Contact Contemporary Music
CanadaArts/Culture
Contact Contemporary Music is a contemporary music ensemble and organization that highlights collaborations with other media, established and emerging composers, performances in alternative spaces, and outreach to under-served communities that stress diversity, collaboration and accessibility. Contact Contemporary Music fosters the creation, production and presentation of contemporary music with a strong focus on Canadian Music. Contact Contemporary Music’s goals are to encourage emerging and established Canadian musical artists from diverse communities (including the Lesbian Gay Bi-Sexual Transgender and other minority and/or ethnic communities) in the free expression of their unique life experiences however different from those not from their particular communities, creating and perpetuating a repertoire that reflects present realities.
Contact the Elderly
United KingdomCommunity/Family
Contact the Elderly is a national charity and organises monthly Sunday afternoon tea parties for people over 75 who live alone with little or no support from family and friends. One Sunday afternoon a month volunteers use their car to take older members to and from a volunteer host’s home for tea, cake and companionship. Our hosts take it in turn to welcome the small group of older people and volunteer drivers into their home for a few hours. These Sunday afternoon tea parties are a lifeline of friendship bringing older people and volunteers together for an afternoon of stories, laughter and conversation.
CONTESA
United KingdomChildren/Education
Orphans and disadvantaged children are the highly emotional issue that is at the heart and mission of the charity CONTESA. CONTESA supports orphans with Love Compassion and Respect. CONTESA highlights the plight of orphans in one of the sub-Saharan countries most devastated by the AIDS epidemic, Zambia. We support orphans and vulnerable children through the provision of small grants to local grass root organisations. We protect children’s rights and alleviate social injustice and achieve sustainable results. 100% of donations go to our programmes & projects as administration costs are funded separately.
ConTextos
United StatesChildren/Education
Children in El Salvador lack access to books and learn via rote memorization. But books alone aren’t enough to change the culture of learning in countries like El Salvador. That’s why I started ConTextos. Inspired by a course in social entrepreneurship at Harvard Graduate School of Education, I founded ConTextos to go beyond traditional resource distribution to build capacity that engages kids in active learning, encouraging them to question and participate. After working as the Coordinator and Lead Author of El Salvador’s national teacher training strategy in literacy development—part of a regional effort in Central America—I knew how badly teachers needed support in the classroom. Based on my experience as a teacher in NYC, I knew what quality support looked like. Finally, by partnering with the private sector—Spanish-language book distributors, TACA airlines —I was able to cost-effectively bring resources that others can’t. As a 2013 Echoing Green Fellow, I have been recognized for leadership and ConTextos for social change innovation. The inspiration that helped me start ConTextos still drives me: making sure that every kid develops a love of learning, and that their teachers have the skills and resources to make that happen.
Convoy of Hope
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Convoy of Hope is considered a “first responder” organization in disaster relief. With a fleet of tractor-trailers, a 300,000-square-foot warehouse, and a high-tech Mobile Command Center we have become an active and efficient disaster relief organization by providing resources and help to victims of disasters. However, we do not go at it alone. We rely heavily on the faith-based community and national and state disaster relief agencies and organizations. We have also developed a disaster preparedness program to educate communities so that they can prepare for and respond to disasters.
Cookie Time Charitable Trust
New ZealandChildren/Education
The Cookie Time Charitable Trust creates and supports opportunities for children and young people throughout New Zealand that help realise their potential. The Trust's role is to enable parents and caregivers, schools and other organisations to learn about these opportunities so as to ensure children and young people benefit. The Trust has initially chosen to focus on two areas: Innovation in Learning, to support innovating learning opportunities that help kids say no to Bullying and Drugs, and Thinking Differently, with progress made for dyslexic thinkers.
Cool Earth
United KingdomEnvironment
Cool Earth protects rainforest to help combat climate change. We're a charity working with local communities to secure forests at risk of being destroyed within the next 18 months. Only 10% of donations are spent on admin and governance, making sure every penny possible goes on safeguarding our climate.
Cootharinga North Queensland
AustraliaDisability
Cootharinga is a quality service provider who has been supporting people with disabilities in North Queensland for over 56 years. Our Respite Service and Rehabilitation Technology Service being unique to North Queensland. Our supported accommodation service, exist to meet the needs of diverse individuals to establish a normal rhythm of life, we support them in making real decisions with minimum intrusion, and to become confident and contributing members of their community by maximising their physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and social development.
COPE Foundation
IrelandDisability
COPE Foundation caters for 1600 children and adults with intellectual disability through its systems of early intervention, schooling, training, adult day services, supported employment, housing, information and advice at 60 locations throughout Cork city and county and employs over 700 staff. Over the years, a large range of services, facilities and expertise has been developed by COPE Foundation to provide the comprehensive services that are available today. National and International contacts have played a vital role in this, through the exchange of knowledge, expertise, ideas, methods and experience.
Cops For Kids Charitable Foundation
CanadaChildren/Education
Cops for Kids are dedicated RCMP members and support people of the RCMP South East District that are committed to assisting children that are in medical, physical or traumatic crisis within the Southern Interior Region of British Columbia. Our charitable foundation was formed in 2001 and since inception we have tirelessly worked to raise funds to continue our ongoing support to the children in communities that we serve. Cops for Kids are devoted to helping the little hearts...in our communities!
Coptic Orphans
United StatesChildren/Education
Coptic Orphans unlocks the God-given potential of children in Egypt through grassroots partner and volunteer networks: especially children who have lost their father, the girl child, and children with disabilities. We equip children who have lost a father with resources to access their basic rights through a church-based network of local volunteer advocates and mentors.
Corbett Foundation
IndiaAnimals/Wildlife
The Corbett Foundation, named after the legendary Jim Corbett, is a registered public charitable trust established on April 22nd 1994 by Mr. Dilip D. Khatau, Chairman & Director of Conservation Corporation of India Pvt Ltd, Mumbai and associated group of companies including the company which owns the Infinity Resorts at Corbett. The trustees include eminent individuals committed to the cause of conservation. The Foundation is mainly funded by Mr. Khatau's companies and associates and receives project grants from national and international organisations. The Corbett Foundation activities are conducted at present under four divisions – Corbett, Bandhavgarh, Kanha and Kutch.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
United StatesArts/Culture
The Corcoran Gallery was founded to house the private art collection of William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888). The Corcoran Gallery of Art stands as a major center of American art, both historic and contemporary. Founded "for the purpose of encouraging American Genius," the Corcoran's extensive collection of 18th, 19th, and 20th century American art represents most significant American artists. The Corcoran possesses a fine collection of European art as well. While continuing its efforts to represent historic American works, the gallery also encourages modern European and American artists by showing and purchasing their work, paying particular attention to artists in the Washington area.
Cordaid
NetherlandsHumanitarian Aid
Cordaid combines more than 90 years' experience and expertise in emergency aid and structural poverty eradication. We are one of the biggest international development organisations with a network of almost a thousand partner organisations in 36 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Its history goes back to the beginning of the last century when the organisations were active in the area of shelter and (missionary) care for refugees, in providing direct aid in the event of disasters, in medical care and in the direct improvement of the social and economic position of poor people. Supported by broad layers of the Dutch population, they were able to support the work of hundreds of Dutch priests, nuns, brothers, and volunteers in their care for the whole of humanity. Conditions have changed over the years. The missionaries have handed over their work to local organisations, which has resulted in a huge expansion in Cordaid’s partner network.
Cork Environmental Forum
IrelandEnvironment
Cork Environmental Forum is a cross sectoral, umbrella organisation of approximately 650 organisations groups and individuals mostly from the Cork region. CEF is very active with community groups. Community Tree Planting and the annual Action on Waste draws together volunteers from all over the county. School students, local residents, activists, elected reps etc. etc. all come together to plant trees, enjoy a nature ramble, run information stalls in supermarkets and hand out information to shoppers. Some have just an hour to spare, other make a day of it.
Cork Simon Community
IrelandCommunity/Family
In 2008 Cork Simon Community supported almost 900 different people across all our projects and services - men and women ranging in age from 18 years to over 80 years. Accommodation alone will not solve homelessness. While the provision of a safe, secure and appropriate place to live forms a critical part of a person's journey out of homelessness, it needs to be backed-up with a range of different supports that will help people get their lives back on track. Those supports can range form being able to get access to healthcare to address many different physical and mental health issues, to getting timely help for people with addictions, to learning how to cope with difficult and stressful situations, to basic friendly support and a listening ear. Cork Simon reaches out to people who are sick, vulnerable and marginalised, people who are excluded from everyday activities that most of us take for granted.
Cornell College
United StatesChildren/Education
Cornell College is a nationally acclaimed private liberal arts college in scenic Mount Vernon, Iowa. Founded in 1853, the college operates on a distinctive block plan calendar, known as One-Course-At-A-Time, that allows students to devote themselves to just one academic discipline during each of nine blocks. The college offers more than 40 academic majors and pre-professional programs. Students also may design their own major.
Cornell University
United StatesChildren/Education
Cornell University's colleges, schools, and other academic units offer more than 4,000 courses, 70 undergraduate majors, 93 graduate fields of study, undergraduate and advanced degrees, and continuing education and outreach programs.
Cornerstone Housing for Women Foundation
CanadaWomen
We want to be leaders in naming and creating sustainable, future-oriented programs grounded in a belief that all women can change, grow and heal, that no one need remain trapped in the cycle of homelessness and soul-destroying dependence. We want to take up the challenge to partner with our residents to create a new set of options for a hopeful future. By June 2011, the new house to be owned and operated by the Cornerstone Foundation will provide permanent safe, affordable, supportive housing for 42 women who will live in self-contained apartment units in a building at 314 Booth Street. Twenty units will be allocated to low-income seniors and 22 to younger homeless women, many with a variety of disabilities, often the result of long-term life on the street. It has been a journey of challenges, disappointments, successes, time-consuming negotiations, long hours of planning, searches for government funding and collaboration with many partners.
Cornerstone Project
United StatesChildren/Education
The organization was initially the vision of two women in Litchfield County Connecticut who saw the benefits in providing vulnerable children with opportunities during their childhood that would subsequently help them become valuable, contributing members of their communities as they reached adulthood. In particular, but not exclusively, these women were interested in furthering the work of the Nambale Magnet School (NMS) by assisting WIKS (WIKS is a non-governmental organization established Kenya (Africa) exclusively for charitable, scientific, and/or educational purposes.) The Nambale Magnet School is a residential school for vulnerable children often orphaned by the AIDS pandemic in the Nambale District of the Western Province of Kenya. Evalyn Wakhusama, a Kenyan woman who obtained her higher education in the US, is the founder of NMS and it is her vision that this school be designed and constructed in her childhood hometown in Nambale, Kenya to accommodate pre-school through 8th grade, and provides safe shelter for the vulnerable children in a loving and supportive environment. The school will eventually feature a conventional Kenyan primary educational curriculum along with an artisan program to provide education and training in specified career paths including agriculture and light industry. Cornerstone’s activities include, but are not limited to, raising funds for the Nambale Magnet School. We plan to use the Nambale Magnet School as a prototype for other projects that are financially and ecologically sustainable which will assist the disenfranchised to achieve empowerment in areas around the globe and in the United States. Cornerstone will, in time, include other projects that complement our mission statement in the United States and abroad. Other projects could include assistance with school facilities, foster homes, self sustaining ventures for the education and nurturing of the disenfranchised; particularly, but not limited to, children. Any project taken on by Cornerstone will exercise the greatest limit of environmental consciousness with the commitment to create new, innovative, alternative energy solutions whenever possible.