Bread for the World Institute
United StatesResearch/Dev
Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our nation's decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. By changing policies, programs, and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist, we provide help and opportunity far beyond the communities where we live. We can end hunger in our time. Everyone, including our government, must do their part. With the stroke of a pen, policies are made that redirect millions of dollars and affect millions of lives. By making our voices heard in Congress, we make our nation’s laws more fair and compassionate to people in need. Bread for the World members write personal letters and emails and meet with our members of Congress. Working through our churches, campuses, and other organizations, we engage more people in advocacy.
Breadline Africa
South AfricaResearch/Dev
Breadline Africa started when a group of community and social workers living in Africa wanted to bridge the gap between Africa and Europe and raise funds for the poor. We are now the largest charity converting shipping containers into useful buildings for poor communities in Southern Africa. Shipping containers have become nursery schools, community kitchens, pre-school toilets, skills classrooms and more. Breadline Africa also supports a range of projects, from HIV / AIDS to community feeding programmes, to youth and child projects to refugee support.
BREAK
United KingdomChildren/Education
The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 15 February 1983 and registered as a charity on 6 May 1983. Break provides services for clients from throughout the country in conjunction with Local Authorities, Health Authorities and other Welfare Agencies from both private and voluntary sectors. Break runs five high quality, residential children's homes across Norfolk, funded directly through Service Level Agreements with Norfolk Children's Services. This year over 1,500 individuals were supported by Break's work - providing care for people in need, enhancing opportunities and improving quality of life.
Break the Cycle
United StatesCommunity/Family
Break the Cycle is the leading national nonprofit organization that provides preventive dating and domestic violence education and outreach to teens and young adults. Teens that experience abuse are more likely to engage in other risk behaviors such as drug/alcohol abuse, sexual activity, suicide and school delinquency. That puts one third of OUR teens at risk for ALL of those things. That is one third of OUR future. We want to stop that. Break the Cycle offers programs that defy geographic bounds, ensuring that no young person is excluded from receiving the help, tools and information they need to build healthy relationships and homes. Break the Cycle works directly with young people, ages 12 to 24, providing innovative prevention education that is practical, teen-friendly and effective.
Breakfast Clubs of Canada
CanadaHealth/Medical
Launched in 2005, Breakfast Clubs of Canada builds on 15 years of success and experience of the Club des petits déjeuners du Québec (Quebec Breakfast Club), which serves more than 2.1 million breakfasts to Quebec schoolchildren annually. The Quebec Breakfast Club program was recognized by the United Nations World Food Programme. It is the model Breakfast Clubs of Canada promotes for other programs elsewhere in Canada. Breakfast Clubs of Canada saw the need for school breakfast programs all across Canada. We are currently developing breakfast programs around the country. We are also present in Aboriginal communities. Last year, Breakfast Clubs of Canada helped serve over 30 million breakfasts and close to 200,000 children in hundreds of school breakfast programs across Canada. School breakfast programs aren’t intended as a replacement for morning family time. They become a valuable option when, for a number of reasons, breakfast in an alternate environment is a healthier choice for the child.
Breakfast for Learning
CanadaChildren/Education
Breakfast for Learning is a strong, national voice for child nutrition programs in Canada. Together with our nationwide organization of employees, Members and Partners, child nutrition professionals, partners and supporters, and our network of over 30,000 volunteers across the country, we help provide nutritious foods in caring, community-centred programs. As the nation’s lead advocate for quality nutrition in schools, Breakfast for Learning champions a made-in-Canada model that brings together private, public and volunteer sectors to provide food in caring, community-centres programs. In addition, Breakfast for Learning supports ongoing research and child nutrition education that demonstrates the link between proper nutrition and learning.
Breakfast with Santa Foundation
CanadaChildren/Education
We provide with the opportunity of experiencing the spirit of Christmas to children who are emotionally, physically and/or financially stressed in any way with a stress-free morning of a nutritious breakfast, a visit with Santa, one present for Christmas morning and entertainment. We also provide the children identified as emotionally, physically and/or financially stressed with a nutritious breakfast at such times when the need arises, such as school summer vacation and where school breakfast programs are absent or inadequate. Breakfast with Santa Foundation assists in the relief of childhood poverty and abuse. We operate strictly on a volunteer basis and every dollar raised is used for the benefit of our guests.
BREAKTHROUGH (DEAF-HEARING INTEGRATION)
United KingdomDisability
There are 7 million people in the United Kingdom who are deaf to some degree and deafPLUS strives towards ensuring that the needs of each and every one of those persons are met. Established in 1970, deafPLUS are a registered medium-sized charity and company limited by guarantee working to encourage integration and equality between deaf and hearing people in all areas of life.
Breakthrough India
IndiaHuman Rights
Through initiatives in India and the United States, Breakthrough addresses critical global issues including violence against women, sexuality and HIV/AIDS, racial justice, and immigrant rights. These rights make up the daily fabric of our lives, of how we tend to live individually and as a community. The rights to life, food, shelter, freedom of expression, freedom from violence, religious freedom – these are all human rights to which we are all entitled. The United Nations has codified many human rights in documents called conventions and treaties, which are ratified by member countries that promise to adhere by their rules. They are described in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Guaranteeing these rights for us and for others is what building a human rights culture is all about.
Brearley School
United StatesChildren/Education
The Brearley School is an all-girls, nondenominational, independent college-preparatory day school founded in October 1884. Brearley's founding Headmaster, Samuel A. Brearley, Jr., graduated from Harvard in 1871 and worked as a private tutor until 1880, when he went to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He came to New York in 1884, when it was commonly thought that intellectual activity "took the bloom from ladies," and opened a school to provide young women with an education comparable to that available to their brothers.
Breast Cancer Care
United KingdomCommunity/Family
Our services for people affected by breast cancer are there to offer support and information when you need it. Whether you want someone to talk to, the latest information or practical support to help cope with side effects of living with breast cancer, our services can help. Our local support services provide a chance to meet others affected by breast cancer in your area and we’ve also developed specialist services for younger women with breast cancer and people with secondary breast cancer.
Breast Cancer Connections
United StatesHealth/Medical
Since Breast Cancer Connections was founded in 1993 by a breast cancer patient and her dedicated surgeon, we have endeavored to set the standard for compassionate support and comprehensive information. Breast Cancer Connections offers a wealth of free services for women and men with breast cancer, as well as their families and friends.
Breast Cancer Fund
United StatesHealth/Medical
The Breast Cancer Fund works to connect the dots between breast cancer and exposures to chemicals and radiation in our everyday environments. We translate the growing body of scientific evidence linking breast cancer and environmental exposures into public education and advocacy campaigns that protect our health and reduce breast cancer risk. We help transform how our society thinks about and uses chemicals and radiation, with the goal of preventing breast cancer and sustaining health and life.
Breast Cancer Haven
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Despite a welcome increase in breast cancer awareness, The Haven remains the only charity that promotes integrated healthcare specifically designed to support people through their breast cancer treatment. We provide up-to-date support, information and complementary therapies to people who need help right now. Our staff of clinical experts, experienced fundraisers and highly trained therapists work across our Havens in London, Hereford and Leeds and are supported by our administration and reception teams.
Breast Cancer Institute of Australia
AustraliaResearch/Dev
The Australian New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group (ANZ BCTG) is Australia’s only national research body conducting clinical trials for the cure and prevention of breast cancer. For 32 years, the ANZ BCTG has provided an essential coordinated structure for the conduct of collaborative breast cancer clinical trials research in Australia and New Zealand. This research is saving women’s lives every day and has contributed to the 20% fall in deaths from breast cancer seen in the past 10 years. Clinical trials are the essential tool for the analysis of new treatment "discoveries" from the laboratory. All of the current treatments for breast cancer have proceeded through rigorous clinical trials to ensure their safety and benefit before being made widely available to women.
Breast Cancer Ireland
IrelandResearch/Dev
We are constantly looking for new and improved ways of treating patients with breast cancer. We conduct relevant biological research into breast cancer, its causes and potential treatments. New drugs are being developed that can be targeted to specific parts of a patients cancer tissue. To determine which drugs may be effective for a patients cancer requires sophisticated analysis which it is hoped will be made available to all patients.
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
United StatesHealth/Medical
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation began in 1993. It is an independent 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization. Since its inception, the Foundation has raised over $237 million - $39.5 million in fiscal year 2007/08 alone - to support clinical and translational research at medical institutions across the globe conducting the most advanced and promising breast cancer research that will help lead to prevention and a cure in our lifetime.
Breathe Foundation
SwitzerlandEnvironment
The Breathe Foundation is an non-profit organization set up to investigate, communicate, undertake direct action and fund raising activities surrounding the broad range of issues facing our planet and the future of humanity's relationship with it. The urgent need to re-examine our interaction with the planet and the fragile ecosystems that define it will be the single most pressing issue of the 21st century and beyond.
Breathtakers
United KingdomDisability
Obliterative Bronchiolitis (OB) is a rare and currently irreversible lung disease that occurs in children and adults after injury to the lower respiratory tract. We raise awareness of Obliterative Bronchiolitis offering vital support to families affected by OB. We give our support to families affected by other Rare Interstitial Lung Disease. Breathtakers is lobbying for change which will improve resources/knowledge of orphan lung disease. We provide much needed information to families and interested parties, facilitating contact between OB Families.
Brevard Senior Nutrition Programs
United StatesCommunity/Family
Since 1974, Meals On Wheels of Brevard County, a program of the Community Services Council of Brevard County, Inc., has provided hot, nourishing meals to elderly who are unable to provide meals for themselves. The meals, daily contact by caring volunteers allow frail, homebound persons to remain in their own homes, where they want to be. Community Services Council operates Meals on Wheels, Seniors At Lunch, the Brevard Community Kitchen, Seniors Assistance Program, Community Care Programs, Caregiver Support, the Sunflower House and other senior related programs.