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Yad Sarah
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Yad Sarah, an Israel-wide network of volunteers, provides a spectrum of free or nominal-cost sevices designed to make home care possible for the sick, disabled, elderly&recuperating people and their families. Some of Yad Sarah's core services include: lending medical equipment, transportation...
Overseas China Education Foundation
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Overseas China Education Foundation (OCEF) is an independent, non-profit organisation that raises funds to promote education in China, with a focus on helping less-privileged children in rural areas finish their education through the ninth grade. Funds are distributed to qualified aid applicants...
GriefNet.org
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GriefNet.org is an internet community of persons dealing with grief, death, and major loss. It provides online help to people working through loss and grief issues of various kinds through e-mail support groups, an online library of helpful articles, and related resources and links.
Asia Foundation: Books for Asia
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The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program provides books, software, and other educational materials throughout many countries in Asia. More than 90 percent of donations are new textbooks, mostly university-level, donated by US publishers. Used books are accepted from bookstores, libraries,...
International Book Bank (IBB)
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The International Book Bank is a nonprofit organisation that procures new or nearly new books and other educational materials and distributes them to schools, community libraries, and other organisations in developing countries around the world. Donations come from US and Canadian publishing...
Book Wish Foundation
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Book Wish Foundation is a nonprofit organization providing financial and material support for reading-related programs targeting people in crisis worldwide. Through partnerships with organisations that work on the ground in distressed places and donations, the Foundation delivers reading relief...
Shelter Centre
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Shelter Centre is an NGO supporting communities impacted by conflicts and natural disasters. It performs research, development, dissemination and implementation of humanitarian settlement and shelter policy, best practice, equipment and field programmes. Shelter Centre works independently and in...
Coopération Internationale pour les Equilibres Locaux (CIELO)
Coopération Internationale pour les Equilibres Locaux (CIELO) works in disadvantaged communities across Latin America. It establishes ‘toy libraries’ and aims to create safe places where children can play. It also provides early childhood development projects that emphasize ‘play’ activities as...
PeaceTrees Vietnam
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PeaceTrees Vietnam is a Seattle-based humanitarian organization working in Central Vietnam to assist those whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by the explosive remnants of war. It sponsors the removal of landmines and unexploded ordnance to promote a safe and healthy environment for...
Janashakthi Kantha Sanwardhana Samithiya
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Janashakthi Kantha Sanwardhana Samithiya is a Sri Lanka based NGO working to motivate women to be self-reliant and educate fatherless children. Key organisational activities include the establishment of a revolving fund for the use by members, the training of women in self-employment ventures, the...
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
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Founded in 1972, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's primary concern is to address issues of inequality and disadvantage, particularly in relation to young people. Support concentrates on projects in the UK which respond to these challenges through the arts and education. Direct support is also given to...
Sri Saddhatissa International Buddhist Centre
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Sri Saddhatissa Buddhist International Centre is part of the World Buddhist Foundation Charity and is dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Buddhism through teaching and the organisation of cultural events. The Centre is closely linked to the Sri Lankan community and, following the Tsunami...
Children Toy Foundation (CTF)
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The Children Toy Foundation (CTF) is a Mumbai-based NGO that aims to educate children through play. CTF collects toys and games and sets up toy libraries in places such as orphanages, schools, creches, industrial sites, prisons and slums. Children and other users are encouraged to have fun and to...
World Health Organization (WHO)
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The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations specialised agency for health, aims to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely...
Eurasia Foundation - Uzbekistan Programme
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Eurasia Foundation - Uzbekistan Programme, operated out of the Kazakhstan office of the Eurasia Foundation (EF), assists selected of local partners in the improvement of the education system. EF does not currently operate in Uzbekistan. From 1994 to 2006, EF maintained an office in Tashkent, where...
Jerusalem Foundation
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The Jerusalem Foundation is a non-partisan organisation based on Jewish values, which seeks to promote an open, equitable and modern society by responding to the needs of all the City’s residents and by making grants for projects in Jerusalem such as parks, libraries, community centers, and...
Mission Enfance
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Mission Enfance is a NGO based in Monaco that specializes in providing assistance to and education for needy children globally. The organization runs literacy campaigns, teacher training and basic education. The philanthropy organization helps to strengthen the school systems so as to make...
Association pour la Diffusion Internationale Francophone de Livres, Ouvrages et Revues (ADIFLOR)
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Association pour la Diffusion Internationale Francophone de Livres, Ouvrages et Revues (ADIFLOR) promotes the French language and culture through the distribution of donated French books and other materials to Africa, Americas, and Central and Eastern Europe. ADIFLOR has supported over 1,500...
Energize
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Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Energize, Inc. is an international training, consulting and publishing firm specialising in volunteerism. Energize developed its web presence in 1997 and contains volunteerism resources, including a referral network and an online library of articles,...
AMS Book & Journal Donation Program
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The AMS Book and Journal Donation Program matches donors of certain types of mathematical materials with recipient institutions or libraries in currency-poor or developing countries where there is a need for mathematical research literature.