Co-operation Ireland
IrelandCommunity/Family
Since it was established in 1979, Co-operation Ireland has created opportunities for groups from the two main religious communities in Northern Ireland and from both sides of the border to come together so they can learn about each other's traditions and cultural backgrounds in order to help build a society which is based on tolerance and acceptance of cultural difference.
Coaches across Continents
United KingdomChildren/Education
Coaches across Continents is an international development organization that educates local communities to design and implement social development programs using soccer as the teaching tool. Recognising that responsiveness to local needs is the key to effective learning and thus local sustainability, Coaches across Continents is the only development organisation that has a proven track record in using soccer as a vehicle for social change in developing communities. CaC constantly receives requests to work with partner organizations and to prepare volunteers to work responsively within differing communities. These volunteers are trained to assess local needs, to select from a range of curriculum options the most relevant approaches and to focus continually on the development of the particular life skills needed in each and every unique community.
Coaching for Hope
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
We tap into the global passion for football and organise coaching courses where professional coaches from the UK train local youth workers to recognised FA standards. At the same time, the local coaches learn how to deliver HIV awareness and life skills sessions to young people in their communities. Once the UK coaches leave, our programme staff provide ongoing support to the graduates. This means they can deliver Coaching for Hope sessions and develop training initiatives of their own. So far, about 30,000 children have benefited from football and HIV awareness sessions and 700 coaches have been through our courses.
Coalition To Stop The Use Of Child Soldiers Uganda
UgandaHuman Rights
The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers was formed in May 1998 by leading international human rights and humanitarian organizations. It works with regional and national networks in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. The Coalition's International member organizations are: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Federation Terre des Hommes, International Save the Children Alliance, and the Jesuit Refugee Service. It maintains active links with UNICEF, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the International labour Organization. The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers works to prevent the recruitment and use of children as soldiers, to secure their demobilisation and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration into society. Our goal is to promote the adoption and adherence to national, regional and international legal standards (including the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict) prohibiting the military recruitment and use in hostilities of any person younger than eighteen years of age; and the recognition and enforcement of this standard by all armed groups, both governmental and non-governmental.
Coast Mental Health
CanadaHealth/Medical
Coast Mental Health was created in 1972 in response to the growing need for services in the community for people recovering from a serious mental illness. Since its inception Coast has not only focused on services but has also placed emphasis on participants being members of Coast who have a role in determining priorities and how services are provided. Coast's mission adopts the concept of community as the foundation of what Coast does. Coast improves the lives of people with a mental illness by providing practical and pragmatic help such as housing, jobs, community, rehabilitative social and recreational opportunities, food, clothing and basic life skills training.
COCC
MonacoOther
Since 2012 members of the C.O.C.C. of Monaco take part in their annual St Tropez to Monaco charity bike ride. The funds raised from this event go to the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation, to help in the development and growth of the awareness program on water safety and the risks of drowning and to help children to swim. A frightening statistic is that drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide. The Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation now hopes to spread this awareness and learn to swim program in more countries. The Foundation’s most recent initiative is the provision of portable 25 metre, 6 lane swimming pools to areas of need. The cost of each of these pools is approx. Euros 40,000. Each year there are conservatively approx. 400,000 drowning deaths worldwide – that is over 30,000 deaths a month or staggeringly 1,000 deaths every single day. In general, children under 5 years of age have the highest drowning mortality rates worldwide and being a former Olympian and South African swimming champion this cause is very close to the Princess’s heart. Her Foundation launched last year and their programs on water safety have now kicked off in Monaco, France, South Africa and Morocco and they are just starting a program in the USA.
Cochrane Wildlife Reserve Society
CanadaAnimals/Wildlife
The CEI is a family founded, charitable, not -for -profit organization devoted to breeding endangered species for reintroduction, wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and release, educating the public, monitoring habitat and species, and developing non intrusive wildlife survey methods. CEI has also been an integral part of the Canadian Wildlife Service's Trumpeter swan and wood bison reintroduction programs, as well as playing a key role in the Canadian swift fox reintroduction program. The CEI is unique in that it holds the world's longest established (1972), largest, and only captive breeding colony of swift fox. Internationally, as species and habitat vanish, the concept of ecosystem restoration through the reintroduction of indigenous flora and fauna, is gaining greater and greater prominence. The preservation of habitat without those species, which made that habitat a viable whole, is a sterile exercise.
Cocoon House
United StatesCommunity/Family
Established in 1991, Cocoon House has been Snohomish County's only resource exclusively serving homeless and at-risk youth ages 13-17. We believe that every child deserves a home and the opportunity to achieve his or her fullest potential. Cocoon House provides youth housing and other critical community -based services to youth, caregivers, families and the community. From its grassroots beginnings, Cocoon has responded to the changing needs of our community. Since inception we have increased shelter space by 350% and now house more than 230 youth each year. In addition, through street outreach, prevention, education and a youth drop-in resource center, we reach over 1,000 youth, parents, and community members annually.
Code
CanadaChildren/Education
We work with local organizations in developing countries to empower children to learn. In so doing, we deliver an essential, sustainable development solution that endures. Our programs support libraries and teacher training as well as national and local book publishing in about 20 languages in Africa and the Caribbean. Over the years, CODE and its partners have developed more than 1000 unique titles, mainly for children, written, illustrated and published in 45 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. More than 60 languages and dialects are represented in CODE's book collection, including numerous scripts and two titles coded in Braille. Today, on the cusp of its 50th anniversary, CODE continues to bring real lasting results to the developing world. CODE and its partners have been recognized three times with UNESCO International Literacy Awards for their education efforts.
Coexist Foundation
United KingdomResearch/Dev
Since 2006, Coexist has been working to promote better understanding between Jews, Christians and Muslims, and between these communities and others, through education, dialogue and research. Coexist is an operational foundation which not only funds projects, but also forges and facilitates new partnerships and programmes, which help people to understand better what it means to be Jewish, Christian or Muslim today. We do this by bringing together an influential network – including government, business, charities, academics and faith leaders - working towards the same objectives as ourselves.
Coexistence Trust
United KingdomHuman Rights
Since 2005, the Coexistence Trust has been helping to combat Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism by developing and strengthening relations between British Muslim and Jewish communities. Our work is all about building networks of trust and understanding between Muslim and Jewish students on UK university campuses and combating Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. Apart from improved relations between the two campus communities, UK university administrators also benefit enormously. Wherever we and our representatives are active, we work to reduce tension and defuse any potential problems caused by global events in the Middle East and elsewhere. And, through our dedicated Conflict Resolution service, we offer an effective channel to enable university administration and student societies mediate and resolve specific problems between Muslim and Jewish students.
Coffee Kids
United StatesResearch/Dev
Our staff works with local organizations in Latin America to create programs in education, health awareness, microcredit and food security in coffee-farming communities. These efforts allow coffee farmers to reduce their dependence on the volatile coffee market and confront the most pressing community needs. Coffee Kids partners with local organizations in coffee regions that work directly with coffee-farming communities. Our partners provide technical resources, training, and follow-through to communities to implement grass-roots projects. We provide the resources that enable our partners and their communities to put their vision into action.
COHP
United StatesChildren/Education
COHP was founded in response to the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake which leveled Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. On February 11, 2010, a broad coalition of leading agencies serving international schools and school superintendents met in Boston and established an executive committee (EC) to design and implement with due speed an educational center for the children of Haiti. After considering many suggestions, the EC decided to focus its efforts on serving the poorest children in Haiti, many of whom (50%) were receiving no schooling even before the earthquake. With significant funding and several commitments already in place, the EC sent a three-person team (Task Force) to Haiti on March 5, 2010. Their goal was to seek local and international agency partnerships to establish an education center, with supporting services, to begin schooling as many children aged 4-5 as can be accommodated in rented or borrowed facilities. The broader goal is to find a location and marshal the resources and agency assistance necessary to conduct a comprehensive educational program for children in poverty, with guarantees of long term sustainability and program effectiveness, and support for nutritional and medical needs. Upon our arrival in Haiti in early March to start the Children of Haiti Project, a major resource for this effort, and our primary adviser, was Marie Jean-Baptiste, the superintendent of the Union School of Haiti. At the beginning of our project Marie supported COHP with advice, direct assistance and moral commitment. The project is directed by a Board and an Executive Committee (EC) of international school volunteers.
COHRE
SwitzerlandHuman Rights
The Centre On Housing Rights And Evictions(COHRE)is the leading international human rights organisation campaigning for the protection of housing rights and the prevention of forced evictions. COHRE began as a small network of committed human rights advocates working to raise the profile of housing rights within the international human rights community. Over the past fifteen years the organisation has grown considerably, and today it includes dozens of international human rights lawyers, community activists, and other land and housing rights experts and advocates. The COHRE staff comprises over 20 different nationalities. While COHRE has broadened the spectrum of its work, the essential focus of the organisation remains unchanged. Since its inception, COHRE has consistently and comprehensively applied a human rights approach to housing and living conditions throughout the world with a view to redressing violations of housing rights, promoting compliance with international standards and preventing future infringements of housing rights.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
United StatesResearch/Dev
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a private, not-for-profit research and education institution at the forefront of efforts in molecular biology and genetics to generate knowledge that will yield better diagnostics and treatments for cancer, neurological diseases and other major causes of human suffering. Home to seven Nobelists, the Laboratory was founded in 1890 as one of the first institutions in the world to specialize in genetics research. CSHL has played a pivotal role in the emergence of molecular genetics, the scientific foundation of the contemporary revolution in biology and biotechnology. At CSHL in 1953, James D. Watson presented his first public lecture on his and Francis Crick’s discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, for which each later won a Nobel Prize. As director and then president of the Laboratory from 1968 to 2003, Watson was instrumental in developing CSHL into one of the world’s most influential cancer research centers.
Colgate University
United StatesChildren/Education
Colgate is a nationally recognized liberal arts college set on a beautiful campus in central New York. Some 2,750 undergraduates are enrolled in 51 programs, taking advantage of the university's award-winning curriculum, off-campus study program, and numerous research opportunities. Colgate hums with activity. It is a place where the arts thrive. Student-athletes compete at the very highest level of NCAA Division I sports. There are dozens of club and intramural sports programs, and the college's outdoor education program is second to none. Above all, Colgate is about academic excellence. It is a tradition forged in 1819 and honed through the years by each class of select students.
College Summit
United StatesChildren/Education
College Summit is a national nonprofit organization that partners with schools and districts to strengthen college-going culture and increase college enrollment rates, so that all students graduate career and college-ready. A college education can break the cycle of poverty for families and drive economic growth for communities. Yet, community-wide solutions to enrolling more low-income students in college are particularly difficult to achieve. College Summit addresses this challenge by using a proven strategy that engages critical stakeholders across the community and employs an approach that helps embed systemic, scalable, and enduring change.
Collegiate School
United StatesChildren/Education
Collegiate School, a day school for boys, is the oldest independent school in the United States. Tracing its origins to 1628, the school was established by the Dutch West India Company and the Classis of Amsterdam, the parent ecclesiastical body of the Dutch Reformed Church for the colonists of New Amsterdam. Incorporated in 1940 as a non-profit organization under the Education Act of the State of New York, Collegiate School is governed by a twenty-five member, self-perpetuating Board of Trustees composed of alumni, parents, friends of the school, and representatives of the Consistory of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York. Drawing on what is known about boys' growth and learning, the school offers a rigorous K-12 program rich in opportunities for cultivating individual talents and interests in a climate of collaboration and respect.
Colobus Trust
KenyaAnimals/Wildlife
The Colobus Trust is a conservation organization designed to promote the conservation, preservation and protection of primates like the rare Angolan Colobus monkey and its coastal forest habitat in southern Kenya. The Trust was established in 1997 in response to an outcry from local residents about the high number of deaths of the Colobus in the Diani area. Now the Trust has numerous projects concerning the wildlife and the citizens of Kenya, including animal welfare, biological/ecological research, community development and education, forest protection and enrichment and eco-tourism awareness programs.
Colon Cancer Canada
CanadaResearch/Dev
Colon Cancer Canada is dedicated to making a difference in the field of colorectal cancer through research, awareness, education and patient support. Colon Cancer Canada has and is making a significant impact on this disease by financially aiding research efforts to find a cure and by offering a support network for both patients and families. Colon Cancer’s Mandate was broadened to include activities that would make a difference in the field of colorectal cancer, such as fundraising to support research initiatives, campaigns to increase public awareness and networks to provide education and patient support. The over $5.4 million raised to date has been instrumental in establishing fellowships and research chairs, financing hospital equipment, providing financial support to patient support services and increasing awareness about the necessity of early screening. CCC believes that through the promotion of early screening and detection, colon cancer can be cured.