Chai Lifeline
CanadaCommunity/Family
Chai Lifeline began with one program: a summer camp for children suffering from cancer. Camp Simcha gave sick children the opportunity to forget about illness and concentrate on being kids once again. The overwhelming response to Camp Simcha was an indication of the tremendous need for such services all year round, not only for cancer victims but for children suffering from all types of serious illness. Chai Lifeline Canada has evolved rapidly, identifying the various needs of ill children and their families, and creating the programs to satisfy those needs. Today, Chai Lifeline Canada, the Canadian affiliate of Chai Lifeline International, has the ability to tap into a worldwide network of programs and services.
Chain of Hope
United KingdomHealth/Medical
Chain of Hope exists to provide children suffering from life-threatening heart disease with the corrective surgery and treatment to which they do not have access. We send out medical teams to treat children in their own country and we set up training programmes for local surgeons and medical staff. Chain of Hope provides teaching and training programmes while developing local infrastructure in countries such as Mozambique, Egypt, Jamaica and Ethiopia. With the guidance of the charity’s Medical Board, Chain of Hope has been saving lives for almost 15 years.
Chaine De L'espoir
FranceHealth/Medical
La Chaine de l'Espoir is a non profit association engaged in faciliting access to medical care for the poorest children in developing countries. The activities of La Chaine de l'Espoir became possible thanks to an important international network involving multinational surgical teams, local medical staff, partners and hospitals. we look after those that are born poor in disadvantaged countries, thousands of gravely ill or injured children that are condemned to die or remain crippled when a simple surgical operation can definitively offer them a normal life. We provide theoretical and hands-on training to local medical personnel in disadvantaged countries. La Chaine de l'Espoir imparts knowledge, technical and theoretical skills to local medical teams in order to develop autonomy and provide care to children locally. Training programmes are provided in their country and enable local doctors to examine sick children, select those needing surgery, carry out some operations locally, and ensure the follow-up of the operated children.
ChairScholars Foundation
United StatesDisability
The ChairScholars Foundation, Inc. is a Florida-based charity with 501c (3) status and is one of just a few organizations to recognize the educational needs of this forgotten minority, specifically their need for viable workforce skills. Dr. Keim and his wife Alicia, having both overcome physical challenges of their own, wanted to help. They strongly believed that “no physical impairment should deter a motivated mind.” So, in 1992, they began by sending two students who were in wheelchairs to college. From this act of kindness, the ChairScholars Foundation emerged. To date, 641 scholarships have been awarded.
Chakana
NetherlandsResearch/Dev
Chakana is a development organisation focusing on the indigenous peoples of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia and Peru. Chakana's projects help these people to improve their living conditions in the harsh highlands, and to create economic and social opportunities. Respect for the indigenous cultures and traditions are integral to Chakana's approach. Chakana carries out projects in several communities in the highlands of Bolivia. They are all situated in the department of La Paz, the most western department of Bolivia, consisting for the greater part of highlands (Altiplano).
Chalice
CanadaResearch/Dev
Chalice is a Christ-centered organization within the Catholic Community that supports over 43,000 children and aging in 15 countries around the world. Chalice's mission is to create and nurture caring relationships of life and love wherever we serve. Chalice supports relationships of life and love through a well established and trustworthy sponsorship programme. Through partnerships with religious communities and lay people, Chalice provides nourishing food, medical and dental care, clothing and the opportunity to go to school.
Challenge 2000
New ZealandCommunity/Family
Challenge 2000 is a professional, innovative, passionate Youth Development, Community and Family Work agency. We predominantly serve the Wellington Region and we provide some services for youth and families in Porirua and Lower Hutt. We have also been involved in delivering programmes as far away as Tauranga and Gisborne and in the Wairarapa and Manawatu areas. We work with over 2,900 young people in their groups, homes, schools and communities and at our place. We work in an innovative, holistic and challenging way that empowers our young people to develop their strengths, enhance their well-being and to make significant and positive lifestyle choices.
Challenge Africa
United KingdomCommunity/Family
We work with the community, empowering those without a voice. Our projects target orphans and vulnerable children, HIV positive individuals and families, vulnerable girls and women but we try to involve the whole community, improving life for all. Currently Challenge Africa's Kenyan team is committed to feeding and caring for orphans and vulnerable children, improving the lives of HIV positive people, reducing the HIV infection rate through education, and creating training opportunities for vulnerable girls to provide them with a secure income. In addition, Challenge Africa aims to be an advocate of sustainable practices such as farming and clean water provision.
Challenge Disability Sports Club
United KingdomDisability
Many, but not all, of our athletes have cerebral palsy and compete in the CP Sport Grand Prix which are held at different venues around the country. We currently also coach athletes with dwarfism, learning disability and visual impairment. Anyone with any disability is welcome at our club however. All athletes are given a classification after being examined by a physiotherapist and competitions give the athletes a chance to compete against people with the same disability and classification as themselves. All coaches are volunteers and have personal experience of a child with a disability. Coaches have a UK Athletics coaching qualification and have an enhanced CRB disclosure.
Challenge to Change
United KingdomEnvironment
Challenge to Change (CtC) is an international NGO, established in the UK in 2008, working primarily in Vietnam. Since its inception the organisation has focused on climate change issues, supporting poor communities to adapt their livelihoods to the local impacts of changing climate in Vietnam, whilst at the same time persuading those who contribute most to climate change, especially in the UK, to take responsibility for reducing global carbon emissions.
Challenge Trust
New ZealandDisability
Challenge Trust was founded in 1993 under the Charitable Trust Act 1957 and became an incorporated Charitable Trust in 1994. Today it has grown into an organisation with 228 people, operating out of 20 sites, while providing services to in excess of 1,500 people. Services provided include 24 hour residential accommodation, community support to people living in their own homes, educational services, employment and life skills training, advocacy, information, employment opportunities, family support and various housing options. Challenge Trust’s clients include people affected by mental illness, physical disability, intellectual disability, addictions, dual disability and dual diagnosis.
Champion Behaviours
United KingdomChildren/Education
Champion Behaviours is a charity which was set up to deliver motivational workshops to young people aged 11-16 years old who are in danger of exclusion from school and society. We believe that every child matters and have created Champion Behaviours as a way of directly helping to re-engage disaffected young people - promoting inclusion - and improving attendance, classroom behaviour and social skills, whilst reducing crime, fear of crime and anti social behaviour in our community.
Chance UK
United KingdomChildren/Education
We provide one-to-one mentoring for children aged 5-11 with behavioural difficulties. Our volunteer mentors raise children's self esteem via activities such as sports, visiting museums, making scrapbooks...anything the child may be interested in. We work in a solution-focused way, so our mentors and staff focus on the child's strengths and what they do well, rather than their negative behaviour. Many of the children we work with are on the verge of being permanently excluded from school. This is frequently the start point for anti-social and later criminal behaviour in a young person's life, and our early intervention work prevents this. We work closely with local schools to improve life for the child, their family and their classmates.
Change4Change
United KingdomMicrofinance
Change4Change is committed to bringing about change and improvement in the lives of people in developing countries through business opportunities. Nottinghamshire, England. All of the Change4Change Trustees work for the charity without charge as they are committed to ensuring that 100% of monies given is directed to the projects. Projects, which receive funding are not selected on religious or ethnic grounds but upon sound business proposals and the Change4Change guidelines, as our aim is to give people the opportunity to create a sustainable income and help to release them from poverty. Funds donated to Change4Change are used to help develop business opportunities. Normally loans, but occasionally gifts when required, are given to successful applicants who have completed some basic business training and then have prepared a simple viable business plan. Local management of the schemes are by approved and trusted intermediaries. These loans, as repaid, are recycled to further applicants so that your money will be used many times.
Changing Faces
United KingdomCommunity/Family
Changing Faces is the leading UK charity that supports and represents people who have disfigurements to the face, hand or body from any cause. We provide personal support for children, young people, adults and families. We work with schools, employers, health and social care professionals to ensure a culture of inclusion for people with disfigurements, and campaign for social change by working with the media, government and opinion leaders.
Channo Devi Foundation
NetherlandsResearch/Dev
Channo Devi Foundation is a non-government organization formed with the sole motive of helping the people of India. Established on March 3, 2003 by Mr Jori Singh in memory of his mother Channo Devi, the Foundation currently focuses on the rehabilitation of a village in Haryana, called Mandothi. Recognizing the lack of resources that the Indian government faces when it comes to helping each and every person in need, this Foundation is determined to provide all types of assistance to the people of India to the maximum extent possible.
Chants Libres
CanadaArts/Culture
In 1990, Pauline Vaillancourt founded Chants Libres, the lyric creation company, in association with Joseph Saint-Gelais and Renald Tremblay, with a mandate to bring all artistic disciplines (music, theatre, visual arts, electronic media, video, etc.) together around a common rallying point: the human voice. After many outstanding productions, Chants Libres has become a unique breeding ground for artists working with sound, images, and words, who are striving to breathe new life into opera, whether for chamber opera or for full orchestra, musical or experimental theatre, using traditional methods or groundbreaking forms.
Chapin School
United StatesChildren/Education
In Chapin's rigorous liberal arts curriculum, students are instructed and supported by a dedicated, distinguished faculty. Small class size ensures individual attention in each of the three divisions: Lower School (Kindergarten through Class 3), Middle School (Classes 4 through 7), and Upper School (Classes 8 through 12). Through a well-rounded academic program that encourages original thought and exploration, the all-girls school achieves a balance between freedom and structure, independence and support, individualism and cooperation, and innovation and tradition. Founded in 1901 by Maria Bowen Chapin, the school now offers 16 Advanced Placement courses to meet students' high-level achievement in many subjects.
Character Communit
CanadaCommunity/Family
The Character Community Foundation of York Region involves volunteers and leaders from the community, government, education and business sectors who are committed to making York Region a Character Community by nurturing positive character attributes and enhancing York Region as a desirable place to live, learn, work and play. The mandate of the Character Community Foundation is to raise awareness and educate the public, private and non‐profit sector on character development. The Character Community Foundation practices and promotes a simple, but important philosophy, that when people and communities embrace living with character, we can change the world we live in for the better.
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association
United StatesResearch/Dev
The CMTA is a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 whose goals are patient support, public education, promotion of research and ultimately the treatment and cure of CMT. A voluntary Board of Directors governs the CMTA. The Medical Advisory Board of the CMTA consists of over 50 clinical and research medical professionals. This international group of men and women are noted CMT experts in neurology, genetics, orthopedic surgery, physiatry, physical therapy and podiatry. The CMTA currently has more than 15,000 patients and families, supportive friends, and medical professionals in its database.