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Mercy Corps International - Kyrgyzstan
Mercy Corps is a not-for-profit international humanitarian agency, involved in emergency relief, sustainable community development and civil society initiatives. Its goal in Kyrgyzstan is to transfer knowledge and expertise, through development and financial services programs, to its clients and...
Hunger Plus, Inc
Hunger Plus, Inc. seeks to reduce suffering from hunger whether the cause is disaster, conflict or natural, through the provision of food and related supplies (e.g. dehydrated goods). With an organisational goal to reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger (between 1990 and...
SunStove
SunStove, a non-profit group, produces energy efficient stoves, gravity water pumps and other low-cost water solutions appropriate for use by humanitarian agencies.Manufactured in South Africa, SunStove solar cookers are safe, healthy, user-friendly, eco-friendly, durable, stackable and portable....
Nuestra Casa Corporation
Nuestra Casa Corporation is a shelter for the homeless, supporting and encouraging their clients on their way back into society. The organization provides affordable food and shelter for the homeless in Santiago and organizes activities to reintegrate them. These persons generate 51% of the home's...
Church World Service (CWS) - Uruguay
Church World Service (CWS) is a cooperative ministry of Christian denominations and providing sustainable self-help, development, disaster relief, and refugee assistance around the world. In Uruguay, the program helps children who work in trash collection to raise their self-esteem and use of...
Dillon International Inc.
Dillon International is a non-profit agency of Christian origin, providing humanitarian aid and assistance in international adoption. It is committed to providing the best possible lifetime of care for homeless children in developing countries. Every effort is made for children to remain with their...
Funding Factory
In 1997, the US-based FundingFactory developed a fundraising programme for educational and non-profit organisations in the United States. It has a printer cartridge and cell-phone recycling programme, whereby businesses, groups or individuals could register with FundingFactory and choose an...
Eurasia Foundation (EF) - Kyrgyzstan
The Eurasia Foundation is a privately managed grant-making and operating organisation dedicated to funding programs that build democratic and free market institutions in the twelve New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. The Foundation was established with funds from the US...
Operation Crossroads - Africa
Operation Crossroads aims to create an understanding for Africa by getting people to work and live there. Volunteer opportunities also exist in the Caribbean and Brazil.America's premier cross-cultural exchange program, Operation Crossroads Africa was established in 1958 by Dr. James H. Robinson,...
Gifts of Love
Gifts of Love is a non-profit and non-denominational charitable organisation based in Avon, Connecticut. The organisation provides temporary assistance in the form of food, clothing, household items, and furniture to families experiencing financial crisis. Gifts of Love is committed to helping...
Allen Foundation Inc.
Allen Foundation Inc. provides grants to projects that primarily benefit programs for human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research.
Virgin Unite
Virgin Unite is the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group. The foundation aims to help change the way businesses and the social sector work together – driving business as a force for good by offering consultancy and practical support. It unites people to tackle tough social and environmental...
Khadarlis for Sierra Leone
Khadarlis for Sierra Leone is an NGO registered in the USA that provides fertilizers and a water supply to underprivileged villages in refugee affected areas of Sierra Leone. The organisation also provides basic lighting through the installation of solar energy systems and assistance for programmes...
Action Aid - Brazil
Action Aid is an international NGO founded in the UK in 1972 to promote quality education and local services in the developing world. Today, the organisation works in 50 countries world-wide. Action Aid has been working in community development with local partners in Brazil since 1999. Current...
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) is an NGO based in the US. The Foundation focuses on major health care issues facing the US, with a growing role in global health. KFF is involved in research on health issues, the provision of information relating to health and, increasingly, in global...
Charity Music Inc
Charity Music Inc is an all volunteer, nonprofit public charity that provides musical instruments on loan or at no charge to individuals wishing to explore their musical talents. Charity Music Inc is always in need of music related items such as music books, sheet music, and all types of musical...
Cheerful Givers
Cheerful Givers is a non-profit organization which provides provide birthday gift bags to children who are homeless or living in poverty. In 2011, Cheerful Givers provided 84,942 children with birthday bags. Cheerful Givers is a nonprofit organization committed to helping children in need. They...
Toy Rescue Mission
Toy Rescue Mission (TRM) is a grass roots NGO that recycles nearly-new toys and provides them to underprivileged children and the elderly (in nursing homes). TRM also provides replacement toys in disaster situations (e.g., fire and flood), birthday presents and toys for NGOs to use throughout the...
Global Container Lines
Global Container Lines (GCL) offers movement of general cargo, containers, rolling stock, project and bulk containers for humanitarian aid. In the wake of the 2005 South Asian earthquake, GCL offered free ocean freight services on one of its vessels to move relief to Pakistan. GCL is among the...
Choice Humanitarian
CHOICE Humanitarian offers solutions to the hardships of poverty in the rural villages of the world with simple technologies, self-help initiatives and public awareness. In the rural villages of developing nations, CHOICE specializes in manpower, materials, appropriate technology, and education....