Charity Bolivia
United KingdomChildren/Education
Charity Bolivia is a UK registered non-profit organisation set up to raise money to help relieve poverty and improve standards of living in Bolivia, one of the world's poorest nations. Colonia Ecologica is our main project on the outskirts of Cochabamba, the third biggest city in Bolivia. There are seventeen children living there - orphans, children abandoned by their parents, or former street children. During the afternoon, up to thirty five more children arrive after school, to be looked after while their parents are earning money for basic daily needs. Colonia Ecologica offers prevention, protection and promotion: preventing more children turning to street life, protection and safety in a happy family and promotion of responsibility and moral values.
Charity: Water
United StatesEnvironment
We give 100% of the money raised to direct project costs, funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need. Just $20 can give one person in a developing nation clean water for 20 years. Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Many people in the developing world, usually women and children, walk more than three hours every day to fetch water that is likely to make them sick.
Charles Wright Academy
United StatesChildren/Education
Founded in 1957, Charles Wright Academy is an independent school for girls and boys, offering higher education - which we proudly define as challenging, rewarding and joyous training for a life well-lived - from Pre-K to the 12th grade. Today, Charles Wright serves over 700 students in preschool through the twelfth grade. Truly one of the premiere schools in the Northwest, CWA sends its graduates to the best colleges and universities in the country.
Charlford House Foundation
CanadaWomen
Since 1970, Charlford House has provided a supportive recovery home for women who are ready to move on from their substance addiction. Charlford House is a non-profit residence: not an institution. All of our empathetic staff have had personal experience with addiction, but have been clean and sober for a long time. They have all had formal education and training that equips them to help others on the path to recovery. The women who come to our home are embarking on a journey to recovery, needing the safe and structured support of professional staff and peers. For this reason, we are situated in a family-oriented neighbourhood in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Charlotte Country Day School
United StatesChildren/Education
Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte Country Day is a school people name when they are listing America's greatest independent schools. Founded in 1941, CCDS is the oldest and largest independent, coeducational college preparatory school in the area and the eighth largest in the country. Located on two campuses in south Charlotte with an enrollment of nearly 1,600 students in grades junior kindergarten through 12, the school is a place where learning of the highest caliber is an every day occurrence. Recognized for its academic excellence, acclaimed international studies program, state-of-the-art technological resources, and opportunities in arts, athletics, community service, and leadership, Charlotte Country Day is a place where young people become critical thinkers and problem solvers, and where lifelong friendships are formed.
Chase
United KingdomChildren/Education
CHASTE Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking Across Europe is a charity which actively works for the global eradication of Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation, the provision of practical care and support for those who have been trafficked, and the suppression of demand which drives the supply of women and the girl child into the sex markets of Europe. Just as in Domestic Violence, it is absolutely essential for a place of safety to be available for escape from the vicious cycle of abuse to occur. CHASTE is committed to an exciting vision of releasing the churches capital of human commitment, prayerful involvement and properties into this UK wide initiative of providing safe housing for those who are seeking to escape the cycle of abuse.
Chaste
United KingdomHuman Rights
CHASTE (Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking Across Europe) is a charity which actively works for the global eradication of Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation, the provision of practical care and support for those who have been trafficked, and the suppression of demand which drives the supply of women and the girl child into the sex markets of Europe. Just as in Domestic Violence, it is absolutely essential for a place of safety to be available for escape from the vicious cycle of abuse to occur. CHASTE is committed to an exciting vision of releasing the churches capital of human commitment, prayerful involvement and properties into this UK wide initiative of providing safe housing for those who are seeking to escape the cycle of abuse.
CHAT
United KingdomCommunity/Family
CHAT was founded by Christians who were concerned by the large number of people experiencing housing difficulty in Mid Devon. We believe that everybody is entitled to decent, secure and permanent housing – somewhere to call home. We give Free Housing Advice in person or over the phone and can act on your behalf on housing issues. We can offer landlords a Deposit Guarantee if you cannot afford a deposit. With the free support from our Tenancy Support workers we can support you to keep your home and move on with your life. We house and support young people in our Youth Housing Project houses in Tiverton, including a mother and baby house. Our Young People and Family Mediation Service has two trained mediation counsellors to work with any family where a young person, aged 13-19, might be on the verge of being asked to leave home, to see if a reconciliation is possible.
Chats (Community & Home Assistance to Seniors)
CanadaCommunity/Family
At CHATS, we are committed to building a showcase community wellness model for senior care. We take an innovative approach to wellness by focusing on our clients in a holistic way, enhancing their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. By recognizing and building on all that we excel at, and by staying at the forefront of our community's ever-changing needs, our service is second-to-none. Under the strong, experienced know-how of about 180 staff, supported by a Board of Directors, committees, and about 500 volunteers, CHATS embraces professional business savvy with caring, compassionate dedication – a unique combination that ultimately benefits our clients, our community partners, and the community over-all.
Chauncy Maples Trust
United KingdomResearch/Dev
The Chauncy Maples Trust has been established in UK to raise money to match the contribution made by the Malawi government. Moored on Lake Malawi is the steamer Chauncy Maples. Built in Glasgow in 1898, she is the oldest ship in Africa still afloat. Once funding is provided, the renovation of Chauncy Maples will take about two years. The project will be run by the Government of Malawi with support from donors in Malawi and Britain. Malawi in Central Africa is a quiet, peaceful country of immense beauty. However, it is one of the ten poorest nations in the world, with high rates of malaria, HIV-AIDS and tuberculosis. Healthy life expectancy at birth is 35 years. Lake Malawi makes up a fifth of the country. For most of the thousand miles of shoreline there is no road and no access to health services for about four million lake dwellers. When desperate for healthcare, many travel by dug-out canoe, risking the dangerous currents, storms and crocodiles.
Chawton House Library
United KingdomArts/Culture
Chawton House Library is a registered charity based within the South Downs National Park in Hampshire, UK. Concentrating on education and heritage, the charity holds a unique collection of early women’s writing circa 1600–1830. We offer readers the chance to research and engage with a wealth of texts in the inspiring setting of Chawton House, where the historic location and rural tranquillity contextualise and complement the material. As well as promoting study and research on women’s writing, the charity's educational remit includes protecting and conserving the Elizabethan house and grounds, and maintaining a rural English working manor farm of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, managed using traditional, organic farming methods. Chawton House Library believes in the power of education; that we all have the ability to learn from the past to enrich the future. Chawton House Library is a member of The Heritage Collection in Hampshire's South Downs National Park.
Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art
United StatesArts/Culture
The history and origin of Cheekwood are intimately interwoven with the growth of Nashville, the Maxwell House coffee brand and the Cheeks, one of the city's early entrepreneurial families.The Nashville Museum of Art donated its permanent collections and proceeds from the sale of its building to the effort. The new Cheekwood opened to the public in 1960. Cheekwood will be cherished locally and recognized nationally for its unique ability to welcome visitors of all ages with one-of-a-kind indoor/outdoor experiences reflecting its noted art and botanical collections displayed in one of the great American Country Place Estates.
Cheetah Outreach
South AfricaAnimals/Wildlife
It took 4 million years of evolution for the cheetah to become the exceptional animal it is today and only 100 years for man to place it on the endangered list. Now the fastest land animal in the world is losing its most important race: the race for survival. At the turn of the 20th century, an estimated 100,000 cheetahs lived throughout Africa and in parts of the Middle East and Central Asia. Today there are just 7,500 cheetahs left and South Africa is home to fewer than 1,000 of these majestic cats. Cheetah Outreach is an education and community-based programme created to raise awareness of the plight of the cheetah and to campaign for its survival. Founder Annie Beckhelling launched the project in January 1997 with just one hectare of land proved by Spier Wine Estate and two cheetahs.
Cheeverstown
IrelandDisability
Cheeverstown House, based in Dublin, is a voluntary organisation, accredited by the Council on Quality & Leadership providing a wide range of residential, respite and day services to almost 400 children and adults with an intellectual disability and to their families in Cheeverstown Centre and throughout various community locations. This includes residential places in Cheeverstown Centre; with the remaining places in houses throughout the locality.
Chelsea Foundation
CanadaCommunity/Family
Over the last ten years we have acquired 21 acres of prime land in the heart of Chelsea through a generous donation from the Meredith family. Our vision is to use this land to create a space for the "heart and soul" of Chelsea for this and future generations. We then built a new recreation centre to meet the needs of the community - filling gaps in existing sport, recreation, and cultural facilities, and operating in all seasons.
Chernobyl Children International - CCI
IrelandHealth/Medical
Chernobyl Children International, is a non-profit organisation with United Nations NGO status which develops community, medical and social programmes to reduce poverty and improve the livelihoods of current and future generations of Chernobyl’s children. Founded by Adi Roche in the aftermath of the disaster at Chernobyl in 1986, the charity has delivered over €92 million Euro of medical and humanitarian aid to the Chernobyl-affected regions of Belarus, Ukraine and Western Russia.
Chernobyl Children's Project
United KingdomChildren/Education
Each summer we provide month long recuperative holidays in the UK for about 150 children from Belarus. We organise a holiday in a clean part of Belarus for children with disabilities from orphanages, sending volunteers out from Britain to make sure the kids have a great holiday. We deliver four convoys of humanitarian aid to Belarus every year. We also purchase urgently needed medicines for the Children's Cancer Hospital in Minsk and support the Children’s Hospice Movement. During the last ten years we have had a major training programme which has helped to reduce the numbers of children in the orphanages, to prepare suitable local foster families and to help children prepare for leaving care. Much of our work focuses on improving the educational and social opportunities for children and young people with disabilities.
Chernobyl Children's Trust
IrelandChildren/Education
The Trust is an entirely voluntary organisation and this enables maximum donor value by directing funds to exactly where they are most needed. We believe in a partnership approach, working as equals with Belarusian agencies and organisations to implement programmes. Indeed, one of our key strengths is our extensive network of local organizations and contacts on the ground throughout Belarus enabling the most appropriate programmes to be undertaken always. Our skilled volunteers, allow the organisation to take on, and successfully deliver, a range of programmes and projects for the relief of sickness, the promotion of health and community development and the relief of poverty amongst children, their families and their communities, across disadvantaged areas of Belarus.
Cherokee National Historical Society
United StatesEthnic/Religion
The Cherokee National Historical Society was formed in 1963 by a group of visionary Cherokee citizens who shared a desire to establish a permanent culture keeping institution for the Cherokee people. To accomplish their goals, they secured forty-four wooded acres near Tahlequah, Oklahoma the seat of the Cherokee Nation, and established the Cherokee Heritage Center. The site was selected for its historical connection to the Nation, as it was once the location of the Cherokee Female Seminary, established by the Cherokee Nation in 1850 as one of the first institutions of higher learning for women west of the Mississippi River. Trustees continued to translate their vision into programs which today encompass: a reconstructed Ancient Village which opened in May 1967 followed with the opening of an 1800 seat amphitheater in June 1969; and the Cherokee National Museum in 1974 which now houses the award- winning Trail of Tears exhibition. Also included with the museum is a reconstructed Indian Territory-period town (Adams Corner). The museum also houses the Cherokee National Archives, the Cherokee Family Research Center. CNHS offers other interpretive programs and features as well, such as educational workshops and special events, which support their goal for the preservation and promulgation of the Cherokee culture.
Cherubs UK
United KingdomDisability
Cherubs UK was founded and registered with the Charity Commission in 2003 by Brenda Lane. It was initially formed as a small support group to provide parents and families faced with a CDH diagnosis with a friendly and informal support network of other parents and families who had endured similar experiences, and who could offer emotional support and share experiences with them. Today Cherubs UK has grown into an established charity that still offers the same friendly, informal support, but that now also has many more resources and offers information and advice on CDH from diagnosis to childhood and beyond, through different types of media such as the internet and written publications.