2015 Charities
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Active Communities Network
Active Communities Network is a youth and community development charity delivering grassroots projects, primarily through sport and cultural activity, to engage, support and mentor young people into education, training and employment, countering negative social outcomes such as crime, poverty and mental health issues. We believe that sport and physical activity can act as a catalyst for personal and community change.
5 Star Active, a formal network of cutting-edge sport for development charities, managed by Active Communities Network, delivering services to the most at risk young people. As a partnership of like-minded organisations, we work together to support children and young people, who have experienced backgrounds of poverty, violence, abuse or neglect, to broaden their horizons, raise aspirations and provide pathways to achievement.
Our joint mission is to Tackle Poverty, Create Opportunities, Inspire change.
For more information, please visit www.5staractive.com
Haven House Children’s Hospice
Haven House Children’s Hospice cares for children and young people from birth to age 19 who have life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and who are unlikely to reach adulthood. We provide care for children and their families across North and East London, West Essex and East Hertfordshire.
We aim to ensure that all children in our area who are life-limited or who have a range of disabilities and complex health needs, together with their families, are offered a range of caring, competent and high quality services which respond to their individual needs.
We provide a range of residential services based at the hospice; these services include day, short break and end of life care. We also provide specialist day care for pre-school children who have disabilities, additional or complex needs and their siblings. Other community-based services include coffee mornings (support groups for parents/carers), siblings’ services, a community play specialist and a toy home loan scheme.
For more information, please visit www.havenhouse.org.uk
Jamie Oliver Food Foundation
Our mission is to shape the health and wellbeing of current and future generations and contribute to a healthier world, by providing better access to food education for everyone.
We work in schools, where our Kitchen Garden Project and Home Cooking Skills resources educate school children about the joys of growing and cooking from scratch; in communities, where our Ministry of Food programme inspires people of all ages to get in the kitchen and give cooking a go; and with disengaged young people where our Fifteen Apprentice Programme provides inspiration and support to those pursuing a career in the food industry.
Our annual global day of action, Food Revolution Day, provokes debate in order to influence and improve food policy, while engaging with thousands of people across the world.
For more information, please visit www.jamieoliverfoodfoundation.org.uk
Noreen Fraser Foundation
The mission of the Noreen Fraser Foundation (NFF) is to raise funds for breakthrough research that advances precision medicine for the prevention and treatment of women’s cancers. Our hope is that cancer will become a manageable disease that patients will live with and not die from, until it ceases to exist.
For more information, please visit www.noreenfraserfoundation.org
Hong Kong Mucopolysaccharidoses & Rare Genetic Diseases Mutual Aid Group
Hong Kong Mucopolysaccharidoses & Rare Genetic Diseases Mutual Aid Group is formed by people and families with Mucopolysaccharidoses and other rare genetic diseases, with an aim to support and encourage patients and families suffering from these diseases.
- To provide patients and their families with information about the diseases, the latest medical development, community resources and activities.
- To promote emotional support among patients and families, as well as sharing of experiences about treatment, rehabilitation and life.
- To advocate for MPS and other rare genetic diseases in the medical field, and to assist interested parties in research and development of drugs and other therapies.
- To gather the strength of members, reflect their needs to relevant authorities, strive for a reasonable allocation of community resources, and attain equal opportunities in the society.
For more information, please visit www.mps.org.hk
Cris Cancer Foundation
Research is the only thing, in the long term, that can beat cancer.
Cancer does not wait. We want to achieve, through the investigation, to gain time in order to save more and more lives. Our mission of beating cancer is a huge challenge. We cannot do it alone. So CRIS CONTRA EL CANCER calls everyone, to contribute to victory in this hard struggle, adding their knowledge, their faith and their professional support.
Our plans in short and half term are ambitious in keeping with the challenge and the responsibility which we face: the most terrible and mythical illness of our age.
For more information, please visit: www.criscancer.org
The Jubilee Center
The mission of the Jubilee Center is to equip children and families with the tools not only to survive, but also to overcome the many barriers they face. We believe that all people deserve a fair chance at creating a fulfilling life based on self-esteem, self-reliance, personal accountability and respect for others.
For more information, please visit www.jubileecenterhoboken.org
The Children’s Trust
Every parent hopes that their child will be born healthily and grow up without serious accident or illness. Unfortunately these expectations can be shattered; children are born with disabilities or become suddenly disabled as a result of an accident or illness. The Children’s Trust is here to help these children and their families from all over the UK with vital care, support, education and rehabilitation.
For more information, please visit www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk
The Acting Company
The Acting Company was founded in 1972 by John Houseman and the Company’s producer Margot Harley from the first graduating class of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School which included, among others, Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, David Odgen Stiers, Mary Lou Rosato and David Schramm. For 43 years The Acting Company has endured as the only permanent, professional repertory company dedicated to the development of classical actors. The company has performed 141 classical and new plays on tour from coast to coast to both underserved communities and major U.S. cities.
For more information, please visit The Acting Company
Bob Woodruff Foundation
Since September 11, 2001, 2.8 million troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, they’re coming home.
Yet even after they return to the love and support of their families and communities, many will struggle. Physical and hidden injuries are challenging on their own. But sometimes, these injuries can lead to a cascade of other trouble — unemployment, depression, substance abuse, even suicide. Our mission is to ensure injured veterans and their families are thriving long after they return home. That’s why we find and fund innovative programs in communities where veterans, their families and caregivers live and work. That’s how we tackle the problems that can prevent our veterans from fulfilling their dreams for the next chapter of their lives.
For more information, please visit www.bobwoodrufffoundation.org
GiveLove
GiveLove is a non-profit organization founded by Patricia Arquette and Rosetta Getty in 2010. After five years of relief and emergency sanitation work in Haiti, the organization launched an international skills training program in 2015 to pioneer low-cost sanitation systems where water-based sanitation is not available. GiveLove is currently piloting new programs in partnership with several NGO and universities to provide low-cost sanitation and improved hygiene for primary school children and communities living in extreme poverty in Nicaragua and India.
The organization hopes to expand the training of trainers and our Green School program to other high-need areas in 2016 — including projects in California, Latin America, and East Africa — as well as to create practical training videos and other online resources for people and community-based organizations working to improve public health through better sanitation and protection of water resources.
For more information, please visit www.givelove.org
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation
The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation honors Marines by educating their children.
For more information, please visit www.mcsf.org
PeaceJam Foundation
The mission of the PeaceJam Foundation is to create young leaders committed to positive change in themselves, their communities, and the world through the inspiration of Nobel Peace laureates who pass on the spirit, skills, and wisdom they embody.
For more information, please visit www.peacejam.org
STOMP The Monster™
STOMP The Monster™ provides financial and other support to cancer patients, their families, and caregivers when they need it most – during their fight with the disease. We promote a healthy lifestyle with proper diet and exercise, leading by example, and provide funding for potential advances in prevention and treatment.
For more information, please visit www.stompthemonster.org
St Bernard Project
St Bernard Project’s mission is to ensure that disaster-impacted citizens and communities recover in a prompt, efficient and predictable manner. Since its founding in 2006 – in St Bernard Parish, Louisiana – following Hurricane Katrina, SBP has rebuilt homes for more than 950 families with the help of 100,000 volunteers in New Orleans; Joplin, MO; Staten Island, NY; Rockaway, NY; and Monmouth County, NJ.
For more information, please visit www.stbernardproject.org
Able Community Services, Inc
To provide day service options for adults with developmental disabilities which include supported employment, enhanced supported employment, pre-vocational services, day habilitation, consolidated support services, home- based services, related services and services that are community based, designed to transition adults with developmental disabilities into less restrictive community settings by providing programs, training and supports to facilitate independent functioning.
For more information, please visit www.ablecommunityservices.org
Beam International Foundation
Beam International Foundation Limited (“BEAM”) is a medical charity headquartered in Hong Kong to provide free surgeries for underprivileged children with cleft lips and / or cleft palates in China.
Through its local entities and partner hospitals in China, BEAM organizes medical missions throughout China. Medical treatments are carried out by accredited medical volunteers with the support of non-medical volunteers. Volunteers come from China and overseas.
BEAM also aims to build the long term capability of medical professionals in China through formal training, internship and exchanges between professionals.
For more information, please visit www.beaminternational.org
Daughters of Tomorrow
DOT is a Singapore-based non-profit organisation. Their approach is to enable financial self-sufficiency of underprivileged women in Singapore, with the eventual aim of creating a conducive environment for children of low-income families brought by financial upliftment and reducing the no. of families in poverty.
For more information, please visit: www.daughtersoftomorrow.org
Dreams2live4
Dreams2live4 helps make dreams come true for patients of Prince of Wales Hospital, in Randwick NSW, who living with metastatic cancer. Metastatic means any cancer which has spread.
Metastatic cancer drains families of joy, hope and finances. It can be a long and grueling battle for patients. Often they and their partners cannot work and they can no longer do things that other families take for granted. By offering patients a chance to dream, we reignite a sense of control and optimism in their lives. Conversations change and so does the outlook of patients and their families.
Our dreamers range from 17 to 97 years old, from all walks of life, with all types of cancer, and they all have their own unique dreams, We have had weddings, hot air ballooning, adventures to the reef and snow. Some dreamers ask to meet their idol – Guys Sebastian, Dawn French, Dolly Parton, The Kings of Leon – just to name a few. Other dreamers long to create lasting happy memories for those they leave behind in the form of family photographs, publishing their memoirs, gateways and family reunions. Or it could be as simple as having their hair done so the nurses see them at their best.
For more information, please visit www.dreams2live4.com.au
ICM Brain & Spine Institute
The mission of the IHU-A-ICM is to conduct projects of excellence in care, training and technology transfer in the field of research on the diseases of the nervous system. Its priority is to foster the development of innovative preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic products and procedures.
The objectives of the IHU-AICM, Paris Institute of Translational Neuroscience, are:
- the development of international level research on diseases of the nervous system (neurology and psychiatry),
- the creation of top level technological platforms,
- capitalization on the results of research,
- development of research partnerships with industry,
- training of future health professionals,
- administration of health and the health-related industries,
- improvement of care and transfer of care from the hospital to the home of the patients.
For more information, please visit www.icm-institute.org
Kookaburra Kids
Kookaburra Kids provide intervention and education in a fun way through camp and activity programs for children affected by parents or other family members with mental illness.
The camps are free, and offer young carer kids both respite from there carer role, as well as the chance to participate in a range of fun activities, such as canoeing, archery, giant swings, go-karts and much more.
Kookaburra Camps are designed to achieve:
- Education about mental illness
- Increased ability to cope effectively
- Increased resiliency
- Increased self-expression and communication
- Development of creativity
- Reduction in feeling of isolation
- Increase in Self-esteem
- Increased support network
- Having lots of fun
For more information, please visit www.kookaburrakids.org.au
Leukaemia Foundation
They have an unwavering focus on reducing the impact of blood cancer r and related blood disorders by providing free practical and emotional support, and funding research to improve treatment and find cures.
Each year we invest millions of dollars in our National Research Program to improve treatments and find cures. They focus on research the potential to improve quality of live and survival for people with leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and related blood disorder.
For more information visit www.leukaemia.org.au or contact infor@leukaemia.org.au
Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre
By bringing together professional services and social support within a uniquely designed architecture, Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre provides free practical, emotional and psychosocial support to empower people affected by cancer to live with, through and beyond the illness.
For more information, please visit: www.maggiescentres.org
Mirabel Foundation
Mirabel assist children who have been orphaned or abandoned due to parental illicit drug use and are now in the care of extended family (kinship care).
The tragedy of drug-related deaths is compounded by the children left behind. Children without family may find themselves in foster care, sometimes separated from their siblings. Many go into the care of extended family (kinship care), usually with elderly grandparents who have little or no financial or social support. These are Mirable children. And it’s our determined focus to provide them with all the emotional and practical support they need to have the most normal childhood possible.
For more information, please visit: www.mirabelfoundation.org.au or contact Mirabel@mirabelfoundation.com.au
Mission Statement of Suicide Prevention Services
Every 10 hours, on average, a distressed person succumbs to suicide in Hong Kong.
Founded in 1995, Suicide Prevention Services (SPS) serves people who are suicidal, despairing or distressed by means of befriending and other services supporting them to regain control of their emotions and the will to live on. Our values are based on the practice of the Founder of the Befriending Movement, Dr. Chad Varah – to provide value-free, non-judgmental emotional support for suicidal people through active listening and caring.
Distressed people tend to suppress their negative feelings. In view of this, we cater services for service users with different needs. Our “24-hour Suicide Prevention Hotline Service” provides callers a safe and confidential platform sharing their problems with our volunteers. In “Suicide Prevention Service for Elderly”, we encourage the elderly to express their negative feelings by organizing regular home visits and making caring calls by volunteers. Families and friends whose loved ones died by suicide receive professional counselling services in “Services for Survivors of Suicide Loss”. Through “Community & Life Education” projects, we organize training workshops and group activities for teens, parents and teachers to help them understand emotional problems and to learn about effective ways to support distressed teens.
For more information, please visit www.spsamerica.org
NSPCC
Abuse changes childhood, but so can we.
We help children rebuild their lives, and we find ways to prevent abuse from ruining any more. So when a child needs a helping hand, we’ll be there. When parents are finding it tough, we’ll help. When laws need to change, or governments need to do more, we won’t give up until things improve. We want everyone to believe they can do something to keep children safe, because we believe every childhood is worth fighting for.
For more information, please visit www.nspcc.org.uk
School of Hard Knocks
WHO WE ARE
School of Hard Knocks is a social inclusion charity which runs courses that use sport to tackle the issues surrounding unemployment, antisocial behaviour, crime and health. The charity has an expert team of coaches and mentors and is supported by a wide range of high profile individuals from within and outside sport. Our work has been documented five times by Sky Sports since 2007 and has grown into one of the most effective and high profile courses in the UK, working with some of the most hard to reach individuals in our society.
WHAT WE DO
We run courses nationwide, using our unique programme of challenging activities and values-based lessons to help participants take positive steps forward in their lives. We teach responsibility, motivation, teamwork, respect and discipline, all of which allow individuals to take responsibility for their actions and context. Our programmes are delivered to young children, teenagers and adults, with extra skills-based lessons tailored to the participants and their requirements.
For more information, please visit www.schoolofhardknocks.org.uk
Kevin Pietersen Foundation
For more information, please visit www.kp24foundation.com
Orphanage Trust
The Orphanage Trust is a Christian charitable trust registered in New Zealand. It was established for the purpose of helping children around the world through the development of orphanages and schools. Currently they support two projects, one in Orissa, India, where they support 60 children living in the orphanage and over 250 children in the school. They also support an orphanage for 40 children in Burundi, Africa
It is their dream that every child on earth is provided with the necessities of life – shelter, food, clothing and an education. They want to create an environment where children in our care are filled with hope, encouraged to pursue their aspirations, where they learn to love and are free to laugh
100% of any money donated goes directly to the orphanages or schools.
For more information, please visit www.theorphanagetrust.com
Youri Djorkaeff Foundation
The Foundation has for a mission the goal of assisting underprivileged children’s physical, personal and social development through soccer.
Aurel BGC would like to work together with this charity in support of the idea that sportsmanship and comradery are excellent ways to assist underprivileged children in finding hope and a bright future.
For more information, please visit www.youridjorkaeff.org
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
We raise money so that Great Ormond Street Hospital can provide world-class care for its young patients and their families, and to pioneer new treatments and cures for childhood illness.
Our key value is – the child first and always.
For more information, please visit:www.gosh.org
The New York Police & Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund
The New York Police and Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund was founded in 1985 by Daniel J. “Rusty” Staub to assist the families of New York City Police Officers and Firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. Though the Benefit Fund was initially created to assist the families of New York City Police Officers and Firefighters only, after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the Benefit Fund included among its beneficiaries the families of Port Authority officers and EMS personnel. The Benefit Fund’s mission has always been– and remains today– to continue making meaningful distributions to all of our widows for the duration of their lives. The Benefit Fund makes annual distributions to over 600 families and takes pride in “answering the call” as our fallen heroes have done to protect our city. Since its inception, the Benefit Fund has distributed over $123 million to beneficiary families and continues to provide a network of support and programs to ensure that the sacrifice made by their loved ones will never be forgotten.
For more information, please visit www.answerthecall.org
Wounded Warrior Project
The mission of Wounded Warrior Project™ (WWP) is to honor and empower wounded warriors. WWP’s purpose is to raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of injured service members, to help injured servicemen and women aid and assist each other, and to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet their needs. WWP is a national, nonpartisan organization headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
For more information, please visit www.woundedwarriorproject.org
Beyond Social Services
Beyond Social Services is a charity dedicated to reducing delinquency among children and youths from less privileged backgrounds. It provides guidance, care, protection and resources that keep young people in school and out of trouble.
For more information, please visit www.beyond.org.sg
Boys’ Town
Boys’ Town works with youth-at-risk, between the ages of 11-18, and their families. We provide Residential, Outreach, School-based and Community-Based programmes and services to youths from mainly disadvantaged backgrounds. Our mission is to help youth-at-risk become socially integrated, responsible and contributing members of society.
For more information, please visit www.boystown.org.sg
Seeing is Believing
SiB is a global initiative to tackle avoidable (preventable or treatable) blindness. It is a collaboration between Standard Chartered, the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and leading international eye-care NGOs. SiB has raised over US$25 million for eye-care initiatives. It has impacted more than 16 million people and helped over 2.5 million receive sight-restoring cataract surgery. SiB’s latest commitment, ‘A New Vision’, aims to fundraise US$10 million which will be matched in full by Standard Chartered. This will provide 20 million people in impoverished urban areas across the globe with access to comprehensive and sustainable eye-care services.
For more information, please visit seeingisbelieving.org.uk
Breast Cancer Care
Today, over half a million women in the UK are facing the devastating physical and emotional impact of breast cancer. Breast Cancer Care is the only UK-wide charity offering women and their loved ones the practical and tangible help that will help them find a way to live with, through and beyond breast cancer.
Breast cancer is a brutal and complex cancer which, as a result, requires specialist support. Our life-changing face-to-face, phone and online services are tailored to help anyone dealing with breast cancer. Our specialist nurses, local services and emotional support network mean that there’s always someone to turn to.
We’re facing the brutality of breast cancer together. Join us.
For more information, please visit www.breastcancercare.org.uk
SAVH
SAVH is the national voluntary welfare organization that serves and provides comprehensive rehabilitation services to the visually impaired. SAVH serves Singapore citizens and permanent residents of all age groups who must be certified with low vision (partial sight) or blind by an eye specialist or ophthalmologist. This includes people who are born blind as well as those who have lost their vision through accidents, illnesses or ageing. SAVH has over 3,100 registered clients ranging from infants to the elderly and has been providing these clients with eye care, rehabilitation, training, counselling, jobs and a place to belong to.
For more information, please visit www.savh.org.sg
Sweet Louise
Sweet Louise aims to help women with secondary breast cancer lead more positive lives. Women may become Members of Sweet Louise to access a wide range of support and services.
For more information, please visit www.sweetlouise.co.nz
Reverse Rett
The mission of the Rett Syndrome Research Trust (RSRT) is to encourage and support scientific research that will lead to effective treatments and, ultimately, a cure for Rett syndrome, a severe neurological disorder that afflicts more than 350,000 girls and women around the world, including at least 16,000 in the U.S. The research that RSRT supports is informed by the fact that the symptoms of Rett Syndrome have been reversed in mouse models, proving that the condition is, in theory, curable. But a significant investment in the research is needed to translate a reversal in mice to a reversal in girls and women with Rett. To accomplish this, RSRT has recruited some of the most prominent scientists to the Rett Syndrome cause and has been instrumental in funding, at least in part, most of the seminal Rett research projects to date. Thus far, an investment of more than $26 million has resulted in numerous important discoveries that are moving us towards treatments and a reversal of symptoms.
For more information, please visit www.reverserett.org.uk
Sur Les Bancs de l’Ecole
Charity with a mission to offer support to families & children with autism. In 2009 the charity created “La Maison de TED” (Ted’s House) which is a center for children with Autism & their families to come together for support. Ted’s House has welcomed over 100 families daily and assisted thousands of children in attending schools that meet their unique needs.
Aurel BGC would like to support this charity because of its mission to assist families who are raising autistic children and who may not have access to the special care that facilitates life for these children.
For more information please visit www.surlesbancsdelecole.org
52nd Street Project
The 52nd Street Project (The Project) is dedicated to the creation and production of new plays for, and often by, kids between the ages of nine and eighteen that reside in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in New York City. The Project does this through a series of unique mentoring programs that match kids with professional theater artists.
For more information, please visit: http://www.52project.org
Stroke Association
Stroke Association
We are the Stroke Association. We believe in Life After Stroke. Our vision is for a world where there are fewer strokes and those touched by stroke get the help they need.
For more information, please visit www.stroke.org.uk
Allan Houston Legacy Foundation
To facilitate individual and collective growth through initiatives that – 1) Restore a strong family unit, 2) Provide economic empowerment through entrepreneurship, 3) Encourage education and life skill development, and 4) Enhance spiritual growth.
For more information, please visit:
www.AllanHouston.com
Coucou Nous Voilou
The mission of this charity is to develop creative projects with a goal of improving the lives of hospitalized & disabled children. These projects are brought to children while they are at hospital and every effort is made to improve their experience and quality of life, often during times when they are undergoing difficult treatments. For example, the “Abracadabox” project consists of colorful Superhero boxes, which hide perfusion equipment most often used during chemotherapy sessions.
For more information, please visit:
coucounousvoilou.fr
Building Homes for Heroes
Since 2006, Building Homes for Heroes has provided individuals, corporations and others with an opportunity to help our severely wounded and disabled veterans, and their families rebuild their lives. Building Homes for Heroes is committed to supporting those who have returned home from the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan with severe wounds and disabilities, with a goal to build homes for families in dire need. It’s our honor to support those who have been called upon to make a tremendous personal sacrifice.
For more information, please visit:
www.buildinghomesforheroes.com
Bowel Cancer UK
We are the UK’s leading bowel cancer research charity. We are determined to save lives and improve the quality of life for all those affected by bowel cancer.
We support and influence research, educate patients, public and professionals about bowel cancer and campaign for early diagnosis and best treatment and care for all those affected.
For more information, please visit:
www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk
The British Heart Foundation
www.bhf.org.uk
Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation
The Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation, founded in 1992, is dedicated to improving the quality of life for cancer and transplant patients and their families by providing vital financial assistance, comprehensive resources, educational information, physician referrals, and emotional support programs.
Guided by a medical advisory board of nationally-recognized cancer specialists and working with hospitals across the United States, the Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation is the only organization of its kind that does not limit assistance to a specific disease, type of transplant or age range. For the past 27 years, the Foundation has connected patients and their families with the services they need—from diagnosis through survivorship—to make effective decisions about treatment and its aftermath. All of the Foundation’s programs and services are offered to patients and their families free of charge. For more information, please visit: http://bonemarrow.org/about/our-mission
Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux de France
Since 1989, the Foundation Hospitals of Paris & Hospitals of France has been working towards improving conditions for the most vulnerable populations while hospitalized. Nearly 13 000 projects, all corresponding to the needs expressed by hospitals as well as by patients and their families, have emerged throughout France.
The Foundation supports five priority action areas: the fight against pain, reconciliation of families, improving welcoming services and comfort levels, business development and support of teenagers in distress.
For more information, please visit:
www.fondationhopitaux.fr
The G-Unity Foundation
The G-Unity Foundation will provide grants to nonprofit organizations that focus on improving the quality of life for low-income and underserved communities.
For more information, please visit:
www.gunityfoundation.org
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
As an educational and cultural non-profit institution centered on the aircraft carrier Intrepid, a National Historic Landmark, the mission of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is to promote the awareness and understanding of history, science and service through its collections, exhibitions and programming in order to honor our heroes, educate the public and inspire our youth.
For more information, please visit:
www.intrepidmuseum.org
Meriwether Foundation
Meriwether Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) international non-profit charitable organization. With goals of improving health, empowering communities and alleviating poverty, we operate programs in health, education, nutrition, and development in rural and peri-urban areas of: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.
For more information, please visit:
www.meriwetherfoundation.org
Mencap
Mencap is the leading voice of learning disability. Everything we do is about valuing and supporting people with a learning disability, and their families and carers.
Our vision is a world where people with a learning disability are valued equally, listened to and included.
PitCCh In Foundation
The PitCCh In Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization founded by New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia and his wife Amber. The foundation’s mission is to enrich the lives of inner city youth by raising their self-esteem through educational and athletic activities in the New York Tri-state area and Northern California. The foundation showcases three signature programs that provide young people with the tools to be successful in school and on the field. Additionally, the PitCCh In Foundation is dedicated to supporting and renovating baseball fields in the community.
For more information, please visit:
www.PitCCh.org
One For The Boys
Our Main Objective is simple: to get men talking about cancer by removing the myths around it, and changing their attitudes towards their health. Our mission is to educate men through awareness campaigns and live clinics to know the signs associated with cancer.
This will encourage them to seek help and allow for the early detection that can save lives.
For more information, please visit:
www.onefortheboys.com
Muscular Dystrophy UK
We are the UK charity for individuals and families living with muscle-wasting conditions.
We support research to drive the development of effective treatments and cures.
We ensure access to specialist NHS care and support.
We provide services and promote opportunities to enable individuals and their families to live as independently as possible.
We know we can beat muscle-wasting conditions more quickly if we work together.
We are uniting skills, knowledge and resources in the UK and working with others around the world so we can improve the quality of life for the people affected, and bring cures closer to reality.
Self Help Africa
Self Help Africa is an international organization that works to empower people living in rural Africa to achieve economic independence. We foster a spirit of entrepreneurship in the communities that we work with so that they may trade their way out of poverty and start small businesses.
For more information, please visit:
www.selfhelpafrica.org
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Battersea aims to never turn away a dog or cat in need of help, caring for them until their owners or loving new homes can be found, no matter how long it takes. We are champions for, and supporters of, vulnerable dogs and cats, determined to create lasting changes for animals in our society.
From the moment we welcomed our first stray dog in 1860 we have been placing our animals at the centre of everything we do. More than three million animals later, we’re still working hard to achieve our vision that every dog and cat should live in a home where they are treated with love, care and respect.
For more information, please visit:
www.battersea.org.uk
Stop Hunger Now
Stop Hunger Now is driven by the vision of a world without hunger. Its mission is to end hunger in our lifetime by providing food and life-changing aid to the world’s most vulnerable and by creating a global commitment to mobilize the necessary resources. One way Stop Hunger Now accomplishes this is through popular community-supported meal packaging programs where community leaders and volunteers package high-protein, highly nutritious meals. The meals are used primarily to support transformational education and vocational programs in developing countries around the world.
For more information, please visit:
www.stophungernow.org
Boomer Esiason Foundation
The Boomer Esiason Foundation is a dynamic partnership of leaders in the medical and business communities joining with a committed core of volunteers to heighten awareness, education and quality of life for those affected by cystic fibrosis, while providing financial support to research aimed at finding a cure.
For more information, please visit:
www.esiason.org
Centrepoint
Centrepoint’s mission is to give young people a future and our long-term vision is to end youth homelessness.
For more information, please visit:
www.centrepoint.org.uk
Caudwell Children
Charity Vision:
To change the futures of disabled children. Enabling extraordinary children to lead ordinary lives.
Caudwell Children’s vision is a world where all children’s needs are met throughout childhood. Where disabled children and their families have the right to choice, opportunity, dignity and understanding.
Vision: A world where all disabled children and their families have choice, opportunity, dignity and understanding.
Mission: Practical and emotional support through compassionate and efficient services.
Motto: Whatever It Takes
Our Aims
- To change the futures of all disabled children providing access to the services, equipment, therapies and treatments they need.
- To increase awareness and understanding of the needs of disabled children across the UK.
- To enable disabled children to lead an active and independent life reaching their full potential.
- To enable disabled children to lead ordinary lives.
For more information, please visit:
www.caudwellchildren.com
Sir Stanley Matthews Foundation
To support and encourage physical activity for children and young people regardless of gender ability or background and to develop respect, perseverance, dedication and self-confidence as well as teamwork and a sense of community in any economic or social environment.
Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund
The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund’s mission is to support victims of terrorism, emergencies and natural disasters. They provide direct financial assistance to hundreds of charities around the world, and help raise awareness to small charities that have the potential to make big impacts. 100% of every dollar raised by The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund goes to victims of terrorism, natural disasters and emergencies, direct service charities, and wounded members of our military.
For more information, please visit:
www.cantorrelief.org
Children in Crisis
Put simply, we help children in places other charities just don’t go. We rebuild education systems and ensure that all children, whoever or wherever they were born, receive the loving care they need to realise the best in themselves.
For more information, please visit:
www.childrenincrisis.org
The Elephant Family
Our mission is to power effective solutions that prevent conflict between people and elephants, demonstrating how humans and elephants can co-exist. We create safe homes for both elephants and people by reconnecting forest fragments, maintaining elephant migratory routes, and helping farmers to protect their crops and homes.
The Henrik Lundqvist Foundation
The Henrik Lundqvist Foundation, through its fundraising efforts and community outreach, strives to create positive change in the lives of children and adults throughout the world through education and health services.
For more information, please visit: http://www.hlundqvistfoundation.com/?r=l
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp is dedicated to providing “a different kind of healing” to seriously ill children and their families throughout the Northeast, free of charge. It’s a community that celebrates the fun, friendship and spirit of childhood, where every kid can “raise a little hell.”
For more information, please visit: https://www.holeinthewallgang.org
The Felix Organization
The Felix Organization provides inspiring opportunities and new experiences to enrich the lives of children who are growing in the foster care system.
For more information, please visit:
www.thefelixorganization.org
Friends of Firefighters
Friends of Firefighters is dedicated to addressing the physical, mental health and wellness needs of New York City’s firefighters. Our ongoing mission is to provide long-term support and services through confidential counseling, wellness services, and other assistance required by firefighters and their families.
For more information, please visit:
www.friendsoffirefighters.org
Garden of Dreams Foundation
The Garden of Dreams Foundation is a non-profit organization that works with The Madison Square Garden Company to positively impact the lives of children facing obstacles.
For more information, please visit:
www.gardenofdreamsfoundation.org
Generation Rescue
Generation Rescue is the leading national organization that provides hope, information and immediate treatment assistance to families affected by autism spectrum disorders to directly improve the child’s quality of life for all in need.
For more information, please visit:
www.generationrescue.org
Lupus Research Alliance
The Lupus Research Alliance is the world’s leading private funder of lupus research. Established in 2016, the Lupus Research Alliance was created to improve treatments for lupus while advancing toward a cure. This effort includes raising funds and advocating on behalf of the lupus community in the public policy arena.
For more information, please visit:
www.lupusresearch.org
Make-A-Wish
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
For more information, please visit:
www.make-a-wish.org.uk
Pamela Anderson Foundation
The Pamela Anderson Foundation supports organizations and individuals that stand on the front lines in the protection of human, animal, and environmental rights. By funding the efforts of those who defend the planet and all who live within it, the Pamela Anderson Foundation is an agent of change and an advocate for justice.
For more information, please visit:
www.pamelaandersonfoundation.org
Police Athletic League
The Police Athletic League, together with NYPD and the law enforcement community, supports and inspires New York City youth to realize their full individual potential as productive members of society.
For more information, please visit:
www.palnyc.org
St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children
St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and families with special needs. We are New York’s largest and most experienced provider of long-term care to children with medically complex conditions and New York City’s only post-acute care facility for children. At St. Mary’s, we aim to give our kids and their families more than they have dreamed possible.
St. Mary’s a national leader in intensive rehabilitation, specialized care, and education for children with special needs and life-limiting conditions. St. Mary’s is the largest post-acute care provider of its kind in New York State, with a continuum of care that supports the child throughout his lifetime from inpatient facility to home and community settings. With a highly trained pediatric workforce, St. Mary’s is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children with special needs and their families. Given the increasing number of children now surviving once-life ending illnesses and injuries, St. Mary’s family-centered model of care and commitment to caring for children in the least restrictive environment, has long proven to contain costs while helping children and adolescents with special needs heal and thrive.
For more information, visit www.stmaryskids.org
Sightsavers
There are 39 million blind people in the world, but 80 per cent of blindness can be cured or prevented. That’s 31.2 million people who are blind when they needn’t be.
Shocked by this? So are we.
Sightsavers is an international development organisation focused on eliminating avoidable blindness and ensuring equality for people with disabilities in developing countries. We believe that no one should be blind from avoidable causes, and that people whose sight can’t be saved should live with dignity and independence. Sightsavers works with local partners, focusing on those living in poverty in over 30 of the poorest countries in Africa and Asia.
For more information, please visit:
www.sightsavers.org
Solving Kids’ Cancer
Solving Kids’ Cancer is not just our name, it’s our mission. We focus on aggressive childhood cancers with low survival rates—because Every Kid Deserves to Grow Up. Solving Kids’ Cancer helps accelerate new, next-generation treatments, including immunotherapy, cancer vaccines, and new drugs by applying an understanding of the entire childhood cancer research landscape to wisely invest in innovative projects.
For more information, please visit:
www.solvingkidscancer.org
The SMA Trust
Vision: A world where spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is curable and treatable
Mission: To radically improve the lives of people affected by SMA by funding world-class research and accelerating progress towards treatments and a cure
For more information, please visit:
www.smatrust.org
Urban Dove
Urban Dove’s mission is to provide young people, regardless of their economic or social background, the critical skills needed to develop into strong, successful adults who are economically, socially and emotionally independent. Our program model uses a combination of academics, life skills, job skills and sports to energize, educate and empower young people in a safe, positive environment of high expectations and shared responsibility.
For more information, please visit:
www.urbandove.org
YCS
The Mission of YCS is to partner with at-risk & special needs children and young adults to build happier, healthier, more lives within families and communities.
For more information, please visit:
www.ycs.org
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