in the African SADC-region are planned. We and our country partners have been contracted as expert organizations by international institutions such as the World Bank, ADB, KfW, GTZ, AusAID, CEU as well as national and local Governments.
Borderline Books
NetherlandsCommunity/Family
Borderline Books collects overstocks and slightly damaged copies from publishers, bookshops and importers and second hand books from libraries and redistributes them free of charge to those who need them. Some publishers donate the reading copies of recent publications in various languages which they have considered for translation. We support refugees newly settled in European towns and cities or living in detention centres or in limbo on the borderline between rejection and deportation. We provide large quantities of books for the women and children survivors of domestic violence and do our best to support organizations working with the homeless.