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Appropriate Technology Asia (ATA)

Appropriate Technology Asia (ATA) provides programmes to facilitate capacity building of local communities, the provision of improved water and sanitation facilities, the introduction of new agricultural techniques, provision of training in health, education, the environment, micro-credit and...

Bosco Youth Service Network

Bosco Youth Service Network is formed by teachers, students, social workers and volunteers. The network's objective is to provide teenagers with a range of activities which are good for their minds and bodies, to prevent them from going astray.

HSBC and Hong Kong Bank Foundation

Provides funding to projects around the world in three main areas: education, community services and environment. The total corporation donated US$34.45 m in 2003. The funding is divided roughly equally between the three areas although the corporation emphasizes its interest in education. The...

Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development

Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development is a foundation with objectives for sustainable improvement in quality of life and reduction of poverty and social inequalities in developing countries. They aim to achieve this through the research and spread information on issues of sustainable...

Global Standards

Global Standards specialises in corporate social responsibility consulting in respect to international labour, environmental and safety standards for export manufacturers in Asia. On its website, the organisation posts resources in respect to the Vietnamese Labor Code, local Vietnamese labor laws,...

Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)

The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) will promote the development of, and support specific legal service and resource programmes promoting self-help at the local level. ALRC will also seek to strengthen and encourage positive action on legal and human rights issues by the bar and other legal...

Alpha Communities

Alpha Communities is an international, charitable organization established in 1994 to support new beginnings for communities affected by poverty in Asia. Alpha Communities assists local initiatives and promotes community based responses that impact poverty through education (e.g. sponsoring...

Asia Pacific Social Development Research Centre (APSDRC)

Asia Pacific Social Development Research Centre (APSDRC) is an independent research centre at the City University of Hong Kong. APSDRC publishes a bi-monthly newsletter that includes news reports, sectoral analyses, regional surveys, profiles of funding institutions, summaries of donor activities...

Association for Rural Development of Yilong County

Association for Rural Development of Yilong County (ARDY) aims to eliminate poverty through self-development and empowering individuals. ARDY promotes women's participation in bottom-up and participatory development programs with groups from the community working together to address social problems...

Care for Children

Care for Children provides foster homes for children who have been abandoned or orphaned. Care for Children provides screening, training, monitoring and follow-up support for the foster parents and foster children. The organisation has a vision to see 1 million children in families.

KunDe Foundation

KunDe Foundation is a relief and development agency committed to working with marginalized and disadvantaged communities anywhere in the world. The organization encourages and trains them to participate in and adopt sustainable and replicable activities which will help them to relieve poverty and...

Phelex Foundation

Phelex Foundation actively promotes basic education for financially, socially or physically disadvantaged children in poverty-stricken regions of rural Asia and offers a program in the USA that promotes multi-cultural education.

Philip Hayden Foundation

The Philip Hayden Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization, established for the purpose of helping China's orphaned and special needs children, many of which are entrusted to them by government run orphanages. The organization, which was initially founded to sponsor minor surgeries (such...

Smile Train

The Smile Train works to provide free cleft surgery for poor children in developing countries, and provide cleft-related training for doctors and medical professionals. Since organisational inception, free cleft surgery has been provided for more than 200,000 children (more than 100 children every...

Tibet Development Fund (TDF)

Tibet Development Fund (TDF) seeks to improve local medical conditions and provide financial aid for the social, cultural, and economic development in the Tibet Autonomous Region and Tibetan areas in the surrounding Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan.. Nearly 20 years, TDF has...

UNESCO Beijing

The UNESCO Beijing office serves as the Cluster Office to the East Asian sub-region to maximize development, networking and sharing of resources among member States. The office assists the member states with other UN agencies in meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),...

Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA) - Hong Kong office

The Association for Sustainable&Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA) is a not for profit, membership association dedicated to promoting corporate responsibility and sustainable investment practice in the Asia Pacific region. ASrIA provides up to date information on the development of...

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) - Taiwan

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and disadvantaged. The aim of CRS globally is to provide direct aid to the poor, to involve people in their own development, helping them to realise their potential, to promote social...

Red Heart Association

The Red Heart Association is a Taiwanese organisation that provides social welfare services, especially in the family services area. The organisation's focus is on providing social welfare assistance to the elderly, low-income and single-parent families, and the families of the incarcerated.

Awakening Foundation

The Awakening Foundation is a Taiwanese non-profit organization that promotes discourse about women's issues, vocalizes women's opinions, raises female consciousness and self-development, offers assistance to women in need, and works toward an equal, just, humane and harmonious society for both...