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Legion de la Buena Voluntad (LBV)
The Legion de la Buena Voluntad (LBV) is an international non-profit organization that works for social development in marginalized populations worldwide. It was founded in Brazil in 1950 for the purpose of helping disadvantaged populations and has since expanded its activities into Argentina,...
Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund
The Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund is a family foundation whose international grantmaking arm focuses on the environment, population control and community development. While the fund mainly focuses on the community of Galveston, in 2005 the Fund allocated US$ 33,500 towards global isssues. The...
Children Affected By AIDS Foundation (CAAF)
CAAF (Children Affected by AIDS Foundation) is an NGO devoted to providing social, educational, recreational and other critical support programmes to vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS in the US and internationally. CAAF provides grants to NGOs throughout the U.S. and also provides funds to...
Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation
The Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation is an independent NGO that runs an international and national grant programme. The Foundation supports projects that promote peace and enable people to help themselves through population planning, environmental conservation, agricultural improvement and enterprise...
Pathfinder International Peru
Pathfinder International Peru, an office of the USA-based Pathfinder International, works with public and private health sectors, and concentrates on family planning, reproductive health, and maternal and child health service delivery. Since 1980, Pathfinder has worked with the public and...
Chuqui Ayuda a La Infancia Desvalida
Chuqui Ayuda a La Infancia Desvalida is a Chilean NGO established to provide free medical treatment for poor children between the ages of 0 and 14 in the Calama region, the centre of the mining industry. Treatment focuses on medical services not generally provided by the state hospitals, including...
Habitat for Humanity International Bolivia
Habitat for Humanity International (HfHI) is a non-denominational Christian charity dedicated to eliminating poverty housing worldwide. The organisation works with local homeowner families to build and renovate houses through volunteer labour and donations of money and materials. HfH has been...
Geneva Global
Geneva Global helps donors cut through the complexities of international giving by providing them with high-impact granting opportunities and time-conscious consulting services. By identifying the best community-based organizations, they assist donors in taking on some of the most challenging...
International Medical Volunteers Association
The International Medical Volunteers Association (IMVA) is a nonprofit organisation that promotes, facilitates, and supports voluntary medical activity through education and information exchange. Their interests are primarily in developing countries. IMVA provides information about volunteer...
Global Partners for Development
Global Partners for Development works in direct partnership with East African communities to improve the standard of living in these communities. It has projects in the areas of development of clean water sources, child nutrition, medical and health care, primary and vocational education, and...
Asociación Panameña para el Planeamiento de la Familia (APLAFA)
Asociación Panameña para el Planeamiento de la Familia (APLAFA), a member association of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, promotes, educates and provides services towards family planning, sexual and repoductive health, and the defense of sexual and reproductive rights.
Red Cross - Guatemala
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organisation, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, relious beliefs, class or political opinions. The Guatemalan Red Cross Society redefined its priorities at the...
H. J. Heinz Company Foundation
The H. J. Heinz Company Foundation was established in 1951 to make contributions to further the public welfare. Funded each year by the H.J. Heinz Company, the H.J. Heinz Company Foundation is committed to promoting the health and nutritional needs of children and families, with priority given to...
Afghan Women's Mission
The Afghan Women’s Mission was founded in January 2000 by a small group of Americans to support the humanitarian and political work of RAWA. It primarily provides health care and education for women and children in Afghanistan and for Afghan refugees in Pakistan. It also plays a broader role in...
Stop Hunger Now
Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief agency that has been fulfilling its commitment to end hunger for more than 12 years. Since 1998, the organization has coordinated the distribution of food and other lifesaving aid to children and families in countries all over the world. Stop Hunger...
Tides Canada
Founded in 2000, Tides Canada is the country’s largest public foundation dedicated to the environment and social justice. It supports, convenes and directly funds hundreds of initiatives annually, from neighbourhood-scale social programs to national conservation efforts. The organization’s...
Scotiabank Bright Future
The Scotiabank Bright Future Program was established in 2011 to unite all Scotiabank philanthropic efforts under one program. Through the Scotiabank Bright Future program, their charitable efforts are aimed at being relevant and responsive to the needs of the local community at a very grassroots...
The Muttart Foundation
The Muttart Foundation provides financial support to charities in Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. It primarily focuses on the needs of charities as organisations, rather than on the programmes they offer; in other words, the Foundation helps charities to improve...
Servants, Incorporated
Servants, Inc. exists to enable visionaries and their networks to serve their world's under-served by helping them identify, develop and facilitate their own strategic solutions. Practically this goal is carried out through a number of programmes, some including gifts-in-kind work throughout USA....
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Peru
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International is an independent humanitarian agency established in 1984 for the specific purposes of individual and community development and disaster relief. ADRA now works in 120 coutnries world-wide. ADRA has been working in Peru since 1965....