Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
United StatesResearch/Dev
The Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) is the relief and development arm of the Christian Reformed Church. CRWRC reaches out in God's name to people, both in North America and around the world, who are struggling with poverty, hunger, disaster, and injustice to help them find lasting ways to improve their lives.
Christian Relief Fund
United StatesResearch/Dev
Baxter Loe founded the Christian Relief fund in May of 1971 in order to care for John Abraham's orphaned children. John Abraham was a Christian minister in India and died from starvation during a famine year. The Christian Relief Fund has since grown to provide child sponsorship, family sponsorship, and operate children’s homes and schools in third-world countries. CRF sponsorship programs and homes provide food, clothes, medical care, schooling in 33 countries. Currently nearly 5,200 children are being sponsored in our programs.
Christian Solidarity International
United StatesHuman Rights
CSI is a Christian human rights organization commited to defending religious liberty, helping victims of religious repression, victimized children, and victims of disaster. CSI was founded in 1977 in Switzerland by Rev. Hans Stückelberger, following peaceful demonstrations in support of persecuted Christians. CSI’s primary objective is worldwide respect for the God-given right of every human being to choose his or her faith and to practice it, as stipulated in Art. 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Furthermore, in Sudan Christian Solidarity International is working to provide every returning family with a special start-up sack containing the essentials to begin a new life, tens of thousands of southern Sudanese women and children have been enslaved and carried to northern Sudan since 1983. CSI has liberated many and returned them to their homeland in southern Sudan. CSI is committed to stand in solidarity with those who are being persecuted for their faith in the Sudan, Iraq, and Pakistan. You can make a difference by enabling CSI to Feed, Free and Heal the Captives.
Christina Noble Children's Foundation
United KingdomChildren/Education
The Christina Noble Children's Foundation is an International Partnership of people dedicated to serving underprivileged children with the hope of helping each child maximize their life potential. Our programmes in Vietnam and Mongolia seek to protect children at risk of economic and sexual exploitation, while ensuring these and other children in need have access to basic care and educational opportunities. The programmes include: emergency and long-term medical care, nutritional rehabilitation, educational and vocational training and job placement. This is accomplished within the context of the family and the community whenever possible, and always with love and respect for the dignity of each child as an individual.
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
United StatesResearch/Dev
The Reeve Foundation was started as a community response to a crisis that has quickly grown into a national movement. The early pioneers who started this Foundation began this work at a time when spinal cord research was considered the graveyard of neurobiology. Christopher Reeve's injury changed the field forever and it was his vision, his passion, brilliance and creativity that made this one of the most promising fields in research. And while Dana was universally known as the model for care giving, her real legacy is the creation of our Paralysis Resource Center that has reached tens of thousands of those living with paralysis and their families with useful, often life-saving and life-changing information. What inspires us is following through on and achieving in our lifetimes what they so generously and courageously started.
Christopher's Smile
United KingdomResearch/Dev
Christopher's Smile was set up in October 2008 by Karen and Kevin Capel following the tragic death of their only son Christopher from medulloblastoma, an aggressive childhood brain tumour. Supporting UK research centres such as the Institute of Cancer Research, Christopher ’s Smile aims to raise money to fund development of new drugs to treat medulloblastoma and other childhood cancers without devastating side effects. These drugs will provide an effective cure for all and save the lives of the 25% of children who currently do not survive their disease.
Chronic Illness Relief Fund
United StatesHealth/Medical
We help people regardless of whether or not they have a firm diagnosis or are already receiving assistance. Have Medicaid? Great! Still can’t pay rent? We understand are here to help. At CIRF, we believe that with some assistance, chronically ill patients can experience a higher quality of life. We do not give cash or checks; instead, we provide assistance through prepaid services. For example, we provide gift certificates or vouchers for things like grocery stores, pharmacies, and personal care services. We work directly with your utilities providers, landlord/mortgage institutions, and other providers to pay for services up front. We help people whose chronic illness keeps them from performing daily tasks and, due to circumstances beyond their control, require short-term financial assistance. CIRF aims to help as many people as possible; if the need is there, our goal is to satisfy that need. We tailor services to fit your specific needs.
Chrysalis
United StatesCommunity/Family
Chrysalis empowers its clients to successfully complete a self-directed job search with the help of its programs and social enterprises. We are dedicated to expanding our program capacity and services to meet the increasing demand and changing needs of our clients. We provide our staff and volunteers with an environment that values collaboration, professionalism and opportunity for personal growth. While our resources are focused on those most at risk in the greater Los Angeles area, we also serve as a model for communities across the nation.
Chubby Chums
South AfricaChildren/Education
Chubby Chums work with Child Protection Units Johannesburg and Far East Rand. We remove abandoned children from hospitals and clinics. We deal with public complaints concerning children’s issues. Our children are physically, mentally and sexually abused. We work with Teddy Bear Clinic that does assist for us. Protecting children is everybody’s business, and we never turn a child away. We act against abuse. We want to create an awareness and a responsibility within the society in order to eliminate any harm to our future leaders.
Church Housing Trust
United KingdomCommunity/Family
Church Housing Trust raises charitable funds to support the work of over 70 projects for the homeless throughout England, including hostels; women's refuges; projects for young people; supported housing for the ex Services; accommodation for vulnerable young parents and children; specialist supported housing for people with drug, alcohol and mental health problems, and projects for ex offenders. Our funds help turn hostels into homes and prepare homeless people for independent living through life skills and education and training programmes. We also help residents who are moving on from hostels with some of their resettlement costs.
Church Urban Fund
United KingdomCommunity/Family
Poverty affects all aspects of life, from health and well being to quality of education and the chances of getting a job. Poverty perpetuates itself when left unchallenged, trapping people and affecting subsequent generations. Poverty can be eradicated only when people and local communities build the capacity to sustain long-term change. At Church Urban Fund, we know from our 20-plus years of experience that local people with local solutions are more likely to succeed. We are risk-taking ‘first funders’, providing key financial support to help grassroots, community-based projects get started. We take a flexible, non-bureaucratic approach, recognising that individuals and communities are at different places along the path and need different kinds of support as they mature and grow.
Church World Service
United StatesEthnic/Religion
Church World Service is people reaching out to neighbors in need near and far - not with a hand out, but a hand up. So, if you're looking to help build a better world–a world were there's enough for all–you've come to the right place! We're working with partners in the U.S. and around the world to build interfaith and intercultural coalitions to eradicate hunger and poverty and promote peace and justice. Together, we're supporting sustainable grassroots development, disaster relief, and refugee assistance.
Cifa ONG
ItalyChildren/Education
Cifa Onlus operates in 13 countries over the world to carry out emergency projects, medium-long term cooperation projects and distance sponsorship programs. Nowadays Cifa is dealing with projects in 10 countries of Asia, Latina America and Africa. We work hard to improve the living conditions of needy or abandoned children and adolescents by encouraging them to develop their own identity and by ensuring a family and a harmonious growth; moreover, we promote the culture of children’s rights as set out in the United Nations convention. Cifa fights children’s abandon and promotes their rights by implementing international cooperation projects. Cifa’s local partners are fully involved in the realization of these projects. We foster the improvement of living conditions of children and adolescents by meeting their basic needs such as water, food, health care, education and protection.
Cimera
SwitzerlandHuman Rights
CIMERA offers political, conflict and policy analysis, advises in strategic and organisational development and conducts research as well as needs assessment, coaching, backstopping mandates and evaluations. CIMERA's interdisciplinary team of recognized professionals includes journalists, political and social scientists, psychologists, linguists and experts on international relations. They all have a proven ability to design and implement projects in strong collaboration with partner organizations and experts in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, North Africa, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Cincinnati Children's
United StatesHealth/Medical
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is a not-for-profit hospital and research center pioneering breakthrough treatments, providing outstanding family-centered patient care and training health care professionals for the future. As Greater Cincinnati's only pediatric hospital, Cincinnati Children's is committed to bringing the very best medical care to children in our community. As an institution nationally recognized for excellence in diagnosing and treating complex pediatric diseases, Cincinnati Children's is proud to serve patients from across the country and around the world.
Cincinnati Country Day School
United StatesChildren/Education
Founded in 1926, CCDS is an independent, co-educational day school with students from 18 months to 18 years. Our sprawling campus is situated on 62 beautiful acres in Indian Hill. CCDS has long been recognized for its rigorous and innovative curriculum that offers our 800 students a full range of academic, athletic, and artistic opportunities. Our goal is to stimulate and challenge our students, as they stretch their minds in pursuit of knowledge. Our faculty, comprised of over 100 teaching professionals, embraces a shared commitment to provide our students with an excellent education that meets both their abilities and interests. Our students often cite the strong relationships they form with their teachers as a distinguishing aspect of their CCDS education.
Cincinnati Playhouse
United StatesArts/Culture
Nestled on a hill and commanding a superb view of downtown Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park has been offering audiences the finest in professional theatre for nearly 50 years. Nationally known for its excellence and commitment to new works and an artistic home for America's best actors, directors and designers, the Playhouse always keeps its primary role at center stage — to serve the Tristate by producing the finest in classic and contemporary works: musicals, dramas, comedies and recent hits. Simply put, the Playhouse strives to celebrate the live theatrical event in superlative fashion, in a setting that is second to none. Today the Playhouse offers productions 10 months out of the year, attracting nearly 200,000 people annually to its two theatres, the Robert S. Marx Theatre and the intimate Thompson Shelterhouse. The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park is a professional regional theatre committed to producing and presenting for diverse audiences the broadest range of theatre in an inviting theatrical environment.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
United StatesArts/Culture
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is a dynamic ensemble of some of the world's finest musicians. The fifth oldest symphony orchestra in the United States and the oldest orchestra in Ohio, the CSO has played a leading role in the cultural life of Greater Cincinnati and the Midwest since its founding in 1895. Over the years, the CSO has built a reputation as one of the world's foremost orchestras and a champion of the new music of its day. The CSO has been home to the American premieres of works by such composers as Debussy, Ravel and Bartók, and has commissioned works that have since become mainstays of the classical repertoire, including Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. The CSO was the first orchestra to be broadcast to a national radio audience (1921) and the third orchestra to record (1917). Today, the orchestra continues to commission new works and to program an impressive array of music.
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
The Zoological Society of Cincinnati was founded in 1873 and officially opened its doors in 1875, making the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden the second oldest Zoo in the United States. Rated by peer zoological parks as one of the best zoos in the nation, the Cincinnati Zoo continues to set the standard for conservation, education and preservation of wild animals and wild spaces. Over 1.2 million people visit the Zoo annually. The Zoo features more than 500 animal and 3,000 plant species, making it one of the largest Zoo collections in the country.
Cinnamon Trust
United KingdomCommunity/Family
Cinnamon Trust is the only specialist national charity which seeks to relieve the anxieties, problems, and sometimes injustices, faced by elderly and terminally ill people and their pets, thereby saving a great deal of human sadness and animal suffering. The Trust was founded in 1985 by Mrs Averil Jarvis whose determination and dedication has ensured that the manifest need is fully addressed.