Center for Victims of Torture
United StatesHuman Rights
Your support makes CVT’s work of healing and hope possible. CVT’s healing services are sustained by individual donations, monthly pledges, tribute gifts and planned giving. CVT is recognized by the Charities Review Council, the American Institute of Philanthropy, and other organizations for its well-managed use of donations. In 2008 86% of CVT’s expenses were dedicated to healing survivors of torture. Financial contributions to CVT are tax-deductible. In addition to financial gifts, more than 300 people donate their time to CVT each year – contributing over 10,000 hours of volunteer work. Volunteers work directly with clients, help with administrative tasks, and contribute their professional skills. You can make a difference in the lives of survivors by sharing what you know. Tell
Center for Watershed Protection
United StatesEnvironment
At the Center for Watershed Protection, we want everybody to know that an integrated watershed approach is the key to ensuring a future of fresh, clean water, healthy natural resources, and ultimately, life on earth. Since 1992, the Center for Watershed Protection has been working in numerous communities to provide the solutions for clean water and healthy natural resources. Our work is based on sound scientific research and guided by a passion for advancing the state-of-the art, ensuring practitioners have the right tools, and promoting the widespread implementation of the most effective watershed management techniques. We create viable solutions and partnerships for responsible land and water management so that every community has clean water and healthy natural resources to sustain diverse life.
Center for Women & Enterprise
United StatesWomen
Established in 1995, the Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women start and grow their own businesses. CWE is a national leader among women's business development agencies. CWE offers education, training, technical assistance, women's business enterprise certification and access to both debt and equity capital to entrepreneurs at every stage of business development. Our clients are drawn from a wide variety of racial, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, spanning the range from women living in public housing who may want to start home-based or small retail businesses to women running fast growth, multi-million dollar technology businesses. As a non-profit, charitable organization, CWE provides scholarships for its services in order to serve all women, regardless of their ability to pay.
Center of Concern
United StatesHuman Rights
Since 1971, the Center of Concern has offered moral vision and provided effective leadership in the struggle to end hunger, poverty, environmental decline, and injustice in the United States and around the world. Our goal is to provide individuals and organizations with basic tools to address these universal questions: What are the root causes of human suffering in the world today? How can we change systems to increase social justice and offer hope? We provide reliable information and analysis on development issues, practical alternatives to current development policies, practical suggestions for personal action, and faith reflections on this work for justice. The Center of Concern has worked with many graduate and undergraduate interns throughout our 39 years. Their research work, positive attitudes, and resourcefulness have increased the outreach of the Center in many ways. They enjoy contributing to our social and economic justice research work, attending conferences, networking with our colleagues, and participating in the life of the Center.
Central Asia Institute
United StatesChildren/Education
Central Asia Institute (CAI) is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization, founded in 1996, with IRS registration number is 51-0376237. Central Asia Institute community projects are in remote mountain villages of northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and the steppes of Mongolia. Over the last decade, we have developed innovative techniques that encourage people to take responsibility for their own well-being and vitality. Each one of Central Asia Institute’s projects is locally initiated and involves community participation. A committee of elders guides each selected project. Before a project starts, the community matches project funds with equal amounts of local resources and labor. This commitment ensures a project’s viability and long term success. Local NGO’s (Non-Government Organizations) and village communities are selected for their dedication, initiative, and accountability to facilitate our community partnerships.
Central City Foundation
CanadaCommunity/Family
For 100 years, the Central City Mission and Foundation have provided help and hope to the most vulnerable people in Vancouver's inner city. Our history isn’t a glamorous one; it's not one of the famous stories about Vancouver. It's a simple story about people who have been determined to help their neighbours, determined to soothe the pains of poverty on this city’s harshest streets. The Central City Foundation, as it is now known, has established a strong reputation for its programs of support in the downtown eastside and other areas of the inner city of Vancouver.
Central Florida YMCA
United StatesCommunity/Family
The Central Florida YMCA has become an integral part of the lives of the people in the communities we serve. In 2002, the Central Florida YMCA gave $3.7 million in financial assistance and membership subsidy to more than 30,000 kids, teens, adults and seniors find that place of safety and comfort.
Central Institute for the Deaf
United StatesDisability
CID provides quality auditory-oral education for children from birth to age 12. Students graduate from CID when they are ready to succeed in mainstream classrooms with their hearing peers. Many attend college and many pursue professional careers. CID school students have come from 29 countries and 48 U.S. states. Today, cochlear implants and digital hearing aids, combined with listening and spoken language educational techniques, are enabling more children to learn to listen, talk, read and succeed academically.
Central Lakes Trust
New ZealandCommunity/Family
Central Lakes Trust was established to grant funds for community charitable purposes. The Trust fund was created when the Otago Central Electric Power Board bestowed Central Lakes Trust with assets valued at $155 million from the consumer trust OCEPT(Otago Central Electric Power Trust) in November 2000. The Trust has had a significant impact on many community groups since its inception, having approved grants totaling more than $47 million in the nine years to 31 March 2010.
Central Okanagan Foundation
CanadaCommunity/Family
The Central Okanagan Foundation is about empowerment and relevance. We are synonymous with the handing down through generations of the actionable and fulfilling gift of giving. The Central Okanagan Foundation provides ongoing support to the charitable sector. We provide funding for charitable projects that benefit our community. We can only accomplish this with the financial support of our donors. All gifts both large and small are pooled and then invested. The investment income is distributed as grants to local charitable organizations. The capital is never touched and continues to grow with each new gift, generating income that meets a wide range of community needs for years to come. We endeavour to promote excellence in philanthropy to enable our community to flourish. We bring donors and charities together to provide for community needs today, tomorrow and forever. The COF encourages all citizens to participate through the establishment of or contributions to endowment funds.
Central Park Conservancy
United StatesEnvironment
The Central Park Conservancy is a private, not-for-profit organization founded in 1980 that manages Central Park under a contract with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Thanks to the generosity of many individuals, corporations, foundations, and the City of New York, the Conservancy has invested more than $500 million to date into the Park making it a model for urban parks worldwide. The Conservancy provides 85% of Central Park's $27 million annual operating budget and is responsible for all basic care of the Park. With 25 million visitors each year to its 843 acres, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States.
Central School of Ballet
United KingdomChildren/Education
Central School of Ballet was established by Ann Stannard and the late Christopher Gable CBE in 1982. The founders wanted a school that valued the artistic expression in dance, as well as the importance of technique. Each year around 100 Senior School students attend Central. The Senior School course is one of the most comprehensive dance programmes in the country, and helps students go on to careers in classical ballet, contemporary dance and musical theatre.
Centre - Environmental Living & Training
IrelandEnvironment
The main objects for which CELT is established are: the advancement of Environmental Education through assisting schools with projects and educational programmes, encouraging national and international student and volunteer exchanges, providing a focal point for information sharing and offering training courses for adults linking to projects for schools, landowners and others in the community. We provide training of all skilled workers and/or directors and training for the community and visitors to the community. Through an active schools programme, student exchanges, training courses for adults, skills demonstrations and networking with other groups and organisations we increasing environmental awareness.
Centre 404
United KingdomDisability
Centre 404 was founded in 1951 by family carers of children with learning difficulties and continues to work towards building a community and a society where people with learning difficulties are valued. Over the years Centre 404 has built vital services, proving how much people with learning difficulties can achieve with the right support - like living independently, having a job and having their talents recognised.
Centre For African Family Studies
KenyaResearch/Dev
CAFS has been serving Africa since 1975, and is one of the few international NGOs that are based in the African Continent and perhaps the only African-based iNGO without an office in Europe or North America. CAFS conducts courses and undertakes research and consultancy services from strategically located bases in East and West Africa. Our services are provided by highly qualified professionals who come from a variety of disciplines; including reproductive health, HIV&AIDS, population and development, and organisation and management development. The CAFS team reflects strong field experience and a profound knowledge of the African social and cultural environment.
Centre for Cerebral Palsy
AustraliaDisability
Since 1951, we have forged an enviable reputation as one of the leading disability service providers in our state, with significant leadership also at a national level. Over time, our ability to adapt in response to the changing needs of people with CP has ensured we remain at the forefront of service excellence. Our vision is for a community where all people freely exercise choice. We aim to achieve this by providing a range of quality services and promoting choice in order to address the unique needs of the people that we work with. These services include physiotherapy, speech pathology, occupational therapy, social work, psychology, early education, respite, health promotion, employment, alternatives to employment, accommodation support and recreation.
Centre For Conflict Resolution
South AfricaHuman Rights
The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) was established by the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, in 1968 as an independent non-profit organisation. The Centre has developed an international reputation for excellence and has solid expertise in training, mediation, and policy research and development. The organisation's expertise places particular emphasis on capacity-building in conflict prevention, management and resolution, and, to this end, works closely with continental and regional organisations and programmes on the African continent.
Centre For Creative Education
South AfricaChildren/Education
The Centre for Creative Education is an independent, non-profit, Waldorf-inspired institution based in Cape Town, South Africa. We seek to transform individuals and society by training teachers and performing artists, running a primary school in Khayelitsha, and lending support to over 25 schools in various ways. This happens locally and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. We emphasize artistic creation as a central component of learning and health, and a means of profoundly engaging the liberal arts and sciences, social cohesion and well-rounded thinking. The Centre for Creative Education wishes to demonstrate and utilize approaches to enhance the quality of Education in South Africa by equipping educators with firm knowledge, effective arts- and outcomes-based teaching skills, and high levels of personal and professional qualities.
Centre For Criminal Justice
South AfricaHuman Rights
The Centre for Criminal Justice (CCJ) was founded in 1989 by staff of the School of Law of the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. It was established as a research centre aimed at promoting and protecting human rights in the criminal justice system, and was formed as a response to the failure of the system to deal effectively with the political violence in the greater Pietermaritzburg area. The Centre for Criminal Justice is committed to the furthering of human rights through the law, directing its skills in the area of criminal and social justice towards the understanding and solution of local community problems, focusing on challenges within the justice system.
Centre For Family Literacy Society Of Alberta
CanadaCommunity/Family
The Centre for Family Literacy began as Prospects Literacy Association, in February 1980, when it was established as the first volunteer tutor program in Alberta. It had the primary goal of matching tutors with adults who needed help to develop reading, writing and math skills. In addition to one-on-one tutoring, adults were also able to participate in small group reading and writing workshops. These adult-oriented programs were the main focus of Prospects’ work for the first dozen years. In addition, Prospects supported the development of training for literacy practitioners and helped to set up a provincial professional development organization, the Literacy Coordinators of Alberta, in 1987.