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ACCION
International |
ACCION
International's mission is to give people the tools they
need to work their way out of poverty. By providing small
or "micro" loans and business training to poor
women and men who start their own businesses, ACCION's
microcredit affiliates help people work their way up the
economic ladder, with dignity and pride. With
"micro" loans, these hardworking people can grow
their businesses and earn enough to afford basics like
running water, better food and schooling for their
children. ACCION's network, which works in 14 Latin
American countries and ten U.S. cities, has made $2.2
billion in loans as small as $100 to over 1.6 million
people. Ninety-eight percent of the loans have been
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American Forests |
American
Forests is the nation's oldest nonprofit citizen
conservation organization, founded in 1875 by citizens
concerned about waste and abuse of the nation's forests.
American Forests' mission is to help people improve the
environment with trees and forests. We work to ensure a
sustainable future for our nation's forests - both urban
and rural - through national and international Global
ReLeaf tree planting, forest policy, urban forestry, and
popular programs, such as The National Register of Big
Trees and Famous & Historic Trees. |
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America's
Second Harvest |
America's
Second Harvest is the nation's largest domestic hunger
relief organization. Through a network of nearly 200 food
banks, we distribute food to 26 million hungry Americans
each year, eight million of whom are children.
Last year, America's Second Harvest distributed one
billion pounds of food to needy Americans, serving all 50
states and Puerto Rico. Our goal is to end hunger in
America.
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Broadway
Cares/Equity Fights AIDS |
Broadway
Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the nation's leading
industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grantmaking
organization. By drawing upon the talents, resources and
generosity of the American Theatre community, and the
performing arts and dance communities through such
programs as Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS
and Dancers Responding to AIDS, BC/EFA raises vitally
needed funds for AIDS/HIV services across the country. BC/EFA
produces large- and small-scale benefit events, and
depends on special merchandise sales, corporations,
foundations, and concerned individuals like you for
support. |
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CARE |
Founded in
the aftermath of World War II, CARE enabled Americans to
send millions of CARE Packages® to people devastated by
war. Today, CARE remains a vehicle of American generosity
abroad. A leader in emergency aid and self-help
development, CARE allows Americans to reach out to people
who are devastated by humanitarian emergencies, or who are
struggling each day in poor communities to survive and to
improve their lives. For more than 50 years, CARE has
helped provide effective and efficient solutions to the
complex problems of poverty, reaching tens of millions of
people each year. |
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Children's Aid
Society |
For almost
150 years, The Children's Aid Society has had a single
mission: to do whatever New York City's neediest children
need. Our services address every aspect of a child's life,
from infancy through adolescence, and include education,
health, counseling, adoption and foster care, career
readiness, arts and recreation, prevention and emergency
assistance to families. Today, the Society serves more
than 120,000 children and families each year, in 36 sites,
without regard to race, religion, nationality or
socio-economic status. |
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CRY |
CRY in the
US is a largely voluntary in itiative that collects funds
to help alleviate the situation of a multitude of poor
Indian children. The projects that CRY Inc. supports are
located all over India and deal with problems faced by
streetchildren, children of migrant workers, children with
disabilities, children who are abandoned and orphaned,
children of sexworkers, children in tribal areas, children
in financial , social and emotional need. The common theme
is to help children in stringent conditions gain access to
better amenities and opportunities in ways that allow them
to forge for themselves a better future and a more
valuable place in society. |
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Citizen
Schools |
Citizen
Schools seeks to educate children and build community in
Boston through excellent after-school and summer programs,
engaging 9 to 14 year old children and adult volunteers
from a variety of professional backgrounds. The heart of
the program is an apprenticeship curriculum in which
children work directly with Boston's best professionals,
artisans, and trades people to develop high-quality
products and performances that meet real community needs.
Students develop confidence, skills, and understanding as
they publish newspapers and web pages, organize community
health fairs, write and produce plays, cook gourmet meals,
and much, much more. Apprentices also participate in
sports, explorations, team-building activities, and
community service -- all led by a talented program staff.
Citizen Schools, which has ten campuses in Boston
locations, is a national model for excellence in
out-of-school programs and has been featured in the
national media and at conferences across the U. S.
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Citymeals
on Wheels USA |
Citymeals-on-Wheels
USA was established to address the growing needs of
America’s homebound elderly population – those
individuals nationwide, who are over 60 and because of
physical disabilities, are unable to shop and cook for
themselves.
Citymeals-on-Wheels USA works with local meal providers
nationwide to raise funds from the general public for
home-delivered meals. Our goal is that every homebound
elderly person in need will receive a warm, nutritious
meal and friendly visit 365 days a year.
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City
Year |
City Year,
an AmeriCorps program, is a national service organization
that unites diverse young leaders, ages 17-24, for a
challenging year of full-time service, leadership
development and civic engagement. A model private/public
partnership with lead investment by Compaq Computer
Corporation and The Timberland Company, City Year is based
in eleven cities nationwide and will engage 1,000 corps
members in 1.5 million hours of service this year.
For their service in this challenging and diverse
environment, corps members receive a weekly stipend and,
at the completion of the ten-month program, earn a $4,725
AmeriCorps education award toward school or job training.
Graduates of City Year demonstrate a lifelong commitment
to social change and community involvement as student
leaders, teachers, entrepreneurs, community activists and
members of the private sector.
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Feinstein
Int'l Famine Center |
The
Feinstein International Famine Center was established in
1996 to improve emergency, relief and refugee efforts in
times of famine, war and complex emergencies. Through four
initiatives, Community Based Animal Health, Social Change,
Livelihoods, and Nutrition, the Center works primarily in
Africa to prevent and mitigate famine, resolve local
conflicts and develop emergency responses that contribute
to durable survival strategies for people coping with
crisis. Key to the Center's work is building strong
partnerships with international, national and indigenous
private, governmental, and non-governmental organizations,
and providing training in capacity building and relief
work. The Center offers a Master of Arts in Humanitarian
Assistance. |
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Jane
Doe |
Jane Doe
Inc. / MA Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic
Violence is an umbrella organization representing the
"voice" of programs serving battered women and
sexual assault survivors throughout Massachusetts. Our 39
member programs serve over 100,000 survivors every year,
creating a "safety net" for victims of domestic
and sexual abuse. Founded in 1979, we are 20 years strong,
providing technical training and legislative advocacy to
the survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. |
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Make-A-Wish
Foundation® |
The
Make-A-Wish Foundation grants wishes to children under the
age of 18 with life-threatening illnesses. It is the
largest wish-granting organization in the world, with 80
chapters in the United States and its territories, and 20
international affiliates spanning five continents.
Through corporate and private donations and the efforts
of more than 18,000 volunteers, the Make-A-Wish Foundation
has granted more than 73,000 wishes around the world since
its inception in 1980 - more than 9,600 last year alone.
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Project
Bread |
Project
Bread is dedicated to alleviating, preventing and ending
hunger in Massachusetts. Our goals are to make emergency
food accessible to people who would not otherwise have
adequate food; to increase public awareness and
understanding of hunger; to effect public policies to
prevent hunger in our midst; and to empower people by
offering positive avenues of action, including the annual
Walk for Hunger. |
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Oxfam
America |
Oxfam
America works around the world to support self-help
efforts of poor and marginalized people, landless
peasants, indigenous peoples, women, refugees, and
survivors of war and natural disasters- who are striving
to better their lives. To the extent possible, when
Oxfam's partners respond to emergency situations, they use
relief aid as a means to address long-term development
needs and prepare for future emergencies. In the policy
arena, Oxfam America works to foster an environment where
sustainable development can thrive, speaking with
conviction and integrity to challenge the structural
barriers that foster conflict and suffering and hinder
people from becoming self-sufficient. |
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Share
Our Strength |
Share Our
Strength is motivated by a simple, but powerful philosophy
-- it takes more than food to fight hunger. It takes
short- and long-term solutions and each one of us sharing
our unique talents and skills to make a difference.
Today, more than 34 million Americans, many of them
children, are at risk of hunger. Hunger leads to
malnutrition, which impairs children's ability to learn,
focus and grow mentally and physically. Since our founding
in 1984, Share Our Strength has distributed more than $55
million to more than 1,000 local, state, national and
international agencies addressing these critical needs.
Help us break the cycle of hunger and poverty.
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Teach
For America |
Teach For
America expands the educational opportunities of
low-income youth by providing talented teachers committed
to meeting their needs and leaders dedicated to changing
social conditions that perpetuate educational inequality.
We recruit a corps of outstanding college graduates to
make a two-year commitment to teach under-served youth as
the start of a lifelong commitment to educational reform.
After five weeks of dawn-till-dusk training in our summer
institute, under-resourced public schools hire them on the
same basis as other alternately certified teachers. During
their corps service, Teach For America supports their
professional development. Afterward, our alumni
association fosters their continued involvement in
education. |
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VH1
Save The Music |
The VH1
Save The Music Foundation is a non-profit organization
dedicated to improving the quality of education in
America's public schools by restoring music programs in
cities across the country, and by raising public awareness
about the importance of music participation for our
nation's youth. In 1999 alone the Foundation restored more
than 140 music programs in thirty cities nationwide. The
VH1 Save The Music Foundation is committed to bringing
musical instruments to one million children during the
next decade. |
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