The National Coalition for the Homeless is a network of people who have experienced or are currently experiencing homelessness, as well as advocates and activists, community and faith-based service providers, and other individuals and groups who are committed to the single mission of ending homelessness.

NCH’s history can be traced back to 1981 when founder Robert Hayes filed a lawsuit on behalf of a homeless man in New York City. The case was settled out of court and from then on, people su...

Kids Wish Network is a 501(c)(3) organization that works to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening and serious medical conditions. Although subjected to criticisms and negative publicity several times including being accused of trademark infringement, inefficient fund raising procedures, and tax avoidance, it still continued to fulfill its mission and goals.

The non-profit organization was founded in 1997. It was originally known as Fulfill a Wish Foundation. The foundation was est...

The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a civic organization that aims to help women take a larger role in public affairs as they have acquired the right to vote. The American organization was founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt during the last meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The founding of the organization happened about six months before the Amendment XIX allowed the women to exercise the right to vote. 

LWV began as a “mighty political experiment” that was d...

Originally created to combat polio, March of Dimes is now a non-profit organization that has been around to help out mothers and babies improve their health. This organization was created in 1938 by no other than the late president Franklin D. Roosevelt. 

Headquartered in White Plains, New York, the organization has about 51 chapters across the United States. Preventing birth defects, infant mortality, and premature birth are their means of helping out mothers and their babies improve their he...

Considered as the largest charitable supporter of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), JDRF, formerly known as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, raises money to fund research about this disease. This charitable organization was reported to have generated $205 million last year, making it the 53rd Largest Charitable Group in the United States as listed by Forbes. 

This charitable organization has their goal set as: “ to progressively remove the impact of T1D from people’s lives until we achieve ...

Headquartered in Berlin, Ohio, the Christian Aid Ministries (CAM) provides food, clothing, seeds, medicine, and Christian literature to millions of people around the world. CAM is a non-profit organization that is a conduit for conservative Anabaptist and Amish, Mennonite groups to provide assistance to the world’s needy. Every year, CAM distributes millions of pounds of goods and medicines wherever it is needed. 

In the United States, CAM operates several programs including Rapid Response T...

Thousands of children around the world die every year due to reasons that may have been avoided. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) works hard to radically reduce this amount by providing vaccines, healthcare, and educational support to millions of children and their families around the world. UNICEF is supported by other charitable organizations. In the US, the United States Fund for UNICEF is one of the largest charitable organizations that support the advocacies of UNICEF throug...

Witness for Peace or WFP is an activist organization based in the United States. Founded in 1983, it was originally established to oppose the then administration, led by Ronald Reagan, as it supported the Nicaraguan Contras. They alleged and worked against the widespread atrocities that the counterrevolutionary groups got involved with back then.

In order for the organization to be able to show people the real deal, they took US citizens to Nicaragua for them to personally see what their gover...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that works around the mission, “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in the country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.” They fulfill their mission and perform their programs through lobbying, litigation, and community education. 

ACLU was founded in 1920 by Roger Baldwin, Walter Nelles, and Crystal Eastman. However, it rooted from its predeces...