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Operation Smile
Operation Smile is an international children's medical charity that heals children's smiles, forever changing their lives.Since 1982, Operation Smile — through the help of dedicated medical volunteers — has provided more than 2 million patient evaluations and over 200,000 free surgeries for...
International Aid (IA)
International Aid (IA) is a Christian relief and development agency committed to improving global health care by making quality health services available to the world’s poor. The organisation aims to bridge the three components of health delivery systems: community health, clinical care, and...
Canadian Red Cross
Canadian Red Cross works with governments and other humanitarian organisations during disasters, emergencies or war to provide people with the basic necessities--food, clothing, shelter, first aid, emotional support, and family reunification. The organisation supports and manages development and...
Affordable Supplements
Affordable Supplements is an American company which sells a large selection of sports nutrition products online at competitive prices, including protein bars, calcium and hormonal products. The company supplies local and international customers, and prides itself on its efficient shipping service.
Mayerthorpe Area Community Foundation
The Mayerthorpe Area Community Foundation (MACF) invites applications for projects from non-profit community groups working within the fields of social service, community development, education, recreation, health, the arts, and the environment. It provide grants to encourage community pride,...
Global Links
Collects surplus medical supplies such as bio-medical equipment, surgical instruments, hospital furnishings and surgical sutures from American hospitals and then ships them directly to healthcare facilities in 40 developing countries.
Helping Hands Medical Missions (HHMM)
Helping Hands Medical Missions is always in need of physicians, nurses, and volunteers. HELPING HANDS Medical Missions (HHMM) was formally established in 1996 after 3 years of developing a program for a Catholic medical mission. The idea originated in Dallas in 1991 when a Catholic priest...
Unread Mothers Panama
Unread Mothers Panama works to bring basic education to the poorest mothers and their children. The organisation attracts and places foreign volunteers in programmes and projects working with street children, rural and shantytown schools, and orphanages.
Hogar Virgen de los Dolores
Hogar Virgen de los Dolores is a Christian NGO established in Venezuela in 1945 to care for and educate poor children from difficult economic and family backgrounds. The children are grouped according to age in a number of homes in Caracas, and the organisation also runs a recreational facility in...
NomadHope
NomadHope, a programme and website of Sahara Solutions Foundation, Inc., is a non profit organisation empowering nomadic women, children and families in remote area of Africe. NomadHope focuses upon action-oriented, community sustained, cultural sensitive and technology driven projects.
Aldeas Infantiles SOS - Venezuela
Aldeas Infantiles SOS – Venezuela, as part of SOS Children's Villages International, builds families for children in need, support them to form their own future and participate in the development of their communities. Aldeas Infantiles SOS – Venezuela works with families at risk in areas of...
Partners in Development Foundation
Partners in Development Foundation (PID Foundation) has been dedicated to drawing upon the ancient Hawaiian cultural traditions to meet the current challenges facing today’s Hawaiian population. The organisation creates and implements programs to address the needs of at-risk groups within the...
Resolve
Resolve is a NGO whose objective is peace by taking the comprehensive knowledge base that had been developed, since its beginning as Uganda Conflict Action Network, and arm it with targeted nationwide awareness and advocacy campaigns. Resolve works with activists, policy experts, and civil society...
Canadian Co-operative Association
Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA) is a not-for-profit group of co-operatives and credit unions of Canada. Members of CCA come from various sectors, including finance, insurance, agri-food and supply, wholesale and retail housing, health, and the service sector. CCA provides services in three...
Center on International Cooperation (CIC)
The NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC) works to enhance multilateral responses to global problems, including: conflict, humanitarian crises, and recovery; international security challenges, including weapons proliferation and the changing balance of power; and resource scarcity and...
Global Samaritan Resources
Global Samaritan Resources (GSR) is a humanitarian aid organization, which has been established to collect and distribute medicine, medical equipment and supplies, food, agricultural supplies and equipment, and educational materials to poor, neglected and disaster-stricken people around the world....
Community Promotion Development Liberation (Coprodeli)
Coprodeli is a Christian-based foundation whose mission is to contribute to the development of urban fringe areas and eliminate poverty and social exclusion in Peru. The organization currently serves more than 50,000 people living within 30 neighborhoods, where between 80-90% of the population have...
WiserEarth
WiserEarth aims to serve the people who are transforming the world. It is a community-editable international directory and networking forum that maps out and connects the hundreds of thousands of organisations within civil society that address social justice, poverty, and the environment....
Global Distribution of Poverty
The Global Poverty Mapping Project seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live. Additionally, the project aims to assist policy makers and development agencies in designing interventions to reduce...
Junior Achievement (JA) de Panamá
Junior Achievement de Panamá seeks to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, business and economics to improve the quality of their lives through professional volunteers.