Brown University
United StatesChildren/Education
Founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island in Warren, Rhode Island, the school was the Baptist answer to Congregationalist Yale and Harvard, Presbyterian Princeton, and Episcopalian Penn and Columbia. At the time, it was the only one that welcomed students of all religious persuasions. Today approximately 5,900 students are enrolled in the Undergraduate College, 1,500 in the Graduate School and 340 in the Medical School. Brown's three schools offer nearly 100 programs of study.
Brunelcare
United KingdomCommunity/Family
Brunelcare is an independent organisation offering choices in accomodation, care and support to older people in the South West. We have been providing a variety of services to promote the independence of older people for 70 years, and are continually building on our experience. We also specialise in working alongside people living with dementia and their families. In the last 70 years we have gained ever-growing experience and devoted passion for working with older people. It is the people that make Brunelcare what it is.
Bruno Manser Fund (BMF)
SwitzerlandAnimals/Wildlife
The full name of the Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) includes the mention of "association for the peoples of the rainforest". It is a non-profit association based in Basel (Switzerland). A Board with four members bears strategic responsibility for it, whilst its operational activity is in the hands of its director and a team of employees and volunteer helpers. Its offices are located at "Heuberg 25", a house in the centre of the city of Basel in rooms where Bruno Manser himself used to live in the 1990s. Given that Bruno Manser, our founder and president for many years, spent several years living with the Penan in the Malaysian federal state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo, our commitment is focused primarily on this people and on protecting the forests of Sarawak.
Brunswick School
United StatesChildren/Education
Founded in 1902, Brunswick is a college preparatory day school serving boys in grades pre-kindergarten through 12. There are 163 faculty, including 24 interns/assistant teachers; approximately 84% hold post graduate degrees. Brunswick Upper School, in coordination with Greenwich Academy, offers 153 courses with advanced placement courses in 33 subjects. There are 15 varsity sports in the Upper School and 18 sub-varsity sports; there are 36 co-curricular clubs and organizations. Community service is required of all students.
BT Benevolent Fund
United KingdomCommunity/Family
BT Benevolent Fund provides assistance in a wide variety of ways. Grants are often made to relieve the pressure of priority debt arrears, particularly where there is a risk of eviction when small children are involved. With elderly beneficiaries the lack of any savings may mean that basic household appliances cannot be repaired or replaced so the Fund steps in to make sure these are provided. Illness and disablement can require expensive changes to a person’s home, such as stair lifts, walk-in showers and provision for wheelchair access. Grants and loans are provided to address these needs and help improve quality of life. Nearly 250 elderly former BT people, or their dependents, with very low incomes are given weekly grants of up to £20 a week whether living at home or in residential care. The Fund also operates a Contact Scheme for BT Pensioners aged 75 and over. This provides advice and support to elderly people and also helps to identify cases for the Fund to consider.
BTCV
United KingdomEnvironment
Practically and locally grounded, BTCV has built great authority on a UK-wide scale by engaging and motivating people from the broadest range of backgrounds, abilities, cultures and needs, including the most deprived and neglected communities. A belief in environmental justice unites our activities – everyone’s right to a decent environment and to participate in shaping and sustaining it. BTCV's values are integral to all our work. They have been developed through four decades of a 'hands-on' approach to conservation activities. During this time we have adapted to meet the changing needs of communities, we care about people, the communities in which they live and the quality of their environment.
Bubble Gum Club
IrelandChildren/Education
The Bubblegum Club provides professional care in a fun environment – giving kids a great boost, but also providing a well-earned break for the parents, family and carers. The Bubblegum Club was founded in 1994 by Peter Harris and has now helped over 15,000 children. The charity is staffed entirely by volunteers – a mixture of nurses, doctors, professional carers, business and professional people and suitably vetted helpers. Over the last 15 years we have developed great experience and supportive contacts which enable us to put on a fantastic show quickly, efficiently and cost effectively.
Bucknell University
United StatesChildren/Education
Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, Bucknell traces its origination to a group of Baptists who deemed it "desirable that a Literary Institution should be established in Central Pennsylvania, embracing a High School for male pupils, another for females, a College and also a Theological Institution." Since its founding, 16 presidents and four acting presidents have served Bucknell. Under their leadership, Bucknell has grown from a "Literary Institution and Female High School" to a university of more than 3,450 undergraduate and 150 graduate students and 291 full-time faculty. New buildings and new degree programs do not alone characterize Bucknell or identify its uniqueness as an educational institution. From the outset, Bucknell developed traditions that have strengthened and sustained its mission as a teaching institution. The university has preserved its commitment to the liberal arts, but it has also integrated other kinds of learning into the curriculum.
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
CanadaArts/Culture
Established in 1979, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a not-for-profit professional theatre company dedicated to the promotion of Queer Canadian Culture. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre strives to fulfill the role of the leading alternative facility-based theatre in Toronto. We are committed to work that challenges boundaries of theatrical and social convention. As a company we celebrate difference and question assumptions. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is committed to theatrical excellence which it strives for through its play development programs, strong volunteer base, youth mentorship initiatives and ever increasing wealth of Canadian Queer Talent.
Buddy Dog Humane Society
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
Founded in 1961, "Buddy Dog", as it is affectionately known is a not for profit animal welfare organization dedicated to finding new homes for homeless dogs and cats. Buddy Dog accepts homeless dogs and cats, in good health and of friendly disposition, which could, without our help, be destroyed. These animals find refuge at our shelter and can depend on becoming someone's forever friend. There is no time limit on their stay. The goal of the Buddy Dog Humane Society is to find responsible and permanent homes for all the animals in our care. To help realize this goal, our adoption counselors work with potential adopters to match them with a friend for life.
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
United StatesArts/Culture
Today, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery enjoys a worldwide reputation as an outstanding center of modern art. Thomas Hoving, art historian and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, recently said that "the Albright-Knox Art Gallery should be on everyone's list to see, for it's an overwhelming art experience. Small, intimate, and seductive, the museum has one of the most thumping modern and contemporary collections in the world."
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
United StatesArts/Culture
The Grammy Award Winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1935 and makes its home at Kleinhans Music Hall, a National Historic Landmark with an international reputation as one of the finest concert halls in the United States. As Buffalo's cultural ambassador, the BPO presents more than one hundred twenty Classics, Pops and Youth Concerts each year in Western New York. The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc. will provide a resident, professional, major symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich the quality of life in Western New York through the presentation of live symphonic music and other musical events which will educate and entertain the broadest possible audiences within and beyond the Western New York region. During the tenure of current music director JoAnn Falletta, the Buffalo Philharmonic has rekindled its distinguished history of PBS broadcasts and recordings, including the release of eight new CDs of a highly diverse repertoire on the NAXOS and Beau Fleuve labels.3.
Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
Buglife-The Invertebrate Conservation Trust is the first organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates, and we are actively engaged in saving Britain's rarest bugs, slugs, snails, bees, wasps, ants, spiders, beetles and many more fascinating little animals.
BUH Foundation
CanadaCommunity/Family
The BUH Foundation, operating independently of other health care organizations, supports funding for the purchase of capital equipment and staff education, thus enhancing patient care services at Battlefords Union Hospital. The BUH Foundation fosters goodwill within the community, generating financial contributions in the form of sponsorships, donations and planned giving to enhance the care offered to BUH patients.
BUILD
United KingdomDisability
BUILD is a Norfolk based registered charity that supports adults, and young people with learning difficulties, and other disabilities. It is led by a peer elected trustee board formed mostly of adults with learning difficulties, and other disabilities. Through funding drawn from a range of public, private and charitable trust investors, BUILD manages a range of services that include weekly social, leisure and learning activities and community based befriending for adults, integrated community based activities for young people (13-18) and specialist research, training and consultancy services.
Build Africa
United KingdomChildren/Education
Since 2004, our Build a School programme has worked with 115 schools and benefited over 150,000 children. We build classrooms, staff rooms, toilet blocks, water supplies and teachers' accommodation. We provide desks and books and teacher training. But most importantly we make sure that the local community leads each project. We train and support school management committees and work with parents to ensure that the children receive the best education possible now and in the future. Our Vision is for every young person in Africa to fufil their potential and to make a difference.
Builders Without Borders - BWB
CanadaResearch/Dev
Builders Without Borders is an organization of Canadian building industry volunteers who are experienced in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of shelter. The consultants and volunteers include architects, engineers, planners, project managers, building trades, construction specialists, procurement individuals, and instructors in shelter related disciplines. We believe the most effective way to provide development assistance, for those most in need, is to develop strategic relationships with Canadian and international non-government humanitarian organizations and to supply them with experienced construction industry volunteers. Through our world wide network of building industry and professional groups in each country, we are able to draw upon their local construction industry knowledge and thereby quickly determine the costs, and available resources. It is BWB's objective, in each project, to train individuals in income generating construction skills.
Building for Children
United StatesChildren/Education
Building for Children, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged school districts increase their student achievement by providing funding for major capital projects. In support of the Mission, our Objective is to increase student ownership of their education by providing safe, clean and robust environments in which to learn, grow, and play. We are passionate about adequate funding streams that contribute to increases in student achievement. Our philosophy is that an educated citizenry contributes to the overall quality of life – and this initial contribution can lead to self-sustaining funding streams.
buildOn
United StatesChildren/Education
buildOn is a non-profit organization that empowers primarily urban U.S. high school students through in-class and intensive after-school programs. In addition to tremendous contributions of community service in their own cities and neighborhoods, buildOn youth actually build schools and bring literacy to children and adults in developing countries around the world. buildOn programs are designed to build confidence and real-world capabilities in American youth while also empowering communities world-wide to overcome the crippling cycle of illiteracy, poverty and low expectations by opening the door to education.
Bulgariarian Red Cross
BulgariaHumanitarian Aid
The Bulgarian Red Cross is a voluntary organisation which is a part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and is guided by its Fundamental Principles: Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary Service, Unity and Universality. Through its network of volunteers in the whole country, the BRC renders assistance to the vulnerable people in disaster and crisis situations. By means of training programmes and activities for the benefit of the public, the National Red Cross Society contributes to alleviating and preventing the suffering in all its forms, protects health and life and ensures respect for the human being. The first organization of the Red Cross in Bulgaria was founded in 1878 in the town of Sliven. In 1884 the Bulgarian government officially ratifies the Geneva Convention from 1864. The national organization was created in 1885. The organization is also officially recognized by the International Red Cross Committee in Geneva by letter dated October 20, 1885. The first Bulgarian Red Cross Law is accepted in 1995 from the 37th Bulgarian Parliament. The Organization is registrated as per Law for legal entities with non-profit activity and carrying out activities for public benefit.