Case Western Reserve University
United StatesChildren/Education
Originally founded in 1826, the history of Case Western Reserve University, like its name, is long and storied. So much so that in addition to the university's official archives, an entire academic and research center on campus has been designated to chronicle Case Western Reserve's place in society. Today, through its schools and colleges, Case Western Reserve University offers outstanding programs and degrees in more than 60 fields.
Casita Maria
United StatesCommunity/Family
We've moved, we've grown, and we've deepened our programs, but at heart we're still the same organization that Claire and Elizabeth Sullivan willed into life in 1934. Working from a small East Harlem apartment, Casita Maria’s goal back then was to give the children of recently arrived Hispanic families the educational support needed to thrive in their new homeland. This year, with the opening of the Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education building, we are poised to serve our community in ways that can only have been dreamed of by our founders. Like our founders, we are still committed to helping the members of our community achieve the American Dream.
CASME
South AfricaChildren/Education
CASME is a non-profit education development agency that was established in 1985 by Shell. Shell remains one of CASME's key supporters today. CASME possesses a wealth of experience and expertise in teacher professional development and implements a range of interventions in partnership with the Department of Education, parastatals, government agencies, Corporate Social Investment programmes, universities and national development initiatives amongst others. CASME's key focus is on the advancement of mathematics and science teachers' subject competence and teaching skills in South African schools.
Casualties Union
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Casualties Union is a registered charity which exists to provide casualties and patients for those who teach first aid, nursing and rescue. We provide trained bodies! We are all ages, shapes and sizes skilled in realistic wound simulation. We have helped to train doctors, nurses, paramedics, ambulance technicians, Army, Royal Navy, first aiders from voluntary organisations such as St John Ambulance and British Red Cross and so many more we couldn't begin to include everyone.
Cat Action Trust
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
The Cat Action Trust was founded by people who thought this slaughter of innocent cats both cruel and senseless. How much better to control the cat population, to contain and maintain it. So, volunteers visited the cat colonies, trapped the cats, took them to the vets to be neutered, tamed the kittens and found them good homes, and returned those adult cats that were too old to change their feral ways to their sites. Feral cats are domestic cats living wild, either because they and their descendants have strayed from home or more commonly because they are unwanted and have been abandoned. AND THEY MULTIPLY... a healthy female can give birth to up to 120 kittens in her life time. AND TODAY...there are many Branches around the country trapping, neutering and caring about the ferals. Many thousands of feral cats have been neutered, but there is a great deal still to be done.
Cat Chat
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
We are a web-based Charity, currently finding loving, permanent homes for over 5,000 unwanted and abandoned cats every year from rescues across the UK through our ‘Virtual Cat Shelters’. Our homing services are given free of charge to all kinds of rescues, large and small, from the many hundreds of independent rescue centres and rehoming groups to branches of the larger organisations.
Cat Defence Network
AustraliaAnimals/Wildlife
The Cat Defence Network is opposed to the euthanasia of healthy companion animals. We look for alternative solutions and promote the desexing of all cats. We are a non-government, non-profit welfare network of volunteers that love cats. We work from our homes while we raise funds for a shelter. We help abandoned, sick, injured, stray and feral cats whenever possible. All cats that come under our care are desexed unless they are still kittens and none are destroyed. We then find our furry friends a responsible new home. The adopters of our kittens pledge to desex them when they reach the right age. We promote responsible cat ownership and encourage people not to buy kittens from unscrupulous breeders who over-breed or pets shops that promote impulse buying. We desex free-living cat colonies where people are willing to feed them, donating food for people short of money. The aim is to stop them breeding and let them die out naturally. Desexed, well-fed cat colonies are less likely to kill wildlife or be a nuisance to the environment.
Cat Protection Society of NSW
AustraliaAnimals/Wildlife
The Cat Protection Society of NSW Inc is an independent organisation founded in 1958 by a group of cat lovers concerned with the plight of homeless street cats. The Society began a program of low cost desexing to reduce the number of kittens and therefore, the number of cats and kittens abandoned. Our facilities include an adoption centre, welfare services, information and products to keep your cat happy and healthy. Sadly, we still have to deal with unwanted and abandoned cats and kittens but with your help and greater community awareness, we can continue to work to improve their lives.
Cat Protection Society of Victoria
AustraliaAnimals/Wildlife
The Cat Protection Society of Victoria was established in 1947, and has had extensive and continuous experience in cat management and pound/shelter operation. Our clinic has since its inception operated the discount de-sexing schemes to help encourage responsible cat ownership and thereby reduce the cat problem in line with our operating philosophy. Education of the community in responsible cat ownership is also an important area of the Society’s work and educational programs have been developed in the last ten years of the Society’s operation, particularly focused on children.
Cat Specialist Group
SwitzerlandAnimals/Wildlife
The Cat Specialist Group is responsible for the global monitoring and protection of all 37 wild living cat species. The organisation coordinates and supports the activities of over 200 leading scientists, nature conservation professionals and wildlife managers in currently 57 countries. We advise governmental and private organisations engaged in species conservation and help to develop conservation strategies and action plans.
Cat Survival Trust
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
The Cat Survival Trust was registered as a charity in 1976. Its original purpose was to promote the conservation of wild cats by breeding them in captivity and subsequently releasing them into suitable wild situations. Later it was realised that this was not the best way to go about conserving the animals; suitable wild habitat already had a population of cats and the habitat itself was disappearing with alarming rapidity. The Trust purchased a 10,000 acre reserve in north east Argentina which conserves the entire habitat where cats live. This is not only more cost-effective but involves the conservation of all the plants, animals and fungi that make up the ecosystem on which the cats depend. The Trust is now planning to purchase more natural habitat to create more protected areas. If our plans are successful, these new reserves will be located in seven different countries and will add substantially to the number of cat species protected on land bought by the Trust.
Catalyst
SwitzerlandWomen
Founded in 1962, Catalyst is the leading nonprofit membership organization working globally with businesses and the professions to build inclusive workplaces and expand opportunities for women and business. With offices in the United States, Canada, and Europe, we count as members more than 400 companies, firms, business schools, and associations from around the world, employing millions of women. Our global lens and regional reach allow us to provide our members, the media, and the public with information and counsel on creating workplaces that enable women and their employers to succeed.
Cate School
United StatesChildren/Education
Curtis Wolsey Cate, a graduate of Roxbury Latin School and Harvard University, crossed the country in 1910 to start a boarding school that combined the academic excellence of the best East Coast prep schools with the can-do, adventurous spirit of the West. As Cate celebrates its 100th anniversary, what has changed in the past century is as remarkable as what has remained the same. The School opened by enrolling twelve boys in grades 7 to 12. Over time, Cate became a coeducational high school and grew to its current enrollment of 265 young men and women from 23 states and 15 countries. Today’s campus with its science and computer labs, art and music studios, extensive athletic facilities and wireless internet technology is a far cry from the School’s early days without electricity, heat or hot water. Beneath the physical changes, however, Cate is still very much the same place in vision and spirit.
Catherine Donnelly Foundation
CanadaCommunity/Family
The Catherine Donnelly Foundation, established in 2003, is the financial and human legacy of the tireless efforts of a remarkable community of religious women, The Sisters of Service, and a testament to their work in communities across Canada. The Catherine Donnelly Foundation aspires to a world that respects and reverences creation; a world that gives place and voice to the poor; an interdependent society whose structures enable the poor to live with dignity and to realize their full potential as persons and as citizens; a community that is open to transformation and whose commitment to human solidarity ensures social and ecological justice. The Foundation also believes in the critical need for ecological balance and environmental sustainability, out of which comes a profound conviction that a fundamental shift toward a more holistic earth-centered value system is imperative.
Catholic Health Care Cathca
South AfricaHealth/Medical
CATHCA is the Catholic Health Care Association of Southern Africa. Some of us are doctors, some nurses, some community health workers, or other health professionals, and many of us are lay people doing voluntary work as home based caregivers, administrators, bookkeepers, or looking after orphans or the elderly in homes and care centres across the country. We work around the country in all nine Provinces of South Africa, and in Botswana and Swaziland, in 38 clinics, two hospitals, many old age homes, hospices, orphanages and many Diocesan and parish projects combating HIV/AIDS.
Catholic Legal Immigration Network
United StatesHuman Rights
In 1988, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) established CLINIC as a legally distinct organization to support a rapidly growing network of community-based immigration programs. It has since increased to 185 diocesan and other affiliated immigration programs with 290 field offices in 48 states. The network employs roughly 1,200 attorneys and "accredited" paralegals who, in turn, serve 600,000 low-income immigrants each year. CLINIC and its member agencies represent low-income immigrants without reference to their race, religion, gender, ethnic group, or other distinguishing characteristics.
Catholic Medical Mission Board
United StatesHealth/Medical
Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) is the leading U.S.-based Catholic charity focused exclusively on global healthcare. We have been working to help heal and save lives throughout the world since 1928. CMMB programs and initiatives concentrate on making healthcare available to all, and particularly on the well-being of women and children in the developing world. We respond to the AIDS epidemic from Africa to Asia, and provide primary healthcare in Latin America and the Caribbean. CMMB also sends medical volunteers, medicines and supplies, free of charge and without discrimination, to the help the poor and sick in more than 100 countries over our 80-year history. We are helping to build a world where quality healthcare is available to all.
Catholic Relief Services
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to serve World War II survivors in Europe. Since then, we have expanded in size to reach more than 100 million people in more than 100 countries on five continents. As the the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic community, CRS is governed by a Board of Directors made up of clergy, most of them bishops, religious and Catholic lay men and women. CRS maintains strict standards of efficiency, accountability and transparency. Last year, more than 93 percent of revenues we spent went directly to programs that benefit the poor overseas.
Catholic Welfare And Development
South AfricaResearch/Dev
Catholic Welfare and Development is one of the largest and longest established NGOs in the country. We are also one of the most dynamic, with programmes that adapt and grow as circumstances change and new opportunities arise. Our aim is to develop people to rise out of poverty, with the major focus being on development work. This we do through nine community development centres and a wide range of programmes which focus mainly on engaging with communities to build capacity and solve problems, women, children and youth Development, health and food security, and economic empowerment.
Catholics for Choice
United StatesHuman Rights
At CFC, we strive to be an expression of Catholicism as it is lived by ordinary people. We are part of the great majority of the faithful in the Catholic church who disagrees with the dictates of the Vatican on matters related to sex, marriage, family life and motherhood. We are part of the great majority who believes that Catholic teachings on conscience mean that every individual must follow his or her own conscience ― and respect others' right to do the same. At Catholics for Choice, we believe that this is the world where the meaning of choice can truly be realized. Called upon time and time again for information, advice and skills building, Catholics for Choice helps people and organizations confidently challenge the power of the Catholic hierarchy which uses every means at its disposal to punish and publicly shame Catholics who don't unquestioningly follow its edicts. The hierarchy also seeks to impose its narrow view of morality ― and dangerous positions on public health issues ― on Catholics and non-Catholics around the world.