Action for Blind People was founded in 1857 as the Surrey Association for the General Welfare of the Blind and later became the London Association for the Blind. The Association’s main activities in the early days were teaching blind people to read and practical trades such as basket weaving. Action for Blind People is one of the largest charities in the UK providing confidential support for blind and partially sighted people in all aspects of their lives. We are dynamic and have a reputation for talking less and doing more. Driven by the needs of visually impaired people, we deliver what people say they need, not just what we think they need.

Founded in 1972, Action for Children is the source for child care and early learning services in central Ohio. A private, not-for-profit organization, we are headquartered at 78 Jefferson Avenue in Columbus and operate two satellite offices In Delaware and Union counties. We work with partner agencies in surrounding Fairfield, Licking, Madison and Pickaway counties to provide services throughout central Ohio's seven-county region. Action for Children will be the community leader in transforming the future of child care into quality learning experiences for every child in central Ohio. Achieving this vision is a shared responsibility. Action for Children will work with other by developing leadership and providing access to comprehensive information for community decision-making.

We believe that poverty is mostly caused by human factors and systems that keep local people poor especially by depriving them of what is rightfully theirs. We also believe that if given the opportunity and necessary support local people can rise out of poverty and live a life of dignity. Also in our work with communities we recognize that communities are made up of people and their neighbourhoods. And communities cannot be developed if either of the two is neglected. Thus focus is on neighbourhood development and people development(empowerment) with women and youths as our target groups. We also work with special groups (communities), like associations, pressure groups, trade unions, e.t.c to assist them to re focus and strengthen their organization for improved service delivery.

Action for Food Production is an Indian socio-technical non-governmental organization with Christian inspiration working for the development of the rural poor through effective natural resource management solutions. It provides technical guidance and backup support to grassroots level NGOs for the implementation of environmentally friendly projects for water, food security, livelihoods and allied capacity building.

Action for Healthy Kids addresses childhood undernourishment, obesity and prevention by working with schools to help kids learn to eat right and be active every day. This focus is because of the unique position and influence that schools have on children and their families, in addition to their responsibility to provide nutrition and physical education and their many opportunities to promote healthy eating and active living.

At Action For Kids we help disabled children, young people, their parents and carers in three main ways. We provide mobility aids, Work Related Learning (WRL) and offer family support services. In fact we try never to say no and will help in any way we can to enable disabled children and young people lead full and independent lives. Our vision is a world where all disabled young people and their families receive the support and advice they need, when they need it, for as long as they need it. Our values are based on friendliness, approachability, personal contact, dedication and openness.

Action for M.E. is the UK's leading charity for people with M.E. We were founded in 1987 by people with M.E. for people with M.E. We continue to be led by people with the illness and their involvement at all levels is vital to the organisation. We've been at the forefront of the campaign for more research, better treatments and services since 1987, and we provide information and support to people affected by M.E. We campaign to improve the environment for people with M.E., and for the widespread recognition of the severity of M.E., and we empower and support people with M.E, their carers, family and friends and professionals, by facilitating information and dissemination and services, so that they can make informed choices.

APOWA acts to conserve coastal and marine resources, threatened species and ecosystems in coastal Orissa, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on ground work and take account of human needs. APOWA is committed to saving critically threatened habitats, and their wildlife. And by saving vital habitats we are also helping save Life on Earth. APOWA aims at to realize a set of objectives so as to recreate, renovate, revoke, rehabilitate, protect & promote advancement of all living beings, structures and lively frame works. APOWA believes in practical work with high level of awareness in grass root level. It has developed innovative programmes, undertaken various projects, and built capacities of the coastal people in the field of environment, animal welfare and coastal resources.

Action for Russia's Children (ARC) is a UK-registered charity and a company limited by guarantee which supports Russian charities that provide an alternative to orphanages and children's homes. ARC works with a range of projects helping children and young people in Moscow who have all kinds of special needs: physically and mentally disabled children, the socially disadvantaged and those who suffer from racial discrimination. In recognition of what ARC has achieved, Sarah Philps, one of the original founding members of ARC was awarded an MBE by HM the Queen in the 1999 New Year’s Honours List.

Action Health Incorporated (AHI) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to improving the health of Nigerian adolescents. Since 1989, AHI has worked with youths, community leaders, policy makers, parents, state and federal government officials to design and implement innovative and participatory projects in education, healthcare and youth development, providing models that have been adopted and expanded by government and other civil society organisations. With an annual budget of over US $1,000,000, AHI’s work is supported with funds from grants and contract awards from international organisations that include, the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, International Women’s Health Coalition, Packard Foundation, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and Futures Group International, amongst others.

We are Action Medical Research, for children, for life - the leading UK-wide medical research charity dedicated to helping babies and children. We know that medical research can save and change children’s lives. We find and fund the very best medical research in hospitals and universities across the UK that is most likely to deliver real benefit to babies, children and young people. Since its founding in 1952, the charity has developed an extraordinary track record in supporting some of the most significant medical breakthroughs in recent history – breakthroughs that have helped save thousands of children’s lives and changed many more. We have helped more babies be born healthy by introducing ultrasound scanning in pregnancy, discovering the importance of taking folic acid before and during pregnancy to prevent spina bifida. We have also funded research for developing an infra-red scanner to help minimise the risk of brain damage in babies and developed a new state-of-the-art fetal heart rate monitor to make pregnancy safer for babies at risk. Although the research we have funded has helped save and change so many children’s lives, there is still so much more to learn about what triggers diseases, how to prevent them and how to develop effective new treatments and find the best ways to care for sick babies and children.

Action MS is a 'home grown' charity that has been working in Northern Ireland since 1976. It all began when a small group of Belfast folk with MS, led by Ann Walker, decided to fight back and do something about beating this most distressing disease. Nowdays Action MS, as well as maintaining a highly successful fund-raising programme, provides a comprehensive range of caring 'actions' or support that has evolved over the years out of conversations with people and families living with MS. The provision of the right kind of care at the right time in the right place is our constant goal.

Poverty affects everyone, either directly or indirectly. Action Nouvelle Vie strives to make a difference, day after day, for families and individuals in need. Our desire is to not only meet their immediate needs, but essentially offer them the tools they need to become independent and fulfilled. Not everyone can work for a charitable organization, but everyone has the power to contribute their time, money or material resources. We aim to meet the essential needs while focusing on training and social reintegration, in partnership with various stakeholders who are also work­ing within the area in which we serve.

We take action to disarm addiction. Action on Addiction is the only UK charity working across the addiction field in research, prevention, treatment, professional education and family support. Our treatment centres include Clouds House, Hope House and SHARP structured day programmes. At Action on Addiction we run internationally renowned courses in addictions counselling in a supportive environment.

Action on Armed Violence (formerly 'Landmine Action') is a UK-based charitable organisation working to reduce the incidence of armed violence and its impact on vulnerable populations around the world. AOAV has a successful track record in developing international law, global civil society networks, and local programmes for weapons' control, armed violence reduction, and civilian protection. AOAV works locally, nationally, regionally and globally to reduce – and ultimately prevent – armed violence. We work with communities affected by armed violence, removing the threat of weapons, reducing the risks that provoke violence and conflict, and supporting the recovery of victims and survivors. We work with civil society partners and with governments, to strengthen international laws and norms on the availability and use of conventional weapons, to build recognition of the rights of victims and survivors of armed violence, and to research, understand and act effectively on the root causes of armed violence in affected countries. Armed violence kills over 2000 people every day. This number can be reduced. Support us in making a difference to the lives of people at risk.

Action on Disability and Development (ADD) is a UK-based development agency working as an ally to the disability movements in Africa and Asia. ADD works from a human rights perspective and since 1985 has played a key role in facilitating disabled people to come together to make decisions about their own lives and to campaign for their rights; basic rights that most people take for granted such as family life, means of earning a living, education, basic healthcare and respect from other members of the community.

Action Read Community Literacy Centre is a non-profit, charitable, community literacy program for adults and families in the City of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Our Family Literacy programs first began in 1989 when we started our first Read-in programs and Homework Help Clubs. We rely on the support of corporations, service clubs and individuals to offer adults and families free and accessible literacy programmming.

Action Village India (AVI) started life in 1988 as Friends of ASSEFA, a discussion group for people who had lived or worked in India. The name was changed to Action Village India after the group grew and slowly took on a fundraising role to support ASSEFA and other partners across India. There are now six partners running a wide variety of rural development projects in different parts of India. All our projects are devised and managed by local people and work in the Gandhian tradition of non-violent change and self-organisation to right economic and social injustices.

Action Volunteer Alliance is a Canadian based Not-For-Profit Incorporation. We offer affordable volunteer experiences in Nepal. Our global volunteering programs are: working in an Orphanage to help care for under privileged children, teaching English in schools to a variety of ages, working in a health post in rural areas where most of the staff have little to no medical training, helping to clean up some of the worlds most beautiful land or working on different building projects which may be anything from repairing schools to building new homes. Each of these community service projects will help make a diffrence overseas to the lives of children and families. Action Volunteer Alliance is making a difference in the world by getting more people involved in volunteerism work and by setting you up with the tools you need to be successful in what you have to give. We strongly believe everyone has something to contribute and the best way to help is by getting involved and finding out exactly what you have to offer.