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Room to Read

Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure. They seek to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education is a lifelong gift that empowers people to improve socioeconomic...

Amy Biehl Foundation

The Amy Biehl Foundation (ABF) is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town whose programmes are designed to develop and empower youth in the townships and contribute to community building efforts as a mechanism to reduce the levels of crime and violence in these areas and aims to give them...

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...

World Bank - Sierra Leone

The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to...

Regional Electronics Initiative (REI)

The Regional Electronics Initiative (REI) is a non-profit network of independent computer refurbishment centres, working together to deliver high quality services to businesses with added benefits to communities and the environment. All centres in the REI help refurbish and recycle informational...

International Christian Business Network (ICBN)

International Christian Business Network (ICBN) empowers businesses to put South Africa back to work through the constructive networking of business ideas. ICBN brings together a world-wide network of business people in local chapters that are linked by the electronic capabilities. ICBN shares...

Geneva Global

Geneva Global helps donors cut through the complexities of international giving by providing them with high-impact granting opportunities and time-conscious consulting services. By identifying the best community-based organizations, they assist donors in taking on some of the most challenging...

Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust (NaDEET)

The Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust (NaDEET) is a non-profit trust providing environmental education for Namibian children and educators, regardless of income, by addressing relevant environmental issues through hands-on, experimental learning. NaDEET’s emphasis is on creating learning...

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,...

CARE International - India

CARE International is an international humanitarian organisation that helps families in poor communities improve their lives and overcome poverty. In India, CARE places emphasis on working with women in community-based efforts to improve basic education, boost maternal and child health, prevent the...

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center serves the medical needs of infants, children and adolescents with family-centered care, innovative research and outstanding teaching programs. The Center accepts donations of new toys, crafts, and other items for use by children being treated in the...

Centre de Promotion des Investissements (CIP)

Centre de Promotion des Investissements (CIP) provides information about investments in Niger, the necessary formalities for investments and creating new organisations, and the present conditions and opportunities for investments.

Ford Foundation - Indonesia

The Ford Foundation Indonesia's main goal is to create economic opportunity and offer increased access and participation in local governance for poor and socially marginalized communities. Empowering marginalized groups by helping them to gain a stronger voice and a greater say in local decision...

Social Development Center

Social Development Center, established under the high patronage of H.H. Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser Al-Missned - the Consort of H.H. the Emir, aims at the support, development and investment of human resources through a set of programmes and services that enhance the self-reliance of families in...

International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP)

ILEAP’s launch was motivated by the realisation that developing countries needed to be able to better influence the terms on which they were engaging and integrating with the global economy. This view was quickly augmented with the further understanding that by better reflecting their interests in...

World Bank - Kazakhstan

The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. It is a development bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The bank promotes growth to create jobs and to...

Liverpool Student Community Action (LSCA)

Liverpool Student Community Action (LSCA) is a student-led charity providing students from the University of Liverpool with quality volunteering opportunities in the local community of Merseyside. LSCA has a diverse range of projects working with the homeless, refugees and asylum seekers, children,...

First Book

First Book gives children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. First Book provide an ongoing supply of new books to children participating in community-based mentoring, tutoring, and family literacy programmes. Donations of new books are accepted from...

Foundation for Development for Needy Communities (FDNC)

The Foundation for Development for Needy Communities (FDNC),is an NGO that works in line with government efforts to create jobs, raise incomes and increase investment and opportunities for sustainable development in Uganda. FDNC strives to build self-reliance and sustainable development in the most...

Comhlámh

Comhlámh campaigns for global justice and human rights; promotes an understanding of global issues and the cultures of the South through courses, public meetings, the media, etc; and, provides opportunities for returned development workers to meet each other, to put their overseas experience in...