Claremont McKenna College
United StatesChildren/Education
As one of the nation's most selective private liberal arts colleges, CMC sits among the intellectually-stimulating, socially-fulfilling, seven-college community known as The Claremont Colleges, a system modeled after England's Oxford University. Founded in 1946, CMC is the youngest of the nation's top colleges and enrolls approximately 1,200 students. While many other colleges champion either a traditional liberal arts education with emphasis on intellectual breadth, or training that stresses acquisition of technical skills, Claremont McKenna College offers a clear alternative. Instead of dividing the liberal arts and the working world into separate realms, education at Claremont McKenna is rooted in the interplay between the world of ideas and the world of events.
Clarke School for Hearing and Speech
United StatesDisability
Clarke is an auditory/oral program, which means that we teach children to listen and speak, rather than use sign language. At Clarke, children use cochlear implants and hearing aids to maximize their access to sound, and our specially trained teachers, audiologists and speech language pathologists help them develop listening, literacy and spoken language skills to maximize their learning. Our goal is to prepare children to succeed in mainstream classrooms alongside their hearing peers. Because of increased newborn hearing screenings and early intervention services, many children who come to Clarke are ready to mainstream as early as kindergarten. There are many different schools of thought about educating children who are deaf and hard of hearing. At Clarke, we recognize that there is no single approach that is right for every child. We provide parents with the tools they need to understand their child’s hearing loss, make informed choices about educational options and find the path that is right for their family.
Clean Air Cool Planet
United StatesEnvironment
Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) is the leading organization dedicated solely to finding and promoting solutions to global warming. We partner with companies, campuses, communities and science centers to help reduce their carbon emissions. We help our partners, their constituents, and other regional opinion leaders and stakeholders understand the impacts of global warming and its best available solutions, through comprehensive outreach efforts celebrating commitment, innovation and success in climate action. We showcase practical climate solutions that demonstrate the economic opportunities and environmental benefits associated with early actions on climate change. We propose and recommend the implementation of effective policy solutions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the state, regional and national levels. CA-CP is a science-based, non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
United StatesHealth/Medical
Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education. The Cleveland Clinic serves the community by providing uncompensated health care to the poor, engaging in a broad range of medical, research, education and training programs, and supporting public health initiatives. Since 1921, Cleveland Clinic has been caring for patients with the highest levels of medical expertise and human compassion. Our physicians and researchers have made significant breakthroughs that have changed the course of medicine. Now, Cleveland Clinic is on the verge of a new era of accomplishment – an era of even greater discovery.
Cleveland Foodbank
United StatesCommunity/Family
The Foodbank solicits food from food industry donors, including growers, manufacturers and retailers. Much of this food is surplus or unmarketable. Instead of throwing it away, it is used to feed the hungry. The food is sorted and repackaged by approximately 10,000 Foodbank volunteers per year. Some of the food is used to create meals in the Foodbank's Cleveland Community Kitchen. Volunteers and staff from more than 600 Northeast Ohio hunger programs order the food they need from a daily menu of more than 140 items. The orders are picked up by the agencies or delivered to them directly by the Foodbank fleet. Our member agencies (such as hot meal sites and pantries) provide nutritious food to struggling men, women and children in our community. Last year, the Foodbank distributed 32.9 million pounds of food and non-food items to our member programs.
Cleveland Institute of Music
United StatesChildren/Education
Founded in 1920, the Cleveland Institute of Music is a leading international conservatory that is distinguished by an exceptional degree of collaboration between students and teachers. This same stimulating environment extends to the Institute's community education programs, which help people of all ages realize their musical potential. For more than 80 years, CIM has offered a world class education to students from 3 to 93 and provided concerts for the community. CIM's conservatory student body is international in its composition: 25% from other countries, 50% from other U.S. states, and 25% from Ohio.
ClientEarth
United KingdomEnvironment
We celebrate the diversity of life and human experience. We recognise the equal right of all humankind to live and work in a healthy environment. Environmental law has come into being over the last forty years to express this right and mould it into enforceable obligations. ClientEarth's scientists, policy experts and lawyers work to ensure that environmentally sound laws are made, and then rigorously enforced. We work across a broad number of areas, from marine protection and company transparency to climate change and air pollution.
Clifton Scientific Trust
United KingdomChildren/Education
Clifton Scientific Trust works with young people of all ages and abilities enabling them to share the experience of Science for Real, using science to address real problems in the real world. Science here is taken to include its many applications in such fields as technology and engineering. Clifton Scientific Trust believes that there is an urgent need for new vision in science education, for a science education that really does promote excellence and relevance for all young people, which motivates and skills, and which prepares for an increasingly technological global future.
Climate Centre
NetherlandsEnvironment
The Climate Centre aims to support the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in meeting the commitments made at the International Conference, by strengthening the ability of all components of the Movement to understand and address the rising risks related to climate change, climate variability and extreme weather events. Our strategy to address these rising risks is to integrate climate risk management into existing Red Cross and Red Crescent priorities and programs, rather than to develop stand-alone climate change activities. Our focus is particularly on developing countries, which are most vulnerable to climate change.
Climate Justice Action
DenmarkEnvironment
CJA is a transnational non-hierarchical direct action network that serves as a resource base for exchange of experiences and seeks to connect and give visibility to (localised) struggles in order to be a tool for movement building. We consider ourselves part of the broader movements for climate and social justice. Anyone agreeing to and acting in accordance with our aims and principles can be part of the CJA network. CJA commits to having regular electronic and face-to-face organizational and strategy meetings to link our struggles—all are invited to become an active part to the process! CJA formed during the mobilisation of social movements in the run up to the COP15 UN climate talks, which took place in Copenhagen, December 2009.
Climb Your Mountain
United KingdomCommunity/Family
At CYM we believe that exercise and physical activities can have a real benefit for people in preventing, dealing with and overcoming conditions such as depression, stress, anxiety, low confidence and low self-esteem. Not only do we encourage physical exercise but we help people to progress so that they can complete an appropriate physical challenge. In so doing they gain the additional benefits of having a focus, a positive experience and a real sense of achievement. We aim to help people by providing training, support, advice, motivation and organisation for physical activities and challenges. In addition to the benefits from physical exercise and challenges, many people benefit from the social interaction and positive experiences with other people involved with CYM.
Clover House
United KingdomHealth/Medical
We are a charity providing complementary therapy for children and young people and we treat any physical, behavioural or emotional problem. We improve the health, happiness and wellbeing of children and teenagers through the use of natural and affordable treatment. We have developed a unique programme that combines nutritional therapy, aromatherapy massage and creative imagery. This triple-therapy approach is truly holistic and works to bring your child’s health and wellbeing back in balance in a gentle and nurturing way. As well as running a weekly clinic, we also support child-health related projects within the wider community and provide information and resources for parents and families as well as healthcare and educational professionals.
Clowns Without Borders USA
United StatesChildren/Education
CWB recognizes that our work is made up of small moments. Although small and purely emotional, these moments build upon each other staying with children as they grow and supporting their incredible resilience. CWB works with relief organizations addressing psycho-social needs of those who suffer from traumatic situations. We are not doctors, psychologists or social-workers, but together with these professionals and community participation we create joyful experiences from which children and their communities thrive. We bring levity, contemporary clown/circus oriented performances and workshops into communities so that they can celebrate together and forget for a moment the tensions that darken their daily lives. We are funded almost entirely by individual donations. Participating artists all volunteer their time. They do the majority of the fundraising for project expenses. You can be a meaningful part of our work by supporting us financially.
Cluid Housing Association
IrelandCommunity/Family
The association was set up on foot of government policy promoting the development of housing associations in Ireland. During the late 1980s and early 1990s there was a strong desire to promote new systems of housing management and to encourage a greater diversity of suppliers of social rented housing. Clúid is a dedicated housing organisation which, through the provision of housing, aims to facilitate the creation of homes and communities where people want to live and settle.
Cluster Munition Coalition
United StatesHuman Rights
Since 2006, the CMC has been the leading voice pushing for changes in government policies and practices regarding the humanitarian suffering caused by cluster munitions. We seek to prevent the use, production, and trade of these weapons and ensure that stockpiles are destroyed. Through our national campaigns in over 100 countries, we have managed to gain adherence to the Convention on Cluster Munitions by more than half the world’s states. Nonetheless, there is still a long way to go. These internationally-banned weapons indiscriminately kill and injure people every day. Currently there are countries and territories affected by cluster munitions in every region of the world. The CMC believes that through the universal adherence to and implementation of the 2008 Convention on Cluster munitions, we can end the devastation these weapons continue to wreak upon communities worldwide. Donate today and make sure the suffering caused by these weapons ends in years not decades.
CMAT Canadian Medical Assistance Teams
CanadaHealth/Medical
Through its medical relief and development projects, CMAT seeks to improve the health and welfare of families both in Canada and in developing countries around the world. Through its projects, CMAT ratifies the Humanitarian Charter signed originally in 1997, and aspires to attain the standards determined by the Sphere Project, which are based on two core beliefs: that all possible steps should be taken to alleviate human suffering arising out of calamity and conflict; and that those affected by disaster have a right to life with dignity and therefore a right to assistance. Moreover, CMAT strives to adhere to the International Code of Conduct and to the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and solidarity in the implementation of its medical relief and development projects.
CMJR
United KingdomChildren/Education
The Woolf Institute is an umbrella organisation for the Centre for the Study of Jewish–Christian Relations (CJCR, founded in 1998) and the Centre for the Study of Muslim–Jewish Relations (CMJR, established in 2006). CJCR is one of the world's leading institutes in the study and teaching of all aspects of the encounter between Christians and Jews throughout the ages. CMJR is the first and only academic centre in Europe dedicated to fostering relations between Muslims and Jews through teaching, research and dialogue.
CMT United Kingdom
United KingdomHealth/Medical
CMT United Kingdom is the national support group for people affected by Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT), and their families and carers. CMT is a condition that affects the nerves in your legs and arms, known as the peripheral nerves. Currently, there is no cure for CMT; however, this does not mean that there is nothing to be done, careful management of the condition can have a beneficial effect on the long term prognosis. We want to promote research into the means by which CMT may be prevented and treated and to circulate the results of such research for the benefit of the public, and we offer assistance and support to those people who have Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, also known as Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy or Peroneal Muscular Atrophy. We offer a service of support, advice and information, by means of telephone contact, letters, email, e-magazine.
CNETS Canada
CanadaHealth/Medical
The Carcinoid-NeuroEndocrine Tumour Society-Canada (CNETS Canada) was formed in 2007 to assist the Canadian community, primarily patients, with this type of disease. We provide workshops and seminars on issues dealing with conditions associated with carcinoid and related neuroendocrine tumour diseases, while increasing awareness of and educating the public and health care professionals on carcinoid and related neuroendocrine tumours, their diagnosis, treatment and management. We establish support groups to provide support services for those affected by carcinoid and related neuroendocrine tumour diseases.
CO-OPERAID
SwitzerlandChildren/Education
CO-OPERAID is a non-profit, politically and confessionally independent, humanitarian Swiss association with its headquarters in Zurich. CO-OPERAID and its donors are committed to help children and youth in Africa and Asia. Our projects want to give a «chance to the chanceless» through school education and professional training in a current total of seven countries: Uganda, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines. CO-OPERAID is dedicated to the childrens right to education and to the Millennium Development Goal Nr.2, education for all. Our projects serve the ones that need help and support most: orphans – aids orphans and war orphans in particular – refugee children, children of ethnic minorities, children of poor rural families. Promotion of girls and women is a special concern within the projects.