Celiac Support Association
United StatesHealth/Medical
The Celiac Support Association® is the largest non-profit celiac support group in America, with chapters and resource units across the country, and members worldwide. As a public charity the member-volunteers work locally, regionally, nationally and internationally to increase awareness, improve diagnosis and treatment. Join with others helping those with celiac disease and gluten sensitivities to love living gluten-free!
Cen2eco
SwitzerlandResearch/Dev
Cen2eco - Centre for Economic and Ecological Studies - is an independent, non-profit nongovernmental organisation established in Geneva in 2005. Cen2eco addresses economic and ecological issues related to global development through research, capacity building and technical assistance activities. Special focus is given to exploring options for Switzerland to promote sustainable development at the national and international levels. Independently, and in collaboration with other organisations, Cen2eco undertakes research and capacity building activities to assist governments in designing and implementing policies aimed at enhancing their economic and environmental performance.
Cenikor
United StatesHealth/Medical
For more than 40 years, the Cenikor Foundation has specialized in helping people with chronic addictions break the cycle of addiction. This long-term recovery program takes place within one of three Therapeutic Community (TC) environments in Texas or Louisiana using peer influence and clinical counseling to treat addictive behavior. Residents learn to look within themselves and come to terms with the root causes of their addictions. Cenikor is a long-term, residential Therapeutic Community (TC) that helps people end the cycle of substance abuse. Cenikor gives individuals a way to create an addiction-free future and regain their self worth. Cenikor works for those who are truly serious about changing their lives.
Center for a New American Dream
United StatesEnvironment
New American Dream was founded in 1997 to address the environmental and social impacts of unsustainable consumption. The Center for a New American Dream helps people and institutions shift and reduce consumption in order to protect the environment, promote social justice, and enhance quality of life. In a little over a decade of existence, we have reached tens of millions of Americans through targeted media campaigns, shifted billions of dollars into environmentally superior goods through our Responsible Purchasing Network, and built a New Dream Community of more than 140,000 Americans who embrace less materialistic lifestyles and make healthier choices. We work with individuals, institutions, communities and businesses to conserve natural resources, counter the commercialization of our culture and promote positive changes in the way goods are produced and consumed.
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
United StatesHuman Rights
The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation is dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century. The Center was originally formed as the research branch of Council for a Livable World, an organization founded in 1962. Since then, the Center has retained its focus on nuclear weapons but expanded its activities to include other present and emerging security threats. The Center has been at the forefront of U.S. arms control and national security policy for almost 50 years by establishing a U.S. nuclear testing moratorium, limiting the deployment of the MX missile and B-2 bomber, blocking deployment of National Missile Defense and eliminating funding for the nuclear "Bunker Buster" and "Reliable Replacement Warhead". The Center works to strengthen an international nuclear non-proliferation regime based on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), secure and reduce all vulnerable nuclear weapons-usable material throughout the world, and halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction to state and non-state actors.
Center for Arts Education
United StatesChildren/Education
The Center for Arts Education (CAE) is leading the charge to restore quality arts education for each of New York City’s more than one million children in public schools. We champion Arts Powered Learning through two channels. We develop model teaching and learning programs for schools, parents, cultural organizations, and teaching artists; and we help parents become advocates and campaigners for arts in their children’s education. We believe that every child in every school has the right to a well-rounded education of which the arts are an essential ingredient. Beyond having great value in and of themselves, the arts promote the health and well-being of children, including academic and personal growth, critical thinking and analytical skills, and the motivation to stay in school and excel. Quality arts education is central to a complete education—and it is required by state law.
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
United StatesEnvironment
Working on an issue that is often polarized and politicized, the Pew Center provides a forum for objective research and analysis and for the development of pragmatic policies and solutions. Now in its tenth year, the Pew Center has become a leading voice for sensible action to address the most pressing global environmental problem of the 21st century. The Pew Center on Global Climate Change brings together business leaders, policy makers, scientists, and other experts to bring a new approach to a complex and often controversial issue. Our approach is based on sound science, straight talk, and a belief that we can work together to protect the climate while sustaining economic growth.
Center for Constitutional Rights
United StatesHuman Rights
Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change. CCR uses litigation proactively to advance the law in a positive direction, to empower poor communities and communities of color, to guarantee the rights of those with the fewest protections and least access to legal resources, to train the next generation of constitutional and human rights attorneys, and to strengthen the broader movement for constitutional and human rights. Our work began on behalf of civil rights activists, and over the last four decades CCR has lent its expertise and support to virtually every popular movement for social justice.
Center for Excellence in Education
United StatesChildren/Education
Since the first Research Science Institute (RSI) in 1984, the Center for Excellence in Education has worked to improve science education and foster scientific understanding throughout the world. The Center sponsors both the Research Science Institute and the USA Biology Olympiad (USABO). The organization is a strong advocate for gifted education and contributes to the national debate on education reform. The Center actively supports developing scholars through its programs for high-school through post-graduate students. The Center for Excellence in Education nurtures careers of excellence and leadership in science and technology for academically talented high school and college students.
Center For Healing And Hope
United StatesHealth/Medical
The Center for Healing & Hope is an urgent care walk-in clinic for all persons without health insurance. We treated over 2500 patients with urgent medical needs this past year. Without our Center, some may have sought help at an emergency room, others would find what relief they could at a pharmacy, but most would go without, resulting in lost work time, lost jobs, and poorer health. Our Patient Advocates assist patients with finding the ongoing healthcare that they may need along with being a resource of information to the available area social service agencies. We offer special School physical days for any student who needs a school or sports physical.
Center for Health, Environment and Justice
United StatesEnvironment
The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) is the only national environmental organization that was founded and is led by a grassroots leader. Lois Gibbs founded CHEJ after winning the nation’s first community relocation of 900 families due to a leaking toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York. Through this effort she also woke up the nation to recognize the link between people’s exposures to dangerous chemicals in the community setting and serious public health impacts.
Center for Individual Rights
United StatesHuman Rights
The Center for Individual Rights (CIR) is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual liberties against the increasingly aggressive and unchecked authority of federal and state governments. CIR seeks to enforce constitutional limits on state and federal power. We aggressively litigate and publicize a handful of carefully selected cases that advance the right of individuals to govern themselves according to the natural exercise of their own reason. Our cases challenge excessive government regulation, unconstitutional state action, and other entanglements characteristic of the modern state. CIR takes an opportunistic approach to public interest law. Like a venture capital firm, we invest our resources in areas of the law that need reform and where we believe our expertise will help ensure a successful outcome.
Center for Jewish History
United StatesArts/Culture
The Center for Jewish History is one of the great public Jewish historical and cultural institutions in the world, and its mission is clear: To foster the creation and dissemination of Jewish knowledge and to make the historical and cultural record of the Jewish people readily accessible to scholars, students and the broad public. The Center embodies a unique partnership of five major institutions of Jewish scholarship, history, and art: the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, the Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Center for Neighborhood Enterprise
United StatesCommunity/Family
The Center for Neighborhood Enterprise was founded in 1981 to help the residents of low-income neighborhoods address the problems of their communities. CNE provides effective community and faith-based organizations with training and technical assistance, links them to sources of support, and evaluates their experiences for public policy. The Center has provided training to more than 2,600 leaders of community organizations in 39 states. Funds contributed to CNE’s programs have been used to leverage many times their amount for the Center’s grassroots affiliate organizations. Societal problems addressed by CNE’s grassroots network include youth violence, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, homelessness, joblessness, family dissolution, poor education, and deteriorating neighborhoods. Because civil order is fundamental to economic revitalization, CNE has a major focus on youth violence intervention and prevention. The Center’s Violence-Free Zone initiative is significantly reducing youth violence in high-risk middle and high schools nationwide—with VFZ sites in Atlanta; Baltimore; Dallas; Milwaukee; and Richmond, VA.
Center for Reproductive Rights
United StatesHuman Rights
Reproductive freedom lies at the heart of the promise of human dignity, self-determination and equality embodied in both the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Center works toward the time when that promise is enshrined in law in the United States and throughout the world. We envision a world where every woman is free to decide whether and when to have children; where every woman has access to the best reproductive healthcare available; where every woman can exercise her choices without coercion or discrimination. More simply put, we envision a world where every woman participates with full dignity as an equal member of society. Since 1992, our attorneys have boldly used legal and human rights tools to create this world. We are the only global legal advocacy organization dedicated to reproductive rights, with expertise in both U.S. constitutional and international human rights law.
Center for Responsive Politics
United StatesResearch/Dev
The Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the organization aims to create a more educated voter, an involved citizenry and a more transparent and responsive government. There is more money in politics than ever and its effect on elections and policy is undeniable. OpenSecrets.org is the website of the Center for Responsive Politics and is THE source for nonpartisan information on money in politics. As a leading advocate for government transparency and accountability we make information on political influence accessible and meaningful.
Center for Science in the Public Interest
United StatesHealth/Medical
Since 1971, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has been a strong advocate for nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy, and sound science. Its award-winning newsletter, Nutrition Action Healthletter, with some 900,000 subscribers in the United States and Canada, is the largest-circulation health newsletter in North America. Founded by executive director Michael Jacobson, Ph.D. and two other scientists, CSPI carved out a niche as the organized voice of the American public on nutrition, food safety, health and other issues during a boom of consumer and environmental protection awareness in the early 1970s.
Center for Security Policy
United StatesResearch/Dev
The Center for Security Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan national security organization that specializes in identifying policies, actions, and resource needs that are vital to American security and then ensures that such issues are the subject of both focused, principled examination and effective action by recognized policy experts, appropriate officials, opinion leaders, and the general public.The Center was founded in 1988 and has worked to great effect since then in the establishment of successful national security policies through the use of all elements of national power - diplomatic, informational, military, and economic strength.The philosophy of "Peace through Strength" is not a slogan for military might but a belief that America's national power must be preserved and properly used for it holds a unique global role in maintaining peace and stability.
Center for the Advancement of Health
United StatesResearch/Dev
CFAH is working to ensure that everyone is prepared to live a healthy life and make good choices about their health and health care. Since it was founded in 1992, CFAH has aimed to increase the influence of evidence on health-related behavior and its determinants in the development of policies, practices and programs that draw this evidence to produce better health outcomes. what we do is evidence, engagement, equity.
Center for Third World Organizing
United StatesHuman Rights
The Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) is a racial-justice organization dedicated to building a social-justice movement led by people of color. We were established in 1980 as a training and resource center that promotes and sustains direct-action organizing in communities of color in the United States. CTWO provides organizer training programs, including the model Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) and builds an active network of organizations and activists of color to achieve racial justice in its fullest dimensions .CTWO's innovative work to advance a racial justice analysis and ideology in organizing campaigns is acknowledged by peers, constituent group leaders, and funders as key contributions to the broader social-justice movement. Over the years, CTWO has supported the creation of multi-racial, multi-ethnic organizations and campaigns; has fearlessly challenged racist policies and practices; and has continuously sought opportunities to build bridges among a wide range of communities and activists of color. For a lot of young people of color, MAAP is THE program for getting the skills that we need to build power for our communities.