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Browsing Archive: October, 2012

Instituting Actionable Change Through Wings of Hope

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, October 30, 2012, In : Youth 

Retired U.S. Air Force pilot and former Senior Vice President of Virgin America David Pflieger presently serves as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Air Pacific Ltd, a Fiji-based carrier that takes great pride in giving back to local community. Mr. Pflieger joined Air Pacific in 2010 and is widely credited with reinvigorating an enterprise that only recently suffered major profit losses. Today, Air Pacific and its subsidiary Pacific Sun stand poised to experience a new era of s...


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Best Friends Animal Society: A Nationwide Leader of the Animal Welfare Movement

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, October 30, 2012, In : Environment 

During the 1980s, animal shelters all over United States routinely killed dogs and cats as a way of managing unwanted pets. More than 17 million animals die each year and sick, old and “problem” pets were always the first to go. As a form of retaliation to such abominable act, a small but strong team of individuals began taking in some of those unwanted animals to a sanctuary where they can heal. With the right care and patience, these animals fully recovered and found loving families. ...


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Action Against Hunger: Carrying Out Life-saving Programs and Restoring Self-sufficiency

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, October 26, 2012, In : Health 

Recognized as a front-liner in the world’s battle against hunger and malnutrition, Action Against Hunger saves the lives of millions of malnourished children through providing poverty-stricken and underprivileged communities with easy access to sustainable hunger solutions and safe water.

With its 30-year experience on emergency situations like war conflicts, chronic food shortages, and natural disasters, Action Against Hunger engineers and implements life-saving strategies in more than...


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Acorns Children’s Hospice: Caring for the Child and Supporting their Families

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, In : Foundation 

Founded in 1988 at the heart of England, Acorns Children’s Hospice Trust is a charitable foundation that offers a wide range of care to life-threatened and life-limited children and young individuals and their families across United Kingdom. These children and adolescents are unlikely to reach adulthood, and therefore require specialized and holistic care every hour of the day, every day of the year. As of the moment, Acorns support more than 650 children and 920 families in England.

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Absolute Return for Kids: Creating High Returns, Transforming Children’s Lives

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, October 19, 2012, In : Foundation 

With an aim to transform the lives of children across the globe, Absolute Return for Kids is an international organization which develops programs and interventions that create the greatest developments in children’s lives by investing its benefactors’ money in the most effective way there is.

The foundation focuses on protection, education and health of children all over the world and works alongside, local, national and worldwide partners in developing innovative solutions that wil...


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Yum – O!: Empowering Children and their Families to Develop a Healthier Relationship with Food

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, In : Health 

Founded in 2006 by celebrity chef and entrepreneur Rachael Ray, Yum – O! is a non-profit organization that allows children and their families to establish a healthy relationship with cooking and food through its three core areas: Cook, Feed and Fund.

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Yum – O! educates kids and families about the world of culinary arts by providing them with an informative and interactive website that allows young chefs to explore gastronomic experiences and try out kid-friendly recipes. The we...


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Jack Johnson: Making Sweet Music for the Environment

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, October 12, 2012,

Jack Johnson has proven that he’s more than just one of the world’s most successful recording artists, having established the Kokua Hawai’i Foundation and the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation. He has also created the All at Once Campaign, supported the Australian Marine Conservation Society, the Inspire Foundation’s ActNow project and 1% for the Planet. Jack Johnson has also helped raise funds for Amnesty International.

The Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation aims to raise mon...


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Nothing But Nets: Combating Malaria in Africa

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, October 9, 2012, In : Health 

Malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes, is one of the most deadly diseases in African nations, infecting 10 people per second and killing a child every minute. Nothing But Nets is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping to stop the spread of this disease. While Europe and North America has managed to combat malaria through advanced researches in science, technology and medicine, nations in Africa don’t have the same resources, much less access to such health care and treatmen...


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The Trevor Project and the Fight Against Suicide

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, October 5, 2012,

The Trevor Project is an American non-profit organization catering towards providing suicide prevention and crisis intervention services to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, and questioning youths. It was founded by Randy Stone, Peggy Rajski, and James Lecesne in 1998, the same people behind the Academy Award-winning short film TREVOR. Taking place in 1981, TREVOR is a coming-of-age story about loving, losing, and learning to be just yourself. 

When TREVOR was about to air on HBO,...


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Just a Drop: For Hope and Health

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, October 2, 2012, In : Health 

Did you know that a child dies from a water-borne disease every 20 seconds? This is the plight that moved Just a Drop, an international water aid charity, to be launched in 1998. The charity was born out of the premise that if people can give just a little, and people can be encouraged to do so, then collective good will be achieved. In fact, Fiona Jeffrey, Just a Drop’s founder, was enlightened to learn that you can provide a child with clean water for up to a decade by just contributing...


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