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Disaster Grantmaking: A Practical Guide for Foundations and Corporations
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A joint project of the EFC and the US Council on Foundations (COF), the disaster response initiative sought to develop a set of principles and practical tips to guide and inform foundations and corporate grantmakers interested in becoming more effective and strategic in their responses to...
Integrated Developmental Education Activate Society [IDEAS]
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Integrated Developmental Education Activate Society (IDEAS) is a non-governmental organisation based in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. IDEAS provides emergency relief projects and rehabilitation to tsunami-hit women through income generation activity like fish pickle making programmes.
Asmita Samajik Sanstha
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Asmita Samajik Sanstha is an India based non-government organisation which works to provide sustainable livelihood training for the deprived people of the rural and forest area. It also conducts socio-economic study for the betterment of the deprived people. Its work is also related to blood safety...
Full Gospel of Yoido Church
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Full Gospel of Yoido Church is a faith-based organisation, helping the needy and suffering people (such as orphans, widows, Aids-victims and the elderly population) by providing humanitarian aid.
Kabamoli Charitable Trust
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Kabamoli Charitable Trust aims to relieve sickness, distress, and poverty as well as advancing the education amongst African children - particularly (but not exclusively) those who have lost at least one or both parents. The organisation is registered with the Charities Commission of England.
Global Network for Good Governance - Zambia (GNGG-Zambia)
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Global Network for Good Goverance - Zambia (GNGG-Zambia) is a non- governmental organisation involved in human rights, good governance, and improving the standard of living for the poor, especially women and the disabled. GNGG-Zambia is also involved in child protection and rights.
ChildLine Cameroon
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ChildLine Cameroon operates a children’s network to facilitate support to abused children; facilitates children's access to social services; partners with locally-based telecommunication companies to ensure children’s access to the telephone infrastructures; manages a national database for...
Food for the Hungry International - Uganda
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Food for the Hungry International - Uganda, part of a global Christian partnership, is involved in programmes that provide community health education, assistance to enable children to attend school and receive health check-ups and medical treatment, and assistance to Uganda prisons. Working in...
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Guyana
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FAO was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. Today, FAO is one of the largest specialised agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Guyana
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UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. In Guyana the UNDP supports the peoples of Guyana in pursuit of national goals and objectives as articulated by the...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Haiti
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UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. Much of the UNDP's work in Haiti focuses on restoration after the devastating earthquake that leveled the country in...
Kazakh Red Crescent Society
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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organisation. The society provides aid to the needy, irrespective of nationality, religion or social status. It has been active in Kazakstan since March 1937, and runs five hospitals, a shelter...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Honduras
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UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. In Hoduras the UNDP is currently working on projects focused on crisis prevention and recovery, energy, democratic...
Islamic Relief (IR) - Niger
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Islamic Relief (IR) - Niger, an office of the UK-based Islamic Relief, operates programs that cover health and nutrition, and water and sanitation activities. IR - Niger also provides free health care for malnourished children, their mothers, and pregnant and nursing women. Exemplifying its...
BIAB International
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Biab International provides a variety of services including logistics and emergency response to the United Nations, Non Governmental Organisations, local governments/authorities as well as private multinationals and SME´s (Small & Medium Sized Enterprises).
Save the Children - Niger
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Save the Children is an international humanitarian NGO working for the rights of children worldwide. The organisation works through long term programmes aimed at improving the lives of children and their families. Save the Children has been working in Niger since 2005 to help alleviate the effects...
Child Survival Fund
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The Child Survival Fund is an international charity whose mission is focused on saving the lives of children who are victims of the World’s Seven Deadliest Diseases. These 7 Deadly Diseases cause 90% of all child deaths and include: tuberculosis, malaria, malnutrition/anaemia, dysentery, HIV/Aids,...
Fujairah Welfare Association
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The Fujairah Welfare Association is a charity based in the United Arab Emirates. The Association assists widows and destitute families to set up small enterprises and to undertake retraining, for example, in IT. The Association also helps with donations of food and blankets in local relief efforts.
COVER (Corps of Volunteers Effecting Repair)
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COVER Home Repair works together with homeowners and volunteers to provide urgently needed home repair that keeps the inhabitants warm safe and dry. COVER offers a weatherization program empowering homeowners and volunteers with knowledge and supplies to button up homes and reduce fuel/energy...
HoverAid
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HoverAid is a UK registered charity that uses hovercraft to overcome problems of travel to and from certain remote communities. HoverAid assists in emergencies, for example when there is severe flooding, and works with other organisations by providing access to communities in need. HoverAid is also...