Rachel’s Network is a nonprofit organization founded in honor of Rachel Carson whose book, Silent Spring, highlighted that we are part of the web of nature and that caring for the environment also means looking out for ourselves.  It builds partnerships among women who are committed to environmental conservation, health and women’s empowerment.  It started with 17 founding members in 1999, now the number of members nears a hundred.  To strengthen their alliance, Rachel’s Network conduct...
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The Foundation for International Assistance (FINCA) International was founded in 1984 by John Hatch with the idea that giving loans to entrepreneurs in poor communities will be more effective if the funds are left to the management of entrepreneurs themselves.  FINCA developed a microcredit methodology known as village banking.  The idea came from the fact that in developing countries, small-scale entrepreneurs find it hard to develop their business because they lack resources and therefore...

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Founded by Ian Somerhalder, an American actor and model, the Ian Somerhalder Foundation, or the IS Foundation, aims to empower and educate while collaborating with people and projects that impact the planet and its inhabitants positively. Mainly, the IS Foundation views the environment as made up of interconnected organisms. Thus, living things are not differentiated. Animals, trees, humans are all the same and interdependent on one another, facing the same problems with the environment.

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With offices in Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and Palm Beach, the veteran attorneys at Schwed, Kahle & Jenks, P.A. have experience in insurance defense, product and automobile liability, and securities arbitration and litigation matters. Managing Partner Lloyd Schwed and his colleagues notably maintain more than 100 years of cumulative experience and provide approved defense counsel to dozens of major insurance firms, including Torchmark Corporation, Northern Trust, Liberty National Life Insurance, ...
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The It Gets Better Project was founded by Dan Savage and Terry Miller, partners, in response to the growing number of suicides of LGBT youths after being bullied. True to its name, the project aims to tell LGBT kids that it does get better. It Gets Better started out in September 2010 and in its first week received more than 200 videos. By its second week, It Gets Better reached its YouTube channel limit of 650 videos. From a simple YouTube channel, It Gets Better now has its own website ho...

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Giving What We Can is an international network with a main goal of eradicating poverty in developing nations. Its members come from different economic statuses, nationalities, and ages, but are united under one belief that poverty is among the most critical issues that need attention.

With their desire to do something about the problem, they have each decided to take “the Pledge to Give”. And with their noble causes, they have pledged to give at least 10% of their incomes to projects o...

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A lot of organizations and individuals make use of the Internet for different purposes. Most businesses use it as a marketing and selling platform while individual users utilize log on to the Web in order to find information and connect to the rest of the world. But for Chive Charities, this technology serves as a great avenue for them to propagate their cause, and to make that cause actually work.

Chive Charities is a non-profit organization that seeks to pursue abandoned causes that need...

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She may be one of the world's most-coveted faces and the highest-paid model in the world today, but Gisele Bundchen has proven that she's more than just a gorgeous face and a beautiful body. The Brazilian fashion model turned actress and producer is currently the United Nations Environment Programme Goodwill Ambassador, and has contributed thousands towards charitable causes such as Brazil's Zero Hunger program, the protection of the Amazon Rainforest water sources and several non-profit or...

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Every human being has the right to be free – this is a basic necessity. Oppression, in all its forms, is unacceptable. Free the Slaves, an international, non-government organization based in Washington, D.C., is the world's largest lobby group fighting against slavery. Free the Slaves works in tandem with Anti-Slavery International, known as the world's oldest human rights group. Free the Slaves was established in light of research conducted by Dr. Kevin Bales regarding the role of modern...

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Established in October 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Kiva is a non-profit, non-government organization that allows individuals to lend money via the power of the internet to people living in underdeveloped countries. A realization of Jessica Jackley’s and Matt Flannery’s goals, the organization was inspired by a lecture given by banker Muhammad Yunus at Stanford University.

The organization is able to lend money to people though its partnership with 142 microfina...

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