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Mayaguez Children's Library, Inc. (Biblioteca Juvenil de Mayaguez, Inc.)
Mayaguez Children's Library, Inc. (Biblioteca Juvenil de Mayaguez, Inc.) brings children and books together in partnership to encourage the development of their creative, imaginative, and intellectual capacities.
EnterpriseWorks/VITA (EWV)
EnterpriseWorks/VITA (EWV) fights poverty in the developing world through business development programs that allow small agricultural producers and other entrepreneurs to increase their productivity and incomes, pursue sustainable business opportunities, and create jobs that benefit the families,...
Ferno
Ferno-Washington, Inc. is the global leader in the manufacture and distribution of professional emergency, mortuary, and healthcare products to targeted vertical markets. Our mission is to satisfy our customers with innovative cost-effective products that improve healthcare delivery for caregivers...
CIEE International
CIEE International gets young people to volunteer to exchange themselves to study in another country to experience their way of life and to give a bit back to the country. They intend to let the volunteers gain a new perspective on the world and broaden their minds.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is an NGO dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. The organisation investigates and exposes human rights violations in 70 countries world wide and challenges governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human...
Calvary International - Go To Nations
Go To Nations (ex-Calvary International) is a faith-based non profit agency, providing technical and practical support to workers in the field. It interfaces with local organisations to raise awareness, present projects, provide training and serves as a facilitator among individuals and...
Potencia Pais Foundation
The Potencia Pais Fundacion is a new non-profit foundation in Chile that provides professional advice to social organizations.
Global Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women, an international network committed to a world of equality and social justice, it advocates for and defends women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world. The Fund focuses particularly on increasing girls' access to education, increasing...
Plan Canada
Plan is a global movement for change, mobilizing millions of people around the world to support social justice for children in developing countries. Plan is one of the world’s oldest and largest international development agencies, working in partnership with millions of people around the world...
Plan USA
Plan USA is a global partnership of caring people founded in 1937 to bring hope and help to the world's poorest children. Their community-based programmes assist more than 10 million children in 45 developing countries.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID is an independent agency that supports long-term economic and social development through policy dialogue, conflict prevention, technology transfer in sectors such as health, agriculture, education and housing, and promotion of trade and investment. U.S. assistance is channeled through...
Friend Ships
Friend Ships provides food, medicine, clothing, and other critical life support relief items to people in need. Operations in the U.S. include the distribution of more than 150,000 meals (in groceries) to needy people in Los Angeles every week. Internationally, Friend Ships has delivered over 100...
Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO)
ECHO's goal is to improve the abilities of international community development workers assisting poor farmers by providing useful, important information and by networking their skills and knowledge with each other. They also provide hard-to-find beneficial food plants and seeds.
Cummins Foundation
Funding is made available both by Cummins Foundation based in the US and various regional foundations around the world, including the Cummins India Foundation and the Association Filantropica Cummins in Mexico. The Foundation focuses on education of women and underprivileged children, although...
American Mathematical Society (AMS) Book & Journal Donation Program
The AMS Book and Journal Donation Program matches donors of certain types of mathematical materials with recipient institutions or libraries in developing countries where there is a need for mathematical research literature.
Africare
Africare's programmes address needs in the principal areas of food security and agriculture as well as health and HIV/AIDS. Africare also supports water resource development, environmental management, basic education, micro enterprise development, governance initiatives and emergency humanitarian...
For the Love of Children Society of Alberta
For the Love of Children Society of Alberta assists children with special needs in Alberta with medical equipment, supplies or services that are not covered under provincial health care. For the Love of Children Society of Alberta also brings school supplies, toys, medicine, entertainment and funds...
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) - Indonesia
Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and disadvantaged outside the country. The mission of CRS globally is to: a) provide direct aid to poor and disadvantaged people; b) involve people in their own development, helping them to...
What Colour Is Love (formerly The Dignity Project)
The Dignity Project grew out of the Children’s Dignity Project which was established as an educational foundation in 1995. The project has evolved into a broader multi-faceted organisation with education and communication at its core, publishing books and other materials highlighting the need for...
Rotary World Community Service Resource Network
Rotary World Community Service Resource Network (WCSRN) is a global network of Rotarians with special expertise who can provide comprehensive information and advice to clubs and districts on successful approaches to carrying out international service projects.